I got interested the Bible and film when I was teaching a Religion and Popular Culture class as part of my regular rotation of courses. During that time I had complied a fairly exhaustive list of movies on the Old Testament. I think if I were to update it, I would need to add a section on films on streaming services.

• In the Beginning: From Silent Films to “Talkies” (1900 to the 1930s)
• The Golden Age of Biblical Epic (1940s to the 1960s)
• The Era of TV & Straight-to-Video (1970s to the early 2000s)
  

There are a number of books written on the Bible and film, including a number devoted to the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible on film. These works range from scholarly treatments to more popular engagements. An excellent resource is Matthew Page’s book, 100 Bible Films (British Film Institute, 2022; Buy from Amazon.ca | Amazon.com). Matt maintains the Bible Films Blog, which is the largest source of information about Bible films on the internet.

An invaluable resource for the development of these pages has been Jon Solomon’s The Ancient World in the Cinema (Yale, 2001). I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in the portrayal of the Greco-Roman and biblical worlds in film:

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  Solomon, Jon. The Ancient World in the Cinema. Revised & Expand edition (Yale University Press, 2001; Buy from Amazon.ca | Amazon.com).

In addition, I have also relied on Herbert Verreth’s manuscript De Oudheid in Film, Fimografie (2003) to double-check some entries, as well as Richard H. Campbell and Michael R. Pitts, The Bible on Film: A Checklist, 1897-1980 (Scarecrow Press, 1981).

Finally, a pretty good informative documentary on the Bible and film is Dye’s The Bible According to Hollywood:

• The Bible According to Hollywood (Phillip Dye, 1994; Buy from Amazon.ca: DVD |  Buy from Amazon.com: VHS or DVD).