* Scenes for the 1989 Oscar-winning Civil War epic, Glory were filmed in the town.

Scenes include African warriors watching their descendants ’ struggles in Alabama, tributes to black scientists and military leaders, recreations of the epic civil rights confrontations in Alabama, and biblical scenes.

Scenes from the epic stories " Mahabharata " and " Ramayana " grace the walls of this 11th-century temple.

From the late 1980s, Andersson had worked on an idea for an epic Swedish language musical based on his affection for traditional folk music, and in October 1995, Kristina från Duvemåla premiered in Sweden.

From 1975 to 1979, a Canadian progressive power trio, Rush, released three albums containing sidelong epics, regarded by some as concept albums ( though not actually concept albums by strict definition of the term ; that is, none of the other songs on the album have anything to do with each other or the 20-minute sidelong epic, so there is no pervasive concept or story ).

From the Place of the Dead: the epic struggles of Bishop Belo of East Timor.

From a starting point that combines Homer's Odyssey and Dante's Divine Comedy to create a personal epic of 20th century life, the poem uses materials from history, politics, literature, art, music, economics, philosophy, mythology, ecology and the poet's personal experiences and ranges across European, American, African and Asian cultures.

His late epic poem From Qiu Jin to Lin Zhao was never published.

From epic song-lyric, dithyramb becomes theater.

Valley of the Damned could be construed as a bloated, Spinal Tap-style tribute to early -' 80s fantasy-metal, and in many ways it is ; however, it's so well played and so joyously executed that it could very well reignite the entire genre ... From the epic title track to the fist-pumping closer, " Heart of a Dragon ," the guitar pyrotechnics of Herman Li and Sam Totman light up the sky like a third world war, bending riffs into melodic submission while never overplaying.

" He added that evolution provided Pratt " the solid framework within which he could achieve an epic style ," and also " gave him the themes for his best lyrics " ( such as his much-anthologized " From Stone to Steel ," from 1932's Many Moods.

From a section translated from the epic Taghribat Bani Hilal, detailing the incursion of the Banu Hilal, in Provotelle's Etude sur la Tamazir't ou Zenatia de Qalaât Es-sned ( Tunisie ) ( 1911 ).

From 1926 to 1927 Döblin worked on his free verse epic Manas, about a figure from Indian mythology, which was published in May 1927.

From 1996 to 2003, he created the acclaimed six-volume autobiographical epic l ' Ascension du Haut Mal ( meaning, literally, " The Rise of the High Evil " but published in English as Epileptic, " haut mal " indicating what is referred to in English as a grand mal seizure ).

From the late 1950s, he mostly appeared in character roles, often in epic films like The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia ( playing General Edmund Allenby ), Lord Jim, and Oh!

In addition to his interests in Marjacq, Markstein also wrote a number of thrillers, including The Cooler ( 1974 ), The Man From Yesterday ( 1976 ), Chance Awakening ( 1977, basis of the screenplay Espion, lève-toi by Yves Boisset ), the historical epic Tara Kane ( 1978 ), Goering Testament ( 1978 ), Traitor for a Cause ( 1979 ), Ultimate Issue ( 1981 ), Ferret ( 1983 ), and Soul Hunters ( 1987 ).

From the epic rescue of the crew of the Pyrin and then of half of the crew of the Fernebo in 1917, through to his near drowning in the service to the English Trader in 1941, he would win the gold medal of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution three times and the silver medal four times, the George Cross, the British Empire Medal, and a series of other awards.

From 1939 to 1942, Maxwell served as the dialogue director for the films of epic director Cecil B. DeMille.

" The Van Zandt ' When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky ,' apocalyptic vision bristling with drama, sung without restraint, could have provided Dylan with another epic to counterbalance the mawkish filler he'd been recording since ' New Danville Girl '," writes Heylin.

In the 1960s, Servais took small character roles in popular international fare such as The Longest Day ( 1962 ), an epic recreation of the Allied invasion of Normandy, and That Man From Rio ( 1964 ).

It is perhaps best known for Stevie Ray Vaughan's signature and iconic performance in 1983, including memorably epic takes of " Third Stone From the Sun ," " Texas Flood ," " Little Wing ," and " Lenny.

In contrast, Dante decided to write his epic, the Divine Comedy in Italian — a choice that defied the traditional epic choice of Latin dactylic hexameters — and produced a masterpiece beloved both then and now.

Lighting from a low angle was used more strongly in the Italian epic film Quo Vadis?

These including the epic Cabiria ( 1914 ), whose screenplay was attributed to Italian nationalist Gabriele d ' Annunzio.

The epic poem consists of 12 books in hexameter verse which describe the journey of Aeneas, a prince fleeing the sack of Troy, to Italy, his battle with the Italian prince Turnus, and the foundation of a city from which Rome would emerge.

The perceived deficiency of any account of Aeneas ' marriage to Lavinia or his founding of the Roman race led some writers, such as the 15th-century Italian poet Maffeo Vegio ( through his Mapheus Vegius widely printed in the Renaissance ), Pier Candido Decembrio ( whose attempt was never completed ), Claudio Salvucci ( in his 1994 epic poem The Laviniad ), and Ursula K. Le Guin ( in her 2008 novel Lavinia ) to compose their own supplements.

When director Mario Bonnard fell ill during the production of the 1959 Italian epic The Last Days of Pompeii ( Gli Ultimi Giorni di Pompei ), starring Steve Reeves, Leone was asked to step in and complete the film.

* In 1956, a British-Italian epic titled Helen of Troy was released, directed by Oscar-winning director Robert Wise and starring Italian actress Rossana Podestà in the title role.

In the Inferno, the first part of Italian poet Dante's Divine Comedy epic, Geryon has become the Monster of Fraud, a winged beast with the face of an honest man, the paws of a lion, the body of a wyvern, and a poisonous sting at the tip of his tail.

In the Italian romantic epic Orlando innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo, Bukhara is called Albracca and described as a major city of Cathay.

It was adapted and modified throughout the Middle Ages, including an influential Latin prose version Historia Caroli Magni ( also known as the Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle ), which also includes Roland's battle with a Saracen giant named Ferracutus who is only vulnerable at his navel ( the story was later adapted in the anonymous Franco-Venetian epic L ' Entrée d ' Espagne ( c. 1320 ) and in the 14th century Italian epic La Spagna ( attributed to the Florentine Sostegno di Zanobi and likely composed between 1350 – 1360 ).

Roland appears in Entrée d ' Espagne, a 14th century Franco-Venetian chanson de geste ( in which he is transformed into a knight errant, similar to heroes from the Arthurian romances ) and La Spagna, a 14th century Italian epic.

He won acclaim for his performance in the Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci's 1976 epic film 1900 and as the conflicted father in the Academy award-winning family drama Ordinary People ( 1980 ) alongside Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton.

Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, considered the greatest epic of Italian literature, derived many features of and episodes about the hereafter directly or indirectly from Arabic works on Islamic eschatology: the Hadith and the Kitab al-Miraj ( translated into Latin in 1264 or shortly before as Liber Scale Machometi, " The Book of Muhammad's Ladder ") concerning Muhammad's ascension to Heaven, and the spiritual writings of Ibn Arabi.

The name Latin " Silvanus " may be derived from pre-Roman Italian languages ( see, e. g., the character " Asilas ," an Etruscan leader and warrior-prophet who plays a prominent role in assisting Aeneas in Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid ).

Orlando Furioso ( The Frenzy of Orlando, more literally Mad Orlando ; in Italian furioso is seldom capitalized ) is an Italian epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto which has exerted a wide influence on later culture.

Nevertheless, the strictures of the Classical critics influenced the next great Italian epic, Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata ( 1581 ).

Besides Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, he definitely wrote an Italian epic poem called Delfili Somnium, the " Dream of Delfilo ' which went unpublished in his lifetime and was not published until 1959.

Throughout the 1960s, she appeared in some of the most acclaimed Italian and European films of the period, including Luchino Visconti's Rocco e i suoi fratelli ( Rocco and His Brothers 1960 ) and Il Gattopardo ( The Leopard, 1963 ), Philippe de Broca's Cartouche ( 1963 ), Federico Fellini's Otto e mezzo ( 8½ 1963 ), and Sergio Leone's epic Once Upon a Time in the West ( 1968 ).

These two poems defined the form as the main one to be used for epic poetry in Italian for the next two centuries.

It is also the meter of several medieval Yiddish epic poems, such as the Bovo-Bukh ( 1507 – 1508 ), which were adaptations of Italian epics.

In 1951, MGM producer Sam Zimbalist cleverly used the lower production costs, use of frozen funds and the expertise of the Italian film industry to shoot the large scale epic Quo Vadis in Rome.

A character named Samson was featured in a series of 5 Italian sword-and-sandal films in the 1960s, no doubt inspired by the 1959 re-release of the epic Victor Mature film " Samson and Delilah ".