Constantine and the Cross

Constantine and the Cross

Constantine and the Cross (AKA: Costantino il grande) is a 1962 historical drama film about the early career of the emperor Constantine, who first legalized and then adopted Christianity in the early 4th century. The film only stretches as far into his life as the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in AD 312.

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