Bible Collection

The Bible Collection is a series of films produced for the TNT television network, starting with Abraham in April 1994 and ending with Thomas in April 2001.^[1][2] The Bible Collection consists of a 27-part miniseries in 17 volumes.^[3][4][5][6]

Jesus
Production company	Lux Vide
Distributed by	TNT
Language	English

The series grew out of an earlier series of Old Testament films produced by the Italian company Five Mile River Films in the 1990s.

Films

The films, originally aired as standalone television movies or as short miniseries, have been gathered and released in a numbered collection, with the secondary series title Close to Jesus on installments covering events during the lifetime of Jesus. The order of the collection may vary slightly from the order in which the films were originally produced.

#	Title	Year	Director(s)	Biblical figure(s)	Runtime
1	Abraham	1993	Robert McKee	Abraham	184 minutes
2	Genesis: The Creation and the Flood	1994	Ermanno Olmi	Noah	93 minutes
3	Jacob	1994	Peter Hall	Jacob	93 minutes
4	Joseph	1995	Roger Young	Joseph	185 minutes
5	Moses	1995		Moses	182 minutes
6	Samson and Delilah	1996	Nicolas Roeg	Samson and Delilah	179 minutes
7	David	1997	Robert Markowitz	David	173 minutes
8	Solomon	1997	Roger Young	Solomon	170 minutes
9	Jeremiah	1998	Harry Winer	Jeremiah	91 minutes
10	Esther	1999	Raffaele Mertes	Esther	87 minutes
11	Jesus	1999	Roger Young	Jesus	174 minutes
12	Joseph of Nazareth	2000	Raffaele Mertes	Saint Joseph	100 minutes
13	Mary Magdalene [it]	2000		Mary Magdalene	99 minutes
14	Paul the Apostle [it]	2000	Roger Young	Paul the Apostle	177 minutes
15	Judas	2001	Raffaele Mertes	Judas Iscariot	90 minutes
16	Thomas	2001		Thomas the Apostle	93 minutes
17	The Apocalypse	2002		John the Apostle	93 minutes

See also

• List of films based on the Bible

References

1. "TNT Premieres Samson and Delilah". Rocky Mountain News.
2. "The Newest Testament Scope of 'Bible' Series Reaches, Well, Biblical Proportions". Chicago Tribune.^{[dead link‍]}
3. "The Complete Bible Collection". IMDb. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
4. "Review: The Bible Collection (dir. various, 1993-1995)". FilmChat. June 30, 1996. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
5. "Review: The Bible Collection (dir. various, 1996-1997)". FilmChat. March 2, 1998. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
6. "Review: The Bible Collection (dir. various, 1994-1999)". FilmChat. April 29, 2001. Retrieved January 22, 2022.

Print sources

• Burnette-Bletsch, Rhonda. The Bible in Motion. A Handbook of the Bible and Its Reception in Film. De Gruyter. pp. 59, 112, 507. ISBN 978-1-61451-561-6.