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).
Laurent Bouzereau
Director, Writer
Robert Osborne
Self
Steven Spielberg
Self
Kenneth Branagh
Self
Martin Landau
Self
Omar Sharif
Self
The Making of Star Wars70%
And the Oscar Goes To...68%
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe69%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
The Captains63%
Elstree 197661%
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert82%
Above Majestic73%
Justin Bieber's Believe69%
Adele One Night Only78%
That's Entertainment!73%
Cuadecuc, vampir61%
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound69%
Western Stars70%
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends71%
High School71%
That's Entertainment, Part II69%
Ronaldo69%
The Up in Smoke Tour76%
