Contemporary Issues

Documentaries and Dramas which depict, describe, and inform about contemporary issues and God's work in the world today.

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  • She Has a Name

    Movie

    Jason, a lawyer, poses as a john to build a legal case against the ruthless pimp who is trafficking girls into Thailand. He meets Number 18, a girl forced to work as a prostitute in a busy Bangkok bar, only to discover her testimony is key to proving his case. Can he convince her to risk her life...

  • Hope Lives in Hohenwald

    Movie + 1 extra

    When people in a rural middle Tennessee community decided “enough is enough” as drugs and alcohol took a heavy toll, they united with the determination that “Hope Lives in Hohenwald.”

    Tired of family and friends dying and lives shattered from the effects of drugs and alcohol, pastors and minist...

  • Briars in the Cotton Patch

    Movie

    Briars in the Cotton Patch tells the nearly forgotten story of Koinonia Farm, a small Christian community in Southwest Georgia where whites and blacks chose to live and work together as equals despite the brutal and frightening consequences.

    Possibly the most daring social experiment in the Sout...

  • Hush
    Movie

    Hush

    Movie

    What happens when a pro-life executive producer and a pro-choice director collaborate on a journalistic film about abortion and women’s health? The answer is a unique and powerful documentary called HUSH. Putting aside their differences about the legality of abortion and agreeing to approach the ...

  • Find Me

    Movie

    Thousands of Chinese children now find themselves in the homes of families across America. With great love and personal sacrifice, people adopt these precious little ones, bringing them home to love them and raise them as their own. But few know the veiled back story. This moving, personal docume...

  • Schoolhouse Rocked

    Movie

    Schoolhouse Rocked: The Homeschool Revolution is a feature-length documentary intended to encourage and equip homeschool families to start strong and finish well. The movie follows host, Yvette Hampton as she travels the country with her family talking with education experts, curriculum developer...

  • In His Image

    Movie

    In His Image is a critical and urgent message designed to equip the church to answer culturally controversial questions about gender and sexuality from a biblical perspective. Every church in America is filled with hurting people asking these tough questions: Can you be gay and be a Christian? Wh...

  • The Line: Poverty In America

    Movie

    Poverty in America is probably not what you think. Emmy Award-winning producer Linda Midgett shows us in this groundbreaking documentary a new face of poverty in America. About 50 million people in the United States live below the poverty line (In 2014- $23,850 for a family of 4) and one in four ...

  • Border Interception

    Movie

    Every year in an impoverished South Asian nation, untold thousands of young women and children vanish from their homes and communities. Most are never seen again. Border Interception tells the story of Destiny Rescue’s relentless efforts to identify and recover these trafficking victims before th...

  • The Matter of Life

    Movie

    The award-winning film The Matter of Life cuts through the angry rhetoric and divisiveness about the issue of abortion and presents a message that goes beyond pro-life and pro-abortion arguments. It forces us to ask the question: Are the unborn one of us? Featuring the stories of women, former ab...

  • Somebody's Daughter
    Movie + 1 extra

    Somebody's Daughter

    Movie + 1 extra

    Pornography is one of the most difficult moral challenges of our time. What was once considered obscene is now a multi-billion dollar industry increasingly becoming the norm within mainstream culture. Because of the internet with its accessibility, anonymity, and affordability, pornography addict...

  • I Lived on Parker Avenue

    Movie

    Adopted at birth and raised in Louisiana, David Scotton is on a journey to Indiana to meet the birth parents he’s never known.

    His tattooed birth mother, Melissa, and reserved birth father, Brian, anxiously wait for him, concerned David will reject them for decisions they made before he was born...

  • Journey Interrupted
    Movie + 11 extras

    Journey Interrupted

    Movie + 11 extras

    In Journey Interrupted, five individuals share their personal stories of struggle with sexual identity. The documentary addresses two key questions; What does the Bible say about gender identity and homosexuality and how should Christians respond to these divisive issues? These questions are expl...

  • India's Forgotten Children

    Movie + 1 extra

    India’s Forgotten Children exposes widespread trafficking, persecution, and oppression among the children and young people of India’s 300 million strong Dalit community. Meticulously researched, this documentary portrays the everyday lives of these forgotten children of India, whose painful predi...

  • Tending Clouds
    Movie + 1 extra

    Tending Clouds

    Movie + 1 extra

    Tending Clouds chronicles the extraordinary life of Reaksmey, a powerful woman fighting for freedom, justice, and love. When she was eight years old, her mother sold her to a pedophile. After being rescued by an anti-trafficking organization, Reaksmey found the courage to testify against her abus...

  • Not for Sale: the Global Problem of Human Trafficking

    Movie

    Based on the book Not for Sale by David Batstone, this video covers what modern-day abolitionists are doing to fight the rampant terrors of human trafficking in the US and abroad. Traveling over 120,000 miles across five continents, Producer and Director Robert Marcarelli and his film crew gathe...

  • Future of the Church

    Movie

    Future of the Church chronicles a three-year journey of 80 interviews with pastors and church influencers from across America. In their journey to find the formula for a fragmented and dying church, the two filmmakers find themselves getting closer to a much bigger answer.

  • Accidental Activist

    Movie

    Ted and Lynn Murphy lead a simple suburban life. They have three wonderful children, their own small business, and good relationships with friends and neighbors. But that life is turned upside down when Ted signs a petition advocating traditional marriage. I is a small act of civic duty in his mi...

  • Life on the Island of Jesus

    Movie

    Seen by 2.5 million people on ABC, Life on the Island of Jesus is the true story of missionary pastor, Scott Campbell, whose ambitious dreams for ministry success crash into a disinterested spiritual culture, driving him into clinical depression and to the brink of suicide. This film explores how...

  • 2nd Greatest

    Movie

    2nd Greatest is a story about local shopkeepers, the town council, the mayor, the police—everybody—getting worked up over a run-down neighborhood. And the aggressive behavior of one particular homeless guy.

    When a young, new pastor comes to town, he can't shake the feeling that he and his church...

  • The Pink Room

    Movie

    The Pink Room tells the story of Mien and other young girls who have been victimized in the unspeakably dark world of child sex slavery. Mien grew up in Svay Pak, Cambodia, a small village notorious for one thing: the trafficking of children. At a young age Mien entered life in a brothel, and her...

  • Regrets, Reality, Restoration

    Movie + 1 extra

    There’s probably not one of us who wouldn’t appreciate a do-over or two when we look back at the course of our lives. Sometimes the misstep is catastrophic in its consequences, leaving others devastated by our actions or inactions.

    In Regrets, Reality, Restoration you will hear the heartfelt st...

  • Informed: Life is Worth Living

    Movie

    This documentary examines euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide and highlights the testimonies of those who have been most intimately impacted. In order to make informed decisions about critical medical issues, citizens need the unvarnished truth about these vitally important topics. This progra...

  • With God on Our Side

    Movie + 1 extra

    With God On Our Side takes a hard look at the theology and politics of Christian Zionism, which teaches that because the Jews are God’s chosen people, Israeli government policies should not be questioned, even when these policies are unjust. Critics of Christian Zionism argue that this flawed ide...