Richard here. Adding some more wisdom culled from the notes of my dissertation, here’s the account of Cecil B. DeMille’s first foray into biblical film, his 1923 silent version of The Ten Commandments.

Richard here. PopTheology.com benefits from the fruits of my dissertation labor. Not everything could have fit into the final draft. So here’s some background on one of the great silent epics, Fred Niblo’s 1925 film, Ben-Hur.

Richard Lindsay looks back on the Christian epic, Quo Vadis, after the jump.