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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1966 film directed by Sergio Leone
The Last Emperor
1987 film by Bernardo Bertolucci
Once Upon a Time in America
1984 film by Sergio Leone
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968 film by Sergio Leone
Doctor Zhivago
1965 film directed by David Lean
The Leopard
1963 film by Luchino Visconti
1900
1976 film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Rocco and His Brothers
1960 film by Luchino Visconti
Caligula
1979 film by Tinto Brass
Duck, You Sucker!
1971 film directed by Sergio Leone
War and Peace
1956 film directed by King Vidor
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thumb|thumbtime=12|Cabiria (full video) Cabiria is a 1914 Italian epic silent film, directed by Giovanni Pastrone and shot in Turin. The film is set in ancient Sicily, Carthage, and Cirta during the period of the Second Punic War (218–202 BC). It follows the story of an abducted little girl, Cabiria, and features an eruption of Mount Etna, religious rituals in Carthage, the alpine trek of Hannibal, Archimedes' defeat of the Roman fleet at the Siege of Syracuse and Scipio maneuvering in North Africa. Apart from being a classic on its own terms, the film is also notable for being the first film
The Damned
1969 film by Luchino Visconti
Ludwig
1973 film directed by Luchino Visconti
El Cid
1961 film directed by Anthony Mann
Sodom and Gomorrah
1962 film by Robert Aldrich, Sergio Leone
Day of the Falcon
2011 film by Jean-Jacques Annaud
Quo Vadis
1913 film by Enrico Guazzoni
Miracle at St. Anna
2008 film directed by Spike Lee
The Last Days of Pompeii
1959 film by Sergio Leone, Mario Bonnard
Antony and Cleopatra
1913 film by Enrico Guazzoni
The Fall of Troy
1911 film by Giovanni Pastrone, Luigi Romano Borgnetto
Marco the Magnificent
1965 film by Raoul Lévy, Denys de La Patellière, Noël Howard
Carthage in Flames
1959 film by Carmine Gallone
Quo Vadis
1924 film by Georg Jacoby, Gabriellino D'Annunzio
Escape by Night
1960 film by Roberto Rossellini
The Return
2024 film directed by Uberto Pasolini
Guerra di Troia
1961 film by Giorgio Ferroni
The Last Days of Pompeii
1908 short movie directed by Arturo Ambrosio, Luigi Maggi
Legions of the Nile
1959 film by Vittorio Cottafavi
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
1937 film by Carmine Gallone
The Last Days of Pompeii
1913 film by Mario Caserini, Eleuterio Rodolfi
William Tell
historical drama film
War and Peace
2007 Italian TV miniseries directed by Robert Dornhelm
Fabiola
1949 film directed by Alessandro Blasetti
Giovanna d'Arco al rogo
1954 film by Roberto Rossellini
Romulus & Remus: The First King
2019 film directed by Matteo Rovere
Messalina
1923 film by Enrico Guazzoni
L'Odissea
1911 film by Giuseppe de Liguoro, Adolfo Padovan
Jone o Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei
1913 film by Ubaldo Maria Del Colle
The Cossacks
1960 film directed by Victor Tourjansky
Caligola - La storia mai raccontata
1982 Italian film directed by Joe D'Amato
The Tartars
1961 film by Ferdinando Baldi, Richard Thorpe
Nerone
1909 film by Luigi Maggi
Maciste and the Silver King's Daughter
1922 film by Luigi Romano Borgnetto