6 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 5th Century BC
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300: Rise of an Empire
🇬🇷 Greece The 5th Century BCSeize your glory! — Greek general Themistokles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. Themistokles faces the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god, Xerxes and Artemesia, the vengeful commander of the Persian navy.
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300
🇬🇷 Greece The 5th Century BCSpartans, prepare for glory! — Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians; the battle is said to have inspired all of Greece to band together against the Persians, and helped usher in the world's first democracy.
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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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Coriolanus: Hero without a Country
🇮🇹 Italy The 5th Century BCCoriolanus leads the plebians in a revolt against Roman oppression.
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The 300 Spartans
🇬🇷 Greece The 5th Century BCEssentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army now thought to have numbered 250,000.
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The Giant of Marathon
🇬🇷 Greece The 5th Century BCA Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army.
