Movies: Religious persecution

This is a fictional love story with the 1856 Handcart Pioneers as the backdrop. Sam Hunter, falls for a Mormon Pioneer woman, Abigail, as she is moving west. As the pioneers stop in his town of Iowa City, he pretends to desire joining the Mormon Chur...

A poorly operated weather station in Milwaukee is reporting an overcast sky when it receives a radio signal transmission from aliens, telling them that they have hijacked the sky and that if they don't comply, there will be severe consequences. all t...

Abbey is a typical American teenager who's strong in her Christian faith and popular with her friends. But when she accompanies her photojournalist dad on a trip to China, she gets a glimpse into an unknown world where people suffer for their beliefs...

Ibpa Mi explores the journey of Lylia, a devout young woman whose deep-rooted religious beliefs mask a hidden truth that threatens to shatter her perception of reality....

A short documentary about one man’s sacrifice to survive in America....

A story set in 1910s Yorkshire. Sister Mary-Beaumont, a transgender nun, has her faith tested by a wild-spirited Postulate named Florence as a hidden romance blooms between the two...

Iranian Taboo tells the harrowing story of Baha'i woman Nadereh and her 14-year-old daughter who decide to sell all their belongings and leave their home in Isfahan to take refuge in the west. The film takes us across continents from Turkey to Israel...

This 1919 silent is the first American film based on the same Sholem Aleichem stories as Fiddler on the Roof, but produced 50 years before the blockbuster musical. Unlike most adaptations of Aleichem’s work, Broken Barriers (Khavah) focuses not on Te...

A determined artist submits his papers in what seems to be a visa office for a foreign land. After vigorous interrogation, and insistence on his part to get through, We find out that he is in fact in purgatory, and is pleading his case to go through ...