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A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics (2009)

A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics (2009)

TV Movie Documentary
Release Date: 2009, December 20
Directors: Laurent Bouzereau
Countries: United States of America
Production: DreamWorks Television, Turner Classic Movies
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Robert Osborne, Martin Landau, Omar Sharif

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).