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A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics looks at Hollywood’s biggest screen spectaculars from all sides, including the genre’s beginnings, literary adaptations, great epic directors and actors, the challenges of making big-budget movies, classic set-pieces and epic music scores. The special also looks at how the genre fell out of favor with audiences and filmmakers in the ‘70s and ‘80s, only to be reborn with more recent films like Gladiator, and Dances with Wolves trilogy. Throughout, the special is packed with classic scenes and behind-the-scenes images from such films as The Birth of a Nation (1915), Gone With the Wind (1939), Samson & Delilah (1949), The Ten Commandments (1956), Ben-Hur (1959), El Cid (1961), King of Kings (1961), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Doctor Zhivago (1965).

Credits

Steven Spielberg as Himself

Kenneth Branagh as Himself

Martin Landau as Himself

Omar Sharif as Himself

Robert Osborne as Himself

A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics Cast

Name	Character
Steven Spielberg He was 63, now 78 years old	as Himself
Kenneth Branagh He was 49, now 64 years old	as Himself
Martin Landau He was 81, 89 years old when he died	as Himself
Omar Sharif He was 77, 83 years old when he died	as Himself
Robert Osborne He was 77, 84 years old when he died	as Himself

A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics Crew

Name	Department
Laurent Bouzereau as Director. He was 47 (now 62) years old	Directing
Laurent Bouzereau as Writer. He was 47 (now 62) years old	Writing

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A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics (15 years)

Release day: Sunday, December 20, 2009
Runtime: 58 minutes