Posts Tagged ‘epic’

Gone with the Wind (1939)

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Clark Gable | Vivien Leigh | Leslie Howard | Olivia de Havilland | Thomas Mitchell
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Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie.

The Patriot (2000)

Monday, July 13th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Steven Seagal | Gailard Sartain | L. Q. Jones | Silas Weir Mitchell | Camilla Belle | Dan Beene | Damon Collazo | Whitney Yellow Robe | Brad Leland | Molly McClure | Philip Winchester | Douglas Sebern | Ross Loney | Bernard O'Connor | Leonard Mountain Chief
Directors: Dean Semler
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The movie takes place in South Carolina in 1776. Benjamin Martin, a French-Indian war hero who is haunted by his past, is a patriot who wants no part in a war with Britian. Meanwhile, his two eldest sons, Gabriel and Thomas, can’t wait to go out and kill some Redcoats. When South Carolina decides to go to war with Britain, Gabriel immediatly signs up to fight…without his father’s permission. But soon, Colonel Tavington, British solder infamous for his brutal tactiks, captures Gabriel and sentences him to be hanged. As Gabriel is taken away, Thomas tries to free him, only to be killed by Tavington, in front of Benjamin. Now, seeking revenge for his son’s death, Benjamin leaves behind his 5 other children to bring independence to the 13 colonies.

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Omar Sharif | Julie Christie | Geraldine Chaplin | Rod Steiger | Alec Guinness | Tom Courtenay | Siobhan McKenna | Ralph Richardson | Rita Tushingham | Jeffrey Rockland | Tarek Sharif | Bernard Kay | Klaus Kinski | Gérard Tichy | Noel Willman
Directors: David Lean
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A Russian epic, the movie traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse, Zhivago is torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the revolution but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Monday, June 8th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: William Shatner | Leonard Nimoy | DeForest Kelley | James Doohan | George Takei | Majel Barrett | Walter Koenig | Nichelle Nichols | Persis Khambatta | Stephen Collins | Grace Lee Whitney | Mark Lenard | Billy Van Zandt | Roger Aaron Brown | Gary Faga
Directors: Robert Wise
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A strange cloud descends upon Klingon vessels and eradicates them with an energy bolt. The Epsilon IX space station alerts the Federation, but they too are wiped out by the entity. The starship assigned to the case is, what else, the NCC-1701. That would be the registration number for the U.S.S. Enterprise, which has been rebuilt. Thus, the entire original crew you knew from the TV show returns. Although they are prepared to face the entity, nothing will prepare them for the ride to come. The film asks the question Paul Gauguin asks in a painting bearing this name: “Where do [I] come from? What [am I]? Where [am I] going?” Trekkers, note the appearance of Will Decker, the son of Matt Decker, who killed himself in the TV episode, “The Doomsday Machine”. The film can be summed up in a single word: beautiful.

The Robe (1953)

Friday, May 8th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Richard Burton | Jean Simmons | Victor Mature | Michael Rennie | Jay Robinson | Dean Jagger | Torin Thatcher | Richard Boone | Betta St. John | Jeff Morrow | Ernest Thesiger | Dawn Addams | Leon Askin | Michael Ansara | Jan Arvan
Directors: Henry Koster
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Marcellus is a tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group that is assigned to crucify Jesus. Drunk, he wins Jesus’ homespun robe after the crucifixion. He is tormented by nightmares and delusions after the event. Hoping to find a way to live with what he has done, and still not believing in Jesus, he returns to Palestine to try and learn what he can of the man he killed.

The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)

Friday, May 8th, 2009
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Charlton Heston | Rex Harrison | Diane Cilento | Harry Andrews | Alberto Lupo | Adolfo Celi | Venantino Venantini | John Stacy | Fausto Tozzi | Maxine Audley | Tomas Milian | Alec McCowen | Furio Meniconi | Adolfo Pezzini
Directors: Carol Reed
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Pope Julius is eager to leave behind works by which he will be remembered. To this end he cajoles Michelangelo into painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When not on the battlefield uniting Italy, the Pope nags Michelangelo to speed up his painful work on the frescoes.

Schindler’s List (1993)

Friday, April 24th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Liam Neeson | Ben Kingsley | Ralph Fiennes | Caroline Goodall | Jonathan Sagall | Embeth Davidtz | Malgoscha Gebel | Shmuel Levy | Mark Ivanir | Béatrice Macola | Andrzej Seweryn | Friedrich von Thun | Krzysztof Luft | Harry Nehring | Norbert Weisser
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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“Schindler’s List” is the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear, Schindler’s motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and he is able to save over 1100 Jews from death in the gas chambers.

Cold Mountain (2003)

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Jude Law | Nicole Kidman | Renée Zellweger | Eileen Atkins | Brendan Gleeson | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Natalie Portman | Giovanni Ribisi | Donald Sutherland | Ray Winstone | Kathy Baker | James Gammon | Charlie Hunnam | Jack White | Ethan Suplee
Directors: Anthony Minghella
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Jude Law plays a leading role as Inman, a wounded confederate soldier who is on a perilous journey home to his mountain community, hoping to reunite with his prewar sweetheart, Ada, played by Nicole Kidman.

Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Derek Luke | Michael Ealy | Laz Alonso | Omar Benson Miller | Pierfrancesco Favino | Valentina Cervi | Matteo Sciabordi | John Turturro | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | John Leguizamo | Kerry Washington | D.B. Sweeney | Robert John Burke | Omari Hardwick | Omero Antonutti
Directors: Spike Lee
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Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ramon Novarro | Francis X. Bushman | May McAvoy | Betty Bronson | Claire McDowell | Kathleen Key | Carmel Myers | Nigel De Brulier | Mitchell Lewis | Leo White | Frank Currier | Charles Belcher | Dale Fuller | Winter Hall | Reginald Barker
Directors: Charles Brabin
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Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.