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The Academy Award winning religious epic Ben-Hur will be available for the first time for purchase on 4K UHD and SteelBook, Collector's Edition 23rd March 2026 from Warner Home Video. A standard 4K UHD edition will also be released on 27th April 2026.

A remake of the 1925 silent film and adapted from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel "Ben-Hur: A Tale of Christ", the film is directed by William Wyler and produced by Sam Zimbalist and won a record 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture (Zimbalist), Best Director (Wyler), and Best Actor in a Leading Role (Heston). The film's cast includes Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott, Cathy O'Donnell, and Sam Jaffe.

In 2004, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress, and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

The winner of 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, Ben-Hur stands as one of the greatest Hollywood epics ever filmed. A member of the Jewish nobility living in Jerusalem, Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) lives a religious life and peacefully opposes the tyrannical occupation of Judea by Rome.

When a boyhood friend, Messala (Stephen Boyd), returns to the region as a Roman official, he and Judah become estranged due to Messala's fanatical loyalty to Rome and ruthless indifference to the fate of Judea. Casting friendship aside, Messala fabricates a charge of treason against Ben-Hur, his sister and mother, all of whom are arrested by Roman soldiers.

Special Features

  • Ben-Hur: Anatomy of an Epic
  • The Cinematography of Scale
  • Charlton Heston & Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey
  • Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic
  • Ben-Hur: A Journey Through Pictures
  • Screen Tests: George Baker and William Russell
  • Screen Tests: Leslie Nielsen and Cesare Danova
  • Screen Tests: Leslie Nielsen and Yale Wexler
  • Screen Tests: Haya Harareet and Make-Up Test
  • Commentary by Film Historian T. Gene Hatcher with Charlton Heston (2 Parts)
  • Music Only Track Showcasing Mikos Rózsa's Award-Winning Score (2 Parts)