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Selection of Greatest Epic Films:
- Greatest Early Epic Films:
- Quo Vadis? (1912, It.)
- Cabiria (1914, It.)
- Judith of Bethulia (1914)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Intolerance (1916)
- Orphans of the Storm (1921)
- The Covered Wagon (1923)
- The Ten Commandments (1923) (remade 1956)
- The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
- The Battleship Potemkin (1925, USSR)
- Ben-Hur (1926) (remade 1959)
- King of Kings (1927) (remade 1961)
- Napoleon (Fr.) (1927)
- The Sign of the Cross (1932)
- Cavalcade (1933)
- Cleopatra (1934)
- Anna Karenina (1935)
- The Crusades (1935)
- The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
- San Francisco (1936)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
- Alexander Nevsky (1938, USSR)
- In Old Chicago (1938)
- Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
Gone With The Wind (1939)
- Northwest Passage (1940)
- Ivan the Terrible, Part I and II (1944, 1946, USSR)
- Wilson (1944)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
- Duel in the Sun (1946)
- Anna Karenina (1947)
- The Fountainhead (1949)
- Madame Bovary (1949)
- Samson and Delilah (1949)
- Quo Vadis? (1951)
- The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
- The Robe (1953)
- Seven Samurai (1954, Jp.)
- Sign of the Pagan (1954)
- Giant (1956)
- Lust for Life (1956)
- The Ten Commandments (1956)
- War and Peace (1956)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Ben-Hur (1959)
- Greatest Recent Epic Films:
- Exodus (1960)
- Spartacus (1960)
- El Cid (1961)
- King of Kings (1961)
- How the West was Won (1961)
- Barabbas (1962)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- The Longest Day (1962)
- Cleopatra (1963)
- The Great Escape (1963)
- 55 Days at Peking (1963)
- Sodom and Gomorrah (1963)
- The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
- Doctor Zhivago (1965)
- The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
- The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966)
- Hawaii (1966)
- A Man For All Seasons (1966, UK)
- The Sand Pebbles (1966)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- Patton (1970)
- Ryan's Daughter (1970)
The Godfather (1972)
- The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
The Godfather, Part II (1974)
- The Towering Inferno (1974)
- Barry Lyndon (1975)
Nashville (1975)
- The Wind and the Lion (1975)
- 1900 (1976)
Star Wars Trilogy (1977)
- Heaven's Gate (1980)
- Reds (1981)
- Gandhi (1982)
- Dune (1984)
- Passage to India (1984)
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
- Out of Africa (1985)
- Ran (1985, Jp.)
- The Mission (1986)
- Empire of the Sun (1987)
- The Last Emperor (1987)
- Dances with Wolves (1990)
- JFK (1991)
- Malcolm X (1992)
- Gettysburg (1993)
- Jurassic Park (1993)
Schindler's List (1993)
- Apollo 13 (1995)
- Braveheart (1995)
- Nixon (1995)
- The English Patient (1996)
- Kundun (1997)
- Titanic (1997)
- Gladiator (2000)
- The Patriot (2000)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
- Alexander (2004)
- Troy (2004)
- Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
- The New World (2005)
- 300 (2007)
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