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1. Titanic (1997)
directed by James Cameron
featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher
This spectacular epic re-creates the ill-fated maiden voyage of the White Star Line's $7.5 million R.M.S Titanic and the tragic sea disaster of April ... More
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2. Out of Africa (1985)
directed by Sydney Pollack
featuring Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen, Malick Bowens
Out of Africa is drawn from the life and writings of Danish author Isak Dinesen, who during the time that the film's events occured was known by her ... More
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3. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
directed by David Lean
featuring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness
Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as ... More
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4. Australia (2008)
directed by Baz Luhrmann
featuring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson
Set against the scenic backdrop of pre-World War II Australia, Baz Luhrmann's romantic period adventure stars Nicole Kidman as an English aristocrat ... More
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5. Legends of the Fall (1994)
directed by Edward Zwick
featuring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Henry Thomas, Julia Ormond, Tantoo Cardinal
The sweeping, melodramatic saga of three brothers, their powerful father, and a beautiful woman, the popular period drama Legends of the Fall ... More
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6. Far and Away (1992)
directed by Ron Howard
featuring Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson, Robert Prosky, Barbara Babcock
In this epic Ron Howard film, Joseph Donelly (Tom Cruise) is an impoverished 19th-century Irish tenant farmer who has recently lost both his father ... More
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7. The English Patient (1996)
directed by Anthony Minghella
featuring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Naveen Andrews
Anthony Minghella wrote and directed this award-winning adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel about a doomed and tragic romance set against the ... More
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8. The Thorn Birds [TV Miniseries] (1983)
directed by Daryl Duke
featuring Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Bryan Brown
This mammoth TV miniseries, based on the best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough, proved to be a ratings bonanza; indeed, its viewership was ... More
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9. Cleopatra (1963)
directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown, Roddy McDowall, George Cole, Martin Landau
In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word -- an epic investment, an epic in the annals of ... More
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10. Gone With the Wind (1939)
directed by Victor Fleming
featuring Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel
Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer David O. Selznick managed to ... More
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11. Atonement (2007)
directed by Joe Wright
featuring James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Romola Garai, Saoirse Ronan, Vanessa Redgrave
A mischievous girl accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit, only to find that her words have irrevocably and permanently ... More
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12. Reds (1981)
directed by Warren Beatty
featuring Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski, Jack Nicholson
Few filmmakers other than Warren Beatty would have had the courage and vision to fashion an epic film from the life of famed American Communist John ... More
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13. The Blue and the Gray (1982)
directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
featuring Colleen Dewhurst, Gregory Peck, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Vaughn, Stacy Keach
Originally networkcast in three installments, the 8-hour Blue and the Gray is a sprawling adaptation of a story concept by Civil War historian Bruce ... More
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14. Map of the Human Heart (1993)
directed by Vincent Ward
featuring Jason Scott Lee, Anne Parillaud, Patrick Bergin, Robert Joamie, Annie Galipeau, John Cusack
A white, Inuit boy named Avik is the focus of New Zealand director Vincent Ward's meditation on race and romance. In the opening moments of the movie ... More
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15. War and Peace (1972)
directed by John Davies
featuring Anthony Hopkins, Anatole Baker, Faith Brook, Donald Burton, Erik Chitty
Of the many stage, screen, and television adaptations of Leo Tolstoy's mammoth novel War and Peace, this multi-episode British TV version is widely ... More
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16. Indochine (1992)
directed by Regis Wargnier
featuring Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Jean Yanne, Linh-Dan Pham, Dominique Blanc
Regis Wargnier's epic about French Indochina -- from the years of French colonial imperialism to the days when American presence made itself felt and ... More
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17. War and Peace (1956)
directed by King Vidor
featuring Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman, Anita Ekberg
War and Peace is a commendable attempt to boil down Tolstoy's long, difficult novel into 208 minutes' screen time. In recreating the the social and ... More
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18. Raintree County (1957)
directed by Edward Dmytryk
featuring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Nigel Patrick, Lee Marvin
Conceived as a Gone With the Wind for the CinemaScope generation, Raintree County wasn't quite as successful as its role model, but it still proved a ... More
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19. Partition (2007)
directed by Vic Sarin
featuring Jimi Mistry, Kristin Kreuk, John Light, Neve Campbell, Irfan Khan
In a time when India and Pakistan are being torn apart, true love still manages to take root despite the fear and intolerance that blights the ... More
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20. Cleopatra (1934)
directed by Cecil B. DeMille
featuring Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon, Gertrude Michael, Joseph Schildkraut
Film historian William K. Everson once observed that the secret to the success of Cecil B. DeMille's 1934 Cleopatra is that DeMille subtly reshaped ... More
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21. War and Peace (1967)
directed by Sergei Bondarchuk
featuring Lyudmila Savelyeva, Sergei Bondarchuk, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Viktor Stanitsyn, Kira Ivanova-Golovko
Russian director Sergei Bondarchuk's epic version of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace (Voyna i Mir) was the most expensive European film ever made for ... More
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22. Esther and the King (1961)
directed by Raoul Walsh
featuring Joan Collins, Richard Egan, Denis O'Dea, Sergio Fantoni
Just over a decade before she would gain fame and some fortune as Alexis Carrington in television's Dynasty series, Joan Collins starred as Esther in ... More
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23. The Far Pavilions (1984)
directed by Peter Duffell
The lavishly produced three-part telemovie The Far Pavilions was adapted from the best-selling novel by M.M. Kaye. Set in colonial India during the ... More
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24. The Promise (2006)
directed by Chen Kaige
featuring Hiroyuki Sanada, Jang Dong-gun, Cecilia Cheung, Nicholas Tse, Liu Ye
Love and war conspire to create a romantic triangle in this lavish historical epic from director Chen Kaige. A young girl who has lost her parents to ... More
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25. Catherine Cookson's The Black Candle (1991)
directed by Roy Battersby
At the turn of the century, a widow decides to set her dead husbands business back in the black column. Her efforts to get the mill going again, ... More
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