A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics

Synopsis

A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics looks at Hollywood’s biggest screen spectaculars from all sides, including the genre’s beginnings, literary adaptations, great epic directors and actors, the challenges of making big-budget movies, classic set-pieces and epic music scores. The special also looks at how the genre fell out of favor with audiences and filmmakers in the ‘70s and ‘80s, only to be reborn with more recent films like Gladiator, and Dances with Wolves trilogy. Throughout, the special is packed with classic scenes and behind-the-scenes images from such films as The Birth of a Nation (1915), Gone With the Wind (1939), Samson & Delilah (1949), The Ten Commandments (1956), Ben-Hur (1959), El Cid (1961), King of Kings (1961), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Doctor Zhivago (1965).

Main Cast

Robert Osborne

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Age : 84 | Popularity : 8%

Steven Spielberg

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Age : 77 | Popularity : 67%

Kenneth Branagh

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Age : 63 | Popularity : 36%

Martin Landau

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Age : 89 | Popularity : 11%

Omar Sharif

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Age : 83 | Popularity : 15%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Laurent Bouzereau
Writing	Writer	Laurent Bouzereau
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