Bible movies on Netflix: the second-half-of-2024 viewership stats

For the first time since Netflix started releasing its semi-annual viewership data, the top Bible movie and the top Bible TV series were both "Netflix originals".

Previous stats: Jan-Jun 2023 | Jul-Dec 2023 | Jan-Jun 2024

Noa Cohen as Mary in Mary (2024) and Avi Azulay as Moses in Testament: The Story of Moses (2024).

I’ve been busy the past few weeks, so I missed this when it was first announced, but Netflix released another “data dump” in late February, listing all the films and TV shows that were watched on their platform at least 100,000 times within a six-month period.

This is the fourth such “data dump” that Netflix has released, and this time, the period it covered was July to December 2024. When the first three lists came out, I scanned the spreadsheets looking for all the Bible-movie titles I could think of, to see how they all ranked. So I figured I’d do that with the new list, too.

Notably, for the first time ever, the top Bible movie and the top Bible TV show were both “Netflix originals”:

• The top Bible movie was Mary, which premiered on December 6, 2024.

  • Prior to this, the top Bible movies were 2014’s Noah (in January-June 2023), 2017’s animated Nativity film The Star (in July-December 2023), and 2014’s Exodus: Gods and Kings (in January-June 2024).

• The top Bible TV show, for the second time in a row, was Testament: The Story of Moses, a three-part docu-series that premiered on March 27, 2024.

  • Prior to this, the top Bible series was The Chosen (in both halves of 2023).

Most of the biblical titles from the previous “data dump” are still on the list, though a few major titles, like Noah, have vanished. A couple of films that vanished from earlier lists have returned, too, most notably The Prince of Egypt.

So, once again, I have rounded up all the relevant films and shows I could find and have listed them below, noting how their numbers have evolved over the course of the four “data dumps” released so far. As before, I compiled this list by looking for specific high-profile titles—including every title on the Bible-movie list that I use in my box-office reports—and then by searching for keywords like “gospel”, etc.