Historical Epic
  • Land of the Pharaohs picture
    Movies

    Land of the Pharaohs (1955)

    A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to insure the impregnability of tomb of a...

  • Guiana 1838 picture
    Movies

    Guiana 1838 (2004)

    The abolition of slavery in the British Caribbean in 1834 prompts The Gillanders, Arbuthnot &...

  • The Opium War picture
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    The Opium War

    An attempt to stop the British from selling opium to the Chinese leads to war when mass quantities...

  • The Leopard picture
    Movies

    The Leopard (1963)

    An Italian prince (Burt Lancaster) ponders his fate and finds a wife (Claudia Cardinale) for his...

  • Such A Long Journey picture
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    Such A Long Journey (2000)

    An upstanding Parsee (Roshan Seth) receives a letter from a vanished friend imploring him to launder...

  • Fort Saganne picture
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    Fort Saganne

    In spite of spending three hours developing the story of French peasant Charles Saganne (Gérard...

  • Mihai Viteazul picture
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    Mihai Viteazul

    This Rumanian historical epic chronicles the efforts of Prince Michael to unify the Rumanian region...

  • The Legend of Fong Sai-Yuk picture
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    The Legend of Fong Sai-Yuk

    A woman (Fong Fong Siu) defends the family honor after her son (Jet Li) deliberately loses a fight...

  • Fong Sai-Yuk II picture
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    Fong Sai-Yuk II

    A man (Jet Li) dominated by his martial-artist mother (Josephine Hsiao) joins an anti-Manchu society...

  • Johnny Tremain picture
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    Johnny Tremain (1957)

    Johnny Tremain is drawn into the Revolutionary War, and becomes a patriot fighting to free the...

  • Becket picture
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    Becket (1964)

    King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) argues over church and state with Thomas a Becket (Richard Burton) in...

  • The Pride and the Passion picture
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    The Pride and the Passion (1957)

    A British naval officer (Cary Grant) and a Spanish guerrilla (Frank Sinatra) salvage a huge cannon...

  • Kagemusha picture
    Movies

    Kagemusha (1980)

    A 16th-century thief's (Tatsuya Nakadai) life is spared so he can double for a Japanese warlord.

  • Waterloo picture
    Movies

    Waterloo (1970)

    The story of the historic 1815 battle between Napolean and Wellington.

  • Kundun picture
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    Kundun (1997)

    From childhood until his exile as an adult, Tibet's 14th dalai lama (Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Gyurme...

  • Christopher Columbus: the Discovery picture
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    Christopher Columbus: the Discovery (1992)

    He (Georges Corraface) sells his plan to Spain's king (Tom Selleck), queen and grand inquisitor...

  • El Cid picture
    Movies

    El Cid (1961)

    The 11th-century defender (Charlton Heston) of Christianity woos a knight's daughter (Sophia Loren)...

  • The Messenger: the Story of Joan of Arc picture
    Movies

    The Messenger: the Story of Joan of Arc (1999)

    A girl (Milla Jovovich) has visions from God and, at 17, leads an army of Frenchmen, but later she...

  • With Fire and Sword picture
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    With Fire and Sword

    An epic story about the Ukrainian uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth magnates in...

  • The Legend of Suriyothai picture
    Movies

    The Legend of Suriyothai (2003)

    True story of a 16th century Thai Queen who rides into battle against the Burmese to defend her...

  • The Conqueror picture
    Movies

    The Conqueror (1956)

    Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai....

  • Gettysburg picture
    Movies

    Gettysburg (1993)

    In 1863, the Northern and Southern forces fight at Gettysburg in the decisive battle of the American...

  • Lion of the Desert picture
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    Lion of the Desert (1981)

    Bedouin hero Omar Mukhtar (Anthony Quinn) rallies Libyan guerrillas against an Italian general's...

  • Zulu picture
    Movies

    Zulu (1964)

    A missionary (Jack Hawkins) and his daughter (Ulla Jacobsson) watch African warriors attack a small...

  • The Agony and the Ecstasy picture
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    The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)

    Warrior Pope Julius II (Rex Harrison) commissions Michelangelo (Charlton Heston) to paint frescoes...

  • Andrei Roublev picture
    Movies

    Andrei Roublev (1973)

    An exploration of the struggle of the 15th-century Russian icon painter, Andrei Rublev, to reconcile...

  • Mary, Queen of Scots picture
    Movies

    Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)

    Queen Mary's (Vanessa Redgrave) half brother (Patrick McGoohan) plots against her with Queen...

  • Nicholas and Alexandra picture
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    Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

    Czar Nicholas II (Michael Jayston) and his German bride (Janet Suzman) obey mad monk Rasputin (Tom...

  • Khartoum picture
    Movies

    Khartoum (1966)

    British Gen. Charles ``Chinese'' Gordon (Charlton Heston) becomes a martyr in hostilities with the...

  • The Emperor's Shadow picture
    Movies

    The Emperor's Shadow (1998)

    Set around the period of the 2,000-year-old Qin dynasty, an epic tale about two former childhood...