231 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During Ancient History
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The Fall of Troy
🇹🇷 Turkey Ancient HistoryThe Fall of Troy, is an Italian silent film of 1911 directed by John Pastrone and Luigi Romano Borgnetto. Produced by the Itala Film of Turin, was the first successful film of Pastrone. From the technical point of view it was still composed of still shots, this was not yet the innovation of the cart, experienced only from Cabiria 1914.
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Agrippina
🇮🇹 Italy Ancient HistoryIn "Agrippina" (1910), Herr Guazzoni recreates the particular and troublesome relationship between Frau Agrippina, the second wife of the Emperor Claudius, and her son Nero. Such family troubles of course were not confined to Imperial Rome since family feuds were customary in German aristocratic circles as well. However even though mother figures in Germany are strong it is true that aristocratic mammas preferred going to the opera rather than fretting over little troubles with their sons.
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Humanity Through the Ages
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyAn episodic narrative displaying examples of humankind's brutality, from the story of Cain and Abel through the Hague Convention of 1907.
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Ben Hur
🇮🇱 Israel 🇮🇹 Italy Ancient HistoryThe first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
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Ulysses and the Giant Polyphemus
🇬🇷 Greece Ancient HistoryAn early horror treatment of the hero's encounter with the one-eyed man-eating Cyclops.
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Shanti Sandesham
🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇮🇹 Italy Ancient HistoryIndian version of the Jesus story. Following Jesus' birth he performs many miracles and gathers a band of followers. He runs into trouble with the authorities and the Romans execute him. He rises again and ascends to heaven.