Peter may have been the rock, but it was Paul that spread Christianity to the non-Jewish world
The Catholic church fights and murders to prevent the world from knowing that Jesus was mortal and had actually married Mary Magdalene
Christians in Rome under Emperor Nero (Charles Laughton) are blamed and persecuted for the Great Fire of 64 A.D.
A proud Jew named Ben-Hur and his boyhood Roman friend Messala become in adulthood bitter enemies
The apostle St. John tries to save Christianity from Roman Emperor Domitian, 90 AD
Pompeii
Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. and covered (thereby preserving) the Roman village of Pompeii
Pompeii
Volcanic eruption (under emperors Vespasian 69-79 & Titus, 79-81 AD)