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List of the AFI’s Top Epic Movies. In 2008 the American Film Institute honored America’s 10 greatest films in 10 classic film genres, of which Epic was one. These were chosen from a ballot of 500 nominated films, to a jury of over 1500 leaders in the film industry. The ballot include films from 1915 to 2006.

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Rank   Name Release Directed by Genre(s) Actor(s)
  1. 1
    1962
    David Lean
    Drama, Costume drama, Action, Adventure, Action/Adventure, LGBT, Biographical film, Historical fiction, War, Epic, Roadshow theatrical release More
    Arthur Kennedy, Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, José Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Zia Mohyeddin, Henry Oscar, Donald Wolfit, I. S. Johar, Gamil Ratib, Michel Ray, John Dimech More
  2. 2
    1959
    William Wyler
    Drama, History, Action, Adventure, Romance Film
    Sam Jaffe, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Claude Heater, André Morell, Charlton Heston, Martha Scott, Hugh Griffith, Cathy O'Donnell, George Relph, Frank Thring, Finlay Currie, Terence Longdon More
  3. 3
    1993
    Steven Spielberg
    Drama, Black-and-white, History, Period piece, Biography, Biographical film, Film adaptation, Tragedy More
    Ben Kingsley, Mark Ivanir, Harry Nehring, Embeth Davidtz, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Ludger Pistor, Miri Fabian, Ezra Dagan, Aldona Grochal, Albert Misak, Beata Paluch, Anna Mucha, Malgoscha Gebel, Jonathan Sagall, Beata Nowak, Adi Nitzan, Friedrich von Thun, Krzysztof Luft, Shmulik Levy More
  4. 4
    1939
    Victor Fleming, Sam Wood, George Cukor
    Drama, Costume drama, Period piece, Romance Film, War, Romantic drama, Epic, Film adaptation, Roadshow theatrical release More
    Olivia de Havilland, George Reeves, Cammie King, Clark Gable, Ona Munson, Evelyn Keyes, Harry Davenport, Jane Darwell, Ann Rutherford, William Bakewell, Victor Jory, Fred Crane, Thomas Mitchell, Mary Anderson, Butterfly McQueen, Barbara O'Neil, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Hattie McDaniel, Ward Bond, Irving Bacon, Yakima Canutt, Cliff Edwards More
  5. 5
    1960
    Anthony Mann, Stanley Kubrick
    Drama, Costume drama, History, Period piece, Biography, Action, Adventure, Action/Adventure, LGBT, Romance Film, Movies About Gladiators, Biographical film, War, Epic More
    John Ireland, Peter Ustinov, Nina Foch, Charles McGraw, Herbert Lom, Charles Laughton, Jean Simmons, John Gavin, Tony Curtis, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Woody Strode, John Dall More
  6. 6
    1997
    James Cameron
    Drama, Costume drama, Period piece, Disaster, Action/Adventure, Romance Film, Historical fiction, Romantic drama, Tragedy More
    Gloria Stuart, James Cameron, Kate Winslet, Suzy Amis, Eric Braeden, Jason Barry, Bill Paxton, Victor Garber, Ewan Stewart, Jonathan Hyde, Kathy Bates, Nicholas Cascone, Bernard Hill, Lewis Abernathy, Billy Zane, Bernard Fox, Jonathan Phillips, Leonardo DiCaprio, Frances Fisher, David Warner, Danny Nucci, Ioan Gruffudd More
  7. 7
    1930
    Lewis Milestone
    Black-and-white, Action, War, Drama Film, Film adaptation, Pre-Code
    Louis Wolheim, G. Pat Collins, Lew Ayres, Owen Davis, Jr., William Bakewell, Walter B. Rogers, Ben Alexander, John Wray, Beryl Mercer, Russell Gleason, Scott Kolk, Richard Alexander, Slim Summerville, Harold Goodwin, Arnold Lucy More
  8. 8
    1998
    Steven Spielberg
    Drama, History, Action, War
    Paul Giamatti, Dennis Farina, Demetri Goritsas, Steve Griffin, Julian Spencer, Markus Napier, Tom Hanks, Vin Diesel, Barry Pepper, Nathan Fillion, Daniel Cerqueira, Tom Sizemore, Matt Damon, Ian Porter, Giovanni Ribisi, Jeremy Davies, Adam Shaw, Bryan Cranston, Gary Sefton, Rolf Saxon, Dylan Bruno, Edward Burns, Ted Danson, William Marsh, Anna Maguire , Max Martini, Adam Goldberg, Joerg Stadler, Marc Cass More
  9. 9
    1981
    Warren Beatty
    Drama, Period piece, Biography, Romance Film, Biographical film, War, Political drama, Romantic drama, New Hollywood More
    Pat Starr, Macintyre Dixon, Gene Hackman, Nicolas Coster, Warren Beatty, Max Wright, Bessie Love, Jerzy Kosiński, Jack Nicholson, Roger Sloman, M. Emmet Walsh, Maureen Stapleton, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Paul Sorvino, Stefan Gryff, Ian Wolfe More
  10. 10
    1956
    Cecil B. DeMille
    Drama, Costume drama, History, Adventure, Epic, Christian film, Remake, Roadshow theatrical release More
    Robert Vaughn, Clint Walker, Edward G. Robinson, Woody Strode, Michael Ansara, Rushdy Abaza, Yvonne De Carlo, Douglass Dumbrille, John Derek, Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Nina Foch, Debra Paget, Mike Connors, Donald Hayne, John Carradine, Martha Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson More

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