60 Films & TV Shows Set In Greece During Ancient History
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Iphigenia
🇬🇷 Greece 🇹🇷 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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The Trojan Women
🇬🇷 Greece 🇹🇷 Turkey Ancient HistoryThe Strength of Mankind has Always Been it's Women — 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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Socrates
🇬🇷 Greece The 4th Century BCA false accusation leads the philosopher Socrates to trial and condemnation in 4th century BC Athens.
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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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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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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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Jason and the Argonauts
🇬🇷 Greece Ancient HistoryGreatest Odyssey Of The Ages - for the first time on the screen — Jason, a fearless sailor and explorer, returns to his home land of Thessaly after a long voyage to claim his rightful throne. He learns, however, that he must first find the magical Golden Fleece. To do so, he must embark on an epic quest fraught with fantastic monsters and terrible perils.
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The Conquest of Mycenae
🇬🇷 Greece Ancient HistoryGordon Scott plays Glaucus, the prince of Tiryns, a powerful warrior who goes undercover in Mycenae to infiltrate the evil cult of Moloch, which is exacting tribute from neighboring kingdoms in the form of attractive young hostages, both male and female. Calling himself "Hercules," Glaucus defeats Mycenae's champions and gains the favor of the voluptuous Queen Demetra (Rosalba Neri) whose son, covered in a dog's head mask, has been raised as the living embodiment of the dark god Moloch and receives sacrifices in his sprawling underground grotto.
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The Tyrant of Lydia Against the Son of Hercules
🇬🇷 Greece The 4th Century BCItalian sword & sandal thrills as the son of Hercules is pitted against an evil king and his wretched followers.
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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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Electra
🇬🇷 Greece Ancient HistoryLiving in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.
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Fury of Achilles
🇬🇷 Greece 🇹🇷 Turkey Ancient HistoryIn the tenth year of the Trojan War, tensions between Achilles and Agamemnon divide the Greek camp while giving hope to the Trojans.
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My Son, the Hero
🇬🇷 Greece Ancient HistoryAn evil king makes a bargain with a devil in order to get away with murdering his wife.
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Ulysses Against the Son of Hercules
🇬🇷 Greece Ancient HistoryUlysses offends the gods so they send Hercules to capture him and bring him to them.
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Vulcan, Son of Giove
🇬🇷 Greece Ancient HistoryA superhero battles lizard men and other monsters that are terrorizing the countryside.
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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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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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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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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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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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The Giant of Marathon
🇬🇷 Greece The 5th Century BCA Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army.
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