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AFI's list of the ten best epic films of all-time. If someone knows movies it is the American Film Institute. A very trustworthy source of movie and film opinions.

 
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Rank   Name Release Directed by Genre(s) Actor(s)
  1. 1
    1962
    David Lean, Sam Spiegel
    Drama, Costume drama, Action, Adventure, Action/Adventure, LGBT, Roadshow theatrical release, War, Epic 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, Costume drama, Family, Action, Action/Adventure, LGBT, Sword and Sandal, Movies About Gladiators, Roadshow theatrical release, War, Epic, Religious Film, Christian film, Remake More
    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, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Embeth Davidtz, 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, Roadshow theatrical release, War, Romantic drama, Epic, Film adaptation More
    Olivia de Havilland, George Reeves, Cammie King, Clark Gable, Ona Munson, Jack Moran, Evelyn Keyes, Ann Rutherford, William Bakewell, Victor Jory, Thomas Mitchell, Harry Davenport, Butterfly McQueen, Barbara O'Neil, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Hattie McDaniel, Jane Darwell, 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, Jean Simmons, John Gavin, Tony Curtis, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Woody Strode, John Dall More
  6. 6
    1997
    James Cameron
    Drama, Costume drama, Period piece, Disaster, Action/Adventure, Romance film, 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
    Drama, Black-and-white, War, Film adaptation, Pre-Code
    Louis Wolheim, James Gleason, G. Pat Collins, Lew Ayres, Owen Davis, Jr., William Bakewell, Walter B. Rogers, Ben Alexander, John Wray, Beryl Mercer, Scott Kolk, Richard Alexander, Slim Summerville, Harold Goodwin, Arnold Lucy More
  8. 8
    1998
    Steven Spielberg
    Drama, 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, Political drama, War, 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, Roadshow theatrical release, Epic, Christian film, Remake 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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