26 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa During Ancient History
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The Legend of Hercules
🇬🇷 Greece 🇪🇬 Egypt Ancient HistoryEvery Man Has a Destiny — In Ancient Greece 1200 B.C., a queen succumbs to the lust of Zeus to bear a son promised to overthrow the tyrannical rule of the king and restore peace to a land in hardship. But this prince, Hercules, knows nothing of his real identity or his destiny. He desires only one thing: the love of Hebe, Princess of Crete, who has been promised to his own brother. When Hercules learns of his greater purpose, he must choose: to flee with his true love or to fulfill his destiny and become the true hero of his time. The story behind one of the greatest myths is revealed in this action-packed epic - a tale of love, sacrifice and the strength of the human spirit.
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Agora
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇮🇹 Italy The 4th Century The 5th Century The Middle AgesAlexandria, Egypt. 391 A.D. The World Changed Forever. — A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.
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Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare
🇪🇸 Spain 🇮🇹 Italy 🇹🇳 Tunisia The 3rd Century BCIt is 200 years before the birth of Christ and Rome is the new superpower of the ancient world. She believes she is invincible - but one man is destined to change that. He is a man bound by oath to avenge the wrongs inflicted on his home and, in pursuit of revenge, he will stop at nothing. Hannibal explores the man behind the myth, revealing what drove the 26-year-old to mastermind one of the most audacious military moves in history. With 40,000 soldiers and 37 elephants, he marched 1,500 miles to challenge his enemies on their own soil. It was an act so daring that few people believed it possible.
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Alexander
🇬🇷 Greece 🇹🇷 Turkey 🇮🇳 India 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇮🇶 Iraq 🇮🇷 Iran 🇪🇬 Egypt 🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 3rd Century BC The 4th Century BCThe greatest legend of all was real — Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.
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Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
🇪🇬 Egypt Ancient HistoryThe funniest film in ancient history! — The Egyptian Queen Cleopatra bets against the Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar, that her people are still great, even if the times of the Pharaohs has long passed. She vows (against all logic) to build a new palace for Caesar within three months. Since all her architects are either busy otherwise or too conservative in style, this ambivalent honor falls to Edifis. He is to build the palace and be covered in gold or, if not, his fate is to be eaten by crocodiles. Edifis calls upon an old friend to help him out: The fabulous Druid Getafix from Gaul, who brews a fantastic potion that gives supernatural strength. In order to help and protect the old Druid, Asterix and Obelix accompany him on his journey to Egypt. When Julius Caesar gets wind of the project succeeding, he has the building site attacked by his troops in order to win the bet and not lose face. But just like the local pirates, he hasn't counted on Asterix and Obelix.
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The Scorpion King
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇮🇶 Iraq Ancient HistoryWarrior. Legend. King. — In ancient Egypt, peasant Mathayus is hired to exact revenge on the powerful Memnon and the sorceress Cassandra, who are ready to overtake Balthazar's village. Amid betrayals, thieves, abductions and more, Mathayus strives to bring justice to his complicated world.
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Julius Caesar
🇮🇹 Italy 🇹🇳 Tunisia The 1st Century BCTwenty year-old Julius Caesar flees Rome for his life during the reign of Sulla but through skill and ambition rises four decades later to become Rome's supreme dictator.
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The Mummy Returns
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1930s Ancient HistoryThe most powerful force on earth is about to be unleashed by the two people who should know better. — Rick and Evelyn O’Connell, along with their 8-year-old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King’s might: the fabled Bracelet of Anubis. Unfortunately, a newly resurrected Imhotep has designs on the bracelet as well, and isn’t above kidnapping its new bearer, Alex, to gain control of Anubis’s otherworldly army.
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Gladiator
🇩🇿 Algeria 🇦🇹 Austria 🇮🇹 Italy Africa - General The 2nd CenturyA Hero Will Rise. — In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army's most capable and trusted generals and a key advisor to the emperor. As Marcus' devious son Commodus ascends to the throne, Maximus is set to be executed. He escapes, but is captured by slave traders. Renamed Spaniard and forced to become a gladiator, Maximus must battle to the death with other men for the amusement of paying audiences.
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Scipio the African
🇹🇳 Tunisia The 3rd Century BCYears after the Second Punic War, Scipio Africanus finds himself generally unliked, despite his defeat of Hannibal Barca. He and his brother, Scipio Asiaticus, are accused by Marcus Porcius Cato of the theft of 500 talents intended for Rome.
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Asterix and Cleopatra
🇪🇬 Egypt Ancient HistoryPopular animated hero Asterix and his faithful sidekick Obelix travel to ancient Egypt to help Cleopatra build a new summer home. Cleopatra and Julius Caesar have made a bet, with Caesar wagering the project cannot be completed in a few weeks time. With the help of a magic potion, Asterix comes to the rescue of the Queen of the Nile as Caesar and an angry architect plot against them.
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Carry On Cleo
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇮🇹 Italy The 1st Century BCThe Funniest Film Since 54 B.C. — Two Brits—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Cleopatra.
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Cleopatra
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇮🇹 Italy The 1st Century BCThe motion picture the world has been waiting for! — Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.
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Ursus in the Land of Fire
🇹🇳 Tunisia Ancient HistoryHamilan, a cruel and ambitious general, murders his king and places himself on the throne with the former king's evil niece as his queen. He then wages war against his peaceful neighbors, killing their women and enslaving their men. A hero named Ursus appears at a tournament to challenge Hamilan's authority. Though victorious at the tournament, Ursus is arrested and forced to turn a grist-mill under an overseer's lash. Meanwhile, the former king's virtuous daughter, Diana, is tormented by her evil cousin, the new queen. Sentenced to a slow and tortuous execution, Ursus breaks free and a revolt breaks out. Ursus throws Hamilan to his death in a fiery pit and then Ursus and Diana enjoy the cheers of a grateful populace. - Written by dinky-4 of Minneapolis
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Carthage in Flames
🇹🇳 Tunisia The 2nd Century BCCarthage in Flames is a 1960 Italian historical drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Pierre Brasseur, Daniel Gélin and Anne Heywood. The film depicts the last of the Punic Wars between the Roman Republic and Carthage.
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The Barbarians
🇪🇸 Spain 🇹🇳 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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The Loves of Salammbo
🇹🇳 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 Salammbô --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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Hannibal
🇪🇸 Spain 🇮🇹 Italy 🇹🇳 Tunisia The 3rd Century BCHannibal and His Fantastic Elephant Army That Clobbered Half the World! — A Carthaginian general attempts to cross the Alps with an army of elephants in order to conquer Rome.
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Jupiter's Darling
🇮🇹 Italy 🇹🇳 Tunisia The 3rd Century BCThe Love Story of the Beauty and the Barbarian! Clash of Armies! Underwater spectacle! Never before such sights to see! — 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' fiancée, 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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Serpent of the Nile
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1st Century BCHer Passion Ruled Rome! — Cleopatra (Rhonda Fleming) toys with Mark Antony (Raymond Burr), who wants to merge his Rome with her Egypt.
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Caesar and Cleopatra
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇮🇹 Italy Ancient HistoryThe most lavish picture ever on the screen! — The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
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Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
🇹🇳 Tunisia 🇮🇹 Italy The 3rd Century BCFacist Italy's 1937 Spectacular Epic — A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.
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Cleopatra
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1st Century BCThe love affair that shook the world! — The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
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Salammbô
🇹🇳 Tunisia Ancient HistoryBased on the historical novel by Flaubert, "Salammbo" tells the story of the Mercenary War between Carthage and the Barbarians in the third century BC.
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