Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 20th Century Fox/Courtesy Everett Collection; Francois Duhamel/Fox Searchlight; Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty 'Master and ...

Epics like The Last Emperor and Gladiator showcase the genre's full might, presenting absorbing depictions of the past on an ...

Ben-Hur, Gladiator, and The Last Duel are all among the greatest epic movies that are perfectly directed from start to finish ...

Historical epics usually get praised for the obvious things first: scale, costumes, production design, battle scenes, prestige. That’s fine, but it also misses the point. The truly great ones are not ...

To understand the historical epic genre, one must first break it down. Obviously, the "historical" portion means the movie is about a series of true events that occurred in the past, though it is ...

History lovers, take heart: over the next year and change, there are a slew of historical movies hitting the big screen from some of the very best filmmakers in the biz, spanning an impressive breadth ...

'Master and Commander,' '12 Years a Slave,' 'Lawrence of Arabia' If you don’t know your past, you don’t know your future. It may be a cliché, but it’s true. Luckily, the movies are always here to tell ...