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1. Joseph (1995)
directed by Roger Young
featuring Ben Kingsley, Paul Mercurio
This television miniseries recounts the biblical story of Joseph, the 11th son of the Hebrew patriarch, Jacob. Joseph (Paul Mercurio) has an ... More
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2. The Robe (1953)
directed by Henry Koster
featuring Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie, Jay Robinson
Historically important as the first CinemaScope feature film, 20th Century-Fox's The Robe is fine dramatic entertainment in its own right. Based on ... More
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3. David and Bathsheba (1951)
directed by Henry King
featuring Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey, Kieron Moore, James Robertson Justice
David and Bathsheba is a respectable, slightly stodgy cinematic adaptation of the Old Testament story. King David (Gregory Peck), much beloved by his ... More
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4. Samson and Delilah (1949)
directed by Cecil B. DeMille
featuring Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Henry Wilcoxon
Samson and Delilah is Cecil B. DeMille's characteristically expansive retelling of the events found in the Old Testament passages of Judges 13-16. ... More
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5. Samson and Delilah (1996)
directed by Nicolas Roeg
British director Nicolas Roeg, best known for his films Walkabout and The Man Who Fell To Earth, helmed this made-for-cable adaptation of the epic ... More
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6. The Story of Jacob and Joseph (1974)
directed by Michael Cacoyannis
featuring Colleen Dewhurst, Harry Andrews, Herschel Bernardi, Julian Glover, Keith Michell, Tony Lo Bianco
The made-for-television movie The Story of Jacob and Joseph tells the Biblical tale of Jacob (Keith Michell) and Esau (Julian Glover), who spend 20 ... More
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7. The Story of David (1976)
directed by Alex Segal, David Lowell Rich
Filmed in Israel and Spain, the four-hour made-for-TV The Story of David stars Timothy Bottoms as the Biblical king. The "David and Goliath" legend ... More
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8. The Mahabharata (1989)
directed by Peter Brook
featuring Robert Langton-Lloyd, Antonin Stahly-Vishwanadan, Bruce Myers, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Andrzej Seweryn, Georges Corraface
Director Peter Brook collaborates with writer Jean-Claude Carriére for this screen adaptation of the epic, 100,000-stanza Sanskrit poem tracing ... More
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9. The Ten Commandments (2007)
directed by Bill Boyce, John Stronach
featuring Christian Slater, Alfred Molina, Elliott Gould, Ben Kingsley, Christopher Gaze
One of the most fabled stories of the Old Testament gets a new interpretation in this CGI-animated feature. When the Pharaoh of Egypt sentences ... More
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10. In the Beginning (2000)
directed by Kevin Connor
featuring Martin Landau, Jacqueline Bisset, Eddie Cibrian, Frederick Weller
A kind of "best-of" account of the books of Genesis and Exodus, this two-part NBC miniseries aired in November 2000. Part One, set in the desert, ... More
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11. Solomon and Sheba (1959)
directed by King Vidor
featuring Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, George Sanders, Marisa Pavan, David Farrar
Romance, treachery, intrigue and spiritual awakenings abound in the Biblical film adaptation of Solomon and Sheba. Trouble begins between two ... More
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12. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
directed by Fred Niblo
featuring Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson, Claire McDowell, Kathleen Key, Carmel Myers
The advertising tag "four years in the making" is usually so much press-agent puffery. In the case of the 1926 silent version of Ben Hur, it was the ... More
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13. Jeremiah (2000)
directed by Harry Winer
featuring Patrick Dempsey
The eighth in a series of movies made-for-TV which recreate stories from the bible, this drama stars Patrick Dempsey as Jeremiah, a prophet who heard ... More
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14. The Sign of the Cross (1932)
directed by Cecil B. DeMille
featuring Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Elissa Landi, Charles Laughton, Ian Keith
Director Cecil B. DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures for this typically epic production, which became his first box office hit after the close of ... More
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15. The Great Commandment (1941)
directed by Irving Pichel
featuring John Beal, Maurice Moscovich, Albert Dekker, Marjorie Cooley
Filmed independently in 1939, The Great Commandment finally attained released in 1942 via 20th Century-Fox. Set in 30 AD, the story concerns the ... More
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16. Salome (1953)
directed by William Dieterle
featuring Rita Hayworth, Stewart Granger, Judith Anderson, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Badel, Charles Laughton
"Her Salome Will Steal Your Breath Away" was the classic advertising slogan attached to this opulent Rita Hayworth epic -- a slogan which became ... More
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17. The Crusades (1935)
directed by Cecil B. DeMille
featuring Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith, C. Aubrey Smith, Katherine de Mille
The Holy Wars are given the usual overblown Cecil B. DeMille treatment in The Crusades. It all begins in the 12th-century AD, when Jerusalem falls ... More
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18. The Ten Commandments (1923)
directed by Cecil B. DeMille
featuring Theodore Roberts, Charles de Roche, Estelle Taylor, Julia Faye, Richard Dix, Rod La Rocque
Cecil B. DeMille's first screen version of The Ten Commandments is only peripherally a Biblical story. The film's first 45 minutes recaps the ... More
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19. Samson and Delilah (1984)
directed by Lee Philips
featuring Anthony Hamilton, Belinda Bauer, Clive Revill, Max von Sydow, Stephen Macht
This lavish retelling of the story of the Hebrew strong man and history's most famous lady barber was based in part on the Old Testament, in part on ... More
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20. From the Manger to the Cross (1912)
directed by Sidney Olcott
During its brief but colorful history, the pioneering Kalem company turned out a number of box-office successes. Foremost among these was From the ... More
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21. Genesis: The Creation and The Flood (1994)
directed by Ermanno Olmi
featuring Omero Antonutti
In this movie, filmed in the Moroccan desert and utilizing a cast of native Bedouins, stories are taken verbatim from the Bible and re-enacted on the ... More
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22. Noah's Ark (1999)
directed by John Irvin
featuring Jon Voight, Mary Steenburgen, F. Murray Abraham, Carol Kane, James Coburn
The biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood gets a decidedly unusual retelling in this film, produced as a two-part TV movie and first aired on ... More
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23. Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
directed by Ridley Scott
featuring Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson
Ridley Scott directed this epic-scale historical drama inspired by the events of the Crusades of the 12th century. Balian (Orlando Bloom) is a humble ... More
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24. Gettysburg (1993)
directed by Ronald F. Maxwell
featuring Martin Sheen, Jeff Daniels, Tom Berenger, Stephen Lang, Richard Jordan
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara becomes this sprawling historical epic. As in Shaara's novel, director Ronald ... More
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25. The Pillars of the Earth (2010)
directed by Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
featuring Ian McShane
Ian McShane, Donald Sutherland, and Rufus Sewell headline this eight-part miniseries adapted from the best-selling novel by author Ken Follett. As ... More
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