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Films & Shows Set during the Life of Christ

Runs from4 BCE3337 years wide

Shelfmark Liber XVII

Classical World

The approximate life of the historical figure of Jesus Christ, from his birth to his ministry as a preacher in the Roman province of Judaea to his crucifixion on the orders of Roman governor Pontius Pilate.

4
titles
4 films
3.6/5
average rating
across 4 rated titles
100%
of the span is tagged
4 of 4 titles set inside it

See the Life of Christ on the timelineEvery year from 4 BCE to 33 the archive holds, and what is set in them

Compare the titles of the Life of Christ in the CanonsWhat every title on it shares, what two or three share, and what is proper to one

Cinematic Introduction

Every title set during the Life of Christ, by the decade it came out. A series is placed on the chart by its first season and counts as one title entity.

First on screen
The Robe1953

FilmsSerieseach bar is the titles released that decade

Historical Threads

A thread follows one event or historical theme across the archive, wherever and whenever it appears. Pulling a thread opens up a narrowed timeline view filtered to every year that thread touches.

Places Connected to this Period

Every place the archive’s titles set in this period name, with each one nested under the larger place it sits inside where that place is here too. The number is how many titles set here name it.

Saltiness Across the Period

No title set here has been given a saltiness score yet. That is unrated, which is not the same as accurate.

Archive Density

100%4 of the 4 titles the archive sets between 4 BCE and 33 carry the Life of Christ tag.

This measure can help illustrate cinematic hotspots within a time period by comparing which years of the overarching, actual historical time period are backed up by a cinematic release.

  1. 4 BCEnothing set here
  2. 1 BCE1 of 1 title set in 1 BCE carries this period
  3. 261 of 1 title set in 26 carries this period
  4. 301 of 1 title set in 30 carries this period
  5. 334 of 4 titles set in 33 carry this period

5 years on the timeline fall inside the boundaries, 1 of them with nothing set there yet. The filled part of each bar is the share carrying this period.

Share of the 7 genre taggings across 4 titles set in this period. A title filed under three genres is in three of these slices, so this is a share of taggings rather than of titles.

Credits

Directors

Films only. Co-directors are counted individually, so a director’s solo work and their collaborations are grouped together. Average saltiness ignores any title still unsalted.

Also on the Timeline

Part of and part of it are declared by the archive: one period counted as belonging to another, whatever their dates. Periods overlap freely so concurrent means the two spans share years, and the shared stretch is named. Bounded means it lies wholly inside this one, beginning and ending more than 10 years within its boundaries. Before and after are the nearest periods lying outside this one, with the gap in years shown instead. A shared thread is what the two have in common besides the calendar, and a period lying wholly outside this one can still share one.

Periods before, during, inside and after Life of Christ, with their year ranges, the years they share with it, the threads they share with it, and how many titles the archive holds of each.
RelationPeriodRunsShared yearsShared threadsTitles
Part ofPax Romana27 BCE–1804 BCE–33none shared9 titles in the archive
BeforeCrisis of the Roman Republic133 BCE–27 BCE23 years earliernone shared5 titles in the archive
AfterMarcomannic Wars166–180133 years laternone shared2 titles in the archive