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  1. Mar 28, 2024 · Ben-Hur, American dramatic film, released in 1959, that was arguably the best of Hollywood’s biblical epics. In addition to being a huge commercial success, it set a record for most Academy Award wins (11). The story traces the plight of Judah Ben-Hur (played by Charlton Heston), a young Jewish.

  2. Ben-Hur G Released Nov 18, 1959 3h 23m History Drama Adventure List 85% 55 Reviews Tomatometer 89% 100,000+ Ratings Audience Score Charlton Heston plays a Palestinian Jew who is battling the...

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  3. Ben-Hur (1959) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

  4. Summaries. After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge. Judah Ben-Hur lives as a rich Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 1st century.

  5. Overview. In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners. William Wyler. Director. Lew Wallace.

  6. Ben-Hur is a 1959 American religious epic film directed by William Wyler, produced by Sam Zimbalist, and starring Charlton Heston as the title character. A remake of the 1925 silent film with a similar title, it was adapted from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.

  7. Voted One of the Year's Ten Best Films by the 1959 New York Times Film Critics. Winner of a Special Citation for Andrew Morton and Yakima Canutt by the 1959 National Board of Review for their direction of the chariot sequence. Released in United States Winter December 1959. Re-released in United States September 14, 1990

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