The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.

L'epopea del giudeo Ben-Hur, arrestato dall'amico Messala, tribuno dell'impero romano, inviato nelle galee come schiavo, riuscirà, dopo aver salvato il console Ario, a diventare un ricco romano e a tornare in patria per vendicarsi.