Here are five things you probably don’t know about this chariot-tastic classic. Though Ben-Hur was part of the 1950s and ’60s wave of religious epics, it was actually a remake of a 1925 silent film — ...

TCM gets an early start with director William Wyler‘s Best Picture–winning religious saga Ben-Hur (1959 ... John Huston‘s recounting of the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis ...