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Ben Hur (1907)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Ben Hur (2003)

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Referenced in 

Search for Beauty (1934)
Jean compares the size of the stadium at the ranch with the one in the movie.
Everything Happens at Night (1939)
Bartender says it is playing at a local cinema
Merton of the Movies (1947)
Merton mentions having read and liked the script.
Bill and Coo (1948)
I Love Lucy: The Handcuffs (1952)
Lucy said that the last movie she was the one with the guy named Ben who won a chariot race.
Professor Hannibal (1956)
one of the teachers in the pub gives a magazine to the bar girl, who looks at the cover and shouts happily: "It's Ramon Novarro. In Ben-Hur!"
The Beverly Hillbillies: Jed's Dilemma (1963)
Cousin Pearl mentions movie & stars by name
Kings of the Road (1976)
Dialog between Bruno and the cinema owner at the begining of the movie.
Hollywood Remembers: Myrna Loy - So Nice to Come Home to (1991)
This Movie is mentioned verbally briefly
So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM (2004)
Named as a major MGM release
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics (2009)
poster; discussed by Rudy Behlmer
Jeopardy!: 2010 Tournament of Champions Finals: Game 2 (2010)
Subject of the Final Jeopardy! clue in the category "From Novel to Film"

Featured in 

Goofy Movies Number Three (1934)
Scene of Roman galley.
From the Ends of the Earth (1939)
brief clip shown of the naval battle
Movies Are Adventure (1948)
chariot race
The Beverly Hillbillies: No Place Like Home (1962)
The Clampetts view the film at Cousin Pearl's picture show
The Phantom of Hollywood (1974)
Part of compilation film
Hollywood: Pioneers (1980)
Clips of the film are shown.
Hollywood (1980)
Hollywood: Trick of the Light (1980)
Chariot race
The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005)
Shown during Roger Mayer's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award presentation
The 83rd Annual Academy Awards (2011)
Clip shown during honorary awards presentation
Birth of Hollywood: Episode #1.3 (2011)
Poster and clips shown

Spoofed in 

Roaming Romeo (1928)
Ver e Amar! (1930)
The film's soundtrack (in a new arrangement) underlines a comic scene with chorus-girls hurrying between the dressing-rooms and the plateau.
Fiddlin' Fun (1934)

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