Topic: Ancient Egypt

Direction Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Cast Jerzy Zelnik · Andrzej Girtler · Krystyna Mikolajewska · Piotr Pawlowski

Plot In this historical drama, Pharoah Ramses XIII (George Zelnik, aka Jerzy Zelnik) defies tradition when his father dies by assuming command of the military, a post usually occupied by priests....

Direction Paddy Russell

Cast Tom Baker · Elisabeth Sladen · Bernard Archard · Michael Sheard

Plot The TARDIS lands in 1911, in the home of sibling scientists Laurence and Marcus Scarman. Laurence desperately needs the Doctor's help. Marcus is not the same since an archaeological visit...

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Charlton Heston · Yul Brynner · Anne Baxter · Edward G. Robinson

Plot To escape the edict of Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, condemning all first-born Hebrew males, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Richard Burton · Rex Harrison · Roddy McDowall

Plot In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word -- an epic investment, an epic in the annals of Hollywood gossip, and,...

Direction Kate Haddock · Mike Ibeji · Melisa Akdogan · Stuart Everett

Cast Eddie McCann · Alisdair Simpson · Peter Harlowe · Brian Dobson

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Theodore Roberts · Charles de Rochefort · Estelle Taylor · Julia Faye

Plot 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...

Direction Tim Dunn · Suniti Somaiya

Cast Alastair Sooke · Zahi Hawass

Direction Patrice Pooyard

Cast Brian Cox

Plot An apocryphal view on the pyramids, starting in awe at the amazing achievement of the Pharanoic architecture and sculpture, most specially at Gizeh, given Cheops's pyramid's size, weight, incredibly precise...

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Jack Hawkins · Joan Collins · Dewey Martin · Alex Minotis

Plot In ancient Egypt the Pharaoh Khufu (Jack Hawkins) is obsessed with acquiring gold and plans to take it all with him into the "second life". To this end he enlists...

Direction Karl Freund

Cast Boris Karloff · Zita Johann · David Manners · Edward Van Sloan

Plot The original, and by far the best film version of the mummy legend. Archeologists digging in Egypt uncover a 3000-year-old mummy which comes to life and attempts to restore life...

Direction John Brahm

Cast Ann Blyth · Lee Philips · Celia Lovsky · Frank Ferguson

Plot A reporter interviews a Hollywood movie queen who has a secret to her eternal beauty.

Direction Barny Revill · David Lee · Ian A. Hunt

Cast Mark Halliley · J.V. Martin · Zahi Hawass

Direction René Goscinny · Albert Uderzo

Plot Popular animated hero Asterix and his faithful sidekick Obelix travel to ancient Egypt to help Cleopatra build a new summer home. Cleopatra and Julius Caesar have made a bet, with...

Direction Jeff Morgan

Direction Brando Quilici

Cast Zahi Hawass

Direction Martin Beraud

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Claudette Colbert · Warren William · Henry Wilcoxon · Joseph Schildkraut

Plot 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...

Direction Kenneth Anger

Cast Kenneth Anger · Donald Cammell · Marianne Faithfull · Myriam Gibril

Direction Tim Mahoney

Cast Charles Aling · Manfred Bietak · John Bimson · Mansour Boraik

Plot What is the validity of history found in the Bible? Is it fact or fiction? What does the hard evidence really have to say about the foundational story of the...

Direction Alejandro Amenábar

Cast Rachel Weisz · Max Minghella · Ashraf Barhom · Oscar Isaac

Plot A long-awaited film from Alejandro Amenabar (Sea Inside, The Others) set in the ancient Egypt. A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising...