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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 Photo-Drama of Creation, or Creation-Drama, is a four-part audiovisual presentation (eight hours in total) produced by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania under the direction of Charles Taze Russell, the founder of the Bible Student movement. The presentation presents their beliefs about God's plan from the creation of ...
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
Many of the deuterocanonical books, accepted as scripture by the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodoxy, were written during this time, as were many pseudepigraphal works, the Biblical apocrypha and Jewish apocrypha. An understanding of the events of the intertestamental period provides historical and literary context for the New Testament.
For her, the film highlights Guy's "role in the development of a hybrid cinema that questions notions of 'realism' and 'artifice' in gendered performativity". She finds that Guy took "a slightly feminist, though dominantly white and racist perspective" blending "spectacle and realism in an unprecedented manner.
Popular mainstream studio productions of films with strong Christian messages or Biblical stories, such as Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments, The Prince of Egypt, The Robe, Sergeant York, The Blind Side, The Book of Eli, [1] Machine Gun Preacher, Risen, Hacksaw Ridge, and Silence, are not specifically part of the Christian film industry, being more agnostic about their audiences' religious beliefs.
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 films, originally aired as standalone television movies or as short miniseries, have been gathered and released in a numbered collection, with the secondary series title Close to Jesus on installments covering events during the lifetime of Jesus. The order of the collection may vary slightly from the order in which the films were originally ...