"The Lions' Den" in Film

The earliest known occurrence of the story of Daniel in the Lions' Den being adapted for film goes back to Pathé's Daniel dans la fo...

Daniel dans la fosse aux lions (1905)

It's been the British Silent Film Festival this week, hosted in my local city of Leicester, so whilst none of the films are (strictly) b...

The Bible (2013) - Part 5

Episode 5 of The Bible ( Survival ) picks up one of the parts of the book that most adaptations tend to miss, so packed into this episode i...

Daniel in the Lion's DenGreatest Heroes of the Bible series (1978-79)

In contrast to the way in which the story of Daniel has generally been a less popular on film than in general, The Greatest Heroes of the Bi...

List of Daniel Films

Whilst most of the stories from the Bible that get made into films tend to be those which are popular in Sunday Schools, one of the  main ex...

Slaves of Babylon (1953)

Despite having been the subject of some of the very earliest Bible films, the various stories from the Book of Daniel rather fell from favou...

The Canon in the Early Silent Era pt.1

At the end of last year I started a series looking at how the idea of "canon" relates to the Bible on Film. There's not been ...