A year-by-year "what if" filling in a century-long gap of Academy Awards recognition for noteworthy stunt artistry and design in Hollywood movies.

The historian Nora Berend rememorates the construction of the myth of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar from the Middle Ages to the present ...

Heston “really enjoyed playing Brigham Young,” said D’Arc, who interviewed the actor in 1999 for a book. “He was terrific in it. That nicely cropped beard, the square jaw that he had.

The Italian-American medieval epic El Cid (1961) saw Page perfectly cast as the scheming Princess Urraca. Starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren, the film was a huge spectacle, running more ...

El Cid—a Spanish title derived from the Arabic word sayyid, meaning “lord”—was a real-life warlord from a time when much of the Iberian Peninsula was in Muslim Moorish hands.

The new book “El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary” delves into the truths and misunderstandings about the legendary knight.

El Cid himself, too crudely contemporized, seems less the scourge of the heathen than a champion of civil rights. And there are moments when Hero Heston looks as though he needs a derrick to help ...

Charlton Heston (again!) leads this epic as famed Spanish knight Don Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (also known as El Cid) in this underrated historic drama from celebrated western and noir director ...

Charlton made his cameo in The One With Joey’s Dirty Day. In the 1998 episode, he and Joey Tribbani (Matt LeBlanc) are supposed to appear in a film together, and Joey uses the actor’s dressing ...

Heston was brought in as the first choice for the role of El Cid, so he felt that he had some power over the production. But Loren was a strong-willed actor who demanded a big paycheck and that more ...