Ben Hur (1959)

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Ben-Hur - 1959 American epic historical drama film by William Wyler. This film is the 371^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films and the 253^rd most popular film in German Wikipedia. Article “Ben Hur (1959)” in German Wikipedia has 54.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 34 references and 13 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

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The 6615^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

The 253^rd most popular in films in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7093^rd most popular in all topics.

The 7493^rd most popular in AI.

The 371^st most popular in films.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6700^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Ben Hur (1959)” was edited by 2 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 25 authors in all languages (6700^th place).

Since the creation of article “Ben Hur (1959)”, its content was written by 222 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 2915 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7493^rd place).

Ben-Hur is on the 253^rd place in local ranking of films in German Wikipedia and on the 371^st place in global ranking of films in all the time.

The article is cited 322 times in German Wikipedia and cited 11133 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #1402 in April 2013
• Global: #1919 in October 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #75 in April 2023
• Global: #183 in August 2016

There are 49 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Ben-Hur (1959 film)		100
2	Spanish (es) Ben-Hur (película de 1959)		100
3	Korean (ko) 벤허 (1959년 영화)		100
4	Indonesian (id) Ben-Hur (film 1959)		95
5	Vietnamese (vi) Ben-Hur (phim 1959)		81.7269
6	German (de) Ben Hur (1959)		54.0777
7	French (fr) Ben-Hur (film, 1959)		53.6685
8	Greek (el) Μπεν Χουρ (ταινία)		49.8489
9	Norwegian (no) Ben-Hur		47.4173
10	Portuguese (pt) Ben-Hur		46.9471

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ben-Hur (1959 film)		14 149 503
2	Spanish (es) Ben-Hur (película de 1959)		3 821 073
3	German (de) Ben Hur (1959)		2 837 685
4	Italian (it) Ben-Hur (film 1959)		2 055 864
5	French (fr) Ben-Hur (film, 1959)		1 765 284
6	Japanese (ja) ベン・ハー (1959年の映画)		1 597 108
7	Russian (ru) Бен-Гур (фильм, 1959)		1 434 593
8	Portuguese (pt) Ben-Hur		1 368 268
9	Chinese (zh) 賓漢		528 883
10	Polish (pl) Ben-Hur (film 1959)		463 428

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ben-Hur (1959 film)		51 299
2	German (de) Ben Hur (1959)		6 608
3	Spanish (es) Ben-Hur (película de 1959)		5 971
4	Japanese (ja) ベン・ハー (1959年の映画)		5 584
5	Italian (it) Ben-Hur (film 1959)		5 251
6	Russian (ru) Бен-Гур (фильм, 1959)		4 764
7	French (fr) Ben-Hur (film, 1959)		4 737
8	Korean (ko) 벤허 (1959년 영화)		2 574
9	Portuguese (pt) Ben-Hur		2 097
10	Chinese (zh) 賓漢		1 931

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ben-Hur (1959 film)		676
2	French (fr) Ben-Hur (film, 1959)		265
3	German (de) Ben Hur (1959)		222
4	Italian (it) Ben-Hur (film 1959)		210
5	Spanish (es) Ben-Hur (película de 1959)		172
6	Russian (ru) Бен-Гур (фильм, 1959)		110
7	Hebrew (he) בן חור (סרט, 1959)		102
8	Japanese (ja) ベン・ハー (1959年の映画)		90
9	Hungarian (hu) Ben-Hur (film, 1959)		64
10	Norwegian (no) Ben-Hur		58

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ben-Hur (1959 film)		8
2	Spanish (es) Ben-Hur (película de 1959)		3
3	Italian (it) Ben-Hur (film 1959)		3
4	Arabic (ar) بن هور (فيلم 1959)		2
5	German (de) Ben Hur (1959)		2
6	Basque (eu) Ben-Hur (1959ko filma)		1
7	Galician (gl) Ben-Hur (filme de 1959)		1
8	Croatian (hr) Ben-Hur (1959.)		1
9	Indonesian (id) Ben-Hur (film 1959)		1
10	Japanese (ja) ベン・ハー (1959年の映画)		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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