A superb looking Shakespeare adaptation, one of the oldest known surviving US feature films. The hump-backed Duke of Gloucester ( Frederick ...

The last days of Hitler holed up in his bunker, an interesting way of portraying the events now incredibly well known due to the excellent 2...

A historic film that unfortunately now only barely survives. This film was one of the first full-length movies, originally lasting over an h...

The hedonistic lives of the Roman Emperors (at least in popular imagination) have always been a rich subject for film. In this early film we...

An early epic though, while undeniably impressive, is a bit long winded. With Naples enduring the cruel regime of Spain, the playboy son of ...

A classic early silent movie, full of dramatic gestures and many extras in period costumes (of dubious historical accuracy). This tells the ...

A hilariously bad sword and sandal tale. The wife of Hercules ( Mickey Hargitay ) is killed by the treachery of Licos ( Massimo Serato ) who...

El Cid is a proper movie epic, huge sets, massive casts of extras and at nearly two hundred minutes long an epic watch as well. Its worth it...

One of the greatest adventures based on true events, but when you are depicting events this epic it is surely hard to go wrong. Actually it ...

A glorious Rudolph Valentino feature from the golden age of silent film with the usual impressively vast sets and large numbers of extras. ...

An epic silent movie, and indeed one of the most expensive ones to ever be made. Douglas Fairbanks  is the Earl of Huntingdon who deserts fr...

A quality historical romp. With England under threat of invasion from the Spanish Armada, Queen Elizabeth ( Flora Robson ) treads a thin l...

They seek him here... they seek him there... During the Terror of the French Revolution Madame le Guillotine is giving the fast dwindlin...

The Cultural Revolution, one of the most terrible and bloody periods in history, is recalled in all this horror in this masterpiece starri...