Sword-and-sandal films

2004 film by Oliver Stone

1979 film by Tinto Brass

thumb|This poster for Goliath and the Barbarians (1959) by [[Carlo Campogalliani illustrates many people's expectations from films of this genre.]] Sword-and-sandal, also known as peplum (: pepla), is a subgenre of largely Italian-made historical, mythological, or biblical epic films mostly set in the Greco-Roman antiquity or the Middle Ages. These films attempted to emulate the big-budget Hollywood historical epics of the time, such as Samson and Delilah (1949), Quo Vadis (1951), The Robe (1953), The Ten Commandments (1956), Ben-Hur (1959), Spartacus (1960), and Cleopatra (1963). These films

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

2011 film directed by Kevin Macdonald

frame|Bartolomeo Pagano as Maciste Maciste () is one of the oldest recurring characters of cinema, created by Gabriele d'Annunzio and Giovanni Pastrone. He is featured throughout the history of the cinema of Italy from the 1910s to the mid-1960s.

1911 film by Giovanni Pastrone, Luigi Romano Borgnetto

1908 short movie directed by Arturo Ambrosio, Luigi Maggi

1937 film by Carmine Gallone

1949 film directed by Alessandro Blasetti

1919 film by Ugo Falena