Summary: Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BENSummary: Lavish Biblical epic that tells the life story of Moses, who turned his back on a privileged life to lead his people to freedom outside Egypt.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TENCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TENSummary: To escape the edict that condemned all first-born Hebrew males by Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri. He also gains the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount DVD 2006