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Anno Domini: the seventh year of Augustus Caesar’s reign. In the Roman province of Judea, Jews return to the city of their birth for the census. A bright star in the night over Bethlehem marks the birth of Jesus Christ. Years later, Roman commander Messala (Stephen Boyd), who was brought up in Judea, takes command of the Roman garrison in Jerusalem. His Jewish boyhood friend Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) greets him. Messala is delighted. But when Judah refuses to name Jewish patriots, Messala sentences him to the slave galleys and imprisons his mother, Miriam (Martha Scott), and sister, Tirzah (Cathy O’Donnell). Judah vows revenge.

In BEN-HUR, William Wyler’s much-lauded epic, the story of Judah’s search for his mother and sister and his quest for revenge intersects with crucial biblical events such as the Sermon on the Mount and the crucifixion. Wyler gets fine performances from Heston, Boyd, Jack Hawkins (as a Roman admiral who befriends Judah), and Hugh Griffith (as an Arab sheik who dreams of racing his beautiful white horses against Messala). Among BEN-HUR’s vivid dramatic sequences are a violent sea battle and the famous chariot race that pits Judah against Messala in one of cinema’s great action sequences.

Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen
Aspect Ratio: 2.76:1
Studio: Warner Home Video
Number of discs: 4
Run Time: 222
DVD Release Date: September 13, 2005
DVD Features:
- Available Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
- Available Audio TracksFrench (Dolby Digital 5.1) : English (Dolby Digital 5.1),
- Commentary bywith scene-specific comments from Charlton Heston : film historian T. Gene Hatcher
- New digital transfer from restored 65MM elements
- Music-only track
- Disc 3:
- The with a stereophonic orchestral score by composer Carl Davis 1925 feature-length silent version of Ben-Hur
- Disc 4:
- 2005 Changed Cinema - Current filmmakers such as Ridley Scott and George Lucas reflect on the importance and influence of the film documentary: Ben-Hur: The Epic That
- 1994 Epic hosted by Christopher Plummer documentary: Ben-Hur: The Making of an
- Directed by William Wyler -nominated documentary featuring the last interview with Wyler before his death - 1986 Emmy Award?
- Benaudiovisual recreation of the film via stills, storyboards, sketches, music and dialogue -Hur: A Journey Through Pictures - New
- Screen TestsLeslie Nielsen and Yale Wexler, George Baker and William Russel : Leslie Nielsen and Cesare Danova,
- Highlights from the ceremony 4/4/1960 Academy Awards
- Vintage newsreels gallery
- Theatrical trailer gallery

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