Possible Clues:

• The story's only part of the whole picture
• 12-part miniseries, say
• "War and Peace," e.g.
• "Awesome, dude!"
• Insanely great
• Like a long, heroic film masterpiece
• Large scale story of those revolting characters on the borders of Cinemascope
• "Iliad," notably
• Movie that might have a cast of thousands
• ''Beowulf,'' notably