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The Ten commandments [videorecording] / Cecil B. DeMille's production ; produced by Motion Picture Associates, Inc. ; written for the screen by Aeneas MacKenzie, Jesse L. Lasky, Jr., Jack Gariss, Fredric M. Frank ; directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Pictures, [2006]
3 videodiscs (487 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
1956 version: To escape the edict that condemed all first-born Hebrew males, Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri. He also gains the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses. When his Hebrew heritage is revealed, Moses is cast out of Egypt, and makes his way across the desert where he marries, has a son and is commanded by God to return to Egypt to free the Hebrews from slavery.
1923 version: This early silent Cecil B. DeMille production tells the story of how the Israelites left Egypt and acquired the Ten Commandments, as told in the context of a mother trying to bring up her children to believe in God.