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SCAdian MOVIES: THE BIBLE

Many people assume that the SCA period does not go farther back than the fall of Rome. However, the influence of the Bible on medieval society and culture is undeniable. Also, some of these movies have good sword fighting action and battle scenes.

HOW TO USE THE MARKINGS:

! = a definite must-see for anyone with SCA related interests.

+ = good to see if you've already seen or if you can't find the must-sees.

% = either a weak movie with a SCA-related theme, or a good movie of limited SCA-related interest.

- = only for the most desparate completist.

I have reviewed some of these films on Amazon.com and Allwatchers.com. You can go to the reviews by clicking on the "AMZ" for Amazon and the "ALW" for Allwatchers.

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To help you find certain types of movies, I have divided the list on this page into the following categories:
Jesus
David and Goliath
Moses
Samson
Other Biblical

JESUS

Barabbas (61 Richard Fleischer. Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Pallance, Ernest Borgnine, Katy Jurado)
% Ben Hur (very early short silent)
Ben Hur (silent '26 Fred Nibo. Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson, Claire McDowell, Carmel Myers, Nigel de Brulier)
! Ben Hur ('59 William Wyler. Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet, Hugh Griffith, Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott, Sam Jaffe, Cathy O,Donnell, Finlay Currie)
Ben-Hur (Animated '89)
Ben Hur (Animated 2003 Bill Kowalchuk. Charlton Heston)
! Demetrius and the Gladiators ('54 Delmer Daves. Victor Mature, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Anne Bancroft, Richard Egan, Ernest Borgnine. Sequel to The Robe)
Intolerance (Silent '16 D. W. Griffith. Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, Constance Talmadge, Bessie Love, Sheena Owen, Alfred Paget, Eugene Pallette)
Jesus Christ Superstar ('73 Norman Jewison. Ted Neely, Carl Anderson, Yvonne Elliman, Barry Dennen, Joshua Mostel, Bob Bingham, Paul Thomas. Tim Rice - Andrew Lloyd Webber musical)
Jesus Christ Superstar (2001 Gale Edwards, Nick Morris. Glenn Carter, J�r�me Pradon, Renee Castle, Fred Johanson, Rik Mayall, Frederick B. Owens, Michael Shaeffer, Tony Vincent, Cavin Cornwall, Peter Gallagher, Michael McCarthy, Philip Cox)
King of Kings (Silent '27 C. B. DeMille. H. B. Warner, Ernest Torrence, Jacqueline Logan, Joseph Schildkraut, Victor Varconi, Robert Edeson, William Boyd)
King of Kings ('61 Nicholas Ray. Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhan Mckenna, Robert Ryan, Hurd Hatfield, Viveca Lindfors, Rita Gam, Rip Torn)
+ The Last Temptation of Christ ('88 Martin Scorsese. Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey, Harry Dean Stanton, David Bowie, Verna Bloom, Andre Gregory, Juliette Caton, Roberts Blossom, Ivan Kershner, Nehemiah Persoff, Barry Miller)
! Life of Brian ('79 Monty Python)
Mary and Joseph: A Story of Faith (TV '79 Eric Till. Blanche Baker, Jeff East, Colleen Dewhurst, Stephen McHattie, Lloyd Bochner, Paul Hecht)
Pontius Pilate (Italy-France,'62 Irving Rapper. Jean Marais, Jeanne Craine, Basil Rathbone, John Drew Barrymore, massimo Serato, Leticia Roman)
! The Robe ('53 Henry Koster. Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie, Richard Boone, Jay Robinson, Dawn Addams, Dean Jagger, Jeff Morrow, Ernest Thesiger)
The Sign of the Cross ('32 C. B. DeMille. Frederic March, Elissa Landi, Claudette Colbert, Charles Laughton, Ian Keith, Vivian Tobin, Nat Pendleton, Joe Bonomo)
The Silver Chalice ('54 Victor Saville. Virginia Mayo, Pier Angeli, Jack Pallance, Paul Newman, Lorne Greene, E. G. Marshall, Natalie Wood)

DAVID AND GOLIATH
- David and Bathsheba ('51 Henry King. Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey, Kieron Moore, James Robertson Justice, Jayne Meadows, John Sutton, George Zucco)
- David and Goliath (Italy '60 Richard Pottier, Ferdinando Baldi. Orson Welles, Ivo Payer, Edward Hilton, Eleonora Rossi-Drago, Massimo Serato)
- Esther and the King (Italy '60 Raoul Walsh. Joan Collins, Richard Egan, Denis O'dea, Sergio Fantoni)
- + King David ('85 Bruce Beresford. Richard Gere, Edward Woodward, Alice Krige, Dennis Quilley, Niall Buggy, Cherie Lunghi, Hurd Hatfield, Jack Klaff)
- Goliath Against the Giants (Italy '61 Guido Malatesta. Brad Harris, Gloria Milland, Fernando Rey, Barbara Carrol)
- Goliath and the Barbarians (Italy '60 Carlo Campogalliani. Steve Reeves, Bruce Cabot, Giulia Rubini, Chelo Alonso, Arturo Domenici, Gino Scotti)
- Goliath and the Dragon (Italy '60 Vittorio Cottafavi. Mark Forest, Broderick Crawford, Gaby Andre, Leonora Ruffo)
- Goliath and the Vampires (Italy '61 Giacomo Gentilomo. Gordon Scott, Jacques Sernas, Gianna Maria Canale)

MOSES
- Moses (TV 2001 Roger Young. Ben Kingsley. Turner Original)
- Moses the Egyptian Prince (Danny Glover, Ben Kingsley)
- Moses und Aron ('74 Dani�le Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub. G�nter Reich, Louis Devos, Eva Csapo, Roger Lucas, Richard Salter, Werner Mann, Ladislav Illavsky)
- Prince of Egypt (Animated)
- Prince of the Nile: The Story of Moses ('99 Animated)
- The Ten Commandments ('23 C. B. DeMille. Theodore Roberts, Charles de Roche, Estelle Taylor, Richard Dix, Ron La Rocque, Leatrice Joy, Nita Naldi, Agnes Ayres)
- ! The Ten Commandments ('56 C. B. DeMille. Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, Debra Paget, John Derek, Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Wilcoxon, Nina Foch, Judith Anderson, Vincent Price, John Carradine, Woody Strode)
- Wholly Moses ('80 Gary Weis. Dudley Moore, Laraine Newman, James Coco, Paul Sand, Jack Gilford, Dom DeLuise, John Houseman, Madeline Kahn, David L. Lander, Richard Pryor, John Ritter, Richard B. Shull, Tanya Boyd, Ruth Manning, Walker Edmiston)

SAMSON
- Samson and Delilah ('49 C. B. DeMille, Victor Mature, Heddy Lamarr, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Henry Wilcoxon, Olive Deering, Russ Tamblyn, George Reeves, Tom Tyler, Fritz Leiber, Mike Mazurki)
- Samson and Delilah (TV '84 Lee Phillips. Anthony Hamilton, Belinda Bauer, Max von Sydow, Stephen Macht, Maria Schell, Jose Ferrer, Victor Mature)
- Samson and the Slave Queen (Italy,'63 Umberto Lenzi. Pierre Brice, Alan Steel, Moira Orfei, Maria Grazia Spina)

OTHER BIBLICAL
- The Bible Series Box Set (2001 Turner Originals)
- Abraham (TV 2001 Joseph Sargent. Richard Harris, Barbara Hershey. Turner Original)
- ...And God Spoke ('93 Arthur Borman. Michael Riley, Stephen Rappaport, Tamara Mello, R.C. Bates, Lou Ferrigno, Fred Kaz, Eve Plumb, Soupy Sales, Chris Kattan, Ginger Lee, Michael Medved, Andy Dick)
- The Bible (Italy '66 John Huston. Michael Parks, Ulla Bergryd, Richard Harris, John Huston, Stephen Boyd, George C. Scott, Ava Gardner, Peter O'Toole, Franco Nero)
- Esther (2000 Raffaele Mertes. Louise Lombard, F. Murray Abraham)
- Jacob (TV 2001 Peter Hall. Matthew Modine, Lara Flynn Boyle. Turner Original)
- Jeremiah (2000 Harry Winer. Patrick Dempsey, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Oliver Reed)
- Joseph (TV 2001 Roger Young. Martin Landau, Ben Kingsley, Paul Mercurio, Leslie-Anne Down,
- Noah's Ark (Mostly silent,'29 Michael Curtiz. Dolores Costello, George O'Brien, Noah Beery, Louise Fazenda, Gwynne Williams, Paul McAllister, Myrna Loy)
- % Noah's Ark (TV '99 John Voight, Mary Steenbegen. Takes some liberties with scripture)
- % The Search for Noah's Ark
- Sodom and Gamorra (Italy,'63 Robert Aldrich. Stewart Granger, Pier Angeli, Stanley Baker, Anouk Aimee, Rossana Podesta)
- Solomon (TV '99 Roger Young. Ben Cross, Vivica A. Fox)
- Solomon and Sheba ('59 King Vidor. Yul Brynner, Gina Lollabrigada, George Sanders, Marisa Pavan, John Crawford, Alejandro Rey, Harry Andrews. Brynner's role originally playd by Tyrone Power, who died during shooting, yet still shows up in certain shots)
- The Story of Jacob and Joseph ('74 Michael Cacoyannis)

Biblical Video Collections
- Charlton Heston Presents the Bible
  - Genesis
  - The Story of Moses (1993)
  - Jesus of Nazareth
  - The Passion
- Greatest Adventure Stories from the Bible
  - The Creation
  - Noah's Ark
  - Samson and Delilah
  - Jonah
  - Joseph and His Brothers
  - David and Goliath
  - Joshua and the Battle of Jericho
  - Queen Esther
  - Moses (1996)
  - Daniel and the Lion's Den
  - The Nativity
  - Miracles of Jesus
  - The Easter Story

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