Epic Films

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Romantic Epic Films - History
... The epic is among the oldest of film genres, with one early notable example being Giovanni Pastrone's Cabiria, a three-hour silent film about the Punic Wars that laid the ... Hollywood frequently collaborated with foreign film studios (such as Rome's Cinecittà) to use relatively exotic locations in Spain, Morocco, and elsewhere for the production of epic films ... Nevertheless, films in this genre continued to appear, with one notable example being War and Peace, which was released in the Soviet Union in 1966-67, directed by Sergei Bondarchuk ...

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