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FILMS Examples |
Epics-Historical Films Part 1 | Part 2 | Examples
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Greatest Early Epic Films:
Quo Vadis? (1912, It.) Cabiria (1914, It.) Judith of Bethulia (1914)  The Birth of a Nation (1915) Intolerance (1916) The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) 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) The Big Parade (1925) 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, 1958, 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) Julius Caesar (1953) 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, It./US) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Ben-Hur (1959)
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Greatest Recent Epic Films:
Exodus (1960) Spartacus (1960) El Cid (1961) Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) King of Kings (1961) Barabbas (1962) How the West was Won (1962) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) The Longest Day (1962) Cleopatra (1963) The Great Escape (1963) 55 Days at Peking (1963) Sodom and Gomorrah (1963) Becket (1964) The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) Doctor Zhivago (1965, UK) 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) Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) The Godfather (1972) The Poseidon Adventure (1972) The Godfather, Part II (1974) The Towering Inferno (1974) Barry Lyndon (1975) The Man Who Would Be King (1975) Nashville (1975) The Wind and the Lion (1975) 1900 (1976) Star Wars Trilogy (1977) Apocalypse Now (1979) Heaven's Gate (1980) Das Boot (1981, Germ.) Reds (1981) Gandhi (1982) The Right Stuff (1983) Amadeus (1984) Dune (1984) A Passage to India (1984, US/UK) Once Upon a Time in America (1984) Out of Africa (1985) Ran (1985, Jp./Fr.) The Mission (1986, UK/US) Empire of the Sun (1987) The Last Emperor (1987, Fr./It./UK) The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) Glory (1989) Dances with Wolves (1990) JFK (1991) The Last of the Mohicans (1992) 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) Elizabeth (1998) Saving Private Ryan (1998) The Mummy (1999) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, HK/US) Gladiator (2000, US/UK) 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) Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) Alexander (2004) Downfall (2004, Germ.) Hotel Rwanda (2004) The Passion of the Christ (2004) Troy (2004) Kingdom of Heaven (2005) The New World (2005) Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) The Queen (2006) 300 (2006) Che (2008) Clash of the Titans (2010) The King's Speech (2010) |
