Like the Heston movie, the latest adaptation of the Lew Wallace novel, out August 19, hinges on a thrilling chariot race in which Ben-Hur (played in the latest film by Jack Huston) battles the ...

Charlton Heston's stuntman on the Ben Hur chariot raceCharlton Heston's stuntman on the Ben Hur chariot race ...

12. Some 10,000 extras appeared in "Ben-Hur," including 1,500 on any day that the chariot sequence needed a crowd in the stadium grandstands. For the race, 78 horses were imported from Yugoslavia ...

Town Hall Theatre, 40 Main St., Wilton, will screen the 1925 silent film "Ben Hur, A Tale of the Christ" on Sunday, April 13, ...

It became part of the Greek Olympic Games, and in Roman times chariot racing - as re-enacted in the film Ben Hur - was very popular, attracting huge crowds. The first recorded chariot race in the ...

The JPT will take you through the decades with April’s showings of Dr. Strangelove, Good Night, and Good Luck, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Spanning from ...