The Mission

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American Christian missionary John Chau was murdered when he tried to illegally contact and convert some of the world’s last uncontacted indigenous people. Through exclusive interviews and archival footage of John’s journey, THE MISSION explores themes that strike deep at the heart of religion, colonialism, and anthropology, questioning where we draw the line between faith and fanaticism, exploration and exploitation, imagination and destruction.

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Director(s): Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss

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Producer(s): Simon Chinn, Jonathan Chinn, Jesse Moss, Amanda McBaine, Will Cohen

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evangelical christianity christian propaganda conversion to christianity

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Pam Arlund

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Dan Davis

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Levi Davis

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Daniel Everett

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Lawrence Kao

John Chau (voice)

David Shih

Patrick Chau (voice)

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Brent Marchant

Is religious missionary work an act of altruism or arrogance? Does it represent a quest for the fulfillment of one’s spiritual potential or a euphemistic cover for an inflated sociopathic ego? And, in...