Tom C. Christensen (born 1953) is an American filmmaker. His films include Joseph Smith: The Man in 1980 to Gordon B. Hinckley: A Giant Among Men in 2008, and more recently films about the Martin and Willie handcart companies which encountered horrific difficulties while traversing the plains toward Salt Lake City in late 1856.He grew up in Layton, Utah. He served as an LDS missionary in Ohio and West Virginia from 1972 until 1974.