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A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics (2009)
Director: Laurent Bouzereau
Cast: Robert Osborne, Steven Spielberg, Kenneth Branagh, Martin Landau
7.0Runtime58 min
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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).
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This 2009 documentary directed by Laurent Bouzereau offers a comprehensive and captivating exploration of the epic film genre, featuring insights from renowned filmmakers like Steven Spielberg and Kenneth Branagh. Fans of classic Hollywood cinema and the grand spectacles of films like Lawrence of Arabia and Ben-Hur will appreciate the behind-the-scenes look at how these sweeping productions were brought to life.