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Epics   (199 Most Notable)

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 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
2 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Kubrick, Stanley UK / USA DUPS
14 The Searchers 1956 Ford, John USA DBS
24 Schindler's List 1993 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
35 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 Lean, David UK DUS
41 Gone with the Wind 1939 Fleming, Victor USA DS
53 Ran 1985 Kurosawa, Akira Japan / France D
55 Aguirre, The Wrath of God 1972 Herzog, Werner West Germany / Peru / Mexico D
63 Apocalypse Now 1979 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DS
119 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
146 Napoléon 1927 Gance, Abel Sweden / Italy / France / Czechoslovakia / Germany V
161 Intolerance 1916 Griffith, D.W. USA DUS
168 Strike 1925 Eisenstein, Sergei M. Soviet Union DU
183 The Birth of a Nation 1915 Griffith, D.W. USA YUS
184 Patton 1970 Schaffner, Franklin J. USA DBS
197 Red River 1948 Hawks, Howard / Rosson, Arthur USA DUPS
222 The Lord of the Rings:
Return of the King		 2003 Jackson, Peter USA / New Zealand DS
224 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 1966 Leone, Sergio Italy / Spain DUPS
232 Titanic 1997 Cameron, James USA DS
233 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Milestone, Lewis USA D
245 Reds 1981 Beatty, Warren USA DB
256 Doctor Zhivago 1965 Lean, David USA DUPS
260 Ben-Hur 1959 Wyler, William USA DS
274 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Leone, Sergio Italy / USA YUS
285 Henry V 1944 Olivier, Laurence UK D
287 The Lord of the Rings:
Fellowship of the Ring		 2001 Jackson, Peter New Zealand / USA DUS
294 Spartacus 1960 Kubrick, Stanley USA YS
297 Farewell My Concubine 1993 Chen, Kaige China / Hong Kong DS
306 The Lord of the Rings:
The Two Towers		 2002 Jackson, Peter USA / New Zealand / Germany DS
325 The Leopard 1963 Visconti, Luchino Italy / France YUS
333 The English Patient 1996 Minghella, Anthony USA Y
342 Gandhi 1982 Attenborough, Richard UK / India DUP
385 Dances with Wolves 1990 Costner, Kevin USA DUS
387 Gladiator 2000 Scott, Ridley UK / USA DS
393 The Last Emperor 1987 Bertolucci, Bernardo France / Italy / UK D
419 Andrei Roublev 1969 Tarkovsky, Andrei Soviet Union Y
487 Kagemusha 1980 Kurosawa, Akira Japan Y
489 Glory 1989 Zwick, Edward USA DUS
490 Gangs of New York 2002 Scorsese, Martin USA / Germany / Italy / UK / Netherlands DBS
521 Braveheart 1995 Gibson, Mel USA DUS
536 Alexander Nevsky 1938 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Vasilyev, Dmitri Soviet Union Y
576 Little Big Man 1970 Penn, Arthur USA Y
593 The Longest Day 1962 Annakin, Ken / Marton, Andrew / Wicki, Bernhard / Zanuck, Darryl F. USA DBUS
615 The Good Earth 1937 Fleming, Victor / Franklin, Sidney / Machatý, Gustav USA D
629 War and Peace 1968 Bondarchuk, Sergei Soviet Union D
642 The Private Life of Henry VIII 1933 Korda, Alexander UK Y
644 Ivan the Terrible, Part One 1945 Eisenstein, Sergei M. Soviet Union YU
656 The Ten Commandments 1956 DeMille, Cecil B. USA DUS
658 Out of Africa 1985 Pollack, Sydney USA YS
695 Henry V 1989 Branagh, Kenneth UK Y
729 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner Italy / West Germany D
753 Richard III 1955 Olivier, Laurence UK D
845 The Red Badge of Courage 1951 Huston, John USA Y
861 Becket 1964 Glenville, Peter UK / USA D
912 The Hidden Fortress 1958 Kurosawa, Akira Japan Y
912 Ivan the Terrible, Part Two 1958 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Filimonova, M. Soviet Union YU
947 Julius Caesar 1953 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA DUS
955 October (Ten Days That Shook the World) 1928 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Aleksandrov, Grigori Soviet Union YU
1039 Hero 2002 Zhang, Yimou Hong Kong / China DS
1054 Underground 1995 Kusturica, Emir France / Fed Rep of Yugoslavia / Germany / Hungary Y
1065 Les Misérables 1995 Lelouch, Claude France YUP
1076 Empire of the Sun 1987 Spielberg, Steven USA YS
1095 Atonement 2007 Wright, Joe UK DUS
1100 Cleopatra 1934 DeMille, Cecil B. USA D
1109 Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache 1924 Lang, Fritz Germany D
1139 Elizabeth 1998 Kapur, Shekhar UK Y
1151 A Tale of Two Cities 1935 Conway, Jack / Leonard, Robert Z. USA D
1225 The Magnificent Seven 1960 Sturges, John USA DUPS
1245 Die Nibelungen: Siegfried 1924 Lang, Fritz Germany D
1267 War and Peace 1956 Vidor, King Italy / USA YS
1290 Ben-Hur 1925 Niblo, Fred / Brabin, Charles / Cabanne, Christy / Cohn, J.J. / Ingram, Rex USA DU
1315 How the West Was Won 1962 Ford, John / Hathaway, Henry / Marshall, George / Thorpe, Richard USA DBS
1325 Cabiria 1914 Pastrone, Giovanni Italy D
1383 Apocalypto 2006 Gibson, Mel USA DB
1388 Queen Margot 1994 Chéreau, Patrice France / Italy / Germany Y
1405 The Emigrants 1971 Troell, Jan Sweden Y
1412 Chushingura 1962 Inagaki, Hiroshi Japan D
1431 The Sand Pebbles 1966 Wise, Robert USA DBS
1434 Marketa Lazarová 1967 Vlácil, Frantisek Czechoslovakia
1440 Heimat 1984 Reitz, Edgar West Germany Y
1492 The Big Country 1958 Wyler, William USA DUP
1502 Zulu 1964 Endfield, Cy UK YS
1508 The Last Samurai 2003 Zwick, Edward USA / New Zealand / Japan DBUPS
1564 Cimarron 1931 Ruggles, Wesley USA D
1567 Princess Yang Kwei Fei 1955 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan / Hong Kong Y
1600 Gettysburg 1993 Maxwell, Ronald F. USA Y
1618 Marie Antoinette 1938 Van Dyke, W.S. USA D
1625 Cleopatra 1963 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. / Mamoulian, Rouben / Zanuck, Darryl F. UK / USA / Switzerland YUS
1636 Union Pacific 1939 DeMille, Cecil B. USA D
1649 El Cid 1961 Mann, Anthony Italy / USA DS
1650 The Robe 1953 Koster, Henry USA YUS
1653 Battleground 1949 Wellman, William A. USA Y
1669 Indochine 1992 Wargnier, Régis France Y
1670 Quo Vadis 1951 LeRoy, Mervyn USA YS
1740 Cheyenne Autumn 1964 Ford, John USA D
1752 I Am Cuba 1964 Kalatozishvili, Mikheil Soviet Union / Cuba Y
1793 Mother India 1957 Khan, Mehboob India Y
1799 Grass 1925 Cooper, Merian C. / Schoedsack, Ernest B. USA Y
1828 The Fall of the Roman Empire 1964 Mann, Anthony USA D
1828 King of Kings 1961 Ray, Nicholas USA DS
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1844 The Alamo 1960 Wayne, John USA YS
1864 Captain from Castile 1947 King, Henry USA D
1891 The Emperor and the Assassin 1999 Chen, Kaige France / Japan / China Y
1912 Marie Antoinette 2006 Coppola, Sofia Japan / France / USA DU
1917 Troy 2004 Petersen, Wolfgang USA / Malta / UK DBUS
1956 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 Curtiz, Michael USA DS
1959 Richard III 1912 Keane, James / Calmettes, André France / USA D
1968 The Big Trail 1930 Walsh, Raoul / Loeffler, Louis R. USA D
1987 Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970 Fleischer, Richard / Fukasaku, Kinji / Masuda, Toshio USA / Japan DS
1996 The New World 2005 Malick, Terrence USA D
2017 The Sign of the Cross 1932 DeMille, Cecil B. USA D
2021 Sunshine 1999 Szabó, István Germany / Austria / Canada / Hungary Y
2049 Pearls of the Crown 1937 Christian-Jaque / Guitry, Sacha France Y
2050 Duel in the Sun 1946 Vidor, King / Brower, Otto / Dieterle, William / Franklin, Sidney / Menzies, William Cameron / Selznick, David O. / von Sternberg, Josef USA YS
2050 Samson and Delilah 1949 DeMille, Cecil B. USA Y
2066 The Black Rose 1950 Hathaway, Henry UK D
2066 Quilombo 1984 Diegues, Carlos Brazil / France D
2066 Rasputin and the Empress 1932 Boleslawski, Richard / Brabin, Charles USA
2066 Temptress Moon 1996 Chen, Kaige China / Hong Kong D
2080 Civilization 1916 Ince, Thomas H. / Barker, Reginald / West, Raymond B. / Edwards, Walter / Hartford, David / Hunt, Jay / Read, J. Parker Jr. USA Y
2081 Scipione l'africano 1937 Gallone, Carmine Italy Y
2088 Air Force 1943 Hawks, Howard USA D
2095 Mongol 2007 Bodrov, Sergei Germany / Kazakhstan / Russia / Mongolia S
2120 Kingdom of Heaven 2005 Scott, Ridley Spain / Germany DBU
2124 A Bridge Too Far 1977 Attenborough, Richard USA / UK DBS
2125 The Agony and the Ecstasy 1965 Reed, Carol USA YS
2125 The Greatest Story Ever Told 1965 Stevens, George / Lean, David / Negulesco, Jean USA YUPS
2125 Peter the First, Part One 1937 Petrov, Vladimir Soviet Union
2149 Nicholas and Alexandra 1971 Schaffner, Franklin J. UK Y
2151 The Thin Red Line 1964 Marton, Andrew USA D
2159 David and Bathsheba 1951 King, Henry USA D
2176 The Iron Horse 1924 Ford, John USA D
2177 Hagbard and Signe 1967 Axel, Gabriel Denmark / Iceland / Sweden
2219 The Covered Wagon 1923 Cruze, James USA Y
2219 Land of the Pharaohs 1955 Hawks, Howard USA YS
2219 The Second Heimat 1992 Busch, Robert / Reitz, Edgar Germany
2219 Shin heike monogatari 1955 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan
2221 Legends of the Fall 1994 Zwick, Edward USA DUS
2246 Battle of the Bulge 1965 Annakin, Ken USA DB
2246 The Prince of Egypt 1998 Hickner, Steve / Wells, Simon / Chapman, Brenda USA DS
2246 Shenandoah 1965 McLaglen, Andrew V. USA D
2266 Der Große König 1942 Harlan, Veit Germany
2267 Chronicle of the Burning Years 1975 Lakhdar-Hamina, Mohammed Algeria
2274 A Farewell to Arms 1957 Vidor, Charles / Huston, John USA D
2281 I Giardini dell'Eden 1998 D'Alatri, Alessandro Italy
2282 Devils on the Doorstep 2000 Wen, Jiang China
2282 Velikiy perelom 1945 Ermler, Fridrikh Soviet Union
2283 The Battle Cry of Peace 1915 Blackton, J. Stuart / North, Wilfrid USA
2283 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1968 Richardson, Tony UK D
2283 Das Weib des Pharao 1922 Lubitsch, Ernst Germany
2283 The Divine Lady 1929 Lloyd, Frank USA
2283 1860 1934 Blasetti, Alessandro Italy V
2283 55 Days at Peking 1963 Ray, Nicholas / Green, Guy / Marton, Andrew USA V
2283 Hearts of the World 1918 Griffith, D.W. USA V
2283 Is Paris Burning? 1966 Clément, René France / USA D
2283 Joan the Woman 1917 DeMille, Cecil B. USA DU
2283 Judith of Bethulia 1914 Griffith, D.W. USA V
2283 Khartoum 1966 Dearden, Basil / Elisofon, Eliot UK DUPS
2283 The King of Kings 1927 DeMille, Cecil B. USA DS
2283 Osvobozhdeniye 1940 Dovzhenko, Aleksandr / Solntseva, Yuliya Soviet Union
2283 Padeniye Berlina 1950 Chiaureli, Mikheil Soviet Union
2283 Pearl Harbor 2001 Bay, Michael USA DBS
2283 Peter the First, Part Two 1938 Petrov, Vladimir Soviet Union
2283 The Plainsman 1937 DeMille, Cecil B. USA D
2283 The Pony Express 1925 Cruze, James USA
2283 Quiet Flows the Don 1957 Gerasimov, Sergei Soviet Union D
2283 Quo Vadis? 1913 Guazzoni, Enrico Italy
2283 Raintree County 1957 Dmytryk, Edward USA V
2283 The Ten Commandments 1923 DeMille, Cecil B. USA D
2283 They Died with Their Boots On 1941 Walsh, Raoul USA DS
2283 Unconquered 1947 DeMille, Cecil B. USA D
2295 The Battle of Neretva 1969 Bulajic, Veljko Yugoslavia / USA / Italy / West Germany YS
2295 The Deluge 1974 Hoffman, Jerzy Poland / Soviet Union Y
2295 Pharaoh 1966 Kawalerowicz, Jerzy Poland
2295 Twin Sisters 2002 Sombogaart, Ben Netherlands / Luxembourg D
2297 Barabbas 1962 Fleischer, Richard Italy Y
2297 The Battle of Britain 1969 Hamilton, Guy UK DB
2297 The Battle of Gallipolli 1931 Asquith, Anthony UK
2297 The Bible 1966 Huston, John USA / Italy YU
2297 Golgotha 1935 Duvivier, Julien France
2311 Mary, Queen of Scots 1971 Jarrott, Charles UK YS
2312 300 2006 Snyder, Zack USA DBU
2317 Map of the Human Heart 1993 Ward, Vincent Australia / UK / Canada / France DS
2324 Alexander the Great 1956 Rossen, Robert USA / Spain DUS
2324 The Pride and the Passion 1957 Kramer, Stanley USA D
2329 The Alamo 2004 Hancock, John Lee USA DS
2329 Geronimo: An American Legend 1993 Hill, Walter USA DUS
2329 The Go Masters 1982 Duan, Ji-shun / Sato, Junya Japan / China
2340 The Legend of Suriyothai 2001 Yukol, Chatrichalerm Thailand D
2341 Elizabeth: The Golden Age 2007 Kapur, Shekhar UK / France DU
2342 Stalingrad 1993 Vilsmaier, Joseph Germany / Sweden D
2345 The Patriot 2000 Emmerich, Roland Germany / USA DBUS
2347 I, Claudius 1976 Wise, Herbert UK D
2347 Joan the Maid: The Battles 1994 Rivette, Jacques France D
2347 Joan the Maid: The Prisons 1994 Rivette, Jacques France D
2348 1492: Conquest of Paradise 1992 Scott, Ridley UK / USA / France / Spain
2350 The Crusades 1935 DeMille, Cecil B. USA D
2353 Ludwig 1972 Visconti, Luchino France / Italy / West Germany Y
2354 Heaven's Gate 1980 Cimino, Michael USA D
NR Broken Trail 2006 Hill, Walter Canada DBU
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P   Preview Trailer
S   Soundtrack
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