Left Behind is a 2000 Christian film based on the Left Behind book series, and is the first in a trilogy, followed by Left Behind II: Tribulation Force and Left Behind: World at War. Written by Reverend Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins, Alan B. McElroy, Paul Lalonde, and Joe Goodman, and directed by Vic Sarin, former Growing Pains child-star Kirk Cameron plays the lead role of Buck Williams.