Watch The Leopard

A southern family moves to Milan and the brothers destroy each other; Visconti's epic.

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).

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.

Leone's three-hour opera of a western, with Henry Fonda as the villain and a harmonica.

Two Peking opera stars across fifty years of Chinese history; the only Chinese Palme d'Or.

A family through forty years of Chinese history, from the civil war to the Cultural Revolution.

Columbus crosses, then governs badly; the Vangelis theme outlived the film by decades.