A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics

A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics

🎞️ Movie 58 min US
โ˜… 7.1 /10 2009

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).

Cast

Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg
Self
Self - Interviewee
Robert Osborne
Robert Osborne
Self
Self - Interviewee
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Self
Self - Interviewee
Fraser C. Heston
Fraser C. Heston
Self
Self - Interviewee
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Rudy Behlmer
Self
Self - Interviewee
Omar Sharif
Omar Sharif
Self
Self - Interviewee
Jeff Byrd
Jeff Byrd
Cinematographer
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Sovonto Green
Cinematographer
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Bertrand Lecuyer
Cinematographer
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Eric Marquis
Cinematographer