Monte Cristo (1929), is a French silent film directed by Henri Fescourt, and is a film adaptation of the 1844 novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père.

It is an adaptation that despite simplifying the story, was not mutilate.

It’s an epic of the silent cinema at its height, techniques used by French impressionist filmmakers (including micro-flashbacks, extreme close-ups, zip-pans, energetic moving camera, and extreme shifts in focus). In addition to having grandiose scenery.

War and Peace is a 1966–1967 Soviet epic war drama film co-written and directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, adapted from Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel

This film conveys all the grandeur of the Napoleonic wars in TOlstoy’s book. And we have grand scenes of battle and the burning of Moscow.