Almost everyone knows the opening sequence, film buff or not: the windswept beach, the foaming waves, the soaring, triumphant music against the sound of runners’ feet patting on wet sand. So begins ...

King Tutankhamun, the pharaoh who ruled Egypt more than 3,300 years ago, rode full speed over the desert dunes on a Formula One-like chariot, according to new investigations into the technical ...

Actor Ben Cross, who was best known for playing athlete Harold Abrahams in the film Chariots of Fire, has died at the age of 72. His other roles included the leads in HBO's first ever mini-series, The ...

Chariots Of Fire star Ben Cross has died aged 72. The actor had been lauded for his portrayal of British Olympic athlete Harold Abrahams in the 1981 film, which won four Oscars including best picture.

With the Academy Awards airing Sunday, I decided to use the first of my semi-regular Olympics columns to revisit the most acclaimed and honored movie ever made about the Olympics. "Chariots of Fire" ...

Hugh Hudson, who directed "Chariots of Fire," has died, Fox News Digital confirmed. He was 86 years old. Hudson’s family issued a brief statement announcing he died Friday at a hospital in London ...

When Chariots of Fire came out in 1981, it was received as the salvation of British cinema. After a decade of gloom, paranoia and ever-ballooning budgets in Hollywood – the neurotic Seventies, in all ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Before you see the tornado of whirring legs, you hear the thunder of stampeding feet. A century after the ...

The British film director Hugh Hudson has died. He was best known for his first feature film, "Chariots Of Fire," which won Best Picture at the 1982 Academy Awards. It was based on the true story of ...