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page 1Italian epic films

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