Columbus crosses, then governs badly; the Vangelis theme outlived the film by decades.
Watch Spartacus, the 1960 epic historical drama directed by Stanley Kubrick (the film is often incorrectly attributed to David Lynch; it stars Kirk Douglas as the Thracian gladiator who leads a slave revolt against the Roman Republic). The film is famous for its massive battle scenes, the iconic 'I am Spartacus' sequence, and a screenplay by Dalton Trumbo (a blacklisted writer who received credit, helping break the Hollywood blacklist).
Moses against Ramesses, with the ten plagues staged as natural disasters.
One accusation told three ways, ending in the last judicial duel France allowed.
Austerlitz and Waterloo hung on a marriage; Phoenix plays him as a sulk.
A blacksmith becomes a knight and holds Jerusalem against Saladin; watch the director’s cut, not the release.
Fifty years of Yugoslavia in a cellar with a brass band; Kusturica's second Palme d'Or.
A family through forty years of Chinese history, from the civil war to the Cultural Revolution.
Two revolutionaries in 1920s India, a tiger, a motorbike and "Naatu Naatu"; Tollywood at full scale.
Two Peking opera stars across fifty years of Chinese history; the only Chinese Palme d'Or.
Lean's Russian Revolution romance, the ice palace and "Lara's Theme".
Burt Lancaster as a Sicilian prince watching his world end, and Visconti's hour-long ball.
The icon painter through medieval Russia, the Tatar raid and a boy casting a bell.
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