answer 1
Actually, the "Ben Hur 50th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Gift Edition" (DVD) ships on FIVE DVDs and also includes four different books. (This is based on the image displayed in a separate window when the user clicks on the product-description image.)
The product description does not detail the contents of the five DVDs. However, my "Four-Disc Collector's Edition" details the following: 1) Discs 1 & 2 contain the 1959 version (letterbox), plus a historian's commentary with Heston and the music-only track; 2) Disc 3 contains the "Thames Television Restoration with a Stereophonic Orchestral Score"; 3) Disc 4 contains 2005 and 1994 documentaries, plus "Ben-Hur: A Journey Through Pictures," screen tests, a vintage newsreel gallery, highlights from the 4/4/60 Academy Awards Ceremony, and a theatrical trailer gallery.
This certainly seems to answer your inquiry in the affirmative. I do not, of course, know what is on that fifth disc, and what is in those four books, but it seems quite safe to state that you'll be getting what I have, plus much, much more! (I have not yet opened my version. But now that I've read the rear package flap, be assured that I will be getting to it soon.)
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answer 2
Yes, the 2-Disc set is CBD stock number WW178261.
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