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The forty

The newest releases, the ones people are opening, set highest to lowest.

  1. Live HistoricThe film
  2. 1
    The Hiding PlaceKindle · 1971
  3. 2
    Little House in the Big WoodsKindle · 1932
  4. 3
    Little BritchesKindle · 1950
  5. 4
    It's a Wonderful LifeFilm · 1946
  6. 5
    A Christmas CarolA household shelf · 1843
  7. 6
    When Calls the HeartHallmark Channel · 2014
  8. 7
    Call the MidwifeNetflix · 2012
  9. 8
    All Creatures Great and SmallAcorn TV · 2020
  10. 9
    Master and CommanderFilm · 2003
  11. 10
    Carry On, Mr. BowditchKindle · 1955
  12. 11
    DopesickHulu · 2021
  13. 12
    Signed, Sealed, DeliveredHallmark · 2013
  14. 13
    Little WomenKindle · 1868
  15. 14
    The OdysseyA household shelf · Ancient
  16. 15
    Food That Held Up a NationYouTube · Townsends · 2024
  17. 16
    When Hope CallsHallmark · 2019
  18. 17
    Anne of Green GablesA household shelf · 1908
  19. 18
    The Pilgrim's ProgressA household shelf · 1678
  20. 19
    BelowNetflix · 2026
  21. 20
    AdolescenceNetflix · 2025
  22. 21
    ShogunHulu · 2024
  23. 22
    BlueyDisney+ · 2018
  24. 23
    Where the Red Fern GrowsKindle · 1961
  25. 24
    To Kill a MockingbirdKindle · 1960
  26. 25
    Charlotte's WebKindle · 1952
  27. 26
    The Lion, the Witch and the WardrobeA household shelf · 1950
  28. 27
    Jane EyreA household shelf · 1847
  29. 28
    How to Build an Earthen OvenYouTube · Townsends · 2016
  30. 29
    The Way HomeHallmark Channel · 2023
  31. 30
    YouVersion BibleApple App Store · Google Play · 2008
  32. 31
    RideHallmark Channel · 2023
  33. 32
    Midnight MassNetflix · 2021
  34. 33
    The Secret GardenA household shelf · 1911
  35. 34
    East of EdenNetflix · 2026
  36. 35
    Beauty and the BeastA household shelf · 1756
  37. 36
    Under the Banner of HeavenHulu · 2022
  38. 37
    AndorDisney+ · 2022
  39. 38
    Khan Academy KidsApple App Store · Google Play · 2018
  40. 39
    LibbyApple App Store · Google Play · 2017
  41. 40
    Cedar CoveHallmark Channel · 2013

The eight measures

A minute for each, in the round.

Work feeds the house. The house keeps a conscience. Conscience needs courage. Courage owes the town. The town puts appetite in its place. A word binds. What is bound is left to the people after you, and the work begins again.

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Netflix · five years old

Kiki's list

What is on her row, and what she should actually sit with. Gabby and Bheem can stay. The teenage shows come off tonight. The games under them — Playground, Barbie coloring, LEGO DUPLO — are a few minutes of hands, then the phone goes down. They are not the evening.

Put these on

On the playlist. Not for five.

This week

Anna's List

The row, with the picture in front of the measure. The number is still the only score that matters.

For the table

Put this on tonight.

The highest measures a parent can start now with children in the room. High scores that would train a child in cruelty or a killer's glamour are left off on purpose.

  1. It's a Wonderful Life

    It tells the truth. The highest measure on the desk that belongs in a house. A father stays, and a town shows up.

    Film · 1946 · Film

  2. When Calls the Heart

    It tells the truth. On Hallmark. A teacher, a town, and a schoolroom. Gentle enough for children who can sit through a real story.

    Hallmark Channel · 2014 · Series

  3. All Creatures Great and Small

    It tells the truth. On Acorn. A young vet, a Yorkshire house, and work done properly. Fine for children who can watch a sick animal be helped.

    Acorn TV · 2020 · Series

  4. Food That Held Up a Nation

    Worth an evening. On YouTube. What a nation actually ate. Then cook one plain thing and leave the screen off.

    YouTube · Townsends · 2024 · Video

  5. Below

    Worth an evening. On Netflix this week. A father who will not hand his son to the dark. A thriller, so not for the very young.

    Netflix · 2026 · Series

  6. Bluey

    Worth an evening. Small children. A mother and a father who stay, and a game played all the way to the end.

    Disney+ · 2018 · Series

  7. East of Eden

    Worth an evening. On Netflix this week, for older children. A son is still free to refuse the worst thing he was handed.

    Netflix · 2026 · Series

  8. Khan Academy Kids

    Worth an evening. On the phone. Letters and numbers a small child can do with you in the room. Then a pencil.

    Apple App Store · Google Play · 2018 · App

  9. The Mandalorian

    Worth an evening. A man keeps a child instead of a paycheck. Watch the child, not the gunfights.

    Disney+ · 2019 · Series

  10. Percy Jackson and the Olympians

    Watch it awake. On the chart now, and built for the young. A boy returns what was stolen, and he does not walk alone.

    Netflix chart · Disney+ · 2023 · Series

No. 1 on the Netflix chart

Below

A father, a boat, and a town. The scare is extra. The duty is the point.

A Newfoundland fisherman fights a thing in the water to keep his son, his town, and a vanishing trade.

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Netflix

The Twenty

Ten titles from Netflix's English-language chart for the week ending October 11, 2026, and ten more still forming the way people live. The order is the sort you set above.

  1. 01BelowA father, a boat, and a town. The scare is extra. The duty is the point.
  2. 02East of EdenSteinbeck's old question, still the right one: thou mayest.
  3. 03Percy Jackson and the OlympiansLoyalty and a quest. The gods are petty. The kids, mostly, are not.
  4. 04A Different WorldFormation is a high aim for a comedy. The jokes will tell you if it means it.
  5. 05Mojo Brookzz: I Know You LyingCandor is a virtue. The sport of humiliation is not. We won't fake a set list.
  6. 06Mayor of KingstownOrder without goodness. A town that feeds on cages will not raise free men.
  7. 07WWE RawStrength is worth seeing. An endless feud is how a week disappears.
  8. 08The GentlemenTailoring, drugs, and murder as wit. The clothes are doing all the moral work.
  9. 09Wonka's The Golden TicketA contest of appetite. The prize is money, and the work is a stunt.
  10. 10Monster: The Lizzie Borden StoryA parricide, polished into an icon. The household is the victim and the punchline.

Still in the house

  1. 01AdolescenceThe rare one that tells the truth about a boy lost in the feed. Sit with it.
  2. 02Midnight MassFaith taken seriously, including the way it curdles. One of the few that earns the argument.
  3. 03One PieceFreedom without much order. Loyalty with a whole heart. The crew is the house.
  4. 04The Haunting of Hill HouseGrief, siblings, and a house that eats people. Love is stubborn here. So is dread.
  5. 05The Night AgentA man who stays at his post. Conspiracy sauce on a real idea of duty.
  6. 06Stranger ThingsLoyalty among the young. Parents who fail, then show up. Keep the talk after.
  7. 07The DiplomatCompetence and a messy vow. The republic needs adults. It also needs homes.
  8. 08The Fall of the House of UsherA moral fable in modern dress. Luxury, then the invoice. Gory, and pointed the right way.
  9. 09WednesdayWit without duty. A sneer is not a character, however well dressed.
  10. 10BridgertonThe end is marriage, which is right. The method is gossip and appetite.

Prime Video

On Prime

Eight shows already on the desk. Search if yours is not among them.

Hulu

On Hulu

The same eight measures. A different shelf.

Disney+

On Disney+

Eight already measured. Search if the one you mean is not on the shelf.

Hallmark

Top Hallmark

Eight stories a house can start tonight. Small towns, a vow, a child, a job. Search if yours is not on the row.

Acorn

Top Acorn

Eight already measured. A village, a craft, a case. Search if the one you mean is not on the shelf.

YouTube

On YouTube

Eight films a house can start now. A hearth, a hut, a hymn, a gift with a camera on it. Search if the one you mean is not on the row.

Apple App Store

Top 20 for teens

The apps teens are actually installing this week, measured one by one. Search any other name. The desk asks the Apple App Store, then scores what comes back.

Google Play

Top 20 downloads for teens

The Play chart teens are downloading, scored on the same eight. Search any other app. If it is on Google Play, it can be measured.

Kindle

On the Kindle

Books a house can actually finish, scored on the same eight. Search any other title. If it is a book, it can be measured.

Already on the desk

On the phone

A Bible, a lesson, a library, and a game, measured earlier. Search the Apple App Store or Google Play if the one you mean is not on a row.

Pictures

If you came for a film

Search any picture, on any shelf. The service above only sorts the desk. A title you name is measured either way.

  1. 01It's a Wonderful LifeThe household, the neighbor, the quiet no to a predator. Keep this one in the house.
  2. 02Master and CommanderThe closest thing on a screen to the standard itself. A ship is a house with a hull.
  3. 03Pride & PrejudiceCourtship as a test of character. Marriage is the good, and it is not cheap.
  4. 04OppenheimerGenius, duty, and a stewardship question too big for the man who asked it late.
  5. 05The GodfatherA true tragedy. It shows the bill, and it also makes the life look magnificent. Both matter.
  6. 06John WickGrief and craft. The code is real and it is still a code for killers. Do not move in.
  7. 07The Wolf of Wall StreetScorsese shows the bill. The camera throws the party anyway. Leave it.

Pass it on

A private opinion does not raise a household.

Send one measure to the person who picks what the house watches. Not a feed. A name. Work, a home, piety, courage, ordered liberty, temperance, truth, and something left after you. Stories, not blood.

The film

A minute and forty-three seconds. The desk, the Living Meter, and how a house uses it. It does not start until you press play.

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Why the desk was opened

A score is not a scold. It is how an American household around 1800 would have sat with the story — and whether you would still put it on after you knew.

October 15, 2026

A private opinion does not raise a household. The eight measures, then every room of the desk. Ten minutes. Joyful on purpose.