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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