Vatikan Katolik Kilisesi tüm Katoliklerden ve Hollywood’dan Hıristiyanlık tarihini öven yeni görkemli destansı, epik filmler istedi…
Geçmişteki belli başlı bu tür filmler (ilk akla gelenler) bunların Kuzey Amerika’daki seyirci sayıları:

1-The Bible (1966) 32,018,369
Extravagant production of the first part of the book of Genesis. Its main highlights are the Garden of Eden, the first brothers, Noah and his family obeying God to build an ark for the Flood and Abraham’s attempted sacrifice of Isaac.

2-The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) 15,320,131
An all-star, large scale epic movie that chronicles the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.

3-Quo Vadis (1951) 56,603,773
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.

4-The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) 2,037,368
The life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross.

5-The Robe (1953) 60,000,000
In the Roman province of Judea during the 1st century, Roman tribune Marcellus Gallio is ordered to crucify Jesus of Nazareth but is tormented by his guilty conscience afterwards.

6-The Passion of the Christ (2004) 59,625,540
Depicts the final twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, on the day of his crucifixion in Jerusalem.

7-Ben Hur (1959) 143,137,254
After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

8-Ben-Hur (2016) 3,053,234
Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother, an officer in the Roman army, returns to his homeland after years at sea to seek revenge, but finds redemption.

9-Ben Hur (1925) 36,000,000
A Jewish prince seeks to find his family and revenge himself upon his childhood friend who had him wrongly imprisoned.

10-Jesus of Nazareth (1977)

Beginning before the Nativity and extending through the Crucifixion and Resurrection, this mini-series brings to life all of the sweeping drama in the life of Jesus, as told by the Gospels

11- The Gospel According to St. Matthew /
Il vangelo secondo Matteo (1964)

The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Pasolini shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.