A film is directed by Hugh Hudson and starring Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nicholas Farrell, follows two rivals (Britons Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell). Harold & Eric are both naturally talented sprinters, however the approach running and how it fits into their believes differently - one a Jew and the other a Christian. They take part in 1924 Olympics.
12 October 1931, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
24 May 1931, Paris, France
August 28, 1928 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
6 November 1949, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
10 December 1960, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
14 April 1904, South Kensington, London, England, UK
1955, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
6 April 1953, Uddingston, Scotland, UK
1925, Greenwich, London, England, UK
11 August 1949, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
16 December 1947, London, England, UK
12 June 1920, Wem, Shropshire, England, UK
18 September 1946, England, UK
1928, Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
8 August 1949, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
19 April 1953, Evanston, Illinois, USA
9 April 1932, Collyhurst, Manchester, England, UK
24 August 1957, Hampstead, London, England, UK
February 21, 2015
The film is not just about the race between Abrahams, the Jewish law student (Ben Cross), and Scottish missionary Eric Liddell (the late Ian Charleson). It's a character study and a social history too.
February 17, 2015
A movie that, with the help of Vangelis Papathanassiou's wonderfully stirring music, lifts the spirits to a new high.
August 01, 2008
Like every element in this picture, the actors look right; they seem to emerge from the past, instead of being pasted on to it, as so many characters in historical movies seem to be.
August 04, 2015
Despite its bombastic tendencies, Chariots has a healthy glow that's charming.
March 26, 2007
No imbalance mars the pic, whose cross-the-board achievement lifts it to an impressive level of unified accomplishment.
February 25, 2014
This 31-year-old Oscar winning true-life drama climaxing at the 1924 games proved a winner all the way. And it still is.
February 25, 2014
Vigorous but rather scattered.
February 21, 2015
The appeal will always be there for people to revisit Hudson's award-winner in a year of both the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics, despite perhaps being remembered a little too fondly.
February 21, 2015
From the opening scene of pale young men racing barefoot along the beach, full of hope and elation, backed by Vangelis's now famous anthem, the film is utterly compelling.
February 21, 2015
Oddly, for a film about triumph over adversity, there's nothing as uplifting as the opening and closing jogs along a windswept beach.
August 04, 2015
It is an affirmation of clouded and second-hand values -- and, as a result, it becomes vulgar.
