Mountains of the Moon (Bob Rafelson, 1990) exhibits big landscape shots, often with less sky than you might imagine, and re-enacts colonialist expedition by means of pictorial drama and slideshow. This becomes literal with the scene of theatrical re-enactment for a British public. There are other points of interest, too ... the fantastic 'after' shot of an injured Burton, for one thing. Or the scene (echoed later in the movie) where Burton inspects his future wife's nude body by candlelight, which manages to be painterly and yet mundane, intimate at the same time: a rare feat.
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