Movies about the Book of Revelation

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Since I found myself less familiar with the period of church history running from the end of Acts up to c. 200 AD, I watched all the movies that I found about the Church in that time (See: Movies on the Early Church) , the writing of the N.T.(Movies on the Writing of the New Testament), the 12 apostles (Movies on the 12 Apostles), and Revelation. Here are the movies I saw on Revelation, below. Let me know if there are others:

The Antichrist: Zero Hour (Decoding the Past series)

The Apocalypse (2002, Richard Harris)

Apocalypse (Secret Bible series [The series' second and third parts cover Appolonius and the Book of Revelation, 45 min per section])

Apocalypse (41 min, Decoding the Past series, History Channel)

Apocalypse: The Puzzle of Revelation (50 min, Mysteries of the Bible)

Biblical Prophecy of John - End Times Revelation & Message (1986)

Book of Revelation (41 min, History Channel)

Countdown to Armageddon (Decoding the Past)

Doomsday Book of Revelations (45 min, Natl Geographic)

God v. Satan: The Final Battle (History Channel)

John in Exile (Dean Jones)

Mysteries of the Apocalypse (Dir. Sophia Andrews)

The Omega Code & Megiddo: The Omega Code 2

Revelation: The End of the World?
(Ancient Evidence series, BBC, 2003, Hosted by Avery Brooks)

Revelation: The End of the World? (Bible Mysteries series, BBC, narrated by Kenneth Cranham, includes prologue, 49:00 minutes)

Revelations: The Last Judgment (The Bible: A History series)

The Second Coming of Christ
(2017/2018, Dir.: Daniel Anghelcev)

The Secrets of Revelation (Nat. Geographic, Riddles of the Bible, 2008. 50 min)

The Seventh Seal (1957, Directed by Ingmar Bergman)

The Seventh Sign (1988)

Tales from the Bible (2006 series. Episode 8: This episode explores an end of times that may have been predicted long ago. Episode 10: Explore armageddon prophecies in this episode.)

Questions
In the History Channel episode Apocalypse in the series Decoding the Past, Professor David Barr says:
John refuses to follow his models [ie other apocalyptic literature] in some key areas... the final battle between good and evil never occurs... For John the battle is assembled and then declared to be over. I think that in John's mind the battle is already over because Jesus has declared victory by his death.
Do you agree with this description of the battle between Good and Evil in Revelation?

In the Decoding the Past episode "The Anti-Christ", according to some Dispensationalists, Matthew 24:32-33 uses the fig tree to designate the Jewish political community as a sign of the End Times. The verses say:
Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
I checked a few church commentaries and they didn't equate the fig tree in this passage with the Jewish nation. They just saw the tree in the verse as a metaphor of how one knows that summer is coming, although one writer saw it as a metaphor for the Church and its successes.

But isn't the image of the fig tree in the gospels a reference to the Jewish political community? For example, didn't it reject Jesus as the Messiah at His arrival and hence was not found fruitful in the gospel stories in Matthew 21, Mark 11 and Luke 13?

Clarence Larkin writes about the fig tree in those three other passages:
The "Fig-tree" is a fit emblem of Israel. Its peculiarity is that the blossoms of the fruit appear before the leaves. Naturally, therefore, we should look for fruit on a tree in full leaf. This accounts for why Jesus cursed the Fig-tree that had on it nothing but leaves. Matt. 21:18-20. The presence of the leaves led Him to expect fruit, and when He found none He cursed the tree for its fruitlessness. Mark gives us another version of the incident. Mark 11:12-14.
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In the Parable of the "Barren Fig-tree" (Luke 13:6-9) we have another picture of Israel. The "Fig-tree" is the Jewish nation. The "Fig-tree" was planted in a "Vineyard," which we have seen stands for the land of Palestine. The owner of the Vineyard and of the Fig-tree was God. He came in the person of His Son Jesus, and for three years of Jesus' ministry He had sought for fruit from the Jewish nation and found none.
Chapter 29. The Trees to Which Israel Is Compared In Scriptures - Dispensational Truth - Study Resources
Or is one supposed to think that in Matthew 24, Jesus' sign of the fig tree didn't relate to the Jewish political community, but in those three other passages it did?
 
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First off, there is no S at the end of the name of the last book in the Bible.

Next, better you should read early church historians, such as Eusebius, Sozomen, and Socrates (not the philosopher) than videos.
 
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