Epics

As long as you watch the director's cut, is up there as one of Ridley Scott's best movies, and easily one of his very best historical epics.

As such, sci-fi or fantasy epics are not included here (that's not intended to be a slight on the excellent The Lord of the Rings trilogy, for example).

He’s bared his soul in lonely studios, sung to crowds at packed festivals, and dodged explosions in Second World War epics.

In the ancient Greek epics, humility is not even reckoned a virtue.

It's the gold standard when it comes to action epics, and given it's set during samurai times and features plenty of swordplay, it rightly stands as the greatest samurai movie of all time.

Mickey’s cinematic career flourished in Italy when the sword and scandal epics were being cranked out.

Shot with a clean, painterly style that calls to mind historical epics of the '50s and '60s, ’s cinematography is an undeniable triumph.

The comedic alternative to the original with everyone barking into their Nokia flip phones, the sequel is often overlooked for some of the bigger budget, stunt-laden epics of the later years.

Under the umbrella of epic cinema, biblical epics have been a popular film genre throughout the 20th century and even today.

With ambitious set designs, numerous actors and incredible stories, historical epics are among the very best that the film industry has to offer.

Butterworth writes sprawling, talky epics with ensembles in the double digits, three-hour run times, and lots of room for showy speeches.

Despite his underrated standing in modern Hollywood, Edward Zwick’s enduring legacy may prove to be his mastery of thrilling and thought-provoking epics, with 2003’s a highlight of his career in this regard.

One of those enormous '80s epics that came to typify the idea of Oscar bait, Sydney Pollack's now seems the type of movie that Hollywood is, sadly, no longer particularly interested in making.

U.S. Open Epics: 2021 U.S. Women’s Open: Yuka Saso Strikes Gold at Olympic — Golf Channel, 8 p.m.

While predominantly concerned with gangster epics set in modern Japan, Sega's franchise is known to take the occasional detour for its spin-offs.

While this list includes epics, romances, and other subgenres, it omits as they are in many ways their own category.

Disney has remade a number of its ’90s-era animated films into live-action and/or CG blockbuster epics.

From the fire-and-brimstone biblical epics of early cinema to the boom years of the 1970s in which the US producer Irwin Allen became the “master of disaster”, spectacular destruction has been a saleable movie mainstay.

In a tweet on November 14, Roopa had shared her Facebook post stating that bursting firecrackers was not part of the Hindu tradition as there was no mention of it in the religious scriptures or the epics.

It is historically believed that the two Great Indian Epics were carried to Indonesia by various traders, warriors, craftsmen, priests, and poets.