When energetic 26-year-old American missionary John Chau, after 10 years of secret planning, tried to bring Christianity to the island-locked Sentinelese people in 2018, his illegal venture ended ...

Judging from talk in restaurants and on the Telluride gondola, one of the films provoking the strongest reaction at the festival this year is The Mission. The National Geographic documentary, directed ...

Just months before undertaking the most forbidding journey in his life as a young missionary to a remote Indian Ocean island, John Allen Chau was blindfolded and dropped off on a dirt road in a remote ...

Directors Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine said they discovered that Chau’s story was as influenced by adventure stories like Robinson Crusoe and Tintin as it was the Scripture. “John was possessed of ...

Two weeks ago a young American made a doomed mission to North Sentinel Island, a speck in the Bay of Bengal and home to perhaps the most isolated people on earth — all 50 or so of them. Ever since he ...

'Boys State' directors Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss tell the story of John Allen Chau, who was killed in 2018 while trying to establish contact with Sentinelese tribespeople. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & ...

Credits: Directed by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, featuring John Chau, Daniel Everett, Adam Goodheart. Rating/Runtime: Rated PG-13, 124 minutes. Depending on your point of view, John Chau’s story is ...

Director Justin Lin and writer Ben Ripley rip a story from the headlines and present the audience with their version of a ...

Gripped by youthful, evangelical zeal and a thirst for adventure, 26-year-old American missionary John Chau was killed in 2018 while attempting to make contact with the people of North Sentinel Island ...

The Mission tells the story of John Chau, a missionary who in 2018 attempted to bring Christianity to the indigenous people of remote North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal. The Sentinelese killed ...