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Another similar DVD

posted 18 years ago by moovyfellow
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'Empires - Peter & Paul and the Christian Revolution' (2003). This is more of a documentary (with good reenactment), by PBS. It generally tells about the same story, except with a little more about culture, history, and politics during the times of Jesus, Peter, and Paul. It is available thru amazon.com. There is some criticism about it there, but I thought it was enlightening even tho I am a rather conservative Christian. But if I had to chose between the two, Id chose the movie with Anthony Hopkins and have the faith to believe it; I first watched the movie many years ago after reading the bible book of Acts and thought it was a very good reenactment of the only book in the bible to tell of historical events after the death of Jesus related to the formation of Christianity.

[–] Tanz-Metal 17 years ago

Thank-you for the info

[–] eugene1001us 16 years ago

Tony Hopkins interpretation was outstanding. He , I felt portrayed all of the angst that the original Saul/Paul must have endured. And the anger. That's not a side of Paul that even fervent Christians are normally accustomed to. But they would be if they read Acts or any of Paul's Epistles. Apparantly Mr. Hopkins did.

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[–] timtwo 14 years ago

Here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398996/