Chariots of Fire

Name: Chariots of Fire
Start: 2024-07-15T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-07-15T21:30:00-05:00
Location: First Unitarian Church of Omaha

Schedule

Mon Jul 15 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

First Unitarian Church of Omaha | Omaha, NE

Free Progressive Omaha film screening
Chariots of Fire
PG 1981 ‧ Sport/Drama ‧ 2h 3m
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided United Kingdom of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross) overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart Sybil (Alice Krige) in his single-minded quest.
Chariots of Fire was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four, including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Score for Vangelis' electronic theme tune.