Zero A.D.: The Birth of Christ

Jim Caviezel, who played Jesus in The Passion of the Christ, crosses to the other side of the Gospel story as Herod the Great in Zero A.D.: The Birth of Christ. Alejandro Monteverde's film treats the Nativity as a thriller of power and pursuit. Deva Cassel is Mary and Jamie Ward is Joseph, a young couple fleeing Herod's soldiers as the massacre of the innocents spreads. Sam Worthington plays Herod's son Antipater, Gael García Bernal plays Joachim, and Ben Mendelsohn and David Harewood fill out the cast. Monteverde, whose Sound of Freedom became a surprise hit for Angel Studios, filmed in Morocco under the working title Bethlehem. John Debney, composer of The Passion, wrote the score.