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The American film industry has been producing movies based on Bible stories since 1897: The Horitz Passion Play (1897) was the first Passion play to be shown in the United States. [1] One of the earliest biblical films was the 1903 production of Samson and Delilah , produced by the French company Pathé .
The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ (French: La vie du Christ) is a 1906 French silent short film directed by Alice Guy-Blaché. The film is based on the traditional story of Jesus Christ as related in the Bible. [1]
Jael and Sisera (French: Jaël et Sisera) is a 1911 French silent film directed by Henri Andréani. The film portrays the biblical story of Jael and Sisera, found in the fourth and fifth chapters of the Book of Judges in the Bible.
At around 5,000 feet it was one of the longest films to be released to date, [7] [10] [11] although the Kinemacolor documentary With Our King and Queen Through India released in February 1912 ran to 16,000 feet; [12] and another religious film The Miracle (the first full-colour feature film) - was released in the UK at 7,000 feet in December 1912.
The Ten Commandments is a 1923 American silent religious epic film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille.Written by Jeanie MacPherson, the film is divided into two parts: a prologue recreating the biblical story of the Exodus and a modern story concerning two brothers and their respective views of the Ten Commandments.
The film’s executive producers, a longtime Christian Tacoma couple, helped fund the film after their son came out as gay and upended what they thought they knew about the world and their faith.
The Visual Bible: Acts: 1994 October 1 Regardt van den Bergh: United States Jacob: 1994 December 4 Peter Hall: United States Germany Italy Faustina: 1995 March 22 Jerzy Łukaszewicz Poland Are You My Neighbor? 1995 March 28 Phil Vischer Mike Nawrocki: United States Rack, Shack and Benny: 1995 November 28 Phil Vischer Mike Nawrocki: United ...
Bible and Cinema: Fifty Key Films. De Gruyter. ISBN 978-1-61451-561-6. Burnette-Bletsch, Rhonda (2013). The Bible in Motion. A Handbook of the Bible and Its Reception in Film. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415677202. Baugh, Lloyd (1997). Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-figures in Film. Sheed & Ward. ISBN 1556128630