Movies and TvShows featuring "christian-missionary" theme.

Follow the life of a woman as she navigates through various hardships, finding strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.

During the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, the foreign legations in the Peking (now Beijing), China face a violent siege by the Boxer rebels. As the situations worsen, diplomats and foreign military personnel, including British, American, and Russian forces, must come together to defend themselves against the rebellion and protect their lives and the lives of their loved ones.

Adoniram Judson and his wife Ann were the first missionaries from the United States. The young couple set out for Burma where they worked to reach souls in a land where professing Christ would mean certain death.

In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.

Set in the harsh winter of 1634, a Jesuit missionary travels to Quebec City in New France to convert the Huron tribe to Christianity. Along the perilous journey, he faces conflicts with the Iroquois tribe, personal struggles, and a developing love interest.

Set on a Pacific island during a heavy rainstorm, a group of people seek refuge in a general store. An American missionary, fearing the effects of the rampant immorality, tries to convert a prostitute. Their clash leads to a tragic outcome.

John Chau, a 26-year-old American missionary, was killed while trying to make contact with an isolated Indigenous group in India. This documentary explores the tragic mission of Chau and sheds light on the last communities living in isolation.

Like Dandelion Dust follows the lives of two families, one with an adoptive child and the other with the biological parents fighting for custody. The film explores the emotional turmoil and legal battles surrounding adoption, highlighting the impact it has on all parties involved.

The Wicker Tree is a dark comedy horror film set in the Scottish Highlands. It follows a Christian missionary couple who are sent to preach in the small village of Tressock. However, they soon discover that the village has sinister rituals and secrets involving sacrifice and cannibalism.

In the 1930s, Rachel Cade, a sexually repressed woman, becomes a Christian missionary in Central Africa. She is assigned to a remote village where she struggles to gain the trust of the locals and provide medical care. Along the way, she forms a complicated relationship with a cynical man, an RAF pilot, and an army captain. As the threat of World War Two looms, Rachel discovers her own desires and grapples with the consequences of her actions.

Facing Darkness is a documentary movie that follows the story of a Christian missionary organization, Samaritan's Purse, as they confront the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The movie highlights the challenges, sacrifices, and resilience of the doctors and medical staff who risk their lives to provide aid and medical assistance in the midst of a biological disaster.

Concerning Violence is a documentary film that examines the systematic violence and oppression faced by African nations during the period of colonization. It delves into the impact of imperialism, colonialism, and neo-colonialism on the social, political, and economic structures of these nations. Through archive footage and interviews, the film exposes the struggles, resistance, and fight for independence of these countries.

The plot concerns a small group of people who are forced to flee from their base (which happens to be a Mission) in an old school bus when the VC launch a vicious assault upon it. Along the way they are joined by a group of three battle hardened American Special Forces soldiers and together they desperately fight to make it to safety.

A jazz cartoon involving a "Fats Waller"-like cat who leaves the "Uncle Tomcat Mission" for the local jazz club. One of the “Censored 11” banned from TV syndication by United Artists in 1968 for racist stereotyping.

I AM PATRICK peels back centuries of legend and myth to tell the true story of Saint Patrick. Through historical re-enactments, expert interviews and Patrick's own writings, experience the journey from man to saint.

During the brutal invasion of China in 1937 by Imperial Japanese forces, tens of thousands of civilians and prisoners of war are murdered and women raped in what is known simply as "The Rape of Nanking." This docudrama is a stirring account of a small band of courageous American missionaries who choose to stay in Nanking to try and protect a quarter million vulnerable Chinese civilians who are trapped in a city ruled by a savage, out of control army. Their stories are brought vividly to life through actual real-time letters and diaries as they bear witness to one of the worst wartime atrocities in history.

This Peabody Award-winning documentary from New Mexico PBS looks at the European arrival in the Americas from the perspective of the Pueblo Peoples.

A portrait of an albino Aboriginal teenager, her feelings of alienation while at a convent boarding school, and her dreams of escape.

A missionary’s wife questions her needs to "save souls" after finding solace in her new friendship with a Ngarrindjeri woman.