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 RATING    TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
# 1 Epics, # 5 Overall 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Kubrick, Stanley UK / USA DBS
# 2 Epics, # 9 Overall The Searchers 1956 Ford, John USA DBOPS
# 3 Epics, # 22 Overall Schindler's List 1993 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
# 4 Epics, # 25 Overall Lawrence of Arabia 1962 Lean, David UK DOS
# 5 Epics, # 32 Overall Gone with the Wind 1939 Fleming, Victor USA DBOS
# 6 Epics, # 46 Overall Apocalypse Now 1979 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DBOPS
# 7 Epics, # 52 Overall Ran 1985 Kurosawa, Akira Japan / France DBOP
# 8 Epics, # 64 Overall Saving Private Ryan 1998 Spielberg, Steven USA DBS
# 9 Epics, # 65 Overall Aguirre, The Wrath of God 1972 Herzog, Werner West Germany / Peru / Mexico D
# 10 Epics, # 137 Overall Farewell My Concubine 1993 Chen, Kaige China / Hong Kong DS
# 11 Epics, # 141 Overall The Lord of the Rings:
Return of the King
2003 Jackson, Peter USA / New Zealand DBOS
# 12 Epics, # 152 Overall Titanic 1997 Cameron, James USA DS
# 13 Epics, # 156 Overall Intolerance 1916 Griffith, D.W. USA DOS
# 14 Epics, # 162 Overall The Birth of a Nation 1915 Griffith, D.W. USA DBOS
# 15 Epics, # 166 Overall The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 1966 Leone, Sergio Italy / Spain DBOPS
# 16 Epics, # 171 Overall Red River 1948 Hawks, Howard / Rosson, Arthur USA DOPS
# 17 Epics, # 192 Overall Ben-Hur 1959 Wyler, William USA DBOS
# 18 Epics, # 198 Overall Andrei Roublev 1969 Tarkovsky, Andrei Soviet Union Y
# 19 Epics, # 216 Overall All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Milestone, Lewis USA DBOP
# 20 Epics, # 224 Overall Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Leone, Sergio Italy / USA DBOS
# 21 Epics, # 226 Overall The Lord of the Rings:
The Two Towers
2002 Jackson, Peter USA / New Zealand / Germany DBOS
# 22 Epics, # 227 Overall The Lord of the Rings:
Fellowship of the Ring
2001 Jackson, Peter New Zealand / USA DBOS
# 23 Epics, # 229 Overall Reds 1981 Beatty, Warren USA DBOP
# 24 Epics, # 240 Overall Spartacus 1960 Kubrick, Stanley USA DBOPS
# 25 Epics, # 248 Overall Doctor Zhivago 1965 Lean, David USA DBOPS
# 26 Epics, # 272 Overall Napoléon 1927 Gance, Abel Sweden / Italy / France / Czechoslovakia / Germany V
# 27 Epics, # 273 Overall Patton 1970 Schaffner, Franklin J. USA DBOPS
# 28 Epics, # 279 Overall The English Patient 1996 Minghella, Anthony USA DBOP
# 29 Epics, # 298 Overall The Last Emperor 1987 Bertolucci, Bernardo France / Italy / UK DBOPS
# 30 Epics, # 301 Overall The Leopard 1963 Visconti, Luchino Italy / France DBOS
# 31 Epics, # 327 Overall Henry V 1944 Olivier, Laurence UK DO
# 32 Epics, # 370 Overall Gladiator 2000 Scott, Ridley UK / USA DBOPS
# 33 Epics, # 377 Overall Gandhi 1982 Attenborough, Richard UK / India DBOP
# 34 Epics, # 390 Overall Ivan the Terrible, Part One 1945 Eisenstein, Sergei M. Soviet Union DO
# 35 Epics, # 417 Overall Strike 1925 Eisenstein, Sergei M. Soviet Union DBO
# 36 Epics, # 440 Overall Alexander Nevsky 1938 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Vasilyev, Dmitri Soviet Union Y
# 37 Epics, # 468 Overall Dances with Wolves 1990 Costner, Kevin USA DBOS
# 38 Epics, # 509 Overall Gangs of New York 2002 Scorsese, Martin USA / Germany / Italy / UK / Netherlands DBOPS
# 39 Epics, # 521 Overall Kagemusha 1980 Kurosawa, Akira Japan DB
# 40 Epics, # 545 Overall War and Peace 1968 Bondarchuk, Sergei Soviet Union D
# 41 Epics, # 549 Overall Braveheart 1995 Gibson, Mel USA DBOS
# 42 Epics, # 558 Overall Avatar 2009 Cameron, James USA DBOPS
# 43 Epics, # 569 Overall The Ten Commandments 1956 DeMille, Cecil B. USA DBOS
# 44 Epics, # 591 Overall Little Big Man 1970 Penn, Arthur USA DB
# 45 Epics, # 606 Overall Out of Africa 1985 Pollack, Sydney USA DBOPS
# 46 Epics, # 620 Overall Atonement 2007 Wright, Joe UK DBOS
# 47 Epics, # 642 Overall Heimat 1984 Reitz, Edgar West Germany Y
# 48 Epics, # 674 Overall The Good Earth 1937 Fleming, Victor / Franklin, Sidney / Machatý, Gustav USA D
# 49 Epics, # 713 Overall Mother India 1957 Khan, Mehboob India Y
# 50 Epics, # 725 Overall Empire of the Sun 1987 Spielberg, Steven USA DOPS
# 51 Epics, # 767 Overall Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner Italy / West Germany D
# 52 Epics, # 775 Overall Glory 1989 Zwick, Edward USA DBOS
# 53 Epics, # 806 Overall The Longest Day 1962 Annakin, Ken / Marton, Andrew / Wicki, Bernhard / Zanuck, Darryl F. USA DBOS
# 54 Epics, # 820 Overall Henry V 1989 Branagh, Kenneth UK D
# 55 Epics, # 826 Overall Becket 1964 Glenville, Peter UK / USA DO
# 56 Epics, # 831 Overall Elizabeth 1998 Kapur, Shekhar UK DBOP
# 57 Epics, # 847 Overall Hero 2002 Zhang, Yimou Hong Kong / China DBOPS
# 58 Epics, # 850 Overall The Private Life of Henry VIII 1933 Korda, Alexander UK D
# 59 Epics, # 889 Overall Julius Caesar 1953 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA DOS
# 60 Epics, # 901 Overall Richard III 1955 Olivier, Laurence UK D
# 61 Epics, # 959 Overall Ivan the Terrible, Part Two 1958 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Filimonova, M. Soviet Union DO
# 62 Epics, # 1074 Overall The Magnificent Seven 1960 Sturges, John USA DBOPS
# 63 Epics, # 1081 Overall Apocalypto 2006 Gibson, Mel USA DB
# 64 Epics, # 1083 Overall Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache 1924 Lang, Fritz Germany D
# 65 Epics, # 1103 Overall Die Nibelungen: Siegfried 1924 Lang, Fritz Germany D
# 66 Epics, # 1109 Overall October (Ten Days That Shook the World) 1928 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Aleksandrov, Grigori Soviet Union YO
# 67 Epics, # 1119 Overall The Red Badge of Courage 1951 Huston, John USA YOP
# 68 Epics, # 1125 Overall War and Peace 1956 Vidor, King Italy / USA YS
# 69 Epics, # 1126 Overall Les Misérables 1995 Lelouch, Claude France YOP
# 70 Epics, # 1159 Overall A Tale of Two Cities 1935 Conway, Jack / Leonard, Robert Z. USA D
# 71 Epics, # 1187 Overall Underground 1995 Kusturica, Emir France / Fed Rep of Yugoslavia / Germany / Hungary Y
# 72 Epics, # 1233 Overall Ben-Hur 1925 Niblo, Fred / Brabin, Charles / Cabanne, Christy / Cohn, J.J. / Ingram, Rex USA DO
# 73 Epics, # 1247 Overall The Last Samurai 2003 Zwick, Edward USA / New Zealand / Japan DBOPS
# 74 Epics, # 1255 Overall I Am Cuba 1964 Kalatozov, Mikhail Soviet Union / Cuba D
# 75 Epics, # 1293 Overall The Emigrants 1971 Troell, Jan Sweden Y
# 76 Epics, # 1306 Overall The Iron Horse 1924 Ford, John USA D
# 77 Epics, # 1390 Overall War Horse 2011 Spielberg, Steven USA S
# 78 Epics, # 1438 Overall Cleopatra 1934 DeMille, Cecil B. USA D
# 79 Epics, # 1467 Overall Queen Margot 1994 Chéreau, Patrice France / Italy / Germany Y
# 80 Epics, # 1477 Overall Princess Yang Kwei Fei 1955 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan / Hong Kong Y
# 81 Epics, # 1518 Overall Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 2011 Yates, David UK / USA DBS
# 82 Epics, # 1531 Overall The Sign of the Cross 1932 DeMille, Cecil B. USA D
# 83 Epics, # 1536 Overall How the West Was Won 1962 Ford, John / Hathaway, Henry / Marshall, George / Thorpe, Richard USA DBOPS
# 84 Epics, # 1559 Overall Cleopatra 1963 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. / Mamoulian, Rouben / Zanuck, Darryl F. UK / USA / Switzerland YOS
# 85 Epics, # 1577 Overall El Cid 1961 Mann, Anthony Italy / USA DS
# 86 Epics, # 1588 Overall The Hidden Fortress 1958 Kurosawa, Akira Japan D
# 87 Epics, # 1617 Overall Zulu 1964 Endfield, Cy UK YBOS
# 88 Epics, # 1642 Overall Indochine 1992 Wargnier, Régis France Y
# 89 Epics, # 1670 Overall Marketa Lazarová 1967 Vlácil, Frantisek Czechoslovakia
# 90 Epics, # 1672 Overall Carlos 2010 Assayas, Olivier France / Germany DB
# 90 Epics, # 1672 Overall The Sand Pebbles 1966 Wise, Robert USA DBOPS
# 91 Epics, # 1686 Overall The Big Country 1958 Wyler, William USA DBOP
# 92 Epics, # 1752 Overall Air Force 1943 Hawks, Howard USA DO
# 93 Epics, # 1758 Overall Cabiria 1914 Pastrone, Giovanni Italy DO
# 94 Epics, # 1761 Overall The Robe 1953 Koster, Henry USA DBOS
# 95 Epics, # 1762 Overall The Covered Wagon 1923 Cruze, James USA Y
# 96 Epics, # 1778 Overall Cimarron 1931 Ruggles, Wesley USA D
# 97 Epics, # 1793 Overall Heaven's Gate 1980 Cimino, Michael USA DOP
# 98 Epics, # 1802 Overall Quo Vadis 1951 LeRoy, Mervyn USA DBOPS
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# 99 Epics, # 1839 Overall Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan 2007 Bodrov, Sergei Germany / Kazakhstan / Russia / Mongolia DBOPS
# 100 Epics, # 1857 Overall Chushingura 1962 Inagaki, Hiroshi Japan D
# 101 Epics, # 1887 Overall Marie Antoinette 1938 Van Dyke, W.S. USA D
# 102 Epics, # 1919 Overall Duel in the Sun 1946 Vidor, King / Brower, Otto / Dieterle, William / Franklin, Sidney / Menzies, William Cameron / Selznick, David O. / von Sternberg, Josef USA YS
# 102 Epics, # 1919 Overall Samson and Delilah 1949 DeMille, Cecil B. USA Y
# 103 Epics, # 1941 Overall Marie Antoinette 2006 Coppola, Sofia Japan / France / USA DO
# 104 Epics, # 1959 Overall The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 Curtiz, Michael USA DOPS
# 105 Epics, # 1983 Overall Grass 1925 Cooper, Merian C. / Schoedsack, Ernest B. USA Y
# 106 Epics, # 2019 Overall The Alamo 1960 Wayne, John USA YS
# 107 Epics, # 2026 Overall Union Pacific 1939 DeMille, Cecil B. USA D
# 108 Epics, # 2037 Overall Battleground 1949 Wellman, William A. USA D
# 109 Epics, # 2067 Overall Sunshine 1999 Szabó, István Germany / Austria / Canada / Hungary YOP
# 110 Epics, # 2078 Overall Troy 2004 Petersen, Wolfgang USA / Malta / UK DBOPS
# 111 Epics, # 2103 Overall The Emperor and the Assassin 1999 Chen, Kaige France / Japan / China YO
# 112 Epics, # 2108 Overall Cheyenne Autumn 1964 Ford, John USA D
# 113 Epics, # 2115 Overall The New World 2005 Malick, Terrence USA DBOP
# 114 Epics, # 2163 Overall The Ten Commandments 1923 DeMille, Cecil B. USA D
# 115 Epics, # 2165 Overall 300 2006 Snyder, Zack USA DBO
# 116 Epics, # 2184 Overall Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970 Fleischer, Richard / Fukasaku, Kinji / Masuda, Toshio USA / Japan DBS
# 117 Epics, # 2195 Overall Khuda Gawah 1992 Anand, Mukul India DS
# 118 Epics, # 2202 Overall The Big Trail 1930 Walsh, Raoul / Loeffler, Louis R. USA D
# 119 Epics, # 2211 Overall The Fall of the Roman Empire 1964 Mann, Anthony USA D
# 119 Epics, # 2211 Overall King of Kings 1961 Ray, Nicholas USA DBS
# 120 Epics, # 2214 Overall Kingdom of Heaven 2005 Scott, Ridley Spain / Germany DBO
# 121 Epics, # 2215 Overall Pearls of the Crown 1937 Christian-Jaque / Guitry, Sacha France D
# 122 Epics, # 2233 Overall Nicholas and Alexandra 1971 Schaffner, Franklin J. UK YO
# 123 Epics, # 2235 Overall Gettysburg 1993 Maxwell, Ronald F. USA DB
# 124 Epics, # 2244 Overall Hagbard and Signe 1967 Axel, Gabriel Denmark / Iceland / Sweden
# 125 Epics, # 2279 Overall A Farewell to Arms 1957 Vidor, Charles / Huston, John USA DOP
# 126 Epics, # 2287 Overall Captain from Castile 1947 King, Henry USA D
# 127 Epics, # 2288 Overall The Charge of the Light Brigade 1968 Richardson, Tony UK DOP
# 128 Epics, # 2289 Overall City of Life and Death 2009 Lu, Chuan China / Hong Kong DB
# 129 Epics, # 2307 Overall Mysteries of Lisbon 2010 Ruiz, Raoul Portugal / France DB
# 130 Epics, # 2324 Overall The Black Rose 1950 Hathaway, Henry UK DOP
# 130 Epics, # 2324 Overall Quilombo 1984 Diegues, Carlos Brazil / France D
# 130 Epics, # 2324 Overall Rasputin and the Empress 1932 Boleslawski, Richard / Brabin, Charles USA
# 130 Epics, # 2324 Overall Temptress Moon 1996 Chen, Kaige China / Hong Kong D
# 131 Epics, # 2327 Overall Red Cliff 2008 Woo, John China DBOPS
# 132 Epics, # 2343 Overall Civilization 1916 Ince, Thomas H. / Barker, Reginald / West, Raymond B. / Edwards, Walter / Hartford, David / Hunt, Jay / Read, J. Parker Jr. USA D
# 133 Epics, # 2344 Overall Scipione l'africano 1937 Gallone, Carmine Italy Y
# 134 Epics, # 2358 Overall Legends of the Fall 1994 Zwick, Edward USA DBOS
# 135 Epics, # 2364 Overall Chronicle of the Burning Years 1975 Lakhdar-Hamina, Mohammed Algeria
# 136 Epics, # 2365 Overall Der Große König 1942 Harlan, Veit Germany
# 137 Epics, # 2371 Overall The Agony and the Ecstasy 1965 Reed, Carol USA DOPS
# 137 Epics, # 2371 Overall The Greatest Story Ever Told 1965 Stevens, George / Lean, David / Negulesco, Jean USA YOPS
# 137 Epics, # 2371 Overall Peter the First, Part One 1937 Petrov, Vladimir Soviet Union
# 137 Epics, # 2371 Overall The Prince of Egypt 1998 Hickner, Steve / Wells, Simon / Chapman, Brenda USA DS
# 138 Epics, # 2373 Overall A Bridge Too Far 1977 Attenborough, Richard USA / UK DBOPS
# 139 Epics, # 2378 Overall Land of the Pharaohs 1955 Hawks, Howard USA YS
# 139 Epics, # 2378 Overall The Second Heimat 1992 Busch, Robert / Reitz, Edgar Germany
# 139 Epics, # 2378 Overall Shin heike monogatari 1955 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan
# 140 Epics, # 2381 Overall The Thin Red Line 1964 Marton, Andrew USA D
# 141 Epics, # 2383 Overall Richard III 1912 Keane, James / Calmettes, André France / USA D
# 142 Epics, # 2385 Overall David and Bathsheba 1951 King, Henry USA D
# 143 Epics, # 2387 Overall The Battle of Neretva 1969 Bulajic, Veljko Yugoslavia / USA / Italy / West Germany YS
# 143 Epics, # 2387 Overall The Deluge 1974 Hoffman, Jerzy Poland / Soviet Union Y
# 143 Epics, # 2387 Overall Pharaoh 1966 Kawalerowicz, Jerzy Poland
# 143 Epics, # 2387 Overall Twin Sisters 2002 Sombogaart, Ben Netherlands / Luxembourg D
# 144 Epics, # 2389 Overall Devils on the Doorstep 2000 Wen, Jiang China
# 144 Epics, # 2389 Overall Velikiy perelom 1945 Ermler, Fridrikh Soviet Union
# 145 Epics, # 2390 Overall I Giardini dell'Eden 1998 D'Alatri, Alessandro Italy
# 145 Epics, # 2390 Overall Saideke Balai 2011 Wei, Te-Sheng Taiwan
# 146 Epics, # 2391 Overall Barabbas 1962 Fleischer, Richard Italy YO
# 146 Epics, # 2391 Overall The Battle of Britain 1969 Hamilton, Guy UK DB
# 146 Epics, # 2391 Overall The Battle of Gallipolli 1931 Asquith, Anthony UK
# 146 Epics, # 2391 Overall The Bible 1966 Huston, John USA / Italy DO
# 146 Epics, # 2391 Overall Golgotha 1935 Duvivier, Julien France
# 147 Epics, # 2393 Overall Battle of the Bulge 1965 Annakin, Ken USA DBOP
# 147 Epics, # 2393 Overall Das Weib des Pharao 1922 Lubitsch, Ernst Germany
# 147 Epics, # 2393 Overall Hearts of the World 1918 Griffith, D.W. USA V
# 147 Epics, # 2393 Overall Shenandoah 1965 McLaglen, Andrew V. USA D
# 148 Epics, # 2394 Overall Map of the Human Heart 1993 Ward, Vincent Australia / UK / Canada / France DS
# 149 Epics, # 2400 Overall Mary, Queen of Scots 1971 Jarrott, Charles UK YS
# 150 Epics, # 2407 Overall Alexander the Great 1956 Rossen, Robert USA / Spain DOS
# 150 Epics, # 2407 Overall The Pride and the Passion 1957 Kramer, Stanley USA D
# 151 Epics, # 2411 Overall The Alamo 2004 Hancock, John Lee USA DOPS
# 151 Epics, # 2411 Overall Geronimo: An American Legend 1993 Hill, Walter USA DOS
# 151 Epics, # 2411 Overall The Go Masters 1982 Duan, Ji-shun / Sato, Junya Japan / China
# 151 Epics, # 2411 Overall Vincere 2009 Bellocchio, Marco Italy / France D
# 152 Epics, # 2414 Overall Australia 2008 Luhrmann, Baz Australia / USA DBOP
# 152 Epics, # 2414 Overall The Crusades 1935 DeMille, Cecil B. USA D
# 153 Epics, # 2418 Overall Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 2010 Yates, David UK / USA DBOPS
# 154 Epics, # 2420 Overall The Legend of Suriyothai 2001 Yukol, Chatrichalerm Thailand D
# 155 Epics, # 2422 Overall Elizabeth: The Golden Age 2007 Kapur, Shekhar UK / France DBO
# 156 Epics, # 2425 Overall I, Claudius 1976 Wise, Herbert UK D
# 156 Epics, # 2425 Overall Joan the Maid: The Battles 1994 Rivette, Jacques France D
# 156 Epics, # 2425 Overall Joan the Maid: The Prisons 1994 Rivette, Jacques France D
# 157 Epics, # 2428 Overall Stalingrad 1993 Vilsmaier, Joseph Germany / Sweden D
# 158 Epics, # 2432 Overall The Battle Cry of Peace 1915 Blackton, J. Stuart / North, Wilfrid USA
# 158 Epics, # 2432 Overall The Divine Lady 1929 Lloyd, Frank USA
# 158 Epics, # 2432 Overall 1860 1934 Blasetti, Alessandro Italy V
# 158 Epics, # 2432 Overall 55 Days at Peking 1963 Ray, Nicholas / Green, Guy / Marton, Andrew USA V
# 158 Epics, # 2432 Overall Is Paris Burning? 1966 Clément, René France / USA D
# 158 Epics, # 2432 Overall Joan the Woman 1916 DeMille, Cecil B. USA DO
# 158 Epics, # 2432 Overall Judith of Bethulia 1914 Griffith, D.W. USA V
# 158 Epics, # 2432 Overall Khartoum 1966 Dearden, Basil / Elisofon, Eliot UK DOPS
# 158 Epics, # 2432 Overall The King of Kings 1927 DeMille, Cecil B. USA DS
# 158 Epics, # 2432 Overall Osvobozhdeniye 1940 Dovzhenko, Aleksandr / Solntseva, Yuliya Soviet Union
# 158 Epics, # 2432 Overall Padeniye Berlina 1950 Chiaureli, Mikheil Soviet Union
# 158 Epics, # 2432 Overall Pearl Harbor 2001 Bay, Michael USA DBOPS
# 158 Epics, # 2432 Overall Peter the First, Part Two 1938 Petrov, Vladimir Soviet Union
# 158 Epics, # 2432 Overall The Plainsman 1937 DeMille, Cecil B. USA D
# 158 Epics, # 2432 Overall The Pony Express 1925 Cruze, James USA
# 158 Epics, # 2432 Overall Quiet Flows the Don 1957 Gerasimov, Sergei Soviet Union D
# 158 Epics, # 2432 Overall Quo Vadis? 1913 Guazzoni, Enrico Italy
# 158 Epics, # 2432 Overall Raintree County 1957 Dmytryk, Edward USA V
# 158 Epics, # 2432 Overall They Died with Their Boots On 1941 Walsh, Raoul USA DS
# 158 Epics, # 2432 Overall Unconquered 1947 DeMille, Cecil B. USA D
# 159 Epics, # 2435 Overall Ludwig 1972 Visconti, Luchino France / Italy / West Germany Y
NR Broken Trail 2006 Hill, Walter Canada DBO
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