Left Behind Collection (2006)

LEFT BEHIND: THE MOVIE, based on the the successful series of Christian novels written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, could be one in a long tradition of extravagant classic Hollywood biblical epics. It steadily and deliberately delivers the same themes shared by older Christian pictures, but it benefits from more modern visual trappings. LEFT BEHIND might also be compared to another group of films made in the 1990s that are oriented towards fundamentalist Christians. That group, like LEFT BEHIND, could be placed specifically in the Last Days sub-category.

TRIBULATION FORCE: Second in the ongoing series of Christian films based on best-selling novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, TRIBULATION FORCE continues where the enormously popular LEFT BEHIND ended. Confusion and chaos ensue after the mysterious vanishings of millions of people, and U.N. Secretary General Nicolae Carpathia (Gordon Currie) seeks to pacify the world with a new temporal ideology, one in which religion would be made obsolete. A group of rebels, aware of the nefarious Carpathia's true identity, form the Tribulation Force to combat his foretold rule of darkness and to save as many souls as they can. As prophesied in the Bible, witnesses of God have descended to Earth in Jerusalem, and Carpathia refuses them a public audience. The reporter Buck Williams, played by Kirk Cameron (TV's GROWING PAINS), and pilot Ray Steele (Brad Johnson) infiltrate Carpathia's tight circle of power to inform the world of God's message--via live television. Interwoven throughout the film is the budding love story between Buck and Chloe Steele, Ray Steele's daughter played by Janaya Stephens, although the two exchange no more than a kiss on the cheek. A science-fiction story at its core, TRIBULATION FORCE offers a vision of the future according to Revelations, perhaps most resonant with viewers of Christian faith.

WORLD AT WAR: The third installment in this Christian science-fiction series, based on the books by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, stars Academy Award winner Lou Gossett, Jr. (TOY SOLDIERS, AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN) as Gerald Fitzhugh, president of the United States. U.N Secretary General Nicolae Carpathia (Gordon Currie, LEFT BEHIND) has succeeded even further in his efforts to unite the world under a new, religion-free ideology. Now he is poised on the brink of a U.S. invasion, and Fitzhugh, in the interests of world peace, has rendered the country ill-prepared for attack. The desperate president turns to the group of underground rebels known as the Tribulation Force, who recognize Carpathia's true identity and fight on the side of the Christian god. At the helm of the rebels is journalist Buck Williams (Kirk Cameron, GROWING PAINS), and his team includes his former flame and new wife, Chloe (Janaya Stephens). Together they fight against the clock, Nicolae's seemingly insurmountable power, and their own closed minds to save the world, in an explosive dramatization of the Book of Revelations.