Rejoice! On Sunday, April 20, 2025, you have multiple ways to fully mark the Easter holiday with some of history’s greatest epic films. TCM gets an early start with director Wil ...

William Wyler directed Ben-Hur, a remake of the 1925 silent film of the same name, for MGM Studios. It became the second-highest-grossing film after Gone with the Wind at the time. It went on to win a ...

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Rejoice! On Sunday, April 20, 2025, you have multiple ways to fully mark the Easter holiday with some of history’s greatest epic films. The movie won a whopping 11 of the 12 Oscars for which it was ...

BEN-HUR co-producer Mark Burnett explained how the team approached the making of the movie to create a high-quality movie that also happened to promote faith. “I feel that for a movie to have a ...

While it's not an Easter movie, fans often watch 'The Ten Commandments' around Easter. Despite that, another Charlton Heston movie, 'Ben-Hur', fits the holiday better.

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 ...