Ben-Hur
- imdbID:
- tt0052618
- Director:
- William Wyler
- Writer:
- Lew Wallace,Karl Tunberg,Gore Vidal,Maxwell Anderson,S.N. Behrman,Christopher Fry
- Year:
- 1959
- Genre:
- Adventure, Drama
- Country:
- United States
Categories
- 🎓 Cinema Experts
- ⏳ Cinema History
- 🌍 Countries
- 🎭 Genres
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🏷️ Tags
- 📁 1950s movie
- 📁 1st century
- 📁 20s
- 📁 70mm film
- 📁 adopted son
- 📁 adrift
- 📁 adult adoption
- 📁 adventure
- 📁 adventure epic
- 📁 afi
- 📁 amputation
- 📁 ancient near east
- 📁 ancient rome
- 📁 anti semitism
- 📁 antiquity
- 📁 antonia fortress
- 📁 arab
- 📁 archery
- 📁 asia
- 📁 assassination attempt
- 📁 balthazar character
- 📁 based on novel
- 📁 bathhouse
- 📁 beggar
- 📁 belching
- 📁 ben hur character
- 📁 betrayal
- 📁 biblical epic
- 📁 blindness
- 📁 blockbuster
- 📁 blood
- 📁 broken engagement
- 📁 brother sister relationship
- 📁 camel
- 📁 carpenter
- 📁 catapult
- 📁 cave
- 📁 census
- 📁 centurion
- 📁 chain
- 📁 character name in title
- 📁 chariot
- 📁 chariot race
- 📁 childhood friend
- 📁 christian
- 📁 christian fiction
- 📁 christianity
- 📁 crucifixion
- 📁 dagger
- 📁 dancing
- 📁 deathbed
- 📁 decurion
- 📁 desert
- 📁 disciple
- 📁 dragged by a horse
- 📁 drama
- 📁 eastern mediterranean
- 📁 emancipation
- 📁 emperor
- 📁 entre acte
- 📁 epic
- 📁 faith
- 📁 false accusation
- 📁 famous scene
- 📁 famous score
- 📁 fanfare
- 📁 father daughter relationship
- 📁 fire at sea
- 📁 fleet
- 📁 fortress
- 📁 fountain
- 📁 galley slave
- 📁 gaspar character
- 📁 gay subtext
- 📁 gift
- 📁 golgotha
- 📁 governor
- 📁 hammer
- 📁 hawkins and boyd
- 📁 healing
- 📁 historical epic
- 📁 historical fiction
- 📁 homoeroticism
- 📁 horse
- 📁 intermission
- 📁 jerusalem
- 📁 jesus christ character
- 📁 jewish
- 📁 jewish prince
- 📁 joseph father of jesus character
- 📁 joseph of nazareth character
- 📁 judaea
- 📁 judah ben hur character
- 📁 judea
- 📁 kiss
- 📁 leper colony
- 📁 leprosy
- 📁 levant
- 📁 lightning
- 📁 love
- 📁 male protagonist
- 📁 mary mother of jesus character
- 📁 massage
- 📁 mediterranean
- 📁 michelangelo's creation
- 📁 middle east
- 📁 miracle
- 📁 miscarriage of justice
- 📁 mother daughter relationship
- 📁 mother son relationship
- 📁 music score features choir
- 📁 mute
- 📁 narration
- 📁 national film registry
- 📁 nativity
- 📁 nazareth
- 📁 near east
- 📁 oar
- 📁 oasis
- 📁 offering water
- 📁 orchestral music score
- 📁 overture
- 📁 palestine
- 📁 parade
- 📁 paraplegic
- 📁 pardon
- 📁 peplum
- 📁 Person
- 📁 person on fire
- 📁 physician
- 📁 pilgrimage
- 📁 polygamy
- 📁 pontius pilate character
- 📁 prayer
- 📁 prince
- 📁 prince as protagonist
- 📁 prison
- 📁 prologue
- 📁 prophet
- 📁 raft
- 📁 religion
- 📁 religious epic
- 📁 remade
- 📁 remake of silent film
- 📁 rescue
- 📁 rescue from drowning
- 📁 reunion
- 📁 revenge
- 📁 riding accident
- 📁 ring
- 📁 roman bath
- 📁 roman empire
- 📁 roman galley
- 📁 roman judaea
- 📁 roman judea
- 📁 roman palestine
- 📁 roman salute
- 📁 roofing tile
- 📁 rooftop
- 📁 saint joseph character
- 📁 sea battle
- 📁 separation from family
- 📁 sermon on the mount
- 📁 severed hand
- 📁 sheep
- 📁 sheik
- 📁 shepherd
- 📁 sistine chapel
- 📁 slave
- 📁 slavery
- 📁 southern levant
- 📁 spear
- 📁 stadium
- 📁 stretcher
- 📁 subgenre
- 📁 suicidal
- 📁 sword and sandal
- 📁 talking to a horse
- 📁 tent
- 📁 thirst
- 📁 thunderstorm
- 📁 tiberius character
- 📁 title spoken by character
- 📁 torch
- 📁 two word title
- 📁 tyranny
- 📁 unjust incarceration
- 📁 vengeance
- 📁 victory parade
- 📁 vindictiveness
- 📁 voice over narration
- 📁 wager
- 📁 water
- 📁 water bowl
- 📁 western asia
- 📁 whipping
- 📁 widow
- 📁 wrongful arrest
- 📁 wrongful conviction
- 📁 wyler and heston
- 📁 wyler and o'donnell
- 📁 year 26