1949 – “Samson & Delilah”
1951 – “David and Bathsehba”
1953 – “Salome””
1953 - “The Robe”
1954 – “Demetrius and the Gladiators”
1956 - “The Ten Commandments””
1959 - “Ben-Hur”
1961 - “King of Kings”
1961 - “Barrabas”
1964 – “Becket”
1965 - “The Greatest Story Ever Told”
1965 – “The Agony and the Ecstasy”
1966 - “The Bible … In the Beginning”
1966 – “A Man for All Seasons”
1968 - “The Shoes of the Fisherman””
If you want to check out a recent movie where the dialog is almost word for word taken from scripture, I recommend the Gospel of John. It came out about the time as Passion of the Christ and was basically overlooked. To me it is better than the Mel Gibson movie and light-years better than the Roma Downey Bible mini-series.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Gospel-John-Henry-Cusick/dp/B0006Q93ZG
The Gospel of John is, in my humble opinion, the best Biblical-based movie since The Gospel According to St Matthew. The Gospel of John was filmed in Toronto using unknown actors and a British director. The intent of the Producers was to present the text of the book with no embelishments or viewpoints, letting the words speak for themselves and leaving the viewer to draw their own conslusions. The film accomplished this beautifully. The result is a powerful presentation that, while three hours long, seemed to fly by. I never got bored or tired, and felt like I had been there 2 hours or less.
Sadly, it gets mediocre reviews from the “sophisticated” reviewers who cannot appreciate the simple beauty and power of the words as written by John without the aid of post-modern interpretation.