When people call a movie “epic,” they usually mean it looks big. Large battles, long runtimes, famous scores. But that alone isn’t enough. Plenty of movies are loud and expensive and still feel empty.

From Peter Jackson to James Cameron, some of the best epics were directed by cinema's greatest visionaries. Here are the best ...

Any movie can be heavy, even comedies, when you think about it. Action movies can be fun, sure, but some of them are also pretty grim, and then when you get to epics, that’s a genre that’s obviously ...

Epic movies have been around for decades upon decades at this point, with the genre being one that’s had a certain degree of popularity for as long as cinema’s been around. You can go back to the ...

For hopefully obvious reasons, it’s difficult to make a movie that’s a true epic. Movies are hard enough to make on their own, when they have just a handful of characters, no huge battle sequences or ...

Epic movies don’t always revolve around crime, since you're probably more likely to find epics that are about a war (say The Great Escape for World War II or Apocalypse Now for the Vietnam War), or ...

Plenty of epic movies are worth watching because they're almost perfect, including classics like A Touch of Zen, Gangs of New ...