distributor 1927 1933 see sono art world wide pictures . for the british film production company of the same name founded in 1942 see world wide pictures uk . the topic of this article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources world wide pictures news newspapers books scholar jstor free images july 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message world wide pictures type film production and distribution founded 1951 founder billy graham and dick ross headquarters minneapolis united states website world wide pictures world wide pictures wwp is a film distributor and production company established as a subsidiary of the billy graham evangelistic association bgea in 1951 . it is involved in the production and distribution of evangelistic films the production of graham crusade films and publicity for graham crusades . wwp got its start after graham met dick ross who had produced a documentary film of graham s 1950 crusade in portland oregon . that film s success led the bgea to buy ross s production company and hire him as the president of a new bgea subsidiary incorporated as the billy graham evangelistic film ministry which was to be wwp s official name until 1980 . wwp s first feature film was mr. texas produced during graham s 1951 fort worth texas crusade . it was also during the 1950s that wwp established production facilities in burbank california . perhaps wwp s best known production was the 1965 film the restless ones featuring kim darby . it was the first theatrical movie . 1 according to an october 14 1966 issue of christianity today more than 120 000 professions of faith were recorded after more than two million people viewed the film . other major feature films included two a penny 1965 which starred cliff richard . both the hiding place 1975 with julie harris and time to run 1973 received golden globe nominations for most promising newcomer . wwp stopped national releases of its films in the late 1980s . the company sold its burbank studio moved its headquarters to minneapolis and switched to working with independent producers and distributing films to churches on home video and as made for tv movies . they cautiously returned to feature films in 2001 with the limited national release of road to redemption wwp s first comedy after over 125 films including nine major motion pictures . the film starred pat hingle . it was followed by the climb which starred jason winston george ned vaughn and dabney coleman and featured todd bridges . in 2003 the company released its latest film last flight out . contents 1 see also 2 references 3 further reading 4 external links see also edit man in the 5th dimension references edit peter t. chattaway august 23 2005 . billy graham goes to the movies . christianity today . retrieved 2013 08 01 . further reading edit jonathan yates hill 1991 . world wide pictures putting the gospel on the big screen . greensboro university of north carolina . external links edit world wide pictures from billy graham s website including a list of films imdb entries list of films as distributor list of films as production company retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title world wide pictures & oldid 743567939 categories film distributors of the united statesfilm production companies of the united statesevangelical parachurch organisationscompanies based in minneapolischristian film production companiesbilly grahamhidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from july 2013all articles with topics of unclear notability navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 06 35 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view