A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics
8|2009|0h 58m| EN
Overview: 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).
Genres: Documentary, TV Movie
Director: Laurent Bouzereau
Votes: 2
DreamWorks Television
Turner Classic Movies
Main Actors:
Robert Osborne
Acting
Steven Spielberg
Directing
Kenneth Branagh
Acting
Martin Landau
Acting
Omar Sharif
Acting
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