Greatest classic epic filmmaker?

by yrnej | Public

Per Roger Ebert - The word epic in recent years has become synonymous with big budget B picture. What you realize watching Lawrence of Arabia is that the word epic refers not to the cost or the elaborate production, but to the size of the ideas and vision.

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Cecil B. DeMille

Producer | The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments (1956), The Greatest Show on Earth, The King of Kings

John Ford

Director | The Quiet Man

How the West Was Won, The Searchers, Rio Grande

D.W. Griffith

Director | The Birth of a Nation

Abraham Lincoln, Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages, The Birth of a Nation

Stanley Kubrick

Director | 2001: A Space Odyssey

2001: A Space Odyssey, Spartacus, Paths of Glory

Akira Kurosawa

Writer | Kakushi-toride no san-akunin

Yôjinbô, Seven Samurai, Rashomon

David Lean

Director | Lawrence of Arabia

Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, Oliver Twist

Sergio Leone

Writer | Once Upon a Time in America

Once Upon a Time in the West, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, For a Few Dollars More, A Fistful of Dollars

Lewis Milestone

Director | All Quiet on the Western Front

Mutiny on the Bounty, Les Miserables, All Quiet on the Western Front