Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Charlton Heston, Dolores Hart, Pat Boone, John Wayne, Jennifer Jones
Directed By: Carol Reed, John Huston, Delmer Daves, Michael Curtiz, George Stevens Jr.

The biggest (and arguably the best) from Hollywood's Golden Age of Epic, Ben-Hur cost a staggering 15 million dollars in 1959 and was one of the largest film productions ever undertaken: the Circus Maximus set alone, constructed for the climactic chariot race, covered 18 acres and was filled with 40,000 tons of Mediterranean sand. Fittingly the movie scooped an unprecedented 11 Academy ...

Manufacturer: Creative Design Art
Starring: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet, Hugh Griffith
Directed By: William Wyler

Manufacturer: Polart
Starring: Zbigniew Cybulski, Waclaw Zastrzezynski, Adam Pawlikowski, Bogumil Kobiela, Ewa Krzyzewska
Directed By: Andrzej Wajda

Manufacturer: BFS Entertainment Entertainment
Starring: Sue Bishop, Richard Burnett, Howard Lang, Zienia Merton

Manufacturer: HBO Home Video
Starring: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Flora Robson, Donald Crisp
Directed By: William Wyler

Manufacturer: New Yorker Video
Starring: Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Michel Simon, Gilles Margaritis, Louis Lefebvre
Directed By: Jean Vigo

Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Starring: Josh Hamilton, Julia Stiles, Jerry O'Connell, Jeremy Sisto, Jordana Brewster
Directed By: Mark Piznarski

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil, Allan Monk, Axelle Gall
Directed By: Franco Zeffirelli

Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Starring: Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli, Antonio Arcidiacono, Giuseppe Arcidiacono, Venera Bonaccorso
Directed By: Luchino Visconti

A model for dozens of action films to follow, this box-office hit from 1967 refined a die-hard formula that has become overly familiar, but it's rarely been handled better than it was in this action-packed World War II thriller. Lee Marvin is perfectly cast as a down-but-not-out army major who is offered a shot at personal and professional redemption. If he can successfully train and discipline a ...

Manufacturer: Creative Design Art
Starring: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes, Telly Savalas
Directed By: Robert Aldrich