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

Jet Li tells the King of Qin three versions of a story, each in a different colour.

A fourth wife in a 1920s compound competing for the lantern; Zhang Yimou and Gong Li.

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.

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.

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