AMC Filmsite List of Epic Films

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Epics-Historical Films often take an historical or imagined event, mythic, legendary, or heroic figure, and add an extravagant setting and lavish costumes, accompanied by grandeur and spectacle and a sweeping musical score. Epics, costume dramas, historical dramas, war film epics, medieval romps, or 'period pictures' are tales that often cover a large expanse of time set against a vast, panoramic backdrop. In an episodic manner, they follow the continuing adventures of the hero(s), who are presented in the context of great historical events of the past.

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    Quo Vadis?

    1913, in 1 top list Check
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    Cabiria

    1914, in 12 top lists Check
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    Judith of Bethulia

    1914, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Birth of a Nation

    1915, in 21 top lists Check
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    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    1916, in 24 top lists Check
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    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

    1921, in 7 top lists Check
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    Orphans of the Storm

    1921, in 7 top lists Check
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    The Covered Wagon

    1923, in 4 top lists Check
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    The Ten Commandments

    1923, in 5 top lists Check
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    The Thief of Bagdad

    1924, in 14 top lists Check
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    Bronenosets Potemkin

    1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check
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    The Big Parade

    1925, in 13 top lists Check
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    Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ

    1925 — a.k.a. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, in 6 top lists Check
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    The King of Kings

    1927, in 3 top lists Check
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    Napoléon vu par Abel Gance

    1927 — a.k.a. Napoleon, in 24 top lists Check
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    The Sign of the Cross

    1932, in 2 top lists Check
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    Cavalcade

    1933, in 4 top lists Check
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    Cleopatra

    1934, in 5 top lists Check
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    Anna Karenina

    1935, in 1 top list Check
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    The Crusades

    1935, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Last Days of Pompeii

    1935, in 0 top lists Check
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    Mutiny on the Bounty

    1935, in 6 top lists Check
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    San Francisco

    1936, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    1938, in 17 top lists Check
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    Aleksandr Nevskiy

    1938 — a.k.a. Alexander Nevsky, in 10 top lists Check
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    In Old Chicago

    1938, in 1 top list Check
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    Drums Along the Mohawk

    1939, in 0 top lists Check
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    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
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    'Northwest Passage' (Book I -- Rogers' Rangers)

    1940, in 0 top lists Check
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    Ivan Groznyy

    1944 — a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible, Part I, in 19 top lists Check
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    Ivan Groznyy. Skaz vtoroy: Boyarskiy zagovor

    1958 — a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot, in 15 top lists Check
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    Wilson

    1944, in 2 top lists Check
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    The Best Years of Our Lives

    1946, in 30 top lists Check
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    Anna Karenina

    1948, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Fountainhead

    1949, in 2 top lists Check
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    Madame Bovary

    1949, in 0 top lists Check
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    Samson and Delilah

    1949, in 4 top lists Check
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    Quo Vadis

    1951, in 1 top list Check
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    The Greatest Show on Earth

    1952, in 4 top lists Check
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    Julius Caesar

    1953, in 4 top lists Check
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    The Robe

    1953, in 4 top lists Check
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    Shichinin no samurai

    1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check
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    Sign of the Pagan

    1954, in 0 top lists Check
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    Giant

    1956, in 10 top lists Check
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    Lust for Life

    1956, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Ten Commandments

    1956, in 12 top lists Check
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    War and Peace

    1956, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    1957, in 32 top lists Check
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    Ben-Hur

    1959, in 22 top lists Check
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    Exodus

    1960, in 1 top list Check
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