Casts of thousands. See them big.
the template for every team-assembly film since
the foundation of popular Indian cinema
the chariot race, achieved practically
"I'm Spartacus," and Kubrick for hire
the argument for seeing films on the largest screen available
the most influential Indian film ever made
Kurosawa's late colour, at enormous scale
Kurosawa's Lear, and his most beautiful film
the score, the finale, and one of the most rewatched epics alive
Best Picture, and the epic template for a decade
Palme winner, three hours of Balkan chaos
Best Picture, and the historical epic reborn
cricket, colonialism, and four hours that fly
a flop, and the best seafaring film ever made
one of the most rewatched epics of its decade
enormously divisive, culturally unavoidable
the Iliad as a star vehicle, and the Hector duel
a chase film in Yucatec Maya
the continuous-take conceit at blockbuster scale
a mess with four or five extraordinary sequences
95% and an A CinemaScore for a three-hour R-rated Homer adaptation; Nolan's highest-grossing film
