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The Day Christ Died

A 1980 TV film based on Jim Bishop's book.

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The Day Christ Died is a 1980 American television film dramatizing the final 24 hours of Jesus Christ's life, based on Jim Bishop's 1957 book. The author disowned the adaptation, calling it 'cheap revisionist history' and unsuccessfully sought to change the title. Filmed in Tunisia at a cost of US$2.8 million, it aired on CBS-TV on March 26, 1980.

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Longest films of the 1980s

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