Chariots of Fire

Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300271494
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 6300271498
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 1992-04-01
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1981-10-09

Editorial Review:

Amazon.com essential videoThe come-from-behind winner of the 1981 Oscar for best picture, Chariots of Fire either strikes you as either a cold exercise in mechanical manipulation or as a tale of true determination and inspiration. The heroes are an unlikely pair of young athletes who ran for Great Britain in the 1924 Paris Olympics: devout Protestant Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), a divinity student whose running makes him feel closer to God, and Jewish Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), a highly competitive Cambridge student who has to surmount the institutional hurdles of class prejudice and anti-Semitism. There's delicious support from Ian Holm (as Abrahams's coach) and John Gielgud and Lindsay Anderson as a couple of Cambridge fogies. Vangelis's soaring synthesized score, which seemed to be everywhere in the early 1980s, also won an Oscar. Chariots of Fire was the debut film of British television commercial director Hugh Hudson (Greystoke) and was produced by David Puttnam. --Jim Emerson

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Chariots of Fire
The Chariots of Fire video was in excellent condition & we look forward to enjoying it for years to come.

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- Classic - Inspired
this film is a wonderful evocation of an era and is brilliant in it s conception, acting and directing. the music is perfect and the opening sequence of the athletes running is superb. this hsould be shown over and over in schools.

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- Inspirational Chariots
I ordered "Chariots of Fire", the DVD. Found it to be just what I was looking for, and the entire process of ordering, receiving, and enjoying was superb --- could not ask for more! Thank you, Amazon, for such great service.

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- science student
This is one of my favorite films. However, several reviewers make an understandible mistake. Eric Liddell was a science student, not a divinity student in university. He subsequently taught science in the Anglo-Chinese school in Tianjin in a building which now houses an amazing open(TSPM)church. Devotion to God is not in opposition to science.

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- One of the all-time greats
This is simply an amazing movie, inspiring in a way that few are. I am fascinated by Mr. Liddel, and my only disappointment was that the movie portrayed his lovely sister in an entirely unrealistic light. She did in fact support her brother's running wholeheartedly and was one of his biggest fans. I suppose the screenwriter felt the need to add a little additional tension to a remarkable life.

To me, Chariots of Fire captures all that is right with athletics. The spirit of the amateur gentleman athlete has slipped away to a large degree, but it can still be found in the endless hours logged by athletes in non-professional sports. It's easy to slip into the trite "good-old-days" mentality, but when it comes to athletics, something truly has been lost. Chariots of Fire captures the amazing spirit of camaraderie and selflessness that pervaded the British Olympic team in the early 20th Century. Truly a fantastic movie.

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