Xavier

Sep 29, 2006

0h 56m

★ 10.0

Overview

Fourth Week Films and the New Orleans Jesuit Province present Xavier, a new PBS-style documentary film on the life of the famed 16th-century Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier. Narrated by Liam Neeson, Xavier tells the missionary's compelling story through dramatizations, interviews, contemporary location shots, paintings and engravings, maps, and most importantly, the extant letters of Xavier. The film features interviews with distinguished scholars of Jesuit and Renaissance history including Ingrid Rowland (Notre Dame University), Andrew Ross (University of Edinburgh), Lourdes del Costa (University of Goa, India), Anthony Ucerler, SJ (Jesuit Historical Institute in Rome), Gauvin Bailey (Clark University) and John O'Malley, SJ, (Weston Jesuit School of Theology).

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Liam Neeson

The Mouk Story (24 minutes) Your heart will rejoice as you witness the Mouk tribe of Papua New Guinea respond dramatically to the Gospel. You'll follow their story from murderous sorcery and deceit, to a life-changing understanding of what God has done for them. This is a powerful story of God's Word, presented clearly and chronologically in their own language, breaking through the darkness that held the Mouks in bondage. The Next Chapter (33 minutes) NTM missionary, Mark Zook, didn't go all the way from Pennsylvania to Papua New Guinea to share the Gospel in one village. He went to plant a church, and to help that church take God's Word to other Mouk villages and surrounding tribes. You'll witness what happens when people awakened to God's love for the first time in their history take advantage of the opportunity to share His love with others.

0.0

Ajishama, The White Ibis

Jan 1, 2003

Shot in Venezuela over a 30-year period, this documentary depicts the life and work of José Maria Korta, the controversial Jesuit Missionary with the Ye'kwana people of the Amazon.

7.4

The Mission

Sep 6, 1986

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.

6.8

Chariots of Fire

May 15, 1981

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.

10.0

Wisdom of Changes - Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching

Nov 19, 2011

As a young missionary, Richard Wilhelm in 1899 to China, which was then exploited by the colonial powers. He lived there revolts against foreigners, the end of the imperial dynasties and the First World War. In these times of turbulent upheavals he was indefatigable in search of the deepest truth that helps people deal with change and able to shape their own lives. Richard Wilhelm baptized not only Chinese, but accomplished one of the largest translation services of the 20th century: Confucius, LAOTSE the most important texts of Daoism and especially the I CHING THE BOOK OF CHANGES. The book also served many readers in the West as inspiration. Wilhelm is still one of the most important mediators of Chinese culture in Europe.

6.5

Black Robe

Oct 4, 1991

Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians, LaForgue travels with the Indians using his strict Catholic rules and ideals to try and impose his religion.

6.5

7 Women

Dec 11, 1965

In a mission in China in 1935, a group of women are preyed on by Mongolian bandits, led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan.

7.1

Silence

Dec 23, 2016

In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.

0.0

YAWIMÉ: Las Huellas de Javier y Joaquín

Jun 20, 2024

In conmemoration of the anniversatry of their martyrdoms in Cerocahui, the voices in the Sierra Tarahumara community raise their voices around the unjust death of the jesuits.

0.0

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Apr 13, 2005

This documentary delivers a moving portrait of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The narrative of the life of this Jesuit and scientist of international reputation is read as an adventure novel.

3.0

The Mark of the Hawk

Dec 1, 1957

The man called Obam struggles with the increasingly hostile forces facing each other in a colonial African country. The African natives want their land and lives back from the British colonists. Obam's motives are questioned by his own people, in particular his brother Kanda. With the help of his wife Renee and missionary Bruce Craig, will he be able to get things under control before the country self-destructs? Written by Greg Bruno

6.3

Stanley and Livingstone

Aug 18, 1939

When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.

4.0

Sword of God

Jul 23, 2020

In the early Middle Ages, two Christian knights set off to christen a small pagan village hidden deep in the mountains. Despite the differences in their views and perspectives on religion, the two men become travel companions and create a father-son relationship. As they settle into the local community, their faith, belief system and the bond between them are all put to the test. Soon, love is confronted with hate, dialogue with violence, madness with rules and many will have to die.

5.0

Toppling a Saint

Dec 31, 2024

An exploration of America’s cultural divide ignited by the 2020 controversy surrounding the forcible toppling of Father Junipero Serra’s statues. Best-selling author Arthur Brooks examines the toxic polarization gripping the nation. Can we bridge this divide, or are we destined to repeat history?

7.2

Silence

Nov 13, 1971

Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.

6.0

Scars Of Nanking

Dec 12, 2017

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.

0.0

Me? Xavier!

Nov 11, 2023

Depicts with song and dance the anguish of Francis Xavier, the missionary known for introducing Christianity to Japan for the first time, in this musical period drama fantasy.

5.9

Call Me Kuchu

Feb 11, 2012

In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato - Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world.

0.0

Waiyirri

Feb 2, 2024

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

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