Representations in Media
Events of the Book of Mormon are the focus of several LDS Church films, including The Life of Nephi (1915), How Rare a Possession (1987) and The Testaments of One Fold and One Shepherd (2000). Such films in LDS cinema (i.e., films not officially commissioned by the LDS Church) include The Book of Mormon Movie, Vol. 1: The Journey (2003) and Passage to Zarahemla (2007).
In 2011, a religious satire musical titled The Book of Mormon premiered on Broadway.
2 Nephi 9:20-27 from the Book of Mormon is quoted in a funeral service in Alfred Hitchcock's film Family Plot.
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