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Epics-Historical Films Selection of Greatest Epics-Historical Films:
See Filmsite's: 100 Greatest Epics-Historical Films of All Time
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Greatest Early Epics-Historical 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) A Tale of Two Cities (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) (King) Henry V (1944, UK) (aka The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France) Wilson (1944) The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp (1945, UK) Ivan the Terrible, Part I and II (1945, 1958, USSR) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Duel in the Sun (1946) Anna Karenina (1947) Hamlet (1948, UK) 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) (and its sequel Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)) Seven Samurai (1954, Jp.) Sign of the Pagan (1954) Around the World in 80 Days (1956) (and sequel in 2004) Giant (1956) Lust for Life (1956) The Ten Commandments (1956) War and Peace (1956, It./US) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) The Big Country (1958) Ben-Hur (1959) |
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Greatest Recent Epics-Historical 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) The Leopard (1963, It./Fr.) (aka Il Gattopardo) Sodom and Gomorrah (1963) Becket (1964, UK) The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) Zulu (1964) Doctor Zhivago (1965, UK) The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) Andrei Rublev (1966, Soviet Union) (aka Andrei Rublyov, or The Passion According to Andrew) The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, It./Sp.) (aka Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo) Hawaii (1966) A Man For All Seasons (1966, UK) The Sand Pebbles (1966) Camelot (1967) The Lion in Winter (1968) Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, US/It.) (aka C'era una Volta il West) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) The Wild Bunch (1969) Patton (1970) Ryan's Daughter (1970) Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) The Emigrants (1971, Swe.) (aka Utvandrarna) Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) The Godfather (1972) The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Papillon (1973) The Godfather, Part II (1974) The Towering Inferno (1974) Barry Lyndon (1975, UK) The Man Who Would Be King (1975) Nashville (1975) The Wind and the Lion (1975) Novecento (1976, It./Fr./W.Germ.) (aka 1900) A Bridge Too Far (1977) Star Wars Trilogy (1977) and the prequels and sequels The Deer Hunter (1978) Apocalypse Now (1979) Caligula (1979) Heaven's Gate (1980) Clash of the Titans (1981) Das Boot (1981, Germ.) Lion of the Desert (1981) (aka Omar Mukhtar) Ragtime (1981) Reds (1981) Gandhi (1982) The Right Stuff (1983) Amadeus (1984) The Bounty (1984) Dune (1984) and its sequels The Killing Fields (1984) Once Upon a Time in America (1984, It./US) A Passage to India (1984, US/UK) King Solomon's Mines (1985) 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 Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) Glory (1989) Henry V (1989, UK) Dances with Wolves (1990) JFK (1991) Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) The Last of the Mohicans (1992) Malcolm X (1992) Gettysburg (1993) Jurassic Park (1993) and all of its sequels Schindler's List (1993) Forrest Gump (1994) Apollo 13 (1995) Braveheart (1995) Nixon (1995) The English Patient (1996) Kundun (1997) Titanic (1997) Elizabeth (1998) Saving Private Ryan (1998) The Thin Red Line (1998) Anna and the King (1999) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, HK/US) Gladiator (2000, US/UK) (and its sequel in 2024) The Patriot (2000) The Perfect Storm (2000) Black Hawk Down (2001) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) and all of its sequels The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and all of its sequels The Warrior (2001, South Korea/China) The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) Gangs of New York (2002) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) The Last Samurai (2003) 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) and all of its sequels Alexander (2004) Downfall (2004, Germ.) Hotel Rwanda (2004) The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) The Passion of the Christ (2004) Troy (2004) The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005) and all of its sequels Kingdom of Heaven (2005) King Kong (2005) Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) Munich (2005) The New World (2005) Apocalypto (2006) The Fountain (2006) Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) The Painted Veil (2006) The Queen (2006) 300 (2006) (and sequel in 2014) Atonement (2007) There Will Be Blood (2007) Australia (2008) Che (2008) The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) Avatar (2009) The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) Clash of the Titans (2010) Inception (2010) The Tree of Life (2011) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) (and its sequels) Lincoln (2012) Les Miserables (2012) Prometheus (2012) 12 Years a Slave (2013) 1917 (2019) Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) Napoleon (2023) Oppenheimer (2023) Babylon (2024) The Brutalist (2024) Dune: Part Two (2024) Gladiator II (2024) |
