Christian Film
Christian Film and the Biblical Worldview
Film is one of the most influential storytelling mediums in modern culture.
Movies do more than entertain. They communicate ideas about God, humanity, morality, family, justice, sexuality, suffering, redemption, courage, authority, beauty, and the meaning of life. Even films that never mention Christianity can communicate a powerful worldview through their characters, conflicts, assumptions, and conclusions.
Christians should therefore learn to think carefully about film.
This does not mean that every movie must be explicitly Christian. Nor does it mean that Christians should simply reject mainstream cinema. It means that Christians should learn to recognize the ideas communicated through visual storytelling and evaluate those ideas according to Scripture.
Christian filmmakers also have an opportunity to create stories that communicate truth, goodness, beauty, courage, sacrifice, redemption, and the gospel in compelling ways.
The resources below include Christian filmmakers, production companies, distributors, streaming services, film festivals, industry organizations, and Christian movie-review resources.
Christian Film and Worldview
Christian film can serve several different purposes.
Explicitly Christian films seek to communicate biblical themes, Christian doctrine, the gospel, or Christian testimony.
Faith-based films may incorporate Christian themes or values but can vary considerably in their theological depth and worldview.
Family-friendly films may not be explicitly Christian but may contain themes compatible with biblical morality.
Mainstream films can contain both truth and error and should be evaluated carefully rather than accepted or rejected solely on the basis of their marketing category.
Christians should therefore avoid the assumption that the label “Christian movie” automatically means “biblically sound movie.”
Likewise, Christians should not assume that a movie produced outside the Christian film industry has nothing worthwhile to say.
The proper question is:
What does this story teach me about reality, God, humanity, morality, and the meaning of life?
Christian Film Production Companies
Kendrick Brothers
The Kendrick Brothers are Christian filmmakers known for films including Facing the Giants, Fireproof, Courageous, War Room, Overcomer, and The Forge. Their films frequently explore faith, marriage, family, discipleship, perseverance, and spiritual growth.
Kingdom Story Company
Kingdom Story Company is a faith-based film and television production company associated with producer Jon Erwin and filmmaker Andy Erwin. Its productions seek to tell inspirational stories for mainstream audiences while incorporating Christian themes and values.
Erwin Brothers
The Erwin Brothers are Christian filmmakers known for producing and directing faith-based films and documentaries. Their work includes stories dealing with faith, family, perseverance, testimony, and redemption.
Pinnacle Peak Pictures
Pinnacle Peak Pictures develops and produces faith-based and family-oriented entertainment. Its projects include films intended for Christian audiences as well as broader family audiences.
Sorbo Studios
Sorbo Studios, founded by actor Kevin Sorbo and his family, produces faith-based and family-oriented films and television projects. Its work frequently explores Christian faith, moral courage, and cultural issues.
Michael Landon Jr.
Michael Landon Jr. is a filmmaker, director, producer, and writer known for faith-based and family-oriented film projects. His work includes adaptations and original stories intended for Christian and family audiences.
Crystal Creek Media
Crystal Creek Media produces Christian and family-oriented films and seeks to create entertainment that communicates positive moral and spiritual themes.
Burns & Co Productions
Burns & Co Productions creates and distributes Christian and family-oriented visual media, including film projects designed to encourage and entertain audiences from a Christian perspective.
Exploration Films
Exploration Films produces documentary and educational films addressing creation, science, history, and biblical worldview questions. Its work is particularly relevant for Christians interested in the intersection of scientific evidence and biblical interpretation.
Advent Film Group
Advent Film Group produces Christian films and filmmaking resources, with an emphasis on stories intended to encourage faith, family, and biblical values.
Little Crew Studios
Little Crew Studios develops Christian and family-oriented film and video projects, with an emphasis on wholesome entertainment for families.
Christian Film Distribution and Libraries
Vision Video / Gateway Films
Vision Video and its predecessor Gateway Films have been distributing Christian and family programming for decades. The organization currently offers more than 2,000 dramas, documentaries, Bible programs, children’s programs, biographies, historical productions, and other resources.
Vision Video describes its mission as producing and distributing visual media that communicates the Gospel and connects with contemporary audiences. Its parent organization, Christian History Institute, also operates RedeemTV.
ChristianCinema.com
ChristianCinema.com provides a large collection of Christian and family-friendly films for streaming and rental. It is useful for families looking for movies specifically marketed toward Christian audiences.
ChristianFilms.com
ChristianFilms.com provides Christian movies, documentaries, television programs, and other faith-based video resources.
ChristianMovies.com
ChristianMovies.com provides information and resources concerning Christian and family-oriented movies.
Christian Movie Database
The Christian Movie Database provides information about Christian and family films and helps viewers discover movies according to content, themes, and suitability.
Pure Flix
Pure Flix is a streaming service specializing in faith-based and family-oriented entertainment. Its catalog includes Christian films, television series, documentaries, and family programming.
Answers.TV
Answers.TV provides streaming Christian educational and apologetics content, including programs from Answers in Genesis and other Christian ministries. It is especially useful for families interested in creation science, apologetics, biblical worldview, and Christian education.
Christian Film and Media Organizations
International Christian Visual Media Association
ICVM is a longstanding international Christian media association serving filmmakers, producers, distributors, writers, investors, and other visual-media professionals.
Founded in the 1970s, ICVM currently hosts the annual Storytellers Conference, Christian Film Market, Crown Awards, Script & Story Pitch-A-Thon, and other events connecting Christian media professionals. Its stated mission is to support Christians involved in visual media and encourage them to communicate Christ through their work.
Faith & Family Filmmakers Association
The Faith & Family Filmmakers Association connects filmmakers, actors, writers, producers, and other professionals who desire to create faith-based and family-friendly media.
Media Talk 101
Media Talk 101 provides resources helping Christians understand and evaluate contemporary entertainment and media. It seeks to help families make wise choices concerning movies, television, music, and popular culture.
Christian Film Festivals and Industry Events
International Christian Film & Music Festival
The International Christian Film & Music Festival, commonly known as ICFF, is a major Christian film festival featuring feature films, short films, documentaries, television projects, animation, student films, screenplays, music videos, and other creative work.
The festival celebrated its 15th year in 2026 and reports more than 2,500 films screened, more than 30,000 attendees, and participation from more than 60 countries.
Christian Worldview Film Festival
The Christian Worldview Film Festival provides education, training, networking, and exhibition opportunities for Christian filmmakers seeking to create films from a biblical worldview. It is particularly relevant to ChristianWorldview.net because of its explicit emphasis on worldview rather than simply producing films labeled “Christian.”
International Christian Visual Media Association
ICVM also operates the Crown Awards and Christian Film Market and provides professional networking and training for Christian filmmakers. Its 2026 Storytellers Conference includes film-market and pitch opportunities for producers and distributors.
Christian Film and Entertainment Evaluation
Movieguide
Movieguide, founded by Ted Baehr, provides reviews and analysis of movies and entertainment from a Christian perspective. Its resources evaluate films according to moral content, worldview, family suitability, and other criteria.
Movieguide can be particularly useful for parents who want information about the content of a movie before deciding whether their children should watch it.
Plugged In
Plugged In is a media-review ministry of Focus on the Family providing detailed reviews of movies, television programs, music, games, and other forms of entertainment. Its reviews identify content involving violence, sexuality, language, substance abuse, religious themes, and worldview issues.
Christian Film and Family Entertainment
Affirm Films
Affirm Films is the faith-based film division of Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions. Sony launched Affirm in 2007 to develop, acquire, market, and distribute faith-based and inspirational entertainment. Its catalog includes films such as Facing the Giants, Fireproof, All Saints, Courageous, Overcomer, and other faith-based productions.
Affirm is therefore best understood as a mainstream entertainment company specializing in faith-based content, rather than as a Christian ministry.
Christian Film and Cultural Engagement
Why Film Matters
Stories shape imagination.
A movie can make an idea feel normal before a viewer has consciously evaluated whether the idea is true. It can portray virtue as admirable or foolish, redefine family, normalize sexual behavior, glorify violence, portray authority as oppressive, or present rebellion as heroic.
At the same time, a movie can communicate important truths about sacrifice, courage, justice, forgiveness, suffering, redemption, loyalty, family, friendship, and the consequences of sin.
Christians should therefore learn to become discerning viewers rather than merely consumers of entertainment.
How Should Christians Evaluate a Movie?
A Christian evaluation of a film should involve more than asking whether there is profanity, violence, or sexual content.
Those questions matter, but worldview analysis goes deeper.
Ask:
What does this story teach about God?
What does it teach about human nature?
What does it teach about right and wrong?
What does it portray as the highest good?
What does it teach about freedom?
What does it teach about authority?
What does it teach about family and marriage?
What does it teach about sexuality?
What does it teach about suffering?
What does it teach about forgiveness?
What does it teach about justice?
What does it teach about death?
What does it teach about redemption?
Who is the hero?
What makes the hero admirable?
What actions are rewarded?
What actions are condemned?
What assumptions about reality are never questioned?
These questions help Christians move beyond simply asking whether a film is “clean” and toward evaluating what the film is actually communicating.
Christian Film Does Not Mean Perfect Film
Christians should also recognize that Christian filmmaking has limitations.
A movie can have a Christian message while suffering from weak writing, poor acting, simplistic characterization, historical inaccuracies, or theological problems.
Conversely, a mainstream movie can contain profound insights into human nature or moral responsibility even though the filmmakers do not share a Christian worldview.
This is why Christians need both discernment and appreciation.
We can reject false ideas while recognizing truth.
We can identify moral problems while appreciating artistic excellence.
We can enjoy beauty without accepting every idea communicated by the artist.
And we can recognize that God, as Creator, is the ultimate source of truth, goodness, and beauty.
Film, Art, and the Christian Worldview
The Christian worldview provides a particularly rich foundation for artistic storytelling.
Christianity explains why human beings create.
We create because we are made in the image of a creative God.
Christianity explains why stories matter.
We live in God’s story of creation, Fall, redemption, and restoration.
Christianity explains why evil matters.
Evil is not merely a social construct but a rebellion against God’s good order.
Christianity explains why sacrifice and redemption resonate with audiences.
Human beings live in a fallen world and intuitively recognize the need for rescue.
Christianity also explains why beauty matters.
God created a world characterized by order, variety, creativity, and beauty, and human beings are capable of recognizing and producing beauty.
Christian filmmaking can therefore do more than preach.
It can tell compelling stories that illuminate truth about God’s world.
Film, Discernment, and the Family
Parents have a responsibility to help their children become wise consumers of media.
Instead of merely establishing a list of prohibited movies, parents can teach children how to evaluate stories.
Ask children:
What was this movie trying to make you believe?
What did the hero believe?
Was the hero right?
What did the movie portray as good?
What did it portray as evil?
Did the movie’s view of morality agree with Scripture?
What biblical truths were reflected in the story?
What false ideas were presented?
How would the story have been different if the characters had followed biblical principles?
This turns movie watching from passive entertainment into an opportunity for worldview education.
Key Biblical Principles for Evaluating Film
Whatever is true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, commendable