Thursday, May 25, 2023

Epic Movies: Top 25

image from Gone with the Wind

Top 25 Epic Movies

Wikipedia defines an epic film as “a style of filmmaking with large scale, sweeping scope, and spectacle…It is often focused on a heroic character…[They may] take a historical or a mythical event and add an extravagant setting and lavish costumes, accompanied by an expansive musical score with an ensemble cast, which would make them among the most expensive of films to produce.”

This list of the top 25 epic films of all-time has been assembled by aggregating the resources at the bottom of this page along with overall ranking in Dave’s Movie Database. Movies with sequels that also rated in the top 50 have been consolidated into one entry.


1. Gone with the Wind (1939)
2. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
3. Ben-Hur (1959)
4. The Lord of the Rings: 5. Titanic (1997)

6. Spartacus (1960)
7. Gladiator (2000)
8. Schindler’s List (1993)
9. The Ten Commandments (1956)
10. Braveheart (1995)

11. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
12. Dances with Wolves (1990)
13. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
14. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
15. The Seven Samurai (Schichinin no Samurai) (1954)

16. The Godfather (1972) / The Godfather Part II (1974)
17. Forrest Gump (1994):
18. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957):
19. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
20. Apocalypse Now (1979)

21. Reds (1981)
22. Gandhi (1982)
23. Cleopatra (1963)
24. Patton (1970)
25. Glory (1989)


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Originally posted 8/31/2019; last updated 5/25/2023.

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