Historical Epic
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    Troy (2004)

    The fierce warrior Achilles (Brad Pitt) leads Greek forces in the Trojan War, ignited when Paris...

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    300 (2007)

    Sparta's King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and his badly outnumbered warriors fight to the death against...

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    Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

    During the Crusades, a young blacksmith (Orlando Bloom) rises to knighthood and protects Jerusalem...

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    Gladiator (2000)

    Condemned to arena fights by corrupt Roman leader Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), Gen. Maximus (Russell...

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    Marie Antoinette (2006)

    An Austrian teenager (Kirsten Dunst) becomes queen of France, then later loses her head during the...

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    Alexander (2004)

    The young Macedonian king (Colin Farrell) and general leads his army into battle to conquer much of...

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    Doctor Zhivago (1965)

    Boris Pasternak's story of a poet/doctor (Omar Sharif), his wife (Geraldine Chaplin) and his lover...

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    Caligula (1978)

    Details the graphic and shocking, yet undeniably tragic story of Rome's most infamous Caesar, Gaius...

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    Hero (2004)

    Flashbacks reveal how a warrior (Jet Li) stopped the elusive assassins (Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie...

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    Apocalypto (2006)

    As the end of the Mayan civilization draws near, a man makes a desperate bid to escape being a human...

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    Alexander the Great (1956)

    Aristotle's student, Philip of Macedonia's (Fredric March) son, Alexander (Richard Burton) wants to...

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    The Patriot (2000)

    A pacifist farmer (Mel Gibson) of South Carolina reluctantly joins the Revolutionary War and fights...

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    Cleopatra (1963)

    The queen of Egypt (Elizabeth Taylor) seduces Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison), but when he is killed,...

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    The Lost City (2006)

    Castro's Communist Revolution sweeps through Cuba, catching an apolitical Havana club owner (Andy...

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    The Alamo (1960)

    Davy Crockett (John Wayne), Jim Bowie (Richard Widmark) and William Travis (Laurence Harvey) die...

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    Mongol (2008)

    Genghis Khan (Tadanobu Asano) returns to his homeland to unite the Mongols under one ruler.

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    The Hawaiians (1970)

    A seaman's grandson returns to the islands and builds a pineapple plantation in this sequel to...

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    Nouvelle-France

    In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance...

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    Gods and Generals (2003)

    During the Civil War, Union and Confederate soldiers clash at Bull Run, Fredericksburg and...

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    Nomad (The Warrior) (2007)

    A warrior (Jason Scott Lee) saves an infant from an invader's assassins and raises the child to...

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    Red Cliff: Part I (2009)

    In the early part of the 3rd century, three kingdoms in China wage a massive war, culminating in the...

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    Julius Caesar (1953)

    Shakespeare's Brutus (James Mason), Cassius (John Gielgud) and others plot the Roman ruler's death,...

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    Cleopatra (1934)

    The queen of Egypt (Claudette Colbert) barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony (Henry Wilcoxon)...

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    Spartacus (1960)

    A gladiator slave (Kirk Douglas) leads a revolt in decadent Rome and attempts to lead his followers...

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    Braveheart (1995)

    Enraged by the killing of his wife, Scotsman William Wallace (Mel Gibson) leads a revolt against the...

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    War and Peace (1956)

    Pierre (Henry Fonda) loves Natasha (Audrey Hepburn), and Napoleon attacks Russia in this epic based...

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    The Last Legion (2007)

    After the fall of Rome, its last emperor, a 12-year-old boy, journeys to Britannia with his closest...

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    Reds (1981)

    U.S. journalist John Reed (Warren Beatty) and wife Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton) witness the Russian...

  • Quo Vadis? picture
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    Quo Vadis?

    Emperor Nero (Peter Ustinov) burns Rome and puts a Roman commander's (Robert Taylor) Christian bride...

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    Elizabeth (1998)

    After succeeding her sister Mary to the throne in 1558, Elizabeth I (Cate Blanchett) rules Britain...

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    The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

    Decadent Commodus takes over and plays god after the poisoning of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Alec...

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    Richard III (1955)

    Shakespeare's hunchbacked king (Laurence Olivier) works his mad way from the battlefield to the...

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    Queen Margot (1994)

    The sister (Isabelle Adjani) of Charles IX (Jean-Hugues Anglade) of France must wed Protestant Henri...

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    Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

    Queen Elizabeth I (Cate Blanchett) faces a threat to her rule from Spain's King Phillip II and...

  • Gone With the Wind picture
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    Gone With the Wind (1939)

    A fiery Southern belle struggles to return her family's estate to its original magnificence after...

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    Intolerance

    D.W. Griffith's silent masterpiece of four interconnected tales depicting man's inhumanity toward...

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    55 Days at Peking (1963)

    Soldiers from 11 countries and a Marine major (Charlton Heston) guard a besieged compound during the...

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    Gandhi (1982)

    Richard Attenborough's Oscar-winning portrait of the man whose policy of nonviolence won India's...

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    The Last Samurai (2003)

    In the 1870s a Westerner (Tom Cruise) is caught in the middle of a battle between Japan's emperor...

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    The Sand Pebbles (1966)

    Multiple Oscar nominations went to this tale of a cynical sailor's experiences on an American...

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    Gangs of New York (2002)

    During the era of Tammany Hall's sway, a young man (Leonardo DiCaprio) vows vengeance on the vicious...

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    Marie Antoinette (1938)

    The 18th-century Austrian princess (Norma Shearer) has an affair with a Swedish count (Tyrone Power)...

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    The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)

    Laughton won an Oscar for his portrayal of the 16th-century English monarch in Alexander Korda's...

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    Daniel Ivernel

    European actor Daniel Ivernel was a familiar film presence from 1952 onward. He was seen in films...

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    Giancarlo Sbragia

    Actor/director Giancarlo Sbragia was a towering figure in Italian theater for over 50 years. A...

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    Desiree (1954)

    Spurned when poor by a woman (Jean Simmons) he loves, Napoleon Bonaparte (Marlon Brando) meets her...

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    Tower of London (1962)

    Roger Corman's remake of the 1939 classic about Richard III's murderous rise to power in...

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    I skugga Hrafnsina (1990)

    Set in the year 1077, when a young man returns to Iceland from studying theology in Norway, he soon...

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    Beg

    The English title is a translation of the Russian word "Beg," which means run, flight or escape....

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    The Viking Sagas

    In a merciless land, one warrior fights for a justice. His father has been executed. His people have...