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Filmmakers who want to go big and impress viewers with things never seen before are likely fans of the epic genre. An epic movie is one that tends to be based on real events and/or real people, plays out over a runtime where an intermission often feels necessary, and has a tremendous amount of money put into production for the purpose of impressing audiences. Spectacle, scale, and length are what the epic genre is all about.
29 'Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India' Directed by Ashutosh Gowariker ✕ Remove Ads Working as both a great epic and an excellent sports movie in equal measure, Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India succeeds in making cricket exciting and cinematic, even for those who might find the game itself tedious.
✕ Remove Ads With RRR, the protagonists are two historical figures who are imagined meeting up in this film and taking on British rule in India, fighting back against repression and injustices in over-the-top action set pieces. RRR delivers spectacle better than many other big movies have in recent years, and finds ways to push the action genre to what feels like its absolute limits, albeit doing so without ever losing the plot entirely.
*Availability in US Release Date May 5, 2000 Director Ridley Scott Cast Russell Crowe , Joaquin Phoenix , Connie Nielsen , Oliver Reed , Richard Harris , Derek Jacobi , Djimon Hounsou , David Schofield , John Shrapnel , Tomas Arana , Ralf Moeller , Spencer Treat Clark , David Hemmings , Tommy Flanagan , Sven-Ole Thorsen , Omid Djalili , Nicholas McGaughey , Chris Kell , Tony Curran , Mark Lewis , John Quinn , Alun Raglan , David Bailie , Chick Allan , David J.
✕ Remove Ads So it's a romance/drama/war film, and one of the earliest films that can be recognized as a classic Hollywood epic movie. Gone with the Wind has also been controversial, especially when watched today, due to some of its political and racial content, which can date the film as a whole to some extent.
19 'Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages' Directed by D.W. Griffith Most film buffs will appreciate how great movies were released as far back as the 1920s, but films made even earlier tend to get overlooked. The 1910s was when the feature film format began to take shape, and many broad cinematic genres/conventions came to be formed. D.W.
17 'The Ten Commandments' Directed by Cecil B. DeMille The biblical story of Moses and the Ten Commandments has been continually told and re-told throughout cinema history. Examples from at least the past few decades have included the underrated animated film The Prince of Egypt, as well as the unfortunately not-very-good Ridley Scott epic Exodus: Gods and Kings. Legendary American filmmaker Cecil B.
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