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AFI's "10 Greatest Epic Films: The 50 Nominees"

The American Film Institute’s official 50 nominees for the Top 10 Epics of All-Time (to be announced June 17, 2008)

"AFI defines “epic” as a genre of large-scale films set in a cinematic
interpretation of the past. Their scope defies and demands—either
in the mode in which they are presented or their range across time."

"A bloody sword fight in an ancient coliseum; carnage on an open
battlefield; a country on the eve of revolution. With sweeping
interpretations of turbulent times, epics depict characters that,
whether nobly heroic or shamefully depraved, are living life on the
grandest of scales."

Check out all the entries from "AFI’s Top 10" here: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/55322/tagged_as?name=afi+top+10

In alphabetical order.

(found at: http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/10top10.aspx)
1. All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal Cinema Classics)
by Lewis Milestone
  
2. Apocalypse Now  
3. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925. Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy)
by Fred Niblo
  
4. Ben-Hur
by William Wyler
  
5.
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 The Big Parade
by King Vidor
  
6. The Birth of a Nation  
7. Braveheart  
8. The Bridge on the River Kwai (Collector's Edition, 2 discs) - DVD  
9.
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 El Cid - 2-Disc Deluxe Edition  
10. Cleopatra
by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  
11. Dances with Wolves - Extended Cut (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)  
12. Doctor Zhivago (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by David Lean
  
13. Forrest Gump (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)  
14.
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 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
by Rex Ingram
  
15. Gandhi (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Richard Attenborough
  
16. Giant (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Keepcase)
by George Stevens
  
17. Gladiator (Widescreen Edition)
by Ridley Scott
  
18. Glory
by Edward Zwick
  
19. The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
by Francis Ford Coppola
  
20. Gone With the Wind (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by George Cukor
  
21. The Greatest Story Ever Told
by Jean Negulesco
  
22. How the West Was Won (Ultimate Collector's Edition)  
23. Intolerance (1916) (Silent) (B&W)
by D.W. Griffith
  
24.
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 Julius Caesar (1953)
by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  
25.
?
 The King Of Kings (1927)
by Cecil B. DeMille
  
26.
?
 The Last Emperor  
27. The Last of the Mohicans (Director's Expanded Edition)
by Michael Mann
  
28. The Last Temptation of Christ - Criterion Collection
by Martin Scorsese
  
29. Lawrence of Arabia (Collector's Edition, 2 discs) - DVD  
30.
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 Letters from Iwo Jima
by Clint Eastwood
  
31. The Longest Day
by Bernhard Wicki
  
33. Malcolm X (Two-Disc Special Edition)  
34. The Man Who Would Be King
by John Huston
  
35. Master and Commander - The Far Side of the World (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
by Peter Weir
  
36. Once Upon a Time in America (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Sergio Leone
  
37. The Passion of the Christ (Widescreen Edition)
by Mel Gibson
  
38. Patton
by Franklin J. Schaffner
  
39. Queen Christina
by Rouben Mamoulian
  
40. Quo Vadis (1951)
by Mervyn LeRoy
  
41.
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 Reds (1981)
by Warren Beatty
  
42. The Robe
by Henry Koster
  
43. Samson and Delilah (1949. Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders)
by Cecil B. DeMille
  
44. Saving Private Ryan (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Steven Spielberg
  
45. Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition)
by Steven Spielberg
  
46.
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 The Sign of the Cross (1932)
by Cecil B. DeMille
  
47. Spartacus
by Stanley Kubrick
  
48.
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 The Ten Commandments (1923)
by Cecil B. De Mille
  
49. The Ten Commandments (50th Anniversary Collection)  
50. Titanic  
51. War & Peace (1956) (Ws Sub)
by King Vidor
  
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Created by MKaiserman on May 20, 2008.