Independent Lens
Season 5 Episode 9 - Get the Fire! Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad
Get the Fire: Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad is a United States PBS-sponsored documentary, by the independent filmmaker Nancy du Plessis. It examines the experiences of some Mormon missionaries who questioned their religious beliefs after serving their missions. It premiered in December 2003 and was 60 minutes long. Some Mormon missionaries, including those serving missions in a foreign culture, may begin to question their religious upbringing and belief system. Get the Fire follows three LDS missionaries during their two-year missions in Germany. The documentary opens with the three future missionaries at their respective homes prior to knowing where they will serve. Surrounded by their family, each boy opens a mission call informing them they will serve in the Munich, Germany mission. The documentary follows them along the full two years of their mission from the Missionary Training Center until they leave the mission and return home. The film shows missionaries proselyting in public squares, knocking door to door, struggling with a foreign language, congregating in zone and district meetings, and meeting with the mission president. Topics covered include missionary slang, leaving a girlfriend at home, missionary morale, and relationships with family at home. The three missionaries appear to remain dedicated and faithful to their mission in the film.
Episodes in Season 5
Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz
60 min
Foto-Novelas 2: `Junkyard Saints' and `Broken Sky'
60 min
Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America
60 min
A Wedding in Ramallah
60 min
Be Good, Smile Pretty
60 min
Livermore
60 min
Eroica!
60 min
Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson
60 min
Get the Fire! Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad
60 min
Man Bites Shorts
60 min
Make 'Em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' Story
60 min
Life Matters
60 min
Why Can't We Be a Family Again?; Downpour Resurfacing
60 min
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
60 min
A Place of Our Oen
60 min
Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew
60 min
Sentencing the Victim
60 min
T-Shirt Travels
60 min
Every Child Is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas
60 min
Love Inventory
60 min
Ram Dass: Fierce Grace
60 min
The Weather Underground
60 min
One Night at the Grand Star; Double Exposure
60 min
Refugee
60 min
Death of a Shaman
60 min
Cosmopolitan
60 min
Sumo East and West
60 min
The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out
60 min
