231 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During Ancient History
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Alone Against Rome
🇮🇹 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
🇮🇹 Italy The 2nd CenturyDesperate Men Against a Savage Tyrant! — 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
🇬🇷 Greece The 3rd Century BCA monster statue of bronze and stone...A fabulous fortress 20 stories tall! — 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
🇮🇹 Italy Ancient HistoryThe Legendary Conflict of Mankind's Mightiest Mortals! — 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
🇬🇷 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
🇮🇹 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
🇮🇹 Italy Ancient HistoryThe Warrior Who Founded Rome! The Kidnapping That Founded An Empire! — 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
🇹🇷 Turkey Ancient HistoryThe World's Mightiest Man In The Mightiest Spectacle Ever Filmed — 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
🇮🇹 Italy Ancient HistoryA Thousand Tempting Beauties ... They Fought Like Ten Thousand Unchained Tigers! — 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
🇮🇹 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!
🇬🇷 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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Spartacus
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st Century BCThey trained him to kill for their pleasure ... but they trained him a little too well — 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
🇬🇷 Greece Ancient HistoryThe mightiest adventure of them all! — 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
🇬🇷 Greece Ancient HistoryTwo muscle-men come up against a tribe of Amazon women.
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Siege of Syracuse
🇮🇹 Italy The 3rd Century BCAmazing Secret Weapon of Archimedes! — 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
🇬🇷 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
🇬🇷 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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Revolt of the Slaves
🇮🇹 Italy The 4th CenturyWANTON . . . TEMPTRESS . . . She put the torch to an empire of sin! — A rich man's daughter (Rhonda Fleming) sides with a Christian rebel during the fall of the Roman Empire.
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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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Messalina
🇮🇹 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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La vendetta dei barbari
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The Giant of Marathon
🇬🇷 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 🇫🇷 France 🇬🇷 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
🇬🇷 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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