Search results for "Cecil B. DeMille"
The Ten Commandments (1956)

The Ten Commandments (1956)

The Ten Commandments (1956)
IMDb: 7.9
220 min

The infant Moses (Fraser C. Heston), a Hebrew boy, is taken to Egypt by Rameses I (Ian Keith), who has decreed that all Hebrew newborn males must be killed. Bithiah,…

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Genre: Drama, History
Unconquered

Unconquered

Unconquered
IMDb: 6.9
146 min

England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of…

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The Greatest Show on Earth

The Greatest Show on Earth

The Greatest Show on Earth
IMDb: 6.6
152 min

To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin…

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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Samson and Delilah

Samson and Delilah

Samson and Delilah
IMDb: 6.8
134 min

Though his people, the Israelites, are enslaved by the Philistines, Samson (Victor Mature), strongest man of the tribe of Dan, falls in love with the Philistine Semadar (Dame Angela Lansbury),…

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The Plainsman

The Plainsman

The Plainsman
IMDb: 6.9
113 min

With the end of the North American Civil War, the manufacturers of repeating rifles find a profitable means of making money selling the weapons to the North American Indians, using…

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North West Mounted Police

North West Mounted Police

North West Mounted Police
IMDb: 6.5
126 min

Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder….

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Union Pacific

Union Pacific

Union Pacific
IMDb: 7.1
135 min

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing…

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Genre: Drama, Western
The Story of Dr. Wassell

The Story of Dr. Wassell

The Story of Dr. Wassell
IMDb: 6.7
140 min

As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Based on a…

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Cleopatra

Cleopatra

Cleopatra
IMDb: 6.8
100 min

In 48 BC, Cleopatra, facing palace revolt in her kingdom of Egypt, welcomes the arrival of Julius Caesar as a way of solidifying her power under Rome. When Caesar, whom…

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The Sign of the Cross

The Sign of the Cross

The Sign of the Cross
IMDb: 6.9
125 min

After burning Rome, Emperor Nero decides to blame the Christians, and issues the edict that they are all to be caught and sent to the arena. Two old Christians are…

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Genre: Drama, History
Reap the Wild Wind

Reap the Wild Wind

Reap the Wild Wind
IMDb: 6.7
123 min

Clipper ships taking the shortest route between the Mississippi and the Atlantic often end up on the shoals of Key West in the 1840s. Salvaging the ships' cargos has become…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments
IMDb: 6.8
136 min

The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. The…

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Genre: Drama
Four Frightened People

Four Frightened People

Four Frightened People
IMDb: 6.2
78 min

Four passengers escape their bubonic plague-infested ship and land on the coast of a wild jungle. In order to reach safety they have to trek through the jungle, facing wild…

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Genre: Drama, Thriller