All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Charlton Heston, ranked

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur is a wealthy Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem, living with his mother, Miriam and his sister, Tirzah. Although Messala knows this was an accident, he condemns Judah to the galleys and imprisons Miriam and Tirzah. Simonides confronts Messala and is also imprisoned.

Astronauts Taylor, Landon, and Dodge awaken from deep hibernation after a light-speed voyage. After traveling through desolate wasteland, they come upon eerie scarecrow-like figures. Two chimpanzees, animal psychologist Zira and surgeon Galen, save Taylor’s life, though his throat injury renders him temporarily mute.

In Los Robles, a Mexican town along the U.S.–Mexico border, a time bomb is planted in a car. The stress of these accusations, along with pressure from Uncle Joe Grandi, the brother of a man Vargas has been investigating, to strike a deal to discredit Vargas, causes Quinlan—who has been sober for 12 years—to fall off the wagon.

After hearing the prophecy of the deliverer, Pharaoh Rameses I of Egypt orders the death of all newborn Hebrew males. Bithiah, the Pharaoh Rameses’ recently widowed daughter, finds the basket and decides to adopt the boy even though her servant, Memnet, recognizes the child is Hebrew.

After hearing the prophecy of the deliverer, Pharaoh Rameses I of Egypt orders the death of all newborn Hebrew males. Bithiah, the Pharaoh Rameses’ recently widowed daughter, finds the basket and decides to adopt the boy even though her servant, Memnet, recognizes the child is Hebrew.

After hearing the prophecy of the deliverer, Pharaoh Rameses I of Egypt orders the death of all newborn Hebrew males. Bithiah, the Pharaoh Rameses’ recently widowed daughter, finds the basket and decides to adopt the boy even though her servant, Memnet, recognizes the child is Hebrew.

After hearing the prophecy of the deliverer, Pharaoh Rameses I of Egypt orders the death of all newborn Hebrew males. Bithiah, the Pharaoh Rameses’ recently widowed daughter, finds the basket and decides to adopt the boy even though her servant, Memnet, recognizes the child is Hebrew.

In 1879, members of an outlaw gang known to wear red sashes called the Cowboys, led by Curly Bill Brocius, ride into a Mexican town and interrupt a local police officer’s wedding. Wyatt Earp, a retired peace officer with a notable reputation, reunites with his brothers Virgil and Morgan in Tucson, Arizona, where they venture on toward Tombstone to settle down.

The film follows the plot of the original play, and is the first adaptation to have the complete original text. Hamlet, son of the King of Denmark, is summoned home for his father’s funeral and his mother Gertrude’s wedding to his uncle Claudius. In a supernatural episode, he discovers that his uncle, who he hates anyway, murdered his father.

Having learned swordsmanship from his father, the young country bumpkin d’Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king’s musketeer. D’Artagnan sides with the musketeers in the ensuing street fight and becomes their ally in opposition to the Cardinal, who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the king, Louis XIII.

In the year 2022, the cumulative effects of overpopulation, pollution and some apparent climate catastrophe have caused severe worldwide shortages of food, water and housing. There are 40 million people in New York City alone, where only the city’s elite can afford spacious apartments, clean water and natural food, and even then at horrendously high prices.

In March 1975, a Sino-Soviet border conflict escalates into full-scale war in which biological warfare destroys most of the human race. Struggling to maintain his sanity, he spends his days patrolling the now-desolate Los Angeles, hunting and killing members of the Family, a cult of plague victims who were turned into nocturnal albino mutants.