The Ten Commandments (1956)






Moses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery.


Books with substantial mentioning of The Ten Commandments

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Jürgen Müller (ed.)
Movies of the 50s
Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, 2005

Tom Weaver, Biography by Gregory William Mank
John Carradine: The Films
Jefferson, NC, 1999

Jean-Pierre Frimbois
Les 100 chefs-d'oeuvre du film historique
Alleur (Belgique), 1989

Joel Finler
All-Time Box-Office Hits
New York City, 1985

Jeff Rovin
The Films of Charlton Heston
Secaucus, N.J., 1977

Douglas Brode
The Films of the Fifties
Secaucus, NJ, 1976

Gene Ringgold and DeWitt Bodeen
The Films of Cecil B. De Mille
New York, 1969

Books with an entry on The Ten Commandments

Robert Beck
The Edward G. Robinson Encyclopedia
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2002