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).
Austerlitz and Waterloo hung on a marriage; Phoenix plays him as a sulk.
Moses against Ramesses, with the ten plagues staged as natural disasters.
One accusation told three ways, ending in the last judicial duel France allowed.
A blacksmith becomes a knight and holds Jerusalem against Saladin; watch the director’s cut, not the release.
Columbus crosses, then governs badly; the Vangelis theme outlived the film by decades.
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.
Burt Lancaster as a Sicilian prince watching his world end, and Visconti's hour-long ball.
Lean's Russian Revolution romance, the ice palace and "Lara's Theme".
The icon painter through medieval Russia, the Tatar raid and a boy casting a bell.
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