Epic film
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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 1914 Italian film Cabiria is one of the earliest known epic films.
Cabiria
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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. It follow
Epic film
…Harbor, but it is an epic, and Pearl Harbor is not. The epic is among the oldest of film genres, with one early notable example being Giovanni Pastrone's Cabiria, a two-and-a-half hour silent film about the Punic Wars, which laid the groundwork for the subsequent silent epics of D. W. Griffith. The genre reached…
1914 poster, designed by Leopoldo Metlicovitz
The Temple of Moloch episode, as seen on a poster
Moloch statue from Giovanni Pastrone's Cabiria (1914), National Museum of Cinema (Turin)