Historical Epic
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    A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

    The bloody emergence of the Philippines in three beautiful personal stories. Made as a monument for...

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    Legend of Thyl

    A 16th-century romance that recounts the adventures of a mythical German prankster, Till...

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    The Emperor and the Assassin (1999)

    A concubine (Gong Li) helps her lover (Li Xuejian) carry out a complicated plot that will help him...

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    Glory (1989)

    Col. Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick) trains and leads an all-black regiment of the U.S. Civil...

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    Henry V (1989)

    Shakespeare's king of England (Kenneth Branagh) attacks France and declares his love for the French...

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    The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey (2005)

    Based on the life and times of Mangal Pandey, 1857: The Rising is a film about the leader of the...

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    The Birth Of A Nation (1915)

    Events leading up to and following the Civil War are dramatized in this classic silent film by D.W....

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    A Battle of Wits

    Story centers on a battle during China's Warring States Period, a series of civil wars, which...

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    Twin Sisters (2005)

    Twin siblings (Thekla Reuten, Nadja Uhl) lead very different lives after they are separated as...

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    Xiangzi (2007)

    U.S. government policies and westward expansion lead to tragic consequences for American Indians.

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    King Naresuan 1

    Story of Suriyothai's great-grandson Nares, picking up 100 years later when Siam is once again...

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    I Mille di Garibaldi

    Alessandro Blasetti directed this historical drama focusing on the Battle of Calatafimi. In May,...

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    Alexander Nevsky (1939)

    An account of the 13th-century Russian prince who led his people to victory against Tartar and...

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    Bonnie Prince Charlie

    The Young Pretender (David Niven) leads kilted clansmen into battle against the House of Hanover in...

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    Cabiria (1914)

    Cabiria is an Italian historical epic that ran a full 14 reels (well over three hours) at a time...

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    The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)

    British Lancers (Errol Flynn, Patric Knowles) vow revenge after villainous Surat Khan slaughters...

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    Green Dolphin Street (1947)

    Two sisters (Lana Turner, Donna Reed) love a man (Richard Hart) amid revolt and natural disaster in...

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    Henry V

    Shakespeare's king (Laurence Olivier) attacks France in a drama that begins at the old Globe...

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    Heroes of the Alamo

    Produced by Greek-born Gower Gulch "tycoon" Anthony J. Xydias, this film was a remake, with plenty...

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    Ivan the Terrible, Part 1 (1947)

    The gentry push united Russia's first czar, Ivan IV (Nikolai Cherkasov), out of 16th-century Moscow.

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    Ivan the Terrible: Part 2 (1959)

    First czar of united Russia, Ivan IV (Nikolai Cherkasov) outwits his aunt (Serafina Birman) and the...

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    Napoléon

    The chef d'ouevre of legendary French filmmaker Abel Gance, the 235-minute Napoleon was supposed to...

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    Petr Pervy - Chast 1

    This Russian epic chronicles the first few years of the reign of the title Czar. ~ Sandra Brennan,...

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    Petr Pervy - Chast 2

    The reputation of Soviet filmmaker Vladimir Petrov rests largely on a group of multipart films,...

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    Quo Vadis?

    This Italian silent film version of Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel Quo Vadis? is essentially a series of...

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    Rasputin and the Empress (1933)

    A prince (John Barrymore) plots to kill mad monk Rasputin (Lionel Barrymore) for the good of the...

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    The Red Badge of Courage (1951)

    Based on Stephen Crane's novel of a young Union soldier panicked upon exposure to his first Civil...

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    A Tale of Two Cities (1935)

    Dickens' Madame Defarge knits, the Bastille falls, and a London lawyer (Ronald Colman) makes a great...

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    They Died With Their Boots On (1942)

    A chronicle of George Armstrong Custer's military career, from West Point to his final battle at...

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    Strike

    The first full-length feature project of pantheon Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, Strike is a...