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epic film
Sign in to saveAlso known as epic movie, film epic, epic motion picture, film spectacle, spectacle film, spectacle, spectacular
film genre with large scale, sweeping scope, and spectacle
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It is catalogued under topics including Epic films and Film genres.
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Encyclopedic overview
The 1914 Italian film Cabiria is one of the earliest known epic films.
Epic films are films which have large scale, sweeping scope, and spectacle. The term is slightly ambiguous, sometimes designating a film genre and at other times simply big-budget films. Like epics in the classical literary sense, an epic film is often focused on a heroic character. An epic's ambitious nature helps to set it apart from other genres such as the period piece or adventure film.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “epic film” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.