What to Watch: Powerful Movies About Revival and Awakenings

THE REVIVAL GENERATION is a documentary on CBN Family about a mother named Tonya Prewett who, after witnessing one of her daughters struggle, founds the Christian revival movement UNITEUS with a mission to bring Gen Z college students back to Jesus. THE REVIVAL GENERATION has impressive production values and will bring many viewers to tears, with many mass baptisms, prayers, songs, conversions, Scripture references, and stories about young people overcoming sin, substance abuse and tragedy by surrendering their lives to Jesus Christ.

JESUS REVOLUTION is a very entertaining and accurate, though compressed, portrait of the Vietnam protest era of hippies and young revolutionaries who find Jesus because God calls several people to welcome them into the Body of Christ. At its heart, the plot is propelled by a love story between an impoverished young man, Greg Laurie, with an alcoholic mother, and a beautiful young woman named Cathe, from a wealthy Laguna Hills family in Southern California. JESUS REVOLUTION is very bold about showing drug use, communal living, protest rallies, and Christian hypocrisy, but it also has many scenes of intense jeopardy and many scenes featuring inspiring, uplifting, well-written Christian presentations and expressions of the Gospel.

WOODLAWN is about a High School football team in Alabama in the 1970’s that was transformed by the Gospel and saw forgiveness, racial reconciliation and transformation as a result. WOODLAWN has some flaws in its writing, but it also has wonderful moments of faith, drama and inspiring transformation that will bring audiences to tears.

SALT AND LIGHT: THE MIRACLE IN HOLLYWOOD is a fascinating documentary about a Christian coffee house called The Salt Company, which opened August 3, 1968 in Hollywood. The Salt Company hosted musical groups such as Bob Marlowe, Larry Norman, and Randy Stonehill, who paved the way for contemporary Christian music and the Jesus Movement revival. SALT AND LIGHT is well worth watching.

MIRACLE AT MANCHESTER is a drama streaming on Pure Flix that follows the true story of Bryce Newman, a student at Cathedral Catholic High School in San Diego who’s diagnosed with an aggressive brain cancer. MIRACLE AT MANCHESTER, which stars Dean Cain as the surgeon caring for Bryce, is an inspiring, uplifting, faith-filled movie that honors the true story and champions family and the healing power of prayer.

BREAKTHROUGH is a must-see, entertaining, powerful, convicting, heartrending story about the real-life incident of a boy who fell through some ice and had no pulse for a longer period than any doctor thought possible when he then miraculously revived. Each character, believers and unbelievers, undergoes a tremendous journey in BREAKTHROUGH, an inspiring movie that will make you laugh and cry.

JESUS THIRSTS: THE MIRACLE OF THE EUCHARIST is a Fathom Events documentary in theaters about the importance of the Eucharist, or the communion table, from a Roman Catholic perspective, with a focus on the Catholic doctrine of the real divine presence of Jesus in the bread and the wine. JESUS THIRSTS is informative and inspiring, even if you’re not personally a Catholic or Christian, and supports love, mercy, forgiveness, hope, joy, and having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, but potential viewers should know that the movie promotes the Catholic Church and its perspective on Christian doctrine and practice.