The Color Purple

The Color Purple 2023

7.10

A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.

2023

Torchlighters: The Adoniram and Ann Judson Story

Torchlighters: The Adoniram and Ann Judson Story 2017

1

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.

2017

Guys and Dolls

Guys and Dolls 1955

6.60

Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwhile, Nathan's longtime fiancée, Adelaide, wants him to go legit and marry her.

1955

Concerning Violence

Concerning Violence 2014

7.00

Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, accompanied by classic text from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.

2014

The Wicker Tree

The Wicker Tree 2011

4.10

Gospel singer Beth and her cowboy boyfriend Steve leave Texas to preach door-to-door in Scotland. When, after initial abuse, they are welcomed with joy and elation to Tressock, the border fiefdom of Sir Lachlan Morrison, they're about to learn the real meaning of sacrifice.

2011

Warbus

Warbus 1986

5.20

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.

1986

Rain

Rain 1932

6.80

Due to a possible cholera epidemic onboard, passengers on a ship are forced to disembark at Pago Pago, a small village on a Pacific island where it incessantly rains. Among the stranded passengers are Sadie Thompson, a prostitute, and Alfred Davidson, a fanatic missionary who will try to redeem her.

1932

Surviving Columbus

Surviving Columbus 1992

1

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

1992

Facing Darkness

Facing Darkness 2017

7.00

A Christian relief organization is met with the challenge of fighting the Ebola epidemic in west Africa, through this enormous challenge their faith grew.

2017

Crossfire

Crossfire 1979

3.00

Shelly, a young American girl, is attracted to two men for their idealism. One is a missionary, out to change the world through the power of God's word. The other is a terrorist, who plans to change the world through bombs.

1979

Beyond the Night

Beyond the Night 1983

3.00

While running a free medical clinic in the 1960s, missionary couple John and Bettie Dreisbach face heavy government opposition in their attempt to preach the Gospel to the Muslim community of West Africa.

1983

Tin Pan Alley Cats

Tin Pan Alley Cats 1943

5.00

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.

1943

My Colour, Your Kind

My Colour, Your Kind 1998

1

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

1998

Waiyirri

Waiyirri 2024

1

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

2024

Torchlighters: The Richard Wurmbrand Story

Torchlighters: The Richard Wurmbrand Story 2008

10.00

Risking his liberty and his life, courageous Romanian pastor Richard Wurmbrand refuses to conform and pledge his allegiance to the communists in power in this children's animated program based on true events. After the authorities throw him in prison, Wurmbrand must draw on his deepest resources to survive and maintain his faith. A documentary about Wurmbrand and his wife is included and features interviews with their son, Mihai.

2008

Torchlighters: The Samuel Morris Story

Torchlighters: The Samuel Morris Story 2012

1

Young Prince Kaboo knows his fate is sealed. Since his father can no longer meet his captors' ransom demands, Kaboo is to be tortured until death. But a bigger plan is about to unfold! A blinding light appears and the ropes that bind him fall away. Renewed strength floods his bruised body, and a heavenly voice urges him, "Run, Kaboo, Run!" The dramatic events that follow lead the boy prince to take the new name, "Samuel Morris." Nothing will stop Samuel Morris from sharing his growing faith with all who will listen.

2012