Watch Doctor Zhivago

The icon painter through medieval Russia, the Tatar raid and a boy casting a bell.

A married woman and a doctor meet in a railway tea room; the most restrained love story ever filmed.

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).

Burt Lancaster as a Sicilian prince watching his world end, and Visconti's hour-long ball.

Peter O'Toole crosses the Nefud in 70mm; the desert epic every other desert epic quotes.

British prisoners build a bridge for the Japanese, and a colonel forgets whose side he is on.

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.