FabSwingers.com forum: Favourite Epic Film

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

What's your faverourite epic historical film ? Mine is El CID closely followed by Waterloo

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By *reenworld55Man
over a year ago

dorchester

El Cid + 1

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By *ezebelWoman
over a year ago

North of The Wall - youll need your vest

Gone With The Wind

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Spartacus ! Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis - can't beat that really !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Spartacus ! Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis - can't beat that really !

This^ and Ben Hur

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Spartacus ! Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis -

Now, there's porn I don't want to watch!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Night to remember

And

Bedknobs and broomsticks

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Labyrinth

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

passion of the christ

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By *ikki ShooterTV/TS
over a year ago

Epsom

Deer hunter

Ran (world cinema)

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By *luezuluMan
over a year ago

Suffolk

The Longest Day

How the west was won

A Bridge Too Far

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A matter of life and death.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Deer hunter

Ran (world cinema) "

Deerhunter is my favourite too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Into The Wild.

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By *aul DeUther-OneMan
over a year ago

Sussex

"The Longest Day

How the west was won

A Bridge Too Far"

and Lawrence of Arabia. - Amazing to think that those sweeping shots of hordes of horsemen were done without CGI

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The raid, such an amazing film. Must see

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Gone with the Wind for romance and The Battle of Britain for action.

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By *igandanneCouple
over a year ago

Cheltenham

BAMBI

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By *ibbyhunterCouple
over a year ago

keighley

the greatest story ever told , wonderful film.

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

Zulu

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"the greatest story ever told , wonderful film."

What, Bambi?.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Zulu

Good choice!

The Four Feathers is another film of that ilk which I love. Both the original & the remake with Heath Ledger.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Too many to mention, so I'll pick something noone else has yet

Samson and Delilah

Solomon and Sheba

The Ten Commandments

Seems I'm in a Cecil B. Demile and Yul Brynner mood for some reason!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Surprised know one else has said Waterloo with Rod Stieger and Christopher Plummer ! I'm watching it now it is truly amasing for 1970 it must have had a cast of thousands !

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

Longest Day (ooh, topical)

!0 Commandments

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Also surprised Cromwell hasn't been mentioned

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By *ILLY aka SirslagWoman
over a year ago

Land of the Prince Bishops

Dr Zhivago .....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Metropolis

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Zulu Dawn is good but overshadowed by Zulu

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Shawsgank redemption. A sucker for great escape lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Shawshank redemption closely followerd by the green mile

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not set too long ago but 'Big Wednesday'

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Lol I think this has turned into a general best film ! I was originally thinking of historical epics ! But he Ho Ho with the flow

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

The Right Stuff, quite a good film.

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By *heBirminghamWeekendMan
over a year ago

here

Local Hero

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm with Tina Zulu

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The godfather

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Roots the movie or TV show

Makes me glad to be born in this day and age.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

How about Khartoum ! Lawrence Olivia and Charlton Heston ! And about five seperate battles

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Gone with the Wind for romance and The Battle of Britain for action."
certainly battle of britain the main reason we still have our country,

Also like the scene with lawrence

Olivier in henry v waiting for the

exact moment before giveing his english

Archers the order to fire their longbows

at the french knights and aristocracy the

Dolphin being one, chargeing the english

on horseback.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Gone with the Wind for romance and The Battle of Britain for action. certainly battle of britain the main reason we still have our country,

Also like the scene with lawrence

Olivier in henry v waiting for the

exact moment before giveing his english

Archers the order to fire their longbows

at the french knights and aristocracy the

Dolphin being one, chargeing the english

on horseback. "
The battle of agincourt.

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By *aceytopWoman
over a year ago

from a town near you

fried green tomatos at the whistle stop café,oh and the Godfather

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By *aceytopWoman
over a year ago

from a town near you

"fried green tomatos at the whistle stop café,oh and the Godfather"
they aren't epics realy are they

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Lol noooooo ! That wasn't the idea lol

think more Spartacus

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

Cleopatra or The Man who would be King.

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By *aceytopWoman
over a year ago

from a town near you

"Lol noooooo ! That wasn't the idea lol

think more Spartacus

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well if it helps I love spartacus

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Life of Brian

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Modern: Gladiator

Older: Spartacus

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Blazin Saddles anyone?

funny, political, the only western with nazi's in it.....

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Lol

not what I had on mind but glad it's got people posting ! Charge of the light brigade with Trevor Howard would have counted !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cleopatra....I could look at Elizabeth Taylor for ever...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sponge bob the movie

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

That's more like it

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By *luezuluMan
over a year ago

Suffolk

"Cleopatra or The Man who would be King."
ohh good shout

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Here's one under the radar ! Alfred the Great starting Micheal York

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fiddler on the roof!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Zulu michael caine

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Once Upon a Time in America

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By *omMLMan
over a year ago

The Centre of the Universe

Robin Hood the one with Errol Flynn

Citizen Cane

The magnificent Seven

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Fiddler on the roof! "

" If I were a rich man ......, " great got that song in my head now !

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By *bony in IvoryCouple
over a year ago

Black&White Utopia

Jason and the Argonauts

The Colour Purple..

Plus many that already been mentioned... Sunday afternoon films .. Classics

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How about Glory, Denzil Washington, or The Last Samurai, modern but epic battle scenes and moving at the end

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By *bony in IvoryCouple
over a year ago

Black&White Utopia

"Fiddler on the roof!

" If I were a rich man ......, " great got that song in my head now ! "
match maker match maker make me a match!

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By *awty MaxWoman
over a year ago

Edinburgh

"What's your faverourite epic historical film ? Mine is El CID closely followed by Waterloo

So many...

Gladiator,

Troy

The last of the Mohicans,

Dances with the wolves,

The Postman...

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By *awty MaxWoman
over a year ago

Edinburgh

The magnificent Seven "

love that film

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Fiddler on the roof!

" If I were a rich man ......, " great got that song in my head now ! "

You wouldn't get it these days though roof tiles are shit you would go through or slid3e off.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Battle of Britain superb. Also dambusters

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lord of them there rings and that.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Star Wars - but I'm a little bias.

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