The Ten Commandments (1956)
Adventure | Drama | Family | History
Moses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, Debra Paget
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
The Awakening (1980)
Horror
An archeologist discovers his daughter is possessed by the spirit of an Egyptian queen. To save mankind he must destroy her.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Jill Townsend, Stephanie Zimbalist, Patrick Drury, Bruce Myers
Director: Mike Newell
Airport 1975 (1974)
Action | Drama | Thriller
A 747 in flight collides with a small plane, and is rendered pilotless. Somehow the control tower must get a pilot aboard so the jet can land.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Susan Clark, Helen Reddy, Gloria Swanson
Director: Jack Smight
Treasure Island (1990)
Action | Adventure | Crime
The treasure seeking adventures of young Jim Hawkins and pirate Captain Long John Silver.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Christian Bale, Oliver Reed, Christopher Lee, Richard Johnson, Julian Glover
Director: Fraser C. Heston
Solar Crisis (1990)
Sci-Fi | Thriller
A huge Solar flare is predicted to fry Earth. Astronauts must fly to the sun to drop a talking bomb (Freddy) at the right time so the flare will point somewhere else. Giant IXL Corp C.E.O. Teague thinks the flare won't happen and wants the mission to fail so he can buy the planet cheaply while the scare lasts. Employee Haas prepares a surprise for the astronauts. While daddy Steve Kelso commands the space ship where temperatures rise, granddaddy Admiral Skeet Kelso is searching the desert for grandson Mike who's gone A.W.O.L. to say goodbye to his dad but who inadvertently crossed the path of the men from IXL after meeting desert-dweller Travis.
Starring: Tim Matheson, Charlton Heston, Peter Boyle, Annabel Schofield, Corin Nemec, Tetsuya Bessho, Jack Palance
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
Two-Minute Warning (1976)
Drama | Thriller
A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter Holly (Charlton Heston) and SWAT commander Sergeant Button (John Cassavetes), learn of the plot and rush to the scene. Still, they may be too late, as an all-star cast finds itself lined up in the sights of a gun-toting madman.
Starring: Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges, Marilyn Hassett, David Janssen
Director: Larry Peerce
The War Lord (1965)
Drama | History
A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal villiage where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild the duke's authority in the face of the barbarians at the border and is making progress until he falls in love with one of the local women.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Richard Boone, Rosemary Forsyth, Maurice Evans, Guy Stockwell, Niall MacGinnis
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
El Cid (1961)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | Romance | War
Anthony Mann masterfully directs this classic tale of the 11th-century hero (Charlton Heston) who fought to unite Spain. Known as history's "compassionate warrior," the film follows El Cid's remarkable journey from peace-broker accused of treason to the King's fighting champion, and later from exiled hero to legendary martyr. Unequaled in scope, grandeur and adventure, EL CID is an essential part of any film lover's collection.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Geneviève Page, John Fraser, Gary Raymond
Director: Anthony Mann
55 Days at Peking (1963)
Action | Drama | History | War
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson, Harry Andrews, Leo Genn
Director: Nicholas Ray, Guy Green
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
Drama | History
When Pope Julius ll commissions Michelangelo (Heston) to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the artist initially refuses. Virtually forced to do the job by Julius, he later destroys his own work and flees to Rome. The Agony And The Ecstasy is a fascinating dramatization of the battle of wills behind one of the world's artistic masterpieces.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento, Harry Andrews, Alberto Lupo, Adolfo Celi
Director: Carol Reed
Hercules (1997)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
The heavenly Hercules is stripped of his immortality and raised on Earth instead of Olympus, where he's forced to take on Hades and assorted monsters.
Starring: Tate Donovan, Susan Egan, Josh Keaton, Roger Bart, Danny DeVito, James Woods
Narrator: Charlton Heston
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Earthquake (1974)
Action | Drama | Thriller
This prime example of the Seventies cycle of disaster movies centres on the repercussions of a massive earthquake that rips Los Angeles apart. Amongst those attempting to restore order are construction engineer Stewart Graff (Charlton Heston) and streetwise cop Lew Slade (George Kennedy), whilst construction company owner Sam Royce (Lorna Greene) struggles to escape from his own devastated building.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Geneviève Bujold, Richard Roundtree
Director: Mark Robson
Major Dundee (1965)
Adventure | War | Western
An obsessive Union officer leads a squad of Rebel prisoners, ex-slaves and criminals into Mexico to hunt down a band of murdering Apaches.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, James Coburn, Michael Anderson Jr., Senta Berger
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi
After discovering that the planet ruled by apes which he had arrived on was really post-nuclear Earth in the future, US astronaut Taylor disappears while exploring the Forbidden Zone with his new mate Nova leaving her behind. Brent, another astronaut sent after Taylor, lands on the planet and is taken by Nova to the ape city, where he's hidden by the friendly chimp scientists Zira and Cornelius. Brent and Nova are eventually captured by a gorilla named Ursus, a military leader who wants to lead a holy war on the mysterious inhabitants of the Forbidden Zone.
Starring: James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, Linda Harrison, Paul Richards, Charlton Heston
Director: Ted Post
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi
Three astronouts after a crash landing find themselves stranded in an upside-down planet–a place where talking apes are in charge and mute humans are hunted and enslaved by the tyrannical primates.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Midway (1976)
Action | Drama | History | War
A dramatic chronicle of the Battle of Midway, considered the turning point of the war against Japan in the Pacific.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook, Toshirô Mifune
Director: Jack Smight
Antony and Cleopatra (1972)
Drama | History
Charlton Heston made his Broadway debut in a supporting role in "Antony and Cleopatra." 25 years later, he brought his authoritative presence and literary command to the lead role of Marc Antony in this masterful adaptation. Heston wrote the adaptation and directed, opening up the story to its cinematic possibilities.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Hildegard Neil, Eric Porter, John Castle, Fernando Rey
Director: Charlton Heston
Julius Caesar (1970)
Drama | History | War
All star cast heads up this 1970 remake of the William Shakespeare classic tale of the betrayal of the the Roman senate against their emperor, the plotting and scheming that led up to the assassination of the title charecter, and all of Romes' fickleness towards the events.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, John Gielgud, Richard Johnson, Robert Vaughn, Richard Chamberlain, Diana Rigg
Director: Stuart Burge
Bowling for Columbine / Bowling à Columbine (2002)
Documentary | History
The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed. In doing so, he learns that the conventional answers of easy availability of guns, violent national history, violent entertainment and even poverty are inadequate to explain this violence when other cultures share those same factors without the equivalent carnage. In order to arrive at a possible explanation, Michael Moore takes on a deeper examination of America's culture of fear, bigotry and violence in a nation with widespread gun ownership. Furthermore, he seeks to investigate and confront the powerful elite political and corporate interests fanning this culture for their own unscrupulous gain.
Starring: Michael Moore, Charlton Heston, Marilyn Manson
Director: Michael Moore
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Dark City (1950)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance
Danny Haley's bookie operation is shut down, so he and his pals need money; when Danny meets Arthur Winant, a sucker from out of town, he decoys him into a series of poker games where eventually Winant loses $5000 that isn't his…then hangs himself. But it seems Winant had a shadowy, protective elder brother who believes in personal revenge. And each of the card players in turn feels a faceless doom inexorably closing in. Dark streets and sexy torch-singer Fran lend ambience.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors, Dean Jagger
Director: William Dieterle
