narrated by actor charlton heston, this portion of the documentary shows scenes of the berlin wall and president kennedy's june 26, 1963 ich bin ein berliner speech before thousands of germans in west berlin. >> on the other side of this wall, millions of people not going anywhere anyway. the communist government they live under will not let them out. for centuries, walls have been built to keep out invading armies, but this was the first wall in all recorded history to keep an entire country from fleeing. fleeing into west berlin, as 3 1/2 million did before the wall was erected. if the guards with their guns were unsuccessful in keeping people fleeing, there was a barbed wire. if they crossed that, there was the wall. if they reached the top, there was the broken glass. over 100 have been killed trying to cross. in june, 96 succeeded, three were killed. all escape routes were reinforced reinforced. the eastern guards had ordered to shoot at each other if one tried to escape. in areas where windows overlooked west berlin and people had jumped to freedom, the windows had been sealed wi

. >> charlton heston. favorite movie of all time. >> really a fantastic movie. >> i love that flick. that was a white moses as well back in the day, charlton heston. he's now seen as the iconic moses in movies. he was a white guy. >>> coming up, be christmas trees are not just for decorations anymore. part of an athletic event. >> no, seriously. decorations anymore. part of an athletsic event. >> no, seriously. into one you'll never forget. earn triple points when you book with the expedia app. expedia plus rewards. approaching medicare eligibility? you may think you can put off checking out your medicare options until you're sixty-five, but now is a good time to get the ball rolling. keep in mind, medicare only covers about eighty percent of part b medical costs. the rest is up to you. that's where aarp medicare supplement insurance plans insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company come in. like all standardized medicare supplement insurance plans, they could help pay some of what medicare doesn't, savi

i didn't know anything about him except for that he was charlton heston. >> behold his mighty hand. >porter: "the ten commandments" was a four-hour epic with a confident moses, emboldened by god's power. >> things to come much worse. >> reporter: bale, a questioning and reluctant moses, based in part of his extensive readings in all three faiths. >> he wanted to try to get away from being god's messenger on earth. >> to say i read the old testament would be inaccurate. i didn't have to. christian read it three times. so, i used to hear it every day. what i didn't know and what we should be doing. >> moses and god arguing nonstop. god is disappointed. >> reporter: how those conversations are depicted, using an 11--year-old actor, might be scott's boldest move. >> i cannot have rushing clouds and a voice coming from up there. i just don't buy that. and yet he must deal with some kind of messenger. >> i am the god. >> reporter: as egypt's self-proclaimed god, ramsey gets a more sympathetic portrayal. >> i'm not saying no. i'm saying time. >> i have this feeling like those people in great

neil: he was a little charlton heston, but that was just me. >> i'll never forget that photo either. he's got a crumbling economy. the currency is falling through the floor. if that's the criteria for winning, you know, favorite politician, that's kind of scary. what's the criteria for being the worst politician? neil: well, scott, when was this voting done? do we know? with all of russia falling apart, lo and behold we have all the awards. >> we never know when anything is done in russia. that's for sure. what's scary, some of the reports showing the approval rating and the rating for vladimir putin has gone up. you're talking about a 20% at the very low today plunge in the russian ruble. the poor russians are buying anything they can get their hands on places that will take their money. cars, food, furniture they can't buy tomorrow. remember, they're giving people this message that, hey, everything is under control. we got this. don't worry about us. if you turn on us, we'll probably kill you. neil: not like north korea, he won reelection with 100% of the votes. sixty-eight, 70% i

charlton heston and all these movies. it was pretty good. [laughter] cannibalism again. but then again in the late 70s comes along as they optimistic can-do spirit which is called for, jonah? and pave the way that you are right and wrong because we are right back to the dystopian future. my daughter who was 14, every single piece of popular culture she is being is the societal collapse of everything. the hunger games, diversions, all predicated on the future which is all concrete and has two colors. brown for the bad and blue for the upper class. hollywood must defeat the most privileged lucky well fed peaceable technological, the greatest generation we been able to produce and we feed nothing but despair. >> one thing about hunger games. hunger games was easily the least exciting movie about children fighting to the death i have ever seen. [laughter] it's never the children you want. [laughter] let me just say the apocalyptic stuff for a moment because i'm a huge fan of the walking dead although recalled the three military deceased in my house because we don't want my d

charlton heston. of course. >> i was going to say, charlton heston. >> burt lancaster.as something that was a real eye-opener for me. i had never read the torah from the beginning through to the end. i discovered moses is one of the most fascinating, challenging, and complete characters i have ever read about. hence the relevance and why his story has resonated for millenia. >> you said at one point he was barbaric. it stirs up controversy. >> i suggest that people that find it controversial read the entire torah. i'm not talking about a passage that's within the film that we made. our film is focused on the relationship between moses and ramses. but there's passage that comes later. numbers 31, 14-18 is quite well known. that's what i was referring to. >> not only the relationship between moses and ramses. and the relationship between moses and god. and i don't want to give anything away. i was struck, as i know all moviegoers will be, on how ridley chose to depict god. what did you make of the choice? >> i think it is a bold choice. he's a messenger of god. the name o

>> stand still and -- the technicolor version of "the ten commandments" released in 1956 with charlton hestononeering special effects. and has become an american classic. it was demille's last film. on location in egypt he suffered a heart attack. his health declined and in 1959 his death made headlines around the world. he once said "a man is no better than what he leaves behind." by that measure, cecil b. demille was quite a man. >> osgood: still to come. >> i think charlie brown has better tree than we do. >> osgood: out on a limb. ♪ and later singer cat stevens' next life. girl: can i still get it if i'm on the naughty list? waiter, chuckling: i think you'll be fine. [bell rings] waitress: welcome to denny's! >> osgood: christmas trees are almost always beautiful. but occasionally there's one that needs to be seriously spruced up. here is steve hartman. >> in the heart of one of the poorest cities in america we found one of the saddest christmas trees of all time. looming 50 feet above downtown reading, pennsylvania, the tree seemed to most, to be more suited for mulch than mayorment. >>

charlton heston. >> of course. >> burt lancaster. oh, hey, mate. thank you very much.real eye-opener for me. i had never read from the the beginning through to the end. i discovered moses is one of the most fascinating, challenging, and come plet characters i have ever read about. sense the relevance and why his story has resonated for mill len ya. >> you said at one point he was barbar barbaric. >> and i think if you feel that way, read the entire torah. our film is focused on the relationship between moses and ramses. numbers 31, 14-18 is quite well known. >> not only the relationship between moses and ramses. and the relationship between moses and god. i was struck. all movie goers will be on how ridley chose to portray god. what did you make of the choice? >> i think it is a bold choice. he's a messenger of god. moses wrestled with his constantly. they disagreed. it was a tumultuous relationship. >> you were in the canary islands for some of this. >> yes. where they shot spag getty westerns in spain. they should be like paille westerns. and we shot in pinewood. as

in "the ten commandments," starring charlton heston as moses.trary to popular belief, the bible doesn't tell us exactly where this took place. and as we tried to follow the route, we came across several possibilities. first, we traveled under the suez canal through a tunnel, and then across the gulf of aqaba on a ferry. and the holiday destination of sharm el-sheikh we dipped our toes in the red sea itself. one of the most dramatic moments of the exodus story could have taken place right here. that would have been the parting of the red sea, of course. only today it's a middle eastern gold coast full of beach resorts and diving holidays. and the waters look decidedly less ominous. but today's red sea may not be the place. the original hebrew bible refers to it as yom suf, roughly translated as the sea of reeds. and that leads some scholars to suggest the story might be describing more of a marsh. >> or the lagoon of swamp grasses or something like that, which puts you in mind of a fairly shallow body of water. >> reporter: somehow a swamp crossi

i asked charlton heston to come do it. it was a throwaway. he was in town, this was going to be 10 minutes he was going to talk. that afternoon, heston came to the hotel, he went down to the podium, and then he went up and practiced his speech. his remarks he was going to use for 10 minutes that no one was paying him for, it had no purpose other than he was doing us a favor. that evening, he came out and knocked the audience dead. , somebody,showed up and this is typical of american politicians, the champion of it was gerald ford, who never looked at his speech until after he delivered it. but trent lott showed up, they handed him the speech, and he read it, mispronouncing most of the names in the speech, and making a terrible impression. afterwards i said to him i thought about today's experience on the you have to rely same tools that child heston has to rely on. that's your ability to communicate, and you can do it. you can do it because you are not doing your job. you are not taking it seriously. you consider the communication part of you

and, and he parts the red sea, charlton heston.s better in 56 then it does in this movie. it is because you what they did was in 56 they had real water being thrown in the tank and they reversed the shot. here it is all computer graphics. these movies decent. it is not terrible. >> overall three out of five. the it is skip 3-d do not waste money in 3-d, not worth it. >> take your advice. >> get out on fifth avenue knew right now. >> i love your kevin hart dance. >> who won. >> you you won, of course, you won. >> that is what i like to hear. >> love you kevin. >> strong relationship, without trust, right? you have to trust your partner. >> true. >> well, science says is there one quality that is more upon than anything else, more upon than trust what you need in relationship to make it last forever. >> you need to listen to that mike. >> major league baseball trades continue and one player's wife she found out the hard way we will show you drama that went down on twitter yesterday, for everyone to see. >> he plays for cincinnati eve