Historical, legendary or other dramatic films usually involving heroic characters or events
Featured Works
- Schindler's List - 1993 Oscar-winning movie about a German businessman who saved Polish Jews from Auschwitz
Notable Works
- All Quiet on the Western Front - 1930 Oscar-winning movie about what was then called the Great War
- Braveheart - 1995 movie that recounts the story of William Wallace
- Doctor Zhivago - 1965 Oscar-winning movie about life around the time of the 1917 Russian Revolution
- Gone With the Wind - 1939 Oscar-winning movie about romance during the U.S. Civil War
- Spartacus - 1960 Stanley Kubrick film recounting the story of a gladiator who led a slave revolt
- Ten Commandments, The - 1956 movie recounting the biblical story of Moses freeing the Hebrews from Egypt