77 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During Ancient History
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Hero
๐จ๐ณ China The 3rd Century BC The 4th Century BCOne man's strength will unite an empire. โ One man defeated three assassins who sought to murder the most powerful warlord in pre-unified China.
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Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt Ancient HistoryThe funniest film in ancient history! โ 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
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq Ancient HistoryWarrior. Legend. King. โ 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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The Mummy Returns
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1930s Ancient HistoryThe most powerful force on earth is about to be unleashed by the two people who should know better. โ Rick and Evelyn OโConnell, along with their 8-year-old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion Kingโs might: the fabled Bracelet of Anubis. Unfortunately, a newly resurrected Imhotep has designs on the bracelet as well, and isnโt above kidnapping its new bearer, Alex, to gain control of Anubisโs otherworldly army.
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Wu Yen
๐จ๐ณ China The 4th Century BCLost in the woods, the Emperor Qi (Anita Mui) stumbles across local chief Wu Yen, his predestined bride, only to accidentally free a promiscuous fox fairy who promptly falls in love with both of them, changing between man and woman to clumsily woo each, setting the scene for a constantly shifting triangle with the emperor torn between both the fox fairy and Wu Yen and the fox fairy after whichever one will agree to marry her/him first.
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The Emperor and the Assassin
๐จ๐ณ China The 3rd Century BC The 4th Century BCIn pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.
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The Emperor's Shadow
๐จ๐ณ China The 3rd Century BC The 4th Century BCEpic drama about China's first emperor (221 BC) who struggles to make his childhood best friend, now China's greatest composer, succumb to his will and compose a grand anthem to his exploits.
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The Great Conqueror's Concubine
๐จ๐ณ China The 3rd Century BCInsurrection deposes the tyrannical first emperor of China during the evil Qin Dynasty. Warrior/general Xiang Yu and the cunning peasant Liu Pang join forces to win through civil war. Xiang Yu's weakness for Lady Yu combine with Liu Pang's treachery result in Liu founding the legendary Han dynasty
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Little Buddha
Washington ๐ฎ๐ณ India ๐ง๐น Bhutan The 5th Century BCA magical journey to a place where the past and present meet โ After the death of Lama Dorje, Tibetan Buddhist monks find three children โ one American and two Nepalese โ who may be the rebirth of their great teacher.
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A Terra-Cotta Warrior
๐จ๐ณ China The 3rd Century BCA 2000 year-old fiercest warrior travels beyond the limits of time โ China 3000 years ago. It's the time of the Qin dynasty. The emperor seeks immortality by busily letting his alchemists search for a formula and building the famous terracotta army from the bodies of outlaws and the condemned. This is the time Mong Tiang Fong and court lady Twon fall deeply in love. Such a thing is not tolerated at the court and when their relationship is discovered both are sentenced to death. In the meantime the alchemists have discovered the formula of immortality, but decide to destroy their work. However Twon gets possession of one immortality pill which she manages to give to Tiang Fong before he's made a terracotta warrior too. China 1930. While on location a film crew discovers parts of the grave of emperor Qin guarded by the terracotta warriors. Tiang Fong, being immortal, awakes...
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Sandstorm
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1st Century BCThe film, which won the 1988 National Film Award for Best First Film of a Director for its "excellent exploration of complex philosophical theme for the first time in Indian cinema," is set in the Buddhist town of Sariput in the desert of Central Asia in the 1st century B.C. The town is struck by a devastating sand storm that leaves behind only four survivors: two monks and two children taking refuge in the monastery. Twenty years later, the monks have become old, while the boy and the girl have grown and fallen in love. The jealous monk deceitfully persuades the boy into becoming a monk, yet the girl wins him back, as a result both are expelled from the monastery, and that is when the sandstorm strikes once again..
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The Inquiry
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st CenturyA Roman agent is sent to Palestine to investigate rumors of the resurrection of an executed criminal.
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Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
๐ต๐ธ Palestine ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st Century BCIn antique Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar. Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar came to spend an expensive holiday. The revolt rumbles among the small people who find a leader in the person of Ben-Hur Marcel.
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Life of Brian
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ต๐ธ Palestine ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st Century The 1st Century BCHe wasn't the messiah. He was a very naughty boy. โ Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.
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The Small One
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st Century BCOrdered by his father to sell his old, small donkey, Small One, a Hebrew boy in ancient Israel takes the donkey to the Jerusalem market. Finding no buyers there, the boy is about to give up when he meets a kind man named Joseph. Joseph buys Small One and uses him to take his pregnant wife Mary to Bethlehem.
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Karunamayudu
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ต๐ธ Palestine ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st CenturyA 160-minute version of the life of Jesus Christ filmed entirely with a cast and crew of Christian Indians in India.
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Iphigenia
๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐น๐ท Turkey Ancient HistoryThe Greek army is about to set sail to a great battle, but the winds refuse to blow. Their leader, King Agamemnon, seeks to provide better food, but accidentally slays a sacred deer. His punishment from the gods, the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia.
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Chu Yuan
๐จ๐ณ China The 4th Century BCChu Yuan was a patriotic poet and statesman in ancient China, born over 2000 years ago in the state of Ch'u of the "Warring States" Period, a period of transition from Slavery to Feudalism System. Ch'in, Ch'u, Chao, Wei, Yen, Han and Chi were the Seven States occupying various parts of China at incessant war of annexation with one another. Of the Seven States Ch'in grew most powerful. Vis-a-vis Ch'in's military pressure and Ch'u's political corruption, Chu Yuan advocated alliance with Chi to resist Ch'in abroad, and political reforms at home so as to unify whole China. Chu Yuan's political viewpoint met with sabotage by slave-owning aristocrat bloc, was unable to be carried out in Ch'u. Being so indignant he finally took his own life by jumping into the river. His poems "Li Sao" "Tien Wen" etc. in the development history of Chinese literature, shone with everlasting brilliance.
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Thomasleeha
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ต๐ธ Palestine ๐ฎ๐น Italy Ancient History1975 Indian Film
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Jesus
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ต๐ธ Palestine ๐ฎ๐น Italy Ancient HistoryKing Herod has ruled Judea for over 37 years and believes himself to be supreme. When three wise men from the Far East come to visit him, he is initially pleased, but this pleasure turns to anger when he finds out that they have traveled all the way to witness the birth of the son of God. After they depart, he instructs his Prime Minister to kill all children under the age of 2 years. Herod's instructions are carried out, but they don't find the baby Jesus, born in a stable in Bethlehem. Jesus, son of Joseph and virgin Mary, has been destined to lead mankind to a better path but must face many challenges, temptations and betrayal from ones he trusted the most, humiliation, torture, crucifixion, and resurrection.
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Siddhartha
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 5th Century BCSiddhartha is the story of a young Brahmin and his search for a meaningful way of life. His journey takes him through periods of harsh asceticism, sensual pleasures, material wealth, self-revulsion and eventually to the oneness and harmony that he had been seeking. The story is based on the best-selling novel by German Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse.
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Hector the Mighty
๐น๐ท Turkey Ancient HistoryFlim also known as: Ettore lo fusto. A creative take of the Greek myth of Helen of Troy. An Edmondo Amati film directed by Enzo G. Castellari.
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The Trojan Women
๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐น๐ท Turkey Ancient HistoryThe Strength of Mankind has Always Been it's Women โ Hecuba and the other women of Troy rise to find their city in ruins and their cause lost. The city has fallen into Greek hands and it is likely their lot to become slaves of Greek soldiers. A messenger approaches to inform them that the lots have been drawn and each woman will be taken to the man who drew for her. Of particular interest is Hecuba's daughter, Cassandra, who is chosen for the Greek kings bedchamber. She has received word of this news already and is in hiding because she has sworn an oath to the gods that she will live as a virgin. When she is found she has some particularly nasty things to say about treatment at Greek hands.
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Asterix and Cleopatra
๐ช๐ฌ 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
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st Century BCThe Funniest Film Since 54 B.C. โ Two Britsโinventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighterโare 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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