The Lost Art of Biblical Cinema

What Died When Hollywood Stopped Believing

Charlton Heston parts the Red Sea in The Ten Commandments (1956), commanding 300,000 gallons of water with the authority of a man who’s actually spoken to God.

When God Went to the Movies

The lights dimmed in a nickelodeon somewhere in Brooklyn, 1897. Flickering images danced across a bedsheet. An actor in fake beard and robes raised his arms. The Passion Play had arrived on film, and nothing would ever be the same.

Cinema didn’t just borrow from scripture. It was born from it.