“Epic” can sometimes be used as an adjective to describe things that are cool or grand in some way, but the word can also refer to a certain kind of movie. Epic movies are also often grand, with large production values, spectacle, and a story that usually needs a long runtime to be properly told. Some of the most iconic movies of all time also happen to be epics, as the likes of Lawrence of Arabia , Ben-Hur , and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly show.

As for action movies? They can sometimes be epic in nature without necessarily being epics, but a few epic movies also happen to have enough action to count as action movies. The following aim to demonstrate this, with all of them exceeding 2.5 hours in length and having “action” be one of their marked genres on Letterboxd

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