Religious

 

ABRAHAM (19647)
1995, Color, 150 minutes, NR. 
Starring Richard Harris and Barbara Hershey.
A dramatization of the life of Abraham, the most tested servant of God, from his quest for the Promised Land to the sacrifice of his son.

ABRAHAM’S SACRIFICE (GREATEST HEROES OF THE BIBLE) (29907)
1998, Color, 50 minutes, NR.
An enactment of the Biblical tale of Abraham’s test of faith, called upon by God to sacrifice his only son Isaac.

APOCALYPSE (32623 plus)
2001, Color, 94 minutes, NR. 
Starring Richard Nester and Leigh Davis.
The first in a series of films that imagines the rapture and its aftermath.  Here, a world crisis begins when the armies of the world converge on Israel, ready for global war, causing shockwaves of alarm to course throughout the world.

ESTHER (31733)
2000, Color, 91 minutes, NR. 
Starring Louise Lombard and F. Murray Abraham.
A made-for-TV movie based on the Bible, that tells the story of a common Jewish woman who rose to wealth and power when she captured the heart of the King of Persia.  Eventually, Esther opted to use her influence to win freedom and a better life for her people.

THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, part 1 & 2 (SV3793)
1965, Color, 199 minutes, NR. 
Starring Charlton Heston, Michael Anderson, and Max von Sydow.
Accurate to the story of Jesus; somewhat long in running time with unexpected appearances of Hollywood stars.

IN THE BEGINNING… (32211)
2000, Color, 168 minutes, NR. 
Starring Martin Landau, Jaqueline Basset, and Billy Campbell.
From the Garden of Eden to the Jews’ 40 years of wandering the desert, this film gives the foundational characters of Adam, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses a once-over.  Taken from the biblical books of Genesis and Exodus.

JACOB (19662)
1995, Color, 96 minutes, NR. 
Starring Matthew Modine and Lara Flynn Boyle.
Based on the biblical story of Jacob who betrayed his brother and toiled long in penance before achieving God’s grace and forgiveness.

JOSEPH, part 1 & 2 (19660 plus)
1995, Color, 185 minutes, NR. 
Starring Ben Kingsley and Paul Mercurio.
A fine dramatization of the Old Testament tale of Jacob’s son who rose to power in Egypt, much to the dismay (and chagrin) of his ten older brothers.

JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT (30167)
2000, Color, 78 minutes, NR. 
Starring Donny Osmond, Richard Attenborough and Joan Collins.
Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Biblical Broadway extravaganza, shimmering with elaborately staged production numbers and a score full of hits.

LEFT BEHIND (31447 plus)
2000, Color, 95 minutes, NR. 
Starring Kirk Cameron, Brad Johnson, Chelsea Noble, and Colin Fox.
On an international flight, journalist Buck Williams and pilot Rayford Steele discover that several passengers have simply vanished.  This movie is based on the successful series of Christian novels written by Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.

MARY, MOTHER OF JESUS (29906)
1999, Color, 91 minutes, NR. 
Starring Pernilla August and Christian Bale.
A thoughtful telefilm, which examines the life of Jesus through the eyes of his mother, Mary.

MOSES (25134)
1997, Color, 184 minutes, NR. 
Starring Ben Kingsley.
This television miniseries tells the story of the great Biblical prophet Moses.

NOAH’S ARK (28824 plus / DVD 9778)
1999, color, 140 minutes, Rated G.
The story of a man who must build an ark to save his family from the flood that God has ordered onto the earth.

SOLOMON, parts 1 & 2 (THE BIBLE) (32355)
2000, Color, 171 minutes, NR. 
Starring Ben Cross, Vivica A. Fox, and David Suchet.
The tale of the King of Israel who rules his land with love, peace, and respect.  When he meets the Queen of Sheba, her beauty and charm immediately smite him, and he falls hopelessly in love.  Against his wishes and desires, she must return to her homeland leaving the King in a state of deep depression, inevitably leading his kingdom to the verge of collapse.

THE STORY OF ISLAM (SV9909)
1990, Color and B&W, 120 minutes, NR.
This brilliantly produced film takes us on a journey through the history of Islam, from its humble beginnings to its place in the world today.

TEN COMMANDMENTS (SV4811/25133/DVD 3090)
1956, Color, 219 minutes, Rated G. 
Starring Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner.
A visually stunning, grand-scale, biblical study by Cecil B. DeMille.  This biblical epic tells the story of Moses from his infancy to the triumphant moment when he led the Israelites out of captivity in Egypt.

TRIBULATION (31780 plus)
1999, Color, 102 minutes, NR. 
Starring Margot Kidder, Nick Mancuso, Gary Busey, and Howie Mandel.
Tom leads a happy life as a police detective, until one day when he becomes entangled in a battle with frightening psychics which results in his involvement in a serious car accident and a coma.

THE WONDERS OF GOD’S CREATION 

• ANIMAL KINGDOM:  GREAT ARE THY WORKS (34589)
  Color, 66 minutes.
  Throughout the animal kingdom God’s provision and craftsmanship are widely displayed.  View the mysterious migrations of the Pacific salmon and the monarch butterfly.  Visit the inside of a honeycomb to learn the language of bees.  Watch spiders spin webs stronger than steel.
   

• PLANET EARTH:  SANCTUARY OF LIFE (34588)
  Color, 65 minutes.
  Nowhere else but on this small, bluish jewel has God brought together the precise qualities necessary to sustain life.  Discover hidden miracles absolutely vital to our survival.  Clouds airlifting and distributing millions of tons of water each day.  Seeds, carrying those ingenious packages of life, a treasury of flowers and trees to their new home in the earth’s soil.