Epic × Drama Genre

  • Epic — self-examination, and finding yourself
  • Drama — endurance, and the weight of an ordinary life

Lives shaped by history. War and upheaval are the backdrop, and the story stays with what they do to ordinary people: families split, choices forced, years lost.

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Epic × Drama films

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  • Schindler's List

    1993

  • The Pianist

    2002

  • Grave of the Fireflies

    1988

  • Inglourious Basterds

    2009

  • Saving Private Ryan

    1998

  • Green Book

    2018

  • Hacksaw Ridge

    2016

  • Apocalypse Now

    1979

  • Full Metal Jacket

    1987

  • Hidden Figures

    2016

  • Oppenheimer

    2023

  • The Imitation Game

    2014

  • 1917

    2019

  • Ford v Ferrari

    2019

  • Paths of Glory

    1957

  • Jojo Rabbit

    2019

  • Braveheart

    1995

  • 12 Years a Slave

    2013

  • Dallas Buyers Club

    2013

  • Incendies

    2010

  • Amadeus

    1984

  • The Elephant Man

    1980

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