Watch Troy

Five hours in a U-boat in 1941; the claustrophobia has never been bettered.

Watch Christopher Nolan's adaptation of Homer's ancient Greek epic, The Odyssey. Known for his ambitious filmmaking with practical effects and IMAX cameras, Nolan promises a grand retelling of Odysseus's ten-year journey home after the Trojan War. The film features a star-studded cast and is expected to be a cinematic spectacle.

Fifty days of the Trojan War, the rage of Achilles and the death of Hector; the first book of the West.

Warlords, strategists and the fall of the Han; the Chinese epic every game borrows.

Fifty years of Yugoslavia in a cellar with a brass band; Kusturica's second Palme d'Or.

A blacksmith becomes a knight and holds Jerusalem against Saladin; watch the director’s cut, not the release.

Gilliam's time-loop plague film, with Pitt twitching his way to an Oscar nomination.

Two centuries of Lestat and Louis, in the adaptation Anne Rice initially hated and then took out an advert to praise.