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Machine gun preacher [videorecording] / Relativity Media presents in association with Virgin Produced, a Safady Entertainment, Apparatus, GG Filmz production ; produced by Robbie Brenner [and others] ; written by Jason Keller ; directed by Marc Forster.

Summary:

Sam Childers is a drug-dealing criminal who undergoes an astonishing spiritual transformation and makes a life-changing decision to travel to war-torn East Africa. After witnessing unspeakable horrors faced by innocent children, he vows to save them at any cost, including his own safety. Childers begins waging a relentless battle against the territory's renegade militia, leading harrowing missions behind enemy lines to rescue kidnapped orphans and restore peace to their lives and eventually his own.

Record details

  • Physical Description: 1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Publisher: Beverly Hills, California : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2012]

Content descriptions

General Note:
DVD release of the 2011 motion picture.
Based on a true story.
Special features include Making the music for Machine gun preacher and theatrical trailer.
Creation/Production Credits Note:
Music, Asche & Spencer ; editor, Matt Chesse ; director of photography, Roberto Schaefer.
Participant or Performer Note:
Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Kathy Baker, Michael Shannon.
Target Audience Note:
MPAA rating: R; for violent content including disturbing images, language, some drug use and a scene of sexuality.
System Details Note:
DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (2.40:1) presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Language Note:
In English, with optional English SDH or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned in English.
Subject: Childers, Sam > Drama.
Drug traffic > Drama.
Missionaries > Sudan > Biography > Drama.
Child soldiers > Drama.
Sudan > History > Darfur Conflict, 2003- > Drama.
Genre: Feature films.
Action and adventure films.
Biographical films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Available copies

  • 14 of 15 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 15 total copies.
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