Historical Epic Movies

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Movie Name
Country
Release Year
Genghis Khan
Mongolia
2000
Great production values, lavish epic (Sunday, July 7, 2002)
Heaven And Earth
Japan
1990
Waste of time (theirs and mine) (Thursday, July 1, 2004)
Khunsuk
Thailand
2003
Tanit Jitnukul (Director) Worrawith Kaewpetch Sawinee Pookaroon
A very worthy historical epic (Sunday, October 12, 2003)
Kunpan - Legend of the Warlord
Thailand
2002
Tanit Jitnukul (Director) Watchara Tangkaprasert Bongkoj Khongmalai Apichai Nipattahuttapong
Well, I don't recommend *not* watching (Friday, May 25, 2012)
Little Big Soldier
China
2009
Ding Sheng (Director) Jackie Chan (Action Director, Actor) Wang Lee-Hom Yoo Seung-Jun Lin Peng Ken Lo Yu Rong-Guang
Well worth a look. (Wednesday, November 10, 2010)
Musa
South Korea
2001
Kim Sung-Su (Director, Writer) Jung Woo-Sung Ahn Sung-Kee Zhang Ziyi Joo Jin-Mo Park Yong-Woo Park Jung-Hak Yu Hae-Jin Song Jae-Ho Hae-jin Yoo Shiro Sagisu (Soundtrack) Kim Hyung-Koo (Cinematographer)
Superb epic (Thursday, April 4, 2002)
Padmaavat
India
2018
Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Director, Writer, Soundtrack) Ranveer Singh Deepika Padukone Shahid Kapoor Jim Sarbh Aayam Mehta Ujjwal Chopra Raza Murad Aditi Rao Hydari Anupriya Goenka Padmavati Rao Prakash R. Kapadia (Writer) Sudeep Chatterjee (Cinematographer) Sanchit Balhara (Soundtrack) Ankit Balhara (Soundtrack)
Looks pretty but weak in most other respects (Monday, June 28, 2021)
Ran (Chaos)
Japan
1985
Akira Kurosawa (Director, Writer) Tatsuya Nakadai Akira Terao Jinpachi Nezu Daisuke Ryû Mieko Harada Yoshiko Miyazaki Hisashi Igawa William Shakespeare (Writer) Asakazu Nakai (Cinematographer)
Kurosawa despairs at the human condition (Tuesday, May 22, 2012)
Seven Samurai
Japan
1954
Akira Kurosawa (Director, Writer) Toho Co. (Production Company) Takashi Shimura Toshiro Mifune Yoshio Inaba Seiji Miyaguchi Minoru Chiaki Daisuke Katō Isao Kimura Keiko Tsushima Tatsuya Nakadai Shinobu Hashimoto (Writer) Hideo Oguni (Writer) Asakazu Nakai (Cinematographer) Fumio Hayasaka (Soundtrack)
One of the best films ever made (Friday, January 31, 2003)
Sino Dutch War 1661
China
2001
Wu Zi-Niu (Director) Zhao Wen-Zhao Shui Ling
Nice story, badly made film (Sunday, January 6, 2002)