Manufacturer: Entertainment in Video
Starring: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Ciaran Hinds, Oscar Isaac
Directed By: Catherine Hardwicke

Legendary silent film director Cecil B. DeMille didn't much alter the way he made movies after sound came in, and this 1956 biblical drama is proof of that. While graced with such 1950s niceties as VistaVision and Technicolor, The Ten Commandments (DeMille had already filmed an earlier version in 1923) has an anachronistic, impassioned style that finds lead actors Charlton Heston and Yul ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo
Directed By: Cecil B. DeMille

Manufacturer: Icon Home Entertainment
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Michael Bryant, Julie Christie, Rebecca Callard, James Frain
Directed By: Derek W. Hayes, Stanislav Sokolov

Originally made for TV in 1977, this in-depth version of Jesus' life is so thorough that the first hour is devoted solely to the story of his birth. The film doesn't skimp on some of the other landmark events of this famous story either. Director Franco Zeffirelli gives ample screen time each to the Last Supper and the Crucifixion. Passages of the Bible are quoted verbatim, the locations have a ...

Manufacturer: ITV DVD
Starring: Robert Powell, Olivia Hussey, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Anne Bancroft
Directed By: Franco Zeffirelli

Manufacturer: Allegro
Starring: Bob Doyle (VI) and 23 others, John Assaraf, Jason Sheperd, Leni Mex, Mark Goldenfein

After all the controversy has subsided, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ will remain a force to be reckoned with. In the final analysis, "Gibson's Folly" is an act of personal bravery and commitment on the part of its director, who self-financed this $25-30 million production to preserve his artistic goal of creating The Passion of Christ ("Passion" in its original context meaning ...

Manufacturer: Icon Home Entertainment
Starring: James Caviezel|Maia Morgenstern|Monica Bellucci
Directed By: Mel Gibson

Manufacturer: Time Life Video
Starring: Sir Ben Kingsley, Jonathan Pryce, Franco Nero, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Gambon
Directed By: Joseph Sargent, Roger Young, Nicolas Roeg

Manufacturer: ITV DVD
Starring: Robert Powell, Anne Bancroft, Laurence Olivier, Michael York, James Mason
Directed By: Franco Zeffirelli

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Michael Rennie, Victor Mature, Dean Jagger
Directed By: Henry Koster

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Darius McCrary, Joe Torry, Hill Harper, Lance E. Nichols, Mel Jackson
Directed By: Leslie Small