Beyond the Gates of Splendor

i love this movie. great for the whole family. very moving and it gets you thinking about whats really important in life. please watch. I would recommend. And its a true story!!! Its about 5 missionaires who were killed and it shows such compassion and true love between people of all parts of the world. Its inspiring and its amazing how missing missionaries are not even reported anymore and back then it was such a big deal. I think people forget what this country was founded upon. I really didn't think this was going to be any good, but once I started watching it i couldn't stop. Such a wonderful story of some very brave and wonderful missionaries. This is funny,romantic, sad, suspenseful. please watch!

What is the difference between "March of The Penguins" and this movie?...Everything.

I have been wanting to listen and know about the five missionaries and their mission for quite some time. Now that I have seen it; I comment that this movie is to be placed on your DVD collection.

Powerful message (it is a documentary, not a sermon), great music, excellent story telling; This movie has it all.

This movie, rather the story, does live up to the proverb "To err is human, to forgive is divine". It does take a divine amount of forgiveness to be able to forgive the people who have wronged you, especially people under the circumstances described in the movie. Very powerful, not to be taken lightly.

My sociology teacher played part of this in class, and it piqued my interest enough that I searched it up when I got home and watched the rest of it. And wow, what a story! I'm not even a Christian, and it touched my soul all the same. It's a hidden gem that you don't want to miss out on, regardless of whether you're religious or not. This documentary is sorrowful but uplifting, and the events that transpired were tragic but ultimately hopeful.

Aside from the beauty of the story, it's so bizarre that such a thing actually happened and I had no idea about it. Truth really is stranger than fiction, and I was reminded through this film that the world is very, very big and extremely interesting.

This is the most compelling documentary and story I have ever experienced. I was only vaguely familiar the story. The idea of going to live with people who killed one of my loved ones is difficult to understand. Even the idea of why the families were there in the first place is foreign to our American culture. The music in this documentary sounds like movie music, and the people in the story are amazing, the north and south Americans.

Clearly this amazing tribe would have wiped themselves out if it were not for the missionaries. They should make a feature film about this story.

I was spellbound as I watched this story unfold. A terrible tragedy that was national news headlines, was turned into an unbelievable triumph by the complete forgiveness of the wronged parties, and the power of God to truly transform the minds and hearts of everyone involved. After five missionary men were murdered by tribesmen in the rain forest of Ecuador, their wives and children went back to the tribe and lived with them. Strengthened by God and dependent upon His protection, they taught the people of this culture the power of forgiveness, love, and compassion. In the words of the tribesmen themselves, if the missionaries had not come to them, they would have continued to kill each other to the point of extinction.