Spectacular! The Story of Epic Films
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Included in this list is every film listed in the Filmography appendix of the book Spectacular! The Story of Epic Films by author John Cary that profiles the history of the epic film. The book was published in 1974 so only includes epic films released up to this point.
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
1965, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Alamo
1960, in 1 top list Check -
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Aleksandr Nevskiy
1938 — a.k.a. Alexander Nevsky, in 10 top lists Check -
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Alexander the Great
1956, in 0 top lists Check -
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America
1924 — a.k.a. Love and Sacrifice, in 0 top lists Check -
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Andrey Rublyov
1966 — a.k.a. Andrei Rublev, in 29 top lists Check -
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Anne of the Thousand Days
1969 — a.k.a. Anne of a Thousand Days, in 2 top lists Check -
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Attila
1954, in 0 top lists Check -
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Bronenosets Potemkin
1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check -
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Becket
1964, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Big Fisherman
1959, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Birth of a Nation
1915, in 21 top lists Check -
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The Buccaneer
1938, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Buccaneer
1958, in 0 top lists Check -
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Cabiria
1914, in 12 top lists Check -
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968, in 2 top lists Check -
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Cleopatra
1917, in 0 top lists Check -
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Cleopatra
1934, in 5 top lists Check -
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Cleopatra
1963, in 5 top lists Check -
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Il colosso di Rodi
1961 — a.k.a. The Colossus of Rhodes, in 0 top lists Check -
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Cromwell
1970, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Crusades
1935, in 0 top lists Check -
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David and Bathsheba
1951, in 0 top lists Check -
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Demetrius and the Gladiators
1954, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Egyptian
1954, in 0 top lists Check -
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Esther and the King
1960, in 0 top lists Check -
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Exodus
1960, in 1 top list Check -
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Fabiola
1949 — a.k.a. The Fighting Gladiator, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964, in 1 top list Check -
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Fellini - Satyricon
1969 — a.k.a. Fellini Satyricon, in 10 top lists Check -
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55 Days at Peking
1963, in 0 top lists Check -
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Gone with the Wind
1939, in 31 top lists Check -
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965, in 0 top lists Check -
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Helen of Troy
1956, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth...
1944 — a.k.a. Henry V, in 12 top lists Check -
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916, in 24 top lists Check -
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Ivanhoe
1952, in 2 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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Joan of Arc
1948, in 1 top list Check -
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Joan the Woman
1916, in 2 top lists Check -
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John Paul Jones
1959, in 0 top lists Check -
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The King of Kings
1927, in 3 top lists Check -
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King of Kings
1961, in 0 top lists Check -
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Krzyzacy
1960 — a.k.a. Black Cross, in 3 top lists Check -
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Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei
1926 — a.k.a. The Last Days of Pompeii, in 1 top list Check -
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Il gattopardo
1963 — a.k.a. The Leopard, in 18 top lists Check -
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The Longest Day
1962, in 6 top lists Check -
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Lucrèce Borgia
1935 — a.k.a. Lucrezia Borgia, in 0 top lists Check -
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Lucrèce Borgia
1953 — a.k.a. Lucretia Borgia, in 0 top lists Check
Last updated on Mar 9, 2021; source