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Alone Against Rome
๐ฎ๐น Italy Ancient HistoryA Roman Consul, on his way to fight a border war, stations a garrison of soldiers in a provincial town. The townspeople aren't happy with this situation but decide it's in their best interests to cooperate. However, the Tribune left in charge of the garrison proves to be cruel and demanding. He takes over a house for his own use and forces his attentions on Fabiola, the owner's daughter. She reluctantly submits in order to protect the life of her lover, Brenno, who's already been publicly whipped and who's been hauled off to the local arena to provide sport for Roman gladiators. Soon, Brenno and Fabiola's brother are organizing a resistance which will put an end to the Tribune's reign of tyranny.
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The Rebel Gladiators
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 2nd CenturyDesperate Men Against a Savage Tyrant! โ In order to persuade the Emperor to spare his village, the mighty Ursus is forced to fight the greatest gladiator in Rome in the Roman Arena.
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The Colossus of Rhodes
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 3rd Century BCA monster statue of bronze and stone...A fabulous fortress 20 stories tall! โ While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.
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Duel of the Titans
๐ฎ๐น Italy Ancient HistoryThe Legendary Conflict of Mankind's Mightiest Mortals! โ Twin brothers were raised by wolves, revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city, the founders of Rome.
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Antigone
๐ฌ๐ท Greece Ancient HistoryIn Thebes in ancient Greece, King Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother Jocasta, having two sons - Eteocles and Polyneices - and two daughters - Ismene and Antigone. King Oedipus dies a beggar in the exile after gouging out his own eye, and Eteocle agrees to reign in Thebes in alternating years with Polynices. However, he refuses to resign after the first year and Polynieces raises an army and attacks Thebes, and they kill each other. The ruler of Thebes Creon decrees that Eleocles should have an honorable burial while the body of the traitor Polyneices should be left on the battlefield to be eaten by the jackals and vultures. However, Antigone, who was betrothed to Creon's surviving son Haemon, defies Creon's orders and buries her brother. When Creon is reported of the attitude of Antigone, he sentences her to be placed in a tomb alive. Antigone hangs herself in the tomb and Haemon tries to kill his father first and then he kills himself with his sword...
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Constantine and the Cross
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 4th CenturyConstantin is fighting against Barbarians with his father when he is called to Rome. In his way to Rome, he falls in an ambush planned by Maxence, who wants to become emperor.
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The Rape of the Sabine Women
๐ฎ๐น Italy Ancient HistoryThe Warrior Who Founded Rome! The Kidnapping That Founded An Empire! โ An Italian adventure film starring Roger Moore as Romulus in the early days of Rome. His city of thieves is populated entirely by men, and so Romulus is convinced to find some ladies. After finding some in Sabinia, he proceeds to take them to his city and engage them to his men. The Sabines declare war and battle ensues.
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The Trojan Horse
๐น๐ท Turkey Ancient HistoryThe World's Mightiest Man In The Mightiest Spectacle Ever Filmed โ Guerra di Troia (AKA: Trojan Horse) is a 1961 historical drama film set in the tenth and final year of the Trojan War. The film focuses primarily on the exploits of the Trojan hero Aeneas during this time. The film was directed by Giorgio Ferroni and starred Steve Reeves as Aeneas and John Drew Barrymore as Odysseus. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Amazons of Rome
๐ฎ๐น Italy Ancient HistoryA Thousand Tempting Beauties ... They Fought Like Ten Thousand Unchained Tigers! โ Marching down the Italian peninsula to sack ancient Rome, Etruscan warrior Drusco instead offers to hold back his onslaught if the Romans hand over hostages, including Clelia, the sexy leader of a clan of woman warriors. But before long, intrigue and betrayal unravel the fragile peace. Directors Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and Vittorio Cottafavi helm this vintage sword-and-sandal epic.
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Duel of Champions
๐ฎ๐น Italy Ancient HistoryA Roman nobleman, Horatius leads an imperial legion during the long and bloody war between the Romans and the Albans. A desperate arrangement is agreed on how to settle the war. Three valiant brothers are chosen from each side to fight one last fierce and bloody duel...
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It's Greek to Me-ow!
๐ฌ๐ท Greece Ancient HistoryThis cartoon opens with a narrator introducing the ancient Greek Acropolis, describing its wealth and beautiful architecture. Tom is depicted as one of these inhabitants, an alley cat who lives in the shadows of Athens searching for food.
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Slave of Rome
The 1st Century BCDuring Julius Caesar's invasion of Gallia: The Gauls have broken their treaty with the Romans. Marcus Valerius and his friend are sent to punish them. Antea's father wants to have peace with Rome, having once been there and acknowledging their superior culture, but Lysircus forces a severely anti-Roman politic. When her father is killed by him in treachery, Antea joins the Romans who have to evade into a swamp. She falls in love with Marcus. Will she forsake her people forever?
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Spartacus
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st Century BCThey trained him to kill for their pleasure ... but they trained him a little too well โ The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.
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Goliath and the Dragon
๐ฌ๐ท Greece Ancient HistoryThe mightiest adventure of them all! โ A warrior returning home to his country must battle giant bats, three-headed dogs and a vicious dragon to save his wife, and his people, from the machinations of an evil ruler.
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Colossus and the Amazon Queen
๐ฌ๐ท Greece Ancient HistoryTwo muscle-men come up against a tribe of Amazon women.
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Siege of Syracuse
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 3rd Century BCAmazing Secret Weapon of Archimedes! โ Syracuse lies between the warring nations of Rome and Carthage; as long as the balance of power between the nations remains intact, both nations are willing to preserve the neutrality of Syracuse. However, Rome has now gotten the upper hand in its struggle for power. The fate of Syracuse lies in the hands of its leader, the famed inventor and scientist Archimedes.
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The Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete
๐ฌ๐ท Greece Ancient HistoryKing Minos sacrifices the 'required' virgins to the Minotaur. As his wife lies dying, she confesses that her daughter has a twin she has secreted to avoid giving one of the girls to the Minotaur. The daughter raised by Minos tries to have her twin killed, but failing in her first attempt, continues to try to have her given to the Minotaur. Theseus, the Greek hero, tries to prevent it.
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The Giants of Thessaly
๐ฌ๐ท Greece Ancient HistoryIn order to placate the angry gods, who have allowed Thessaly to be overrun with barbarian invaders and beset with natural disasters, King Jason takes his Argonauts on a search for the fabled Golden Fleece. Meanwhile, back at home, his scheming regent is plotting to get his hands on the kingdom--and the queen.
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Esther and the King
The 5th Century BCRecently widowed Persian King Ahasuerus wants to marry the beautiful Esther. But Esther is a Jewess, and Haman, the king's evil minister, is spreading hatred against the Jews. Set in the 4th century B.C., this Biblical epic stars Richard Egan (Demetrius And The Gladiators, A Summer Place) as Ahasuerus and Italian leading man Sergio Fantoni as Haman. Esther is portrayed by none other than Joan Collins, who would later gain fame as the scheming Alexis Carrington, in the hit TV series Dynasty. Directed by Raoul Walsh (The Thief of Bagdad, High Sierra, White Heat). 1960 / Running Time: 109 min. / Color
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Revolt of the Slaves
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 4th CenturyWANTON . . . TEMPTRESS . . . She put the torch to an empire of sin! โ A rich man's daughter (Rhonda Fleming) sides with a Christian rebel during the fall of the Roman Empire.
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Carthage in Flames
๐น๐ณ Tunisia The 2nd Century BCCarthage in Flames is a 1960 Italian historical drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Pierre Brasseur, Daniel Gรฉlin and Anne Heywood. The film depicts the last of the Punic Wars between the Roman Republic and Carthage.
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The Barbarians
๐ช๐ธ Spain ๐น๐ณ Tunisia The 3rd Century BCRevak is an Iberian prince from Penda, a small island where the Carthagian fleet ransacked and enslaved the surviving native men, including him. After an eventful passage aboard a galley, Revak becomes an elephant driver in Carthage city, and could become the favorite of mighty women, but has only one thirst: bloody revenge, at all cost, so the barbarian makes common cause with the attacking Romans, Carthage's historical enemy and rival for Mediterranean hegemony, scorning love...
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Messalina
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st CenturyMessalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of terror that shook the empire to its very foundations. The subject of countless film treatments, Rome's most villified empress is herein played by British actress Belinda Lee.
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The Loves of Salammbo
๐น๐ณ Tunisia The 3rd Century BCDuring the 3rd century B.C. a horde of barbarians are hired by the Phoenian city of Carthage to fight against the Roman empire, but when the city's ruler is unable to fulfill the promised payment made to the mercenaries, they attack the African settlement, where Salammbรด --the king's daughter and high priestess of goddess Tanit- tries to settle the matter when the Barbarian leader who has fallen for her steals the sacred veil of Carthage from the temple, without taking into account the evil schemes of a powerful member of the council of wise men.
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La vendetta dei barbari
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The Giant of Marathon
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 5th Century BCA Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army.
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Donald in Mathmagic Land
New York ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฌ๐ท Greece Ancient HistoryDisney used animation here to explain through this wonderful adventure of Donald how mathmatics can be usuful in our real life. Through this journey Donald shows us how mathmatics are not just numbers and charts, but magical living things.
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Hercules Unchained
๐ฌ๐ท Greece Ancient HistoryEn route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory. He spends most of the movie in the pleasure gardens of Queen Omphale of Lydia. While young Ulysses tries to help him regain his memory, political tensions escalate in Thebes, and Hercules' new wife Iole finds herself in mortal danger.
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The Last Days of Pompeii
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st CenturyThe Fiery Summit of Spectacle! โ Based on the Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel. Set in the shadows of Mt. Vesuvius just before its famous eruption, the film begins with Glaucus, a Roman legionnaire, returning to his home from far-off wars. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that his father has been murdered by a gang of black-hooded looting bandits. Glaucus vows revenge against the killers, but just how high up are those involved?
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Sign of the Gladiator
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 3rd CenturySEE! 10,000 NORSEMEN CHARGE THE VALLEY OF BLOOD โ Zenobia, Queen of Palmira, revolts against Rome and defeats the Roman troops, but she makes a big mistake when she falls in love with enemy officer Marco Valerio.
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The Warrior and the Slave Girl
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 2nd CenturyMarcus Numidius (Ettore Manni), a Roman tribune sent to Armenia to put down a gladiators' revolt, captures the rebels' popular leader, Aselepius (Georges Marchal). Princess Amira (Gianna Maria Canale), with ambitions of being Queen and jealous of Asclepius' popularity, plans his death in the arena by substituting a lion for his human opponent
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Hannibal
๐ช๐ธ Spain ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐น๐ณ Tunisia The 3rd Century BCHannibal and His Fantastic Elephant Army That Clobbered Half the World! โ A Carthaginian general attempts to cross the Alps with an army of elephants in order to conquer Rome.
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Hercules
๐ฌ๐ท Greece Ancient HistoryIn this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and superman, arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of Iolcus to tutor Iphitus, son of king Pelias; immediately on arrival, he falls in love with the king's delectable, briefly clad daughter Iole. Before he can win her, he must succeed in a series of quests, in the course of which he teams up with Jason, true heir of Iolcus, whom he accompanies on the famous voyage of the Argonauts.
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Aphrodite, Goddess of Love
๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st CenturyAnother moment in ancient Rome's history where things don't turn out how you'd expect. โ The movie presents a moment in the ancient Rome history when Nero was the emperor and christians persecuted. Story revolves around Antigonus's plan, archon of Corinth, to build a magnificent temple dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite, for which the people are oppressed by new and very high taxes. The sculptor Demetrius, asked to make the face of the goddess Diana, falls in love with a slave, the Christian Lerna, and wants to marry her, but another jealous slave has other plans. In the meantime there are plots and intrigues for power and a plan to capture and execute all christians; but things turn out different than expected.
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Herod the Great
The 1st Century BCThe King of Judea drives himself mad fighting off invaders and his wife's pursuers.
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Gotoma the Buddha
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 5th Century BCThis Indian documentary had its world premiere in Paris. Told simply and straightforwardly, the film traces the life of Buddha, from humble priest to religious icon. The central character's search for wisdom and inner peace may not seem like ideal visual fare, but director Rajbana Khanna makes it so. Emphasis is placed upon Buddha's relationship with the land, conveyed by lyrical shots of India's vast and varied terrain. Prior to its official release, Gotoma the Buddha was feted with a "special mention" at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival; few viewers will hold it in lesser esteem.
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Helen of Troy
๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐น๐ท Turkey Ancient HistoryIts towering wonders span the age of titans! โ Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. This gives the Greeks just the excuse they need for much-desired war.
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Alexander the Great
๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq The 4th Century BCThe colossus who conquered the world! โ He was a fierce military commander who led huge armies into battle without a single defeat; a magnificent warrior who many believed was part god - this was Alexander the Great (Richard Burton), the legendary Greek hero hailed by his countrymen as "The King of Kings". Born in 356 B.C. into a turbulent world of political unrest, educated by Aristotle (Barry Jones) and chosen to lead his people in the grand tradition of his powerful father (Fredric March), this glamorous world conqueror rose above all conflict to unite the continents of Europe and Asia to become one of the most celebrated rulers of all time! Written, produced and directed by Oscar - winner Robert Rossen and featuring the extraordinary Claire Bloom and a remarkable cast of thousands, this stunning portrait of one of history's most fascinating figures is colossal entertainment and an amazing spectacle.
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The Sword and the Cross
๐ฎ๐น Italy Ancient HistorySold as slaves to a wealthy Roman, Lea and Esther, two Carthaginian sisters, are offered as gifts to the ambitious daughter of a proconsul and end up involved in spite of themselves in a dangerous game of power.
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Nero's Mistress
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st CenturyNero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the star. When Agrippina, his mother, arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero has to conquer Britain, she is asking for trouble. Many attempts of murder and poisoning will happen on the eve of his great show.
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Attila
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 5th CenturySee the Hun Hordes Storm Out of Asia to Crash Head-On Into the Vaunted Roman Legions! โ Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans "The Scourge of God", sweeps onto the Italian peninsula, defeating all of the armies of Rome, until he and his men reach the gates of the city itself.
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Jupiter's Darling
๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐น๐ณ Tunisia The 3rd Century BCThe Love Story of the Beauty and the Barbarian! Clash of Armies! Underwater spectacle! Never before such sights to see! โ Rome is on the verge of being conquered by Hannibal (Howard Keel). While Rome's ruler, Fabius Maximus (George Sanders), plots a defense against Hannibal's armies, Fabius' fiancรฉe, Amytis (Esther Williams), is curious about the fearless conquerer. Amytis travels to Hannibal's camp just to get a look at him, but she ends up being captured. However, she is instantly smitten by the Carthaginian commander, so she tries to shift his attentions away from Rome -- and to her instead.
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Demetrius and the Gladiators
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st CenturyIt begins where โ The story picks up at the point where "The Robe" ends, following the martyrdom of Diana and Marcellus. Christ's robe is conveyed to Peter for safe-keeping, but the emperor Caligula wants it back to benefit from its powers. Marcellus' former slave Demetrius seeks to prevent this, and catches the eye of Messalina, wife to Caligula's uncle Claudius. Messalina tempts Demetrius, he winds up fighting in the arena, and wavers in his faith.
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The Silver Chalice
๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1st CenturyI bid you seek the lost silver cup... for sin is rising like the swollen rivers... โ A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to complete the task. Meanwhile, a nefarious interloper is trying to convince the crowds that he is the new Messiah by using nothing more than cheap parlor tricks.
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Sign of the Pagan
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 5th CenturyThe Story of Attila the Hun! โ Roman centurion Marcian is captured by Attila the Hun en route to Constantinople, but escapes. On arrival, he finds the eastern Roman emperor Theodosius plotting with Attila to look the other way while the latter marches against Rome. But Marcian gains the favor of Pulcheria, lovely sister of Theodosius, who favors a united Empire.
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The Queen of Babylon
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq Ancient HistoryShe Was LOVE'S SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD! โ In this Biblical epic, a brave Chaldean rebel takes on his evil nemesis, a cruel Assyrian king. En route to his fateful meeting, the rebel hides in the humble hut of a luscious peasant girl.
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Julius Caesar
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st Century BCMGM's acclaimed production of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. โ The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.
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Serpent of the Nile
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1st Century BCHer Passion Ruled Rome! โ Cleopatra (Rhonda Fleming) toys with Mark Antony (Raymond Burr), who wants to merge his Rome with her Egypt.
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