End of the Spear (2005)
Dare to Make Contact
Director: Jim Hanon · Writers: Bill Ewing, Bart Gavigan, Jim Hanon
"End of the Spear" is the story of Mincayani, a Waodani tribesman from the jungles of Ecuador. When five young missionaries, among them Jim Elliot and Nate Saint, are speared to death by the Waodani in 1956, a series of events unfold to change the lives of not only the slain missionaries' families, but also Mincayani and his people.
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Louie Leonardo
Mincayani 
Chad Allen
Nate Saint / Steve Saint / Narrator 
Jack Guzman
Kimo 
Chase Ellison
Young Steve Saint 
Sylvia Jefferies
Barbara Youderian 
Christina Souza
Dayumae
Chemo Mepaquito
Gikita
Ninabet Bedoya
Gimade
Sara Kathryn Bakker
Rachel Saint 
Cara Stoner
Marj Saint 
Beth Bailey
Elisabeth Elliot 
Muse Watson
Adolfo User Reviews (1)
**_There’s more to life than rashly killing people with a spear_** In 1956, several American missionaries deep in the Amazon basin try to contact the warring Waodani tribe, who live near the Curaray River in eastern Ecuador. Thirty-eight years later, the son of one of the missionaries goes back to the area to reacquaint with the people he met as a child. “End of the Spear” (2005) is a drama with some thrills based on the true story. Movies with a similar milieu include “Fitzcarraldo,” “The Emerald Forest,” “At Play in the Fields of the Lord,” “Medicine Man” and “The Lost City of Z,” even “The Mosquito Coast.” Sure, this one is more ‘faith-based’ due to the subject matter, but the director lets the facts speak for themselves with no glossing over and no sanitizing; just the facts. The viewer is left to interpret them. If you like any of those fl…
