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Screenplay by Colin Welland. "I will race in the Olympics, and I will win"Watch the new teaser trailer for Chariots of Fire, opening this July in the Crucible!Chariots of FireA...
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"Our mission is to really put you in the experience of running a race"Join us behind the scenes of Chariots of Fire with director Robert Hastie, movement dir...
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OSCAR WINNER:Best PictureBest Original ScreenplayBest Costume DesignBest ScoreIn 1981, Chariots of Fire became the little movie that could... winning four Ac...
Set in England after World War I, Chariots of Fire is based on the true-life story of two elite British athletes pursuing Olympic gold in 1924. Dark-haired and handsome, Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), the son of a wealthy Jewish immigrant, attends Cambridge University while adding to his growing list of achievements on the track.
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Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath.
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Hugh Hudson's Chariots of Fire is a masterpiece -- the finest film on sports ever made... The film celebrates the seemingly infinite limits of the human spirit when inflamed with a holy...
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“Chariots of Fire” is one of the best films of recent years, a memory of a time when men still believed you could win a race if only you wanted to badly enough.