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5 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘Ben-Hur’

1959’s Ben-Hur — which airs today on TCM at 6 a.m. EST — isn’t just one of the most popular religious films of all time. The three-plus hour epic starring Charlton Heston as the titular ...
The Harvard Crimson

‘Ben-Hur’ 65 Years Later and the Lasting Popularity of Epics

Of all the film genres, the epic is one of the hardest to define. Must it be a period piece? Must the plot center on a hero? Why is “East of Eden” (1955), with its relatively meager runtime of 117 ...