List of films based on the Bible

This is a list of movies (including television movies) based on the Bible (Old Testament and New Testament), depicting characters or figures from the Bible, or broadly derived from the revelations or interpretations therein.

Old Testament

• The Bible: In the Beginning (1966)
• Greatest Heroes of the Bible (1978) (mini)

Genesis

• Genesis: The Creation And The Flood (1994, TNT Bible Series)
• The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis (1979) (USA)
• Adam and Eve - Genesis 2-5

• Adam and Eve (1912)
• Adán, Eva y el diablo (1945) (Mexico)
• Adam wa Hawa (1951) (Egypt)
• Adam og Eva (1953) (Denmark)
• Adán y Eva (1956) (Mexico)
• El Pecado de Adán y Eva, 1969 (Mexico)
• Adamo ed Eva, la prima storia d'amore, 1983 (Italy)

• The Flood - Genesis 6-9

• Noah's Ark (1929)
• Noah's Ark (1999)

• Abraham - Genesis 11:26-25:10

• Abraham, 1994 (TNT Bible Series)

• Sodom and Gomorrah - Genesis 19

• Lot in Sodom (1933)
• Sodom and Gomorrah (1963)

• Jacob - Genesis 25:26-49:33

• Jacob (1994) (TNT Bible Series)
• The Story of Jacob and Joseph (1974) (TV-movie)

• Joseph - Genesis 37-50

• Joseph in the Land of Egypt (1914)
• Joseph (1995) (TNT Bible Series)
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999)
• Joseph: King of Dreams (2000) - Genesis 37-50

Moses and the 40 years in the desert - Book of Exodus

• Moses (1996, TNT Bible Series)
• The Prince of Egypt
• The Ten Commandments: The Musical
• The Ten Commandments, 1923
• The Ten Commandments, 1956
• The Ten Commandments, 2006 TV series
• The Ten Commandments, 2007

History of the Israelites

• Jeremiah (1998, TNT Bible Series)
• Daniel and the Lions (Liken Bible Series), 2006
• The Story of Ruth (1960)
• Ezekiel 38-39 - Apocalypse (film), 1998 ; Apocalypse II: Revelation, 1999 ; Apocalypse III: Tribulation, 1999 ; Apocalypse IV: Judgment, 2001
• Jonah, II Kings 14:25 - Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie, 2002
• King David

• David and Goliath (Liken Bible Series), 2005
• The Chosen Prince, 1917 (aka The Friendship of David and Jonathan)
• David and Bathsheba, 1951 - II Samuel 11
• The Story of David, (1975) TV Miniseries USA
• King David, 1985 - I & II Samuel
• David (1997, TNT Bible Series)

• King Solomon - 2 Samuel 5:14-1 Kings 11:41

• Solomon (1997, TNT Bible Series)
• The Queen of Sheba (1921) (USA)
• Haring Solomon at Reyna Sheba (1952) (Philippines)
• La Regina di Saba (1952) (Italy)
• Solomon and Sheba (1959)
• Solomon & Sheba (1995) (TV) (USA)
• The Kingdom of Solomon, 2009

• Samson and Delilah - Judges 13-16

• Samson, 1961
• Samson and Delilah, 1949
• Samson and Delilah, 1996 (TNT Bible Series)
• Samson and Delilah, 1922
• Samson and Delilah, 1984

• Esther

• Esther (1996, TNT Bible Series)
• One Night with the King (2006)
• Esther and the King (Liken Bible Series) (2006)
• Esther and the King (1960)

• Jonah

• Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie (2002)(CGI)

New Testament

Life of Christ

• Passion Play (1903) (USA) (series of 31 shorts, totaling 61 minutes)
• Vie et Passion du Christ (1905) (France)
• From the Manger to the Cross (1912) (USA)
• Christus (1916) [Italy]
• Intolerance (1916) (USA)
• I.N.R.I. (film) (1923) (Germany)
• The King of Kings (1927) (USA)
• Golgotha (1935) (France)
• King of Kings (1961) (USA)
• Il vangelo secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew) (1964) (Italy)
• The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) (USA)
• Wednesday Play: Son of Man (1969) (UK)
• Jesus Christ Superstar (1972) (Philippines)
• Godspell (1973) (USA)
• Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus (1973) (USA)
• Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) (USA)
• The Thorn (1976) (USA)
• The Messiah (1975) (Italy)
• The Passover Plot (1976) (USA)
• Jesus of Nazareth (1977 miniseries) (Italy) (UK)
• The Nativity (1978, TV)
• The New Media Bible: The Gospel According to St. Luke (1979) (USA)
• Jesus (1979) (USA)
• Jesus - The Film (1986) (Germany)
• The Last Temptation of Christ (film) (1988) (USA)
• The Judas Project (1990) (USA)
• The Visual Bible: Matthew (1997) (South Africa)
• Jesus (1999, TV) (USA)
• Mary, Mother of Jesus (1999, TV) (USA)
• Jesus Christ Superstar (2000) (UK)
• The Miracle Maker (2000) (UK)
• Gospel of John (2003) (Canada/UK)
• The Passion of the Christ (2004) (USA)
• The Son of Man (2005) (South Africa)
• The First Christmas (Liken Bible Series (2006) (USA)
• The Gospel of Mark (2006)
• The Nativity Story (2006) (USA)
• The Final Inquiry / L'inchiesta (2006) (Italy)
• Color of the Cross (2006) (USA)

Herod the Great

• Erode il Grande (1959) (Italy)

Salome

• Salome (1908) (USA)
• Salome (1910) (Italy)
• Salome (1918) (USA)
• Salome (1923) (USA)
• Salome (1953) (USA)
• Salome (1972) (Italy)
• Salome (1978) (Spain)
• Salome's Last Dance (1988) (UK)
• Salome (2002) (Spain)
• Salome (2007) (USA)

Judas Iscariot

• Blade af Satans bog (1920) (Denmark)
• Neither Are We Enemies (1970-TV) (USA)
• Judas (2004) (USA)

Barabbas

• Barabbas (1953) (Swedish)
• Barabbas (1961)
• Give Us Barabbas (1961-TV) (USA)
• Barabbas (1964) (Belgium)

Life of the Apostles

• The Big Fisherman (1959) (USA)
• Acts of the Apostles / Atti degli apostoli (1969) (Italy)
• I, Paul (1980) (USA)
• Peter and Paul (1981-TV) (UK)
• A.D. (1985 miniseries)
• The Emissary (1997) (USA)
• Stephen's Test of Faith (1998) (USA)
• St. Paul (2000-TV) (Italy, Czech Republic, Germany)
• St. Peter (2005-TV) (Italy)

Fictional interpolations

Ben-Hur

• Ben Hur (1907 short) (USA)
• Ben-Hur (1925) (USA)
• Ben-Hur (1959) (USA)
• Ben Hur (2003) (USA)

Brian of Nazareth

• The Life of Brian (1979)

Early Christians

• Quo Vadis? (1901) (France)
• Quo Vadis? (1910) (France)
• Quo Vadis? (1912) (Italy)
• The Sign of the Cross (1914) (USA)
• Quo Vadis? (1924) (Germany)
• The Sign of the Cross (1932) (USA)
• Quo Vadis? (1951)
• The Robe (1953)
• Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954; a sequel to The Robe)
• The Silver Chalice (1954)
• Quo Vadis? (1958) (Italy)
• Quo Vadis? (2001) (Poland)

Revelation/ Apocalypse

• A Distant Thunder (1978)
• Early Warning (1981)
• Apocalypse (1998) (V)
• Apocalypse (2004)
• Gone (2002)
• Image of the Beast (1980)
• In the Beginning (2000 miniseries)
• The Late Great Planet Earth (1979)
• Left Behind: The Movie (2000) (V)
• Left Behind II: Tribulation Force (2002) (V)
• Left Behind: World at War (2005)
• Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 (2001)
• The Moment After (1999)
• The Moment After 2 (2006)
• The Omega Code (1999)
• The Poor Ones in the Paradise (2005)
• The Prodigal Planet (1983)
• Revelation (1999)
• Six: The Mark Unleashed (2004)
• A Thief in the Night (1972)
• Tribulation (2000)
• Years of the Beast (1981)

See also

• The Bible in film
• Dramatic portrayals of Jesus Christ
• Lists of movie source material