Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "christian-missionary"

1. Zulu (1964)

Not Rated | 138 min | Drama, History, War

Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.

Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth

Votes: 42,802

2. The African Queen (1951)

PG | 105 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river and use his boat to attack a German gunship.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull

Votes: 84,381 | Gross: $0.54M

3. Mountains of the Moon (1990)

R | 136 min | Adventure, Drama, History

The legendary true-story of Capt. Richard Francis Burton and Lt. John Hanning Speke's tumultuous expedition to find the source of the Nile river.

Director: Bob Rafelson | Stars: Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant, Fiona Shaw

Votes: 4,259 | Gross: $4.01M

4. 55 Days at Peking (1963)

Unrated | 154 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

During the 1900 Boxer Rebellion, U.S. marine, Maj. Matt Lewis, along with British consul, Sir Arthur Robertson, develop a plan to keep the rebels at bay until an international military relief force can arrive.

Directors: Nicholas Ray, Guy Green, Andrew Marton | Stars: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson

Votes: 7,433

5. Black Robe (1991)

R | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, War

In the 17th century, a Jesuit missionary nicknamed Black Robe by the natives and his small party of companions try reaching the Huron tribe in Canada all while facing mistrust, Iroquois warring parties and harsh winter conditions.

Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, August Schellenberg

Votes: 7,675 | Gross: $8.21M

6. The Mission (2023)

PG-13 | 103 min | Documentary

26-year-old American missionary John Chau was killed as he attempted to make contact with an Indigenous group off the coast of India, one of the last communities on the planet still living in isolation.

Directors: Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss | Stars: Pam Arlund, Dan Davis, Levi Davis, Daniel Everett

Votes: 918

7. Paradise: Faith (2012)

Unrated | 115 min | Drama

A single woman in her 50s devotes her vacations to doing Catholic missionary work in Vienna, descending into violent self-punishment as part of her faith.

Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Maria Hofstätter, Nabil Saleh, René Rupnik, Natalija Baranova

Votes: 5,168 | Gross: $0.01M

8. Broken Blossoms or the Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance

A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp, Arthur Howard

Votes: 11,072

9. Like Dandelion Dust (2009)

PG-13 | 100 min | Drama

A young boy is torn away from his adoptive parents by his alcoholic, abusive birth parents.

Director: Jon Gunn | Stars: Mira Sorvino, Barry Pepper, Cole Hauser, Kate Levering

Votes: 3,100 | Gross: $0.35M

10. War Bus (1985)

R | 92 min | Action, War

A group of soldiers in Vietnam, saving some missing in action soldiers in a schoolbus.

Director: Ferdinando Baldi | Stars: Daniel Stephen, Romano Kristoff, Urs Althaus, Gwendolyn Hung

Votes: 311

11. The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961)

Approved | 124 min | Drama, Romance

While the Nazi regime subjugates European nations during World War II, in the Belgian Congo nurse Rachel Cade tries to cure the local people. Colonel Derode falls in love with her, but an injured young American pilot upsets his plans.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Angie Dickinson, Peter Finch, Roger Moore, Errol John

Votes: 605

12. I AM PATRICK (2020)

Not Rated | 93 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography

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.

Director: Jarrod Anderson | Stars: John Rhys-Davies, Moe Dunford, Seán T. Ó Meallaigh, Ailbhe Cowley

Votes: 246

13. The African Queen (1977 TV Movie)

50 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

After the events of The African Queen (1951), Charlie and Rose are recaptured by the Germans and forced to tug one of their big cannons that could bring the Nazis victory against the local Allied forces.

Director: Richard C. Sarafian | Stars: Warren Oates, Mariette Hartley, Tyrone Jackson, Alfred Polsen

Votes: 50

14. Breaking the Maya Code (2008)

TV-G | 116 min | Documentary, Mystery

The complex and beautiful hieroglyphic script of the ancient Maya was until recently one of the last great untranslated writing systems. Based on the best-selling book by Michael Coe, ... See full summary »

Director: David Lebrun | Stars: Michael D. Coe, Ian Graham, Nikolai Grube, Peter Mathews

Votes: 333

15. Scars of Nanking (2017 TV Movie)

44 min | Drama, History, War

American missionaries struggle to save Chinese civilians from slaughter and rape at the hands of Japanese invaders and also smuggle out evidence of the infamous Nanking Massacre of 1937.

Director: John Ealer | Stars: Gregory Joseph Allen, Ines Laimins, Andrew Lane Cawthon, Randall Lowell

Votes: 55

16. Zamboanga (1937)

Approved | 64 min | Drama, Romance

Tells the tale of a seafaring tribe and its conquests.

Director: Eduardo de Castro | Stars: Fernando Poe, Rosa Del Rosario

Votes: 26

17. MAGI Tensho Keno Shonen Shisetsu (2019)

Adventure, Drama, History

An Italian missionary arrived in Japan during the Middle Ages in order to proselytize, evangelize and recruit people to his religion. He instituted seminaries around the country and picked ... See full summary »

Stars: Fernando Gil, Simón Andreu, Kai Inowaki, Elena Martínez

Votes: 37

18. First Fruits (1982)

Not Rated | 66 min | Drama, History

In 1732, two young Moravians leave their comfortable community of Hernhut, Germany, to bring the Gospel to the slaves in the West Indies.

Director: Dan Neidermyer | Stars: Richard Foster, Todd Hoagey, Dan Neidermyer, Luther David

Votes: 21

19. Schoenbrunn: A Meeting of Cultures (1991 Video)

Documentary, Short

A history of the founding and later rediscovery and reconstruction of Schoenbrunn Village, a Moravian Church mission founded in the Ohio territory in 1772. Also included is a short history ... See full summary »

20. Forensic Files (1996–2011)
Episode: Nice Threads (2006)

TV-PG | 21 min | Documentary, Crime

Bible missionary student is murdered whilst baking cookies on Mother's Day Weekend for her mother. Police use a bloody palm print to provide forensic evidence as to the identity of her rapist and murderer.

Stars: Peter Thomas, Erik Berg, Carl Fehring, Dawn Fehring

Votes: 77

21. Taboo (2002–2014)
Episode: Rites of Passage (2003)

TV-14 | 48 min | Documentary

Taboo looks at rites of passage around the world including a boy's circumcision in South Africa, an Apache's girls ritual of womanhood, and American couple's journey into old age.

Stars: Mukulika Banerjee, Diane Bell, Jean Comaroff, Adrienne DeArmas

Votes: 8

22. The North Water (2021)
Episode: To Live Is to Suffer (2021)

TV-MA | 57 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

After healing in a missionary cabin, Sumner returns to Hull to demand money from Baxter to start a new life. Can he outrun his demons, and has he really seen the last of Henry Drax?

Director: Andrew Haigh | Stars: Nive Nielsen, Peter Mullan, Jack O'Connell, Ipeelie Ootoova

Votes: 524

23. In Their Own Words (2015– )
Episode: Jimmy Carter (2021)

TV-PG | Biography

Explore this intimate and inspiring story of a long-shot outsider who beat the odds against him again and again and never looked back in his quest to better the lives of millions. Jimmy ... See full summary »

Directors: Chuck Dalaklis, Marianne Kushmaniuk | Stars: Sean Francis, Jonathan Alter, Garth Brooks, James Earl Carter III

Votes: 17

24. Sahara with Michael Palin (2002– )
Episode: Destination Timbuktu (2002)

60 min | Documentary

Michael Palin crosses the Sénégal River from Rosso, Mauritania to Saint-Louis "French port", Gorée Island "Slavery port", to Dakar "capital" in Senegal. He takes the Bamako Express train to... See full summary »

Director: John-Paul Davidson | Star: Michael Palin

Votes: 31

25. Half as Interesting (2017– )
Episode: Why 200-ish Americans Live in North Korea (2020)

6 min | Documentary, Comedy, Talk-Show

Since relations between the governments of North Korea and United States are decidedly unfriendly, technically on a war footing, why would Americans want to live there? Some are decedents ... See full summary »

Star: Sam Denby

26. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power (1992– )
Episode: Crude Diplomacy (1993)

PG-13 | 53 min | Documentary

Mideast oil is declared the greatest prize in history, but a prize not easily won. Participants and historians discuss the wooing of Saudi Arabia's Ibn Saud, the creation of Aramco, and the postwar reality that petroleum is political.

Director: Peter Bate | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Daniel Yergin, Mike Ameen, Irvine A. Anderson

Votes: 9

27. Walking Through History (2013– )
Episode: The Dark Age of Northumbria (2014)

47 min | Documentary

The 1990s St Cuthbert Way stretches from Melrose to Lindisfarne and could have been the route taken by monks. Following the route over four days, showing the bringing of Christianity to Northumbria.

Director: Michael Waterhouse | Stars: Tony Robinson, Christopher Bowles, Michelle Brown, Ian Farr

Votes: 20

28. Day of Discovery (1968–2018)
Episode: Eric Liddell: Olympic Champion - Man of Courage (1999)

74 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Biography of Eric Liddell, Christian missionary to China and one of the Olympic athletes portrayed in the film "Chariots of Fire".

Star: Os Guinness

29. Day of Discovery (1968–2018)
Episode: Our Magic Circle: The Daughters of Eric Liddell Return to China (2012)

26 min | Documentary, Biography, History

In 1941, Christian missionary Eric Liddell, one of the Olympic athletes portrayed in the film "Chariots of Fire", sent his pregnant wife Florence and daughters Patricia and Heather to ... See full summary »

Stars: Os Guinness, Heather Liddell Ingham, Maureen Liddell Moore, Patricia Russell

30. Watchmen (2019)
Episode: Little Fear of Lightning (2019)

TV-MA | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The origin story of Looking Glass is revealed, as is the truth behind the greatest hoax in American history; The Smartest Man In The World plots a daring escape.

Director: Steph Green | Stars: Regina King, Jean Smart, Tim Blake Nelson, Andrew Howard

Votes: 8,015

31. The North Water (2021)
Episode: The Devils of the Earth (2021)

TV-MA | 54 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

Drax has a daring opportunity to escape, but must convince Cavendish to help him. Otto's vision coming to life, Sumner hunts a bear, but strays too far into icy oblivion.

Director: Andrew Haigh | Stars: Jack O'Connell, Sam Spruell, Roland Møller, Gary Lamont

Votes: 571