Judith of Bethulia

Drama, History, War

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director D.W. Griffith

Status Released

Release Date 1914-03-08

Storyline

Griffith adapts the story of the Apocryphal Book of Judith to the screen. During the siege of the Jewish city of Bethulia by the Assyrian tyrant Holofernes, a widow named Judith forms a plan to stop the war as her people suffer in starvation, nearly ready to surrender.