and the 1925 silent version of - ben hur. stewart copeland, coming up, right now. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: stewart copeland has been named by rolling stone as one of the most influential drummers of all of rock music history. for his time at the police, those days earned him six grammy awards and saw him inducted into the rock 'n roll hall of fame. he has written scores for movies like wall street and has performed his own work with orchestras around the globe. he will perform is own composition. let's start with a look at a clip. ♪ ♪ why ben hur? >> it came to me years ago. . got a call the german impresario was building a show. they were doing the chariot race, the whole thing. europe anded across the hundreds of underpaid ukrainian experts as roman soldiers on horseback. i wrote the music. the show playing in europe. crisis,of the financial and a crucial moment, i had to pay some bills. i own the copyright of the music. all the recordings that i made. i was lookin

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i read that producers are working on a remake of the classic 1959 charlton heston film, "ben hur."as they're calling the remake, "ben hur done that." [ laughter and applause ] >> steve: really? >> jimmy: i think nelly is starring in it. >> steve: is he really? [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that's right. nelly is starring in it, and at the end of the chariot -- >> steve: yeah, the lead horse. >> jimmy: the lead horse, he has a band-aid right here. >> steve: really? [ laughter ] >> steve: errbody in this ring getting' tipsy. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: may or may not be in the soundtrack. >> steve: errbody, errbody. >> jimmy: i don't know. this is kind of weird, you guys. i saw this online today. president obama arrived in the philippines this week, and for some reason, he was greeted by a band playing the theme song to "beverly hills cop." [ laughter ] take a look, this is real. ♪ [ laughter ] yeah, obama was like, wait - i'm not -- wait. no, you think i'm -- why would you -- ugh. [ eddie murphy laugh ] and you don't get no ice cream 'cause you are -- [ cheers and applause ] [ laughter and appl

it's friday afternoon and the ben hurs are preparing a meal for the coming sabbath - on which work of any kind - including cooking - is strictly forbidden. >> by sunset our sabbath has begun. we have to finish all the work, all the food preparation, anthing that we're doing, we have to finish by sabbath, by the beginning of sabbath. so everything is a cazy mad rush to get it done before hand. everything we do in our religion has guidelines set for us. and that is basically what happens when we talk about kosher food... there are meats we are not allowed, there are fishwe are not allowed to eat, fish for instance has to have fins and scales, if they don't have one, it is not considered kosher. for meat, an animal has to have split hooves, and chewed cuds, or again would be not allowed... >> most jews in israel may choose to eat kosher; but jody admits that the reasons behind the dietary laws are obscure. >> ...we really do not know the reasons for that, and judaism has many laws and regulations for which we really have no understanding of why god handed down these laws, but we are comm

[few years ago, ben hur, going my way. huge successes in the u.s.a.there vice president been too many religious movies lately that will change when the film son of god is released. >> our father in heaven, feed the birds of the air. how much more will he give to you? [gasps] ♪ >> put god first and everything else will follow. you hunger for righteousness, you will be filled. through me. >> with us now the man who that film mark burnett. i book. my book is just history. it's about jesus being caught up in this tremendous power struggle between the romans and then the people in judeo. you and your wife, roma downing basically say to the movie goer, he is god. >> absolutely. our movie even starts at revelation with john, an old man looking back. and the first words the audience will hear in the beginning was the word. the word was with with god and the word was god. we know -- you can transpose that and say jesus is god. >> okay. now, why are you doing that? you can do it another way. you could do it another way. can you say, look, christians believe is

. >> osgood: a famous chariot race from the 1959 movie ben hur is considered a masterpiece, fast forwards and you can find stunt performers taking the fall in the screen's biggest hit, lee cowan shows us how they do it. >> hey, captain, how do we know know the good guys from the bad guys. >> if they are shoot agent you they are bad. >> star-spangled superhero has never been easy. >> true captain america has that indestructible shield but when captain is in a bear knuckled fight with an assassin the winter soldier, it can make for a pretty rough day on the set. >> >> action movies have action for a reason, it sells tickets, lots of them. >> studio execs aren't too keen to put their big stars in harm's way. >> which is why most of those working on big action movies like this one start seeing double. >> cut. >> right now, quiet because they are rolling. shhh. >> that is sam hargreaves who spends his time on the side lines until the actions gets a bit too rough for captain america's chris evans that is when sam steps in. >> as captain america's stunt double. >> i exist because i am expendabl

highly recommend that movie, "ben-hur." and it's based on a book by ben wallace.l. >> kevin, still in the theaters is "son of god," which is mark burnett and roma downey, that's still out right now. >> phenomenal film. beautiful photography. great music. a huge and great movie. everyone should see it. great for the entire family. by the way, this was a great weekend for faith-based movies. "god's not dead" top ten. "heaven is for real" making a ton of movie. great talk sesz for faith-based movies. >> i got a tweet of one of the producers that was ecstatic talking about how well it's done. >> it did huge. it beat the johnny depp movie and that was in a thousand more theaters than "heaven is for real." good, good numbers. >> johnny depp's movie bombed. thank you, kevin mccarthy. >> say hello to your mom for us. >> i will. hi, mom! happy easter. >>> next on the rundown, the white house giving a warning to parents. your cfrontational, confrontational teenagers could be terrorists. >>> and does your easter photo usually turn out like this? stick around, we have the tip