Historical Epic
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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...

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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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    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...

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    Cromwell (1970)

    Puritan Oliver Cromwell's (Richard Harris) Roundheads oppose Charles I's (Alec Guinness) Cavaliers...

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    Vercingetorix

    A Gallic chieftain (Christopher Lambert) unites the tribes of his region to force Julius Caesar...

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    Chasing the Deer (1994)

    Set in 1745, the Jacobite army is planning an uprisal after a thirty year hiatus; and one man in...

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    The Rider Named Death (2005)

    In pre-Soviet Russia, Boris Savinkov leads a terrorist faction of Socialist-Revolutionary Party...

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    Tai-Pan (1986)

    James Clavell's best-selling tale of love, rivalry and conflict set during the development of Hong...

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    Musa

    1375. Nine Koryo warriors, envoys exiled by Imperial China, battle to protect a Chinese Ming...

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    Austerlitz (1960)

    Napoleon plans his strategy and confronts the Austro-Russian army in the famous battle of Austerlitz...

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    Hannibal (1960)

    The Carthaginian general (Victor Mature) crosses the Alps by elephant with his army, invading Italy...

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    The Great Conqueror's Concubine

    During the turbulent Chin Dynasty a rebellion leads to the formation of the Chu State, which is...

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    Soldier of God (2006)

    Rene is a dedicated warrior-monk of the famed Knights Templar. A religious order whose mission to...