231 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During Ancient History
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Fellini Satyricon
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyRome. Before Christ. After Fellini. — A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first century Rome.
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Poppea's Hot Nights
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyPoppea's Hot Nights (Italian: Le calde notti di Poppea) is a 1969 Italian comedy film set in Ancient Rome. It was written and directed by Guido Malatesta and stars Olga Schoberová (credited as Olinka Berova) and Brad Harris in the main roles.
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The Column
🇮🇹 Italy The 2nd CenturyThe end of Trajan's Dacian Wars (106 AD), when south western Dacia was transformed into a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
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Dacii
🇷🇴 Romania 🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyThe great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep the integrity of his people. His own son, Cotyso, is given to the god Zamolxis to the dismay of the King and his daughter Meda. Septimius Severus a young roman devoted to his adopted country, must make the choose between his blood origins and the culture he was raised to
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The Viking Queen
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyMillions followed her in battle . . . but no man could conquer the Viking Queen — Set in ancient Britain, at a time when much of Europe was ruled with harsh tyranny by Rome, a tribe of Britons led by Selina, set out to defy the invaders and discard their yoke of bondage. The Roman commander, Justinian, is sent to quell the uprising, punishing the dissenters with brute force but when he becomes emotionally attached to Selina, he is torn between his duty to Rome and his love for the Viking Queen.
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Oedipus Rex
🇬🇷 Greece The 5th Century BCIn pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given the name Edipo (Oedipus), and brought up by the King and Queen of Corinth as their son. One day an oracle informs Edipo that he is destined to kill his father and marry his mother. Horrified, he flees Corinth and his supposed parents - only to get into a fight and kill an older man on the road...
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Massacre in the Black Forest
🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyIn the first half of the first century A.D., the Teutonic tribes, led by Arminius The Terrible, rebel against the cruel and conquering Roman Empire. In raging torments and blood curdling battles, the barbarian tribes and Roman Legions fight a war of attrition, so brutal and terrible that Arminius becomes a legend throughout the empire. Only Augustus, Emperor of Rome is evil and treacherous enough to enslave the Teuton barbarian and halt his murderous uprisings.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturySomething for Everyone! — A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.
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In the Shadow of the Eagles
🇮🇹 Italy Ancient HistoryAfter the death of Octavian, the rebel populations of Illyria and Pannonia pose a grave threat to the Roman Empire. Tribune Marcus Ventidius is sent to subdue the uprising and, after a bitter battle, captures Pannonian chief Magdus together with a number of women hostages. These include Magdus's own daughter Helen, betrothed to cruel Illyrian warrior Batone who has killed many Romans. Julia, daughter of the Roman governor Messala, is in love with Tribune Marcus and, jealous of his sympathy for the barbarian girl, plots an escape by Helen and her father. Pursuing the fugitives, Marcus crosses a mountain pass where Batone has laid a trap.
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Barefoot in Athens
🇬🇷 Greece The 4th Century BCThe last few days in the life of Socrates, including his trial.
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Hercules and the Princess of Troy
🇬🇷 Greece Ancient HistoryHercules (Gordon Scott) sets out to save the city of Troy from a horrible sea monster. Meanwhile, the city is threatened by a different kind of monster--a smarmy politician who will stop at nothing to seize the throne.
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Two Vikings
🇮🇹 Italy The Middle Ages Ancient HistoryThe viking chief Hjorvard has two wild sons, Glum and Garm, both notorious berserkers.
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Willy McBean and His Magic Machine
England 🇮🇹 Italy The 1870s Ancient HistoryFROM CAVEMEN TO CAMELOT...FROM CUSTER TO COLUMBUS...A Mad Romp Through Time! — Little Willy McBean joins up with a Mexican monkey named Pablo to travel back in time and stop the evil Prof. von Rotten from changing history.
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Fire Over Rome
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyMarcus Valerius, a young consul, is assigned the mission to assist Menecrate, the leader of the Pretorian Guard, in the arrest and execution of as many Christians as possible. While raiding the Catacombs he has the surprise to find among the Christians the woman he loves, Giulia, who has been converted secretly to the banned religion. He helps her to escape and trouble soon follows. Stripped of his rank and arrested for defending the rebels he is condemned to fight as a gladiator...
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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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The Fall of the Roman Empire
🇮🇹 Italy The 2nd CenturyThe Most Magnificent Re-Creation... Of An Ancient Empire... Launches A New Epoch In Motion Pictures... — Drawn from the same events that later inspired Gladiator, the film charts the power-hungry greed and father-son betrayal that led to Rome's collapse at the bloody hands of the Barbarians.
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The Terror of Rome Against the Son of Hercules
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyIn this sword and sandal fantasy, Poseidon must battle a gladiator quartet in ancient Rome. If he wins, the son of Hercules will have his life and anything else he wants. Sure enough, he wins and asks that the life of a Christian girl be spared. But the girl refuses her liberty until all of her fellow believers are also released.
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Messalina Against the Son of Hercules
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyWhile fighting in Britain, Roman forces commanded by Caligula capture the noble warrior, Glaucus. Seeing in him gladiator material, Caligula takes Glaucus back to Rome along with other hostages including Glaucus's girlfriend, Ena. A man seeking to restore the Roman Republic then assassinates Caligula after which Claudius is proclaimed emperor. Messalina -- Claudius's beautiful but evil wife -- then maneuvers to replace Claudius with her lover, Silio. She forces Glaucus to help her in this quest by threatening to harm the enslaved Ena. Written by dinky-4 of Minneapolis
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Hercules vs. the Giant Warriors
🇬🇷 Greece Ancient HistoryHercules, having agreed to restore justice to Mycenae, confronts evil Prince Myles. The villain is invested with power over giant bronze warriors by his mother Pasiphaë, a sorceress in Hades. Myles assassinates the king and abducts his cousin, Queen Ate, through whom he plans to inherit the throne. Although Zeus temporarily removes Hercules' strength for killing Eurystheus, an innocent man framed by Myles, the god restores his powers. Hercules then saves Ate and destroys Myles, Pasiphaë, and the giant warriors.
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Hero of Rome
🇮🇹 Italy Ancient HistoryIn ancient Rome, the people finally oust their despised king, Tarquinius, and declare the city a republic. Tarquinius makes an alliance with the Etruscan king, Porsenna, to take back power in Rome, but a Roman general, the heroic Mucius, sets out to stop him. Written by frankfob2
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Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st Century BCThe story of Spartacus and 10 other gladiators who rebelled against the bloody coliseum sports. They escape and are faced at every turn by Roman soldiers bent on taking them back to the Coliseum - dead or alive!
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The Two Gladiators
🇮🇹 Italy The 2nd CenturyThe twins of the recently departed Marcus Aurelius fight it out to see who will become emperor of Rome.
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