High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! An epic is traditionally a genre of poetry, known as epic poetry. However in modern terms, epic is often extended to other art forms, such as novels, theater and film, where the story is centered on heroic characters, and the action takes place on a grand scale, just as in epic poetry. Epics in this sense are majestic depictions that capture impressive struggles, such as stories of war, adventures, and other efforts of great scope and size over long periods of time. The real life stories of heroic figures have also been referred to as being epic. Examples of notable epics include Ernest Shackleton's exploration adventures in Antarctica, historical novels such as War and Peace. In the history of cinema, many epic films have been produced and recognized for their scale and drama. For example The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (based on the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien) was considered by Marc Caro (2003) of the Chicago Tribune as one of the greatest film epics.

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