No CGI, just 36 horses choreographed into one lap around the "coliseum," which is a miracle in and of itself that they could get it on screen. Add in one of the most recognizable film scores of all time and you get what can easily be called an epic scene in an epic movie.
@Anshul Kaushik No horses or persons were killed or wounded during making of that epic 1959 Ben Hur ' s scene. And was made without computer simulations! 👏🏽👏🏻👏🏿👏🏽👏👏🏻👏🏽👏🏼 1940's, 1950's and 1960's films are better than many presents ones 😊☺🙂🤗 😎 Regards from Venezuela.
Mee too. Still amazed the way this race was shot. Not even any cameraa or anyone would picture such a terrific chariot race......hatts off to that camera man
One of the best scenes in Cinematic history. The music, costumes, arena, all gives you a feel that your in Ancient Rome witnessing the greatest dual between to friends/enemies. The whole movie builds up to this pivotal point where Marsala and Judah can vent their hatred for each other in front of the glory of Rome. Such a great movie! I even named my son Judah Benjamin after Judah Ben-Hur.
No matter how many times I see this, I'm always in awe of how those horses were trained to stay in line and pace themselves. Yakima Canutt did a superb job training them. No CGI, just plain, raw technique. Music was commanding and superb. Bravo!
I bought the soundtrack album in 1961. If you can believe, the Parade of the Charioteers is not on the soundtrack album! I was so disappointed. It's one of the best pieces of music in the movie!
Yes indeed you have it correctly - the skill of the drivers in keeping the line straight as it turns cannot be overstated. A superb scene - to see the grace and nobility of the horses and to hear the roar of the crowd - one could be there. Massive respect for this scene and the epic race to follow, no CGI, no SFX, just pure gold
This movie seriously contends as the greatest achievement in art in the history of mankind. The eternal truths embodied and explicated with divine backdrops powered by writing, acting, direction and music of such exemplary quality. I give you 1959's Ben Hur, the greatest film ever made.
To get human actors synchronised in such a big crowd scene is almost impossible,,but the director has succeeded to get such scene by animal(horses) actors ..any word would be a less adjective!! So I do not describe this superlative scene!!!!!
There were 9 chariots so horses would be 36 (4*9).....all these 36 horses deserve OSCARs individually rather than actors !!??????for their amazing synchronised precision movements !!!!!!!!!
BEN HUR una pelicula de las mas grandes en todo lo que conlleva un filme de esa magnitud.Hermosa en general que gusta a todo el mundo por sus actores,escenas en fin todo el guion con todo lo que se vivio ese tiempo en Jerusalen con tristeza llanto y un final consolador. Admiro a EE.UU.por los filmes mas espectaculares que no hay otros comparables y que jamas se dejara de verlos.SON DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS.
@@ricardorobertogodoytoro111 La escena de la carrera de cuadrigas (igual que toda la película) fue hecha sin efectos especiales computarizados; con caballos de verdad cuidadosamente entrenados y con actores y extras que dieron el 120% de sí mismos y arriesgaron la vida en el intento 👏🏻👏🏾👏👏🏿👏🏻👏🏼 ¡Gracias a Dios, nadie resultó muerto ni herido, al igual que los caballos! Saludos desde Venezuela 🇻🇪
The chariot race, including the set and the music, is just fabulous movie making. I wonder what ancient Romans would think if a time machine existed that could take them to a 20th century theater showing the movie!
The Romans would think that the movie maker was an idiot. Where do I begin? All the chariots start from behind starting gates. The chariots stay in lane until they reach a zone where they can break like in middle distance track races. The chariots are made of wicker baskets; these type of heavy chariot would exhaust the horses by the first of the seven circuits. There would not be soldiers on the circuit for safety reasons. The chariots were standardised so that nobody had unfair advantage. There would not be this fanfare before each race. There was the initial religious events, then many chariot races. The chariot drivers had the reigns tied around their bodies, using their body to guide the chariots around the circuit. The chariot racers had to balance their nasty tactics of winning against the emotions of a crowd, because if the crowd was displeased, the race would be aborted and rerun.
This is my all time favorite scene in the entire film. The music is epic, the horses are so beautiful and majestic with their movements and never fail to amaze me at how well-trained they were, and the costumes are breathtaking. I don’t think anything like this could’ve been pulled off in today’s time.
Rozsa’s score has no equal. I always get chills when I hear the opening bars, transporting me back to when I was 11 years old and first saw the film at Loew’s State on Broadway in NYC
I saw the film in 1960 and still remember it. Also Ten Commandments. As a small boy I never forgot Charlton Heston. Also Stephen Boyd, Yule Brynner etc. Spectacular with great action and acting. These films can't be remade. Especially the scene of Jesus and Ben Hur when only his back is shown. Great direction. Ultimately it's the talent level of the people that matters. Not technology or special effects alone.
Harry Belafonte and Martin Luther King enlisted Charlton Heston and many other Hollywood stars to march with them to Selma, Alabama, a few years later. They would make world headlines when the yokel dokel police attacked some of them with tear gas, batons, dogs and fire hoses in front of movie cameras. It alerted the whole population to just how much brutality was used to enforce Jim Crow laws. Before that date, only people of color knew all this. After Selma, everybody knew and nobody had an excuse to ignore what was going on any longer. In the midst of all this, it was probably Charlton Heston's finest moment. Many years later, when he told the world he was retiring because of mild dementia, he made a point of saying how proudly he and his friends marched at Selma with MLK.
In Rome, composing the music for this scene, Miklos Rozsa had to imitate the pose of the aurigas to have the feeling of commanding 4 energetic horses. He was surprised by a kid, who certainly must have wondered what kind of crazy this conductor would be.
This film has one of the best cinematography ever .It beats the majority of films today that look as soap operas videos ,This was shot with a 70 mm mechanical camera with celluloid .The colors are clear and more natural
The cinema gear used for this movie was top notch quality standard for the time and expensive as hell, that's why the production staff were pulling their hair off their heads when one of the cameras get destroyed while filming the race sequence.
@@timonsteup2877 Yes, but the original was nothing like this one. The 1959 Ben-Hur was the one true masterpiece and the Zenith of the epics of the mid-20th century.
Fun Fact: The Director of the film said in a interview with Tom Brokaw, that the entire race and the battle, was filmed in ONE TAKE (17 min 42 sec), and that some of the blows and whips were legitimate and that the actors did not cut, to give it more realism.
quite the contrary. the race scene took 5 weeks to film and has the highest amount of film shot but not used ever in film history. the scene lasts about 10 minutes while the total film shot for this scene was over 45 hours.
The background mountains and the upper parts of the "rock-carved" stables, some of the seating and those huge statures are matte paintings onto which the action was grafted. That was the dominant form of "special effects" in the late 1950s -- early 1960s.
The entire Circus Act is nothing short of magnificence incarnate. The drama, the stages, the crew, the music, the cinematography, and the work that went into this is sheer brilliance. I love how the charioteer actors/crew can keep the steeds in line so well.
What an absolute epic soundtrack and story. In WWII, my dad'smother took them to the woods to scavenge for food and meds... and when they were all tired, gramma read this book to my dad and my uncle's........ And what a treasure it always was to me.
The film is unsurpassed and unequaled in glory, grandeur, self awareness, humility, insightfulness, knowledge of the inner life, grace and wisdom. The wisdom is imparted to Man by God who is historically portrayed in the person of Jesus. Man's hopeless, "catch 22" type of life is given meaning and made rich with the faith-filled qualities of joy perseverance, fellowship, loyalty and forgiveness. Bless Lew Wallace, the cast and crew, and the producers.
To me this scene is truly some of the best movie shorts ever done in any film. Have in mind that we are in the 60es and have no digital processing what so ever. The horses and the custumes are fantastic made. The scene acuately shows roman chariots 2000 years ago. What was this done ? To lure back the tv watchers from the small lausy 20" tvs and back to the cinema. A master piece, which put skills of man and animal to the limit
In the original book of Lewis Wallace from 1880 there are only six chariots racing at the circus of Antiochia. Judah's (that means Sheik Ilderim's) horses are red/brown, only the competition color is white. And Judah, not Messala, has the greek styled chariot with the dangerous metal axis tip - which he used in the last round for his deadly revenge...
Since last January, I've seen about a dozen of times this movie clip, and it remind me any Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes, Santa Anita Derby, Blue Grass Stakes, Florida Derby, Mother Goose Stakes or Breeder's Cup Classic pre race parades 🏇🏼🏇🏿🏇🏼🏇🏽🏇 63 years later, Ben Hur's race chariots scene is still one of the best action ones ever filmed 👏👏🏿👏🏻👏🏽👏🏾👏🏻👏👏🏾👏🏼👏🏿👏🏻 Greetings from Venezuela 🇻🇪 Desde Enero, he visto éste clip como una docena de veces y el desfile de cuadrigas a veces me hace recordar los desfiles pre carrera de cualquier Derby de Kentucky, Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes, Santa Anita Derby, Blue Grass Stakes, Florida Derby o Breeder's Cup Classic 🏇🏇🏿🏇🏽🏇🏇🏾 63 años después, la escena de la carrera de cuadrigas de Ben Hur sigue siendo una de las mejor filmadas de la historia del cine 👏🏻👏🏿👏👏🏼👏🏾👏🏻👏🏼👏🏿👏👏🏻 Saludos desde Venezuela 🇻🇪
Una pagina da antologia cinematografica mai superata né superabile perché senza effetti speciali computerizzati. Precisione, perfezionismo, magnificenza senza pacchianeria, è il risultato di un modo di essere cinematografia hollywoodiana ai massimi livelli. Purtroppo un tempo ormai dimenticato che continua a vivere nelle pellicole. Proprio per questo VIVA IL CINEMA che diventa immortale anche dopo la morte reale dei partecipanti alla realizzazione del film. I film "...sono fatti della stessa sostanza di cui son fatti i sogni..." e come loro sono universali perché appartengono alla categoria umana più alta, quella dei progetti, della loro costruzione e realizzazione attraverso le varie Arti. Un ponte incredibile che diventa concreto nella visione e nel ricordo dello spettatore. Stupefacente!!!
I get a chill when I see this scene, aside from its scale, . . I remember driving by the outer walls of CineCitta, the film centre of Rome where this was filmed on my first visit to Rome with my wife some twenty years ago, and still being able to see one of the two colossal Titan statues just peering over the walls. . .the first one shown in the opening sequence! Yup, they were real in the film, not CGI ! Unbelievable!
Weird comparison. Apples and oranges. Also, I would actually say that the podracing in Phantom Menace looks as timeless as this movie. The cgi holds up really well surprisingly.
There is no need to make this comparsion. Yes, Ben-Hur is the greatest film of all time, but there is no need to drag on movies to prove that; especially a film as wonderful as Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace!
Como no recordar a Don Alfonso haciendo su reportaje en ese evento histórico e inspiro la música (0:45) para su informativo Televistazo por Ecuavisa Ecuador
This was the original pod racing scene that Star Wars tried to duplicate. You have to give it to him people there was no CGI there was just good actors doing their thing
Love Ben Hur! I am going to surprise my father with tickets because they are going to show this awesome masterpiece on March 28 at Harkins theaters for their Tuesday night classic. Last time my father saw this film in the theaters was 1959 he will see it again now in 2017. so excited!!!!!!
Ben Hur and so many other great productions of the golden age of cinema. Without the exaggerated features of today's computers and their applications. Clean images, laborious and expensive scenes. Always filled with the talent of their stars. Nowadays everything has become easier for directors, producers and 'stars'. Ben Hur é um, assim como tantas outras grandes produções da era de ouro do cinema. Sem os recursos exagerados dos computadores e seus aplicativos dos dias de hoje. Imagens limpas, cenas trabalhosas e caras. Sempre recheadas pelo talento de seus astros. Nos dias de hoje tudo ficou mais fácil para os diretores, produtores e 'estrelas'.
At the end of race in thanks Judah hugs those magnificent horses (nice touch that). Take a close look at them. They had been run and run hard. Their coats were black with sweat, their nostrils flaring, their eyeballs bulging. That's the real deal; CGI still can't do that. We may not notice it at first, but it registers. That race actually happened, it was real.
Joseph Scheidel YOU MENT 1) THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 2) BEN HUR. 3) JESUS OF NAZZERETH. 4) THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD. AND THEN THE OTHERS... BUT THE TITANIC IS NOT THESE GREAT MOVIES EQUAL.
In my opinion, it's like the Greg Kihn Band's song, "They don't write 'em like that any more." 2 of the most epic movies for me both starred Charlton Heston.
the remake(which was crap) did not have this .The Grand Procession had that wonderful music score and gave you a chance to admire all the teams. This was the major horse event in Rome. They would open with much fanfare and excitement
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Ben Hur, El Cid, Spartacus, The Ten Commandments, .... All were epic never to be surpassed movies timeless
No CGI, just 36 horses choreographed into one lap around the "coliseum," which is a miracle in and of itself that they could get it on screen. Add in one of the most recognizable film scores of all time and you get what can easily be called an epic scene in an epic movie.
Good old days
Around 150 horses were killed to make these scenes.
@@alexjones7333 no, thats the silent film version from 1925
@Anshul Kaushik
No horses or persons were killed or wounded during making of that epic 1959 Ben Hur ' s scene. And was made without computer simulations! 👏🏽👏🏻👏🏿👏🏽👏👏🏻👏🏽👏🏼 1940's, 1950's and 1960's films are better than many presents ones 😊☺🙂🤗 😎
Regards from Venezuela.
That too way back in 1959, amazing
Anyone else amazed by the colors? Such vibrancy and uniqueness. This is great cinematography.
Technicolor. Was so ahead of its time.
Mee too. Still amazed the way this race was shot. Not even any cameraa or anyone would picture such a terrific chariot race......hatts off to that camera man
@@vincedangerio546 Also 70mm film 😁
It was even better in the 1959 theater. Esp with my 11 year old eyes and ears.
One of the best scenes in Cinematic history. The music, costumes, arena, all gives you a feel that your in Ancient Rome witnessing the greatest dual between to friends/enemies. The whole movie builds up to this pivotal point where Marsala and Judah can vent their hatred for each other in front of the glory of Rome. Such a great movie! I even named my son Judah Benjamin after Judah Ben-Hur.
How can this be 1959. Looks way better than 2020 films.
70mm is an amazing thing
It's the reason why it won several Oscar awards.
A whole lot actors was more sophisticated and understanding to me
no special effects
Because this was when they knew how to make movies that meant something.They were called EPICS!
No matter how many times I see this, I'm always in awe of how those horses were trained to stay in line and pace themselves. Yakima Canutt did a superb job training them. No CGI, just plain, raw technique. Music was commanding and superb. Bravo!
I bought the soundtrack album in 1961. If you can believe, the Parade of the Charioteers is not on the soundtrack album! I was so disappointed. It's one of the best pieces of music in the movie!
Yes indeed you have it correctly - the skill of the drivers in keeping the line straight as it turns cannot be overstated. A superb scene - to see the grace and nobility of the horses and to hear the roar of the crowd - one could be there. Massive respect for this scene and the epic race to follow, no CGI, no SFX, just pure gold
This just proves that sets beat CGI every time. That wide Panavision film really brings life to this clip.
……it was filmed with brand-new technology for 1959 of Camera 65………
This movie seriously contends as the greatest achievement in art in the history of mankind. The eternal truths embodied and explicated with divine backdrops powered by writing, acting, direction and music of such exemplary quality. I give you 1959's Ben Hur, the greatest film ever made.
……with the ONLY actor who could play Judah Ben-Hur, the late, great Charlton Heston………
No other movie has beaten the epic score of Ben Hur. Such magnificence hasn't been brought to screen since 1959.
Miklós Rózsa 💥
The John Wilson orchestra performed this in 2013 at the BBC Proms.
Even threw in a pipe organ.
Just getting 32 horses to turn together in the opening of the scene was amazing, let alone the race.
To get human actors synchronised in such a big crowd scene is almost impossible,,but the director has succeeded to get such scene by animal(horses) actors ..any word would be a less adjective!! So I do not describe this superlative scene!!!!!
There were 9 chariots so horses would be 36 (4*9).....all these 36 horses deserve OSCARs
individually rather than actors !!??????for their amazing synchronised precision movements !!!!!!!!!
I was at the Circus Maximus in 2018 and was imagining what was the place be like during its glory days.
BEN HUR una pelicula de las mas grandes en todo lo que conlleva un filme de esa magnitud.Hermosa en general que gusta a todo el mundo por sus actores,escenas en fin todo el guion con todo lo que se vivio ese tiempo en Jerusalen con tristeza llanto y un final consolador.
Admiro a EE.UU.por los filmes mas espectaculares que no hay otros comparables y que jamas se dejara de verlos.SON DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS.
Amazing ... golden history of film making. All hand made no cheap computer cartoon like clip!
"La carrera de cuadrigas",un tributo al mejor cine de todos los tiempos.Ben Hur,el mas grande clásico del cine
Clásico no, CLASICAZO...
Esto era cine
@@ricardorobertogodoytoro111
La escena de la carrera de cuadrigas (igual que toda la película) fue hecha sin efectos especiales computarizados; con caballos de verdad cuidadosamente entrenados y con actores y extras que dieron el 120% de sí mismos y arriesgaron la vida en el intento 👏🏻👏🏾👏👏🏿👏🏻👏🏼
¡Gracias a Dios, nadie resultó muerto ni herido, al igual que los caballos!
Saludos desde Venezuela 🇻🇪
The chariot race, including the set and the music, is just fabulous movie making. I wonder what ancient Romans would think if a time machine existed that could take them to a 20th century theater showing the movie!
They'd start betting denarii.
Especially if it's Justinian's time.
The Romans would think that the movie maker was an idiot. Where do I begin? All the chariots start from behind starting gates. The chariots stay in lane until they reach a zone where they can break like in middle distance track races. The chariots are made of wicker baskets; these type of heavy chariot would exhaust the horses by the first of the seven circuits. There would not be soldiers on the circuit for safety reasons. The chariots were standardised so that nobody had unfair advantage. There would not be this fanfare before each race. There was the initial religious events, then many chariot races. The chariot drivers had the reigns tied around their bodies, using their body to guide the chariots around the circuit. The chariot racers had to balance their nasty tactics of winning against the emotions of a crowd, because if the crowd was displeased, the race would be aborted and rerun.
@@alexjones7333 The pretorian guard seized all cell phones, so we have no videos of Roman chariot races. The scene shown in this film is imaginary.
This is my all time favorite scene in the entire film. The music is epic, the horses are so beautiful and majestic with their movements and never fail to amaze me at how well-trained they were, and the costumes are breathtaking. I don’t think anything like this could’ve been pulled off in today’s time.
This movie would be great even without music, but it's Miklos Rosza's score that really drives it home.
Rozsa’s score has no equal. I always get chills when I hear the opening bars, transporting me back to when I was 11 years old and first saw the film at Loew’s State on Broadway in NYC
@@barrymorentz5190 Previously Rozsa score several's film noir including The Asphalt Jungle & The Lost Weekend who win Oscar for Best Picture
I saw the film in 1960 and still remember it. Also Ten Commandments. As a small boy I never forgot Charlton Heston. Also Stephen Boyd, Yule Brynner etc. Spectacular with great action and acting. These films can't be remade. Especially the scene of Jesus and Ben Hur when only his back is shown. Great direction. Ultimately it's the talent level of the people that matters. Not technology or special effects alone.
Harry Belafonte and Martin Luther King enlisted Charlton Heston and many other Hollywood stars to march with them to Selma, Alabama, a few years later. They would make world headlines when the yokel dokel police attacked some of them with tear gas, batons, dogs and fire hoses in front of movie cameras. It alerted the whole population to just how much brutality was used to enforce Jim Crow laws. Before that date, only people of color knew all this. After Selma, everybody knew and nobody had an excuse to ignore what was going on any longer. In the midst of all this, it was probably Charlton Heston's finest moment. Many years later, when he told the world he was retiring because of mild dementia, he made a point of saying how proudly he and his friends marched at Selma with MLK.
It is the greatest movie ever made in the world! Nothing is more touching than it.
without a doubt the greatest movie ever made. the acting was exceptional and the story unforgetable
In Rome, composing the music for this scene, Miklos Rozsa had to imitate the pose of the aurigas to have the feeling of commanding 4 energetic horses. He was surprised by a kid, who certainly must have wondered what kind of crazy this conductor would be.
Ben Hur is the most epic among all epics movies. Merry x-mas from Brazil.
Merry Christmas
R@@bernardgurney1225 ŕ
Merry Christmas.
This film has one of the best cinematography ever .It beats the majority of films today that look as soap operas videos ,This was shot with a 70 mm mechanical camera with celluloid .The colors are clear and more natural
Well that explains a lot. 70mm camera... No wonders. So real, so exceptionally done. Breathtaking
Hi
The cinema gear used for this movie was top notch quality standard for the time and expensive as hell, that's why the production staff were pulling their hair off their heads when one of the cameras get destroyed while filming the race sequence.
Demasiada majestuosidad en una sola escena. Eso solo lo logra este filme BEN HUR. De las escenas más famosas de la historia del cine.
This clip alone is already infinitely better than the remake coming to a theater near you.
Logan you are right!!!
The remake would be full of CG
@@lzluna6802
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La mejor película de todos los tiempos !
Why would they remake this movie?
THIS is Ben Hur, not that misguided attempt to cash in the hard-work of this masterpiece.
The Academy Awards waited until Titanic in 1996 to equal the number of independent nomination boards in such things such as actor and filiming angles.
@A For Apple t
You DO know that the 1959 is also a remake that cashed in on the popularity of the 1925 film and the book it is based on?
@@timonsteup2877 Yes, but the original was nothing like this one. The 1959 Ben-Hur was the one true masterpiece and the Zenith of the epics of the mid-20th century.
@@timonsteup2877 Yess, but the Original is the written masterpiece of 1880 - I just read it last week for x-time...
I am never tired of watching Ben Hur
Suena ÉPICO. Espectacular. Largamente superior al remake hecho en el 2015. Saludos desde Perú...
Ese solo fue un buen intento de "nueva versión".
Con otro nombre, no hubiera sido comparada con ésta obra de arte.
Still the best action scene in the history of Hollywood.
This is the greatest scene of any movie ever.
This parade of 9 aurigas is more spectacular than the parades of all armies in epic films at all times.
hard to believe this movie is from the 50s, almost 60 years old.
and 2016 spoiled it all with crappy CGI
Ben Hur won 11 Oscars the most ever until tied with Titanic.
schallrd1 and Lord of the rings
Yes thats true not computer not tecnology nothing only , miniature and Big budget
Only Gone With The Wind win 10 Oscars including Best Picture also the most breaking record in Oscar history
The Return of the King 11 oscars
Fun Fact: The Director of the film said in a interview with Tom Brokaw, that the entire race and the battle, was filmed in ONE TAKE (17 min 42 sec), and that some of the blows and whips were legitimate and that the actors did not cut, to give it more realism.
Apparently Stephen Boyd was badly injured as he was dragged along. Much skin was taken off his back.
quite the contrary. the race scene took 5 weeks to film and has the highest amount of film shot but not used ever in film history. the scene lasts about 10 minutes while the total film shot for this scene was over 45 hours.
Your “Fun Fact” is 110% baloney.
@@joshowen9054yes
One of my favourite movies…..beautifully made…..epic!
Love it the first time I saw it in 1961 at the Matinee. When going to the movies was an event.
One of the most powerful music and movie of all time......... Awesome.
O melhor filme de todos os tempos. Sem tecnologia. Uma obra prima.
La mejor parte de la película , lo mejor es que todo el escenario es 100 % real sin efectos a diferencia de otras pelis de Ben Hur 👏👏👏👏
Ben Hur and Lawrence of Arabia they are the definition of the "MOVIE"
Two of my favourites movies
I love this film when I'm child.
Most spectacular movie is BENHUR, my favourite movie is forever.
And no CGI , amazing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The background mountains and the upper parts of the "rock-carved" stables, some of the seating and those huge statures are matte paintings onto which the action was grafted. That was the dominant form of "special effects" in the late 1950s -- early 1960s.
This is the BEST Movie. I would never waste my time looking at substandard remakes.
The entire Circus Act is nothing short of magnificence incarnate. The drama, the stages, the crew, the music, the cinematography, and the work that went into this is sheer brilliance.
I love how the charioteer actors/crew can keep the steeds in line so well.
This has been with me all my life and it never gets old.
The bigger the screen the better
Music score is another level in this movie🔥🔥🔥🔥
Ben Hur one an only movie. God blessed. Must see movie. Wish everyone to see and be blessed.
UNA DE MIS GRANDES PELICULAS DE TODA LA HISTORIA DEL CINE PARA MI NO ME CANSO DE VERLA MINIMO2 VECES POR AÑO UNA MARAVILLA PARA MI DESDE CHILE🇨🇱🇨🇱
No computers, all rehearsed and executed to the perfection, amazing...
¡ This is the best movie of all times !
+Roy Villeneve Yessssssssssssssss (Y)
What an absolute epic soundtrack and story. In WWII, my dad'smother took them to the woods to scavenge for food and meds... and when they were all tired, gramma read this book to my dad and my uncle's........ And what a treasure it always was to me.
Thanks so much for this and taking the trouble for a high quality copy. Magnificent! Beats CGI any day.
Bonapartist Is this in blu-ray ? Amazing quality.
+Rickodez do you logg into youtube every 7 months
999LDS minbainaprwsanmipoio
@Bonapartist:
Ooo, that Blu Ray! Once you get Blu Ray, you'll never go back to DVD! hehehehehe
The film is unsurpassed and unequaled in glory, grandeur, self awareness, humility, insightfulness, knowledge of the inner life, grace and wisdom. The wisdom is imparted to Man by God who is historically portrayed in the person of Jesus. Man's hopeless, "catch 22" type of life is given meaning and made rich with the faith-filled qualities of joy perseverance, fellowship, loyalty and forgiveness. Bless Lew Wallace, the cast and crew, and the producers.
I love this movie. One of my all time favorites. In my top 10 of movie greats
To me this scene is truly some of the best movie shorts ever done in any film. Have in mind that we are in the 60es and have no digital processing what so ever. The horses and the custumes are fantastic made. The scene acuately shows roman chariots 2000 years ago.
What was this done ? To lure back the tv watchers from the small lausy 20" tvs and back to the cinema. A master piece, which put skills of man and animal to the limit
Imagine doing this scene today without CGI. Jesus.
¡LA ÉPOCA DORADA DEL CINE ! sin duda
I watch it every Good Friday.
In the original book of Lewis Wallace from 1880 there are only six chariots racing at the circus of Antiochia. Judah's (that means Sheik Ilderim's) horses are red/brown, only the competition color is white. And Judah, not Messala, has the greek styled chariot with the dangerous metal axis tip - which he used in the last round for his deadly revenge...
1:01 even the shadow of hourse over the ground has its own beauty
Seeing this as a kid with my folks, with Cinerama and giant Voice of the Theater speakers was the definition of “epic”!!
Que Peliculón maravillosa increible actuación de Charlton Heston.
Since last January, I've seen about a dozen of times this movie clip, and it remind me any Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes, Santa Anita Derby, Blue Grass Stakes, Florida Derby, Mother Goose Stakes or Breeder's Cup Classic pre race parades 🏇🏼🏇🏿🏇🏼🏇🏽🏇
63 years later, Ben Hur's race chariots scene is still one of the best action ones ever filmed 👏👏🏿👏🏻👏🏽👏🏾👏🏻👏👏🏾👏🏼👏🏿👏🏻
Greetings from Venezuela 🇻🇪
Desde Enero, he visto éste clip como una docena de veces y el desfile de cuadrigas a veces me hace recordar los desfiles pre carrera de cualquier Derby de Kentucky, Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes, Santa Anita Derby, Blue Grass Stakes, Florida Derby o Breeder's Cup Classic 🏇🏇🏿🏇🏽🏇🏇🏾
63 años después, la escena de la carrera de cuadrigas de Ben Hur sigue siendo una de las mejor filmadas de la historia del cine 👏🏻👏🏿👏👏🏼👏🏾👏🏻👏🏼👏🏿👏👏🏻
Saludos desde Venezuela 🇻🇪
Absolutely breathtaking
+Janelle Tarnopolski - Yes It Is !!!!!
Una pagina da antologia cinematografica mai superata né superabile perché senza effetti speciali computerizzati.
Precisione, perfezionismo, magnificenza senza pacchianeria, è il risultato di un modo di essere cinematografia hollywoodiana ai massimi livelli. Purtroppo un tempo ormai dimenticato che continua a vivere nelle pellicole. Proprio per questo VIVA IL CINEMA che diventa immortale anche dopo la morte reale dei partecipanti alla realizzazione del film.
I film "...sono fatti della stessa sostanza di cui son fatti i sogni..." e come loro sono universali perché appartengono alla categoria umana più alta, quella dei progetti, della loro costruzione e realizzazione attraverso le varie Arti. Un ponte incredibile che diventa concreto nella visione e nel ricordo dello spettatore. Stupefacente!!!
I get a chill when I see this scene, aside from its scale, . . I remember driving by the outer walls of CineCitta, the film centre of Rome where this was filmed on my first visit to Rome with my wife some twenty years ago, and still being able to see one of the two colossal Titan statues just peering over the walls. . .the first one shown in the opening sequence! Yup, they were real in the film, not CGI ! Unbelievable!
Totally unbelievable that such master films were shot in 1959 !
Peliculas....que nunca seran igualadas con actores y actrices de verdad
La mejor pelicula de toda la historia Ben-Hur,una obra maestra y jamás tendra comparación
This 1959 film looks so much better than Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
Yes, obviously ~
La más grandiosa de las películas según mis gustos excelente
Weird comparison. Apples and oranges. Also, I would actually say that the podracing in Phantom Menace looks as timeless as this movie. The cgi holds up really well surprisingly.
There is no need to make this comparsion.
Yes, Ben-Hur is the greatest film of all time, but there is no need to drag on movies to prove that; especially a film as wonderful as Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace!
@@josephjoe4180 I agree with everything you said.
Greatest movie scene ever. Real casualties--people died filming this.
The only downside to this is they killed 150 horses alone in this scene (chariot race)
The reason why chariot racing no longer happens. Chariot races were very dangerous.
0:19 Welcome, everybody, to the chariot races! I see the contestants are making their way out onto the starting line!
Ben -Hur is Epic of Epics. Nothing can compare. Mr Heston was wonderful!!!
There isn't a scene in any modern movies to ever ever ever to ever compare this ever
La mejor pelicula de todos los tiempos....
What a Masterpiece!!! Too good.....
O filme mais perfeito que já vi em toda minha vida.
Insuperável..
So majestic and exciting! Filmmaking at its best
"Today is the day, Judah...it's between us, now..."
"Yes...today is the day..."
Película Monumental, Extraordinaria, Excelente . Excelentes ACTORES. Un Cordial Saludo . 18-11-20
One of the best movie ever made Ben-Hur what a classic today movie makers use technology but non can challenge Ben-Hur
Espectacular película¡ no admite imitaciones
Amazing Movie. This is 100% better than present day movies.
Como no recordar a Don Alfonso haciendo su reportaje en ese evento histórico e inspiro la música (0:45) para su informativo Televistazo por Ecuavisa Ecuador
This was the original pod racing scene that Star Wars tried to duplicate. You have to give it to him people there was no CGI there was just good actors doing their thing
Magnificent beyond compare.
I would have to agree with you.
@@janiedoe264 They dared to meke a remake! Impossible
Those Roman horns prior to Pilates and the Roman centurions entrance was the best part
Ben Hur 19
59 a true masterpiece.
A film for the ages
Im glad im not the only one shocked at how this was a 1959 movie
Love Ben Hur! I am going to surprise my father with tickets because they are going to show this awesome masterpiece on March 28 at Harkins theaters for their Tuesday night classic.
Last time my father saw this film in the theaters was 1959 he will see it again now in 2017. so excited!!!!!!
Ben Hur and so many other great productions of the golden age of cinema. Without the exaggerated features of today's computers and their applications. Clean images, laborious and expensive scenes. Always filled with the talent of their stars. Nowadays everything has become easier for directors, producers and 'stars'. Ben Hur é um, assim como tantas outras grandes produções da era de ouro do cinema. Sem os recursos exagerados dos computadores e seus aplicativos dos dias de hoje. Imagens limpas, cenas trabalhosas e caras. Sempre recheadas pelo talento de seus astros. Nos dias de hoje tudo ficou mais fácil para os diretores, produtores e 'estrelas'.
At the end of race in thanks Judah hugs those magnificent horses (nice touch that). Take a close look at them. They had been run and run hard. Their coats were black with sweat, their nostrils flaring, their eyeballs bulging. That's the real deal; CGI still can't do that. We may not notice it at first, but it registers. That race actually happened, it was real.
¡Impresionante escena! Increíble!!!!!!!!
Ein unübertreffliches Meisterwerk! Für weitere viele Generationen!
Greatest Action Sequence EVER!!!!
BEN HUR
TITANIC
AND THE RETURN OF THE KING
THE 3 MOST AMBITIOUS BREATHTAKING AND ABOVE ALL GRANDEST FILMS IN OSCAR HISTORY!!!
Joseph Scheidel YOU MENT 1) THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
2) BEN HUR.
3) JESUS OF NAZZERETH.
4) THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD.
AND THEN THE OTHERS...
BUT THE TITANIC IS NOT THESE GREAT MOVIES EQUAL.
Not titanic.
Titanic is far inferior to the other two.
In my opinion, it's like the Greg Kihn Band's song, "They don't write 'em like that any more." 2 of the most epic movies for me both starred Charlton Heston.
FANTASTIC...Movie made 60 years back, in those times 1959 no VFX etc...AMAZING Direction and Acting.
WHAT A FILM ! with great caracters, a masterspiece
the remake(which was crap) did not have this .The Grand Procession had that wonderful music score and gave you a chance to admire all the teams. This was the major horse event in Rome. They would open with much fanfare and excitement