Movies! also airs the 1959 Ben-Hur at 12:25/11:25am c and again at 8/7c. At 5/4c, catch The Robe (1953), the Best Picture–nominated fictional biblical adventure led by Richard Burton.

Remaking a film that won 11 Academy Awards invites inevitable comparison, but the latest adaptation of “Ben-Hur” distinguishes itself from William Wyler’s 1959 epic by retooling key character and ...

Charlton Heston as Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur (1959) Image via Loews, Inc. Charlton Heston was one of the leading Hollywood figures of the 1950s and '60s—a movie star back in an era when that term ...

“Ben-Hur” (1959), which celebrated its 65th anniversary this past November, stands as a quintessential example of everything an epic is and should be.