In the early days of Hollywood, stories about the Bible dominated the silver screen.

You could look back to the time of the big studios, you know the heyday golden age of the big studios when you know religious epics of the

the Ten Commandments and Spartacus and things like that were the ultimate mainstream.

Rome is an affront to God. Rome is strangling my people and my country the whole earth.

What do you think will save you?

The God of my father's.

I'm Spartacus.

I'm Spartacus.

You know it's the biggest story and literally the greatest story ever told.

And so that was a thriving genre in Hollywood.

That's our colleague John Jurgensen who covers entertainment.

He says that over time these kinds of biblical stories fell out of popularity and in the decades that

followed many of the religious films that did get made were produced on the cheap.

This faith content has always been doing it on a small budget.

Grandmothers and churches are contributing funds to these movies getting made.

They're used to making things on a shoestring.

And religious-based movies were often kind of preachy.

I'm Jesus.

I know everything.

Everything you see inside there, it's all about Christmas. It's all about

Jesus. But more recently, these Christian-oriented movies have gotten a makeover and a new wave

of filmmakers are on the rise.

...