159 Films & TV Shows Set In Italy During Ancient History
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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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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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Revolt of the Praetorians
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyRome chafes under the rule of the Emperor Domitian and his Egyptian mistress, Artamne. A mysterious champion arises to fight against the Emperor -- a masked man known as the Red Wolf. In fact, the Red Wolf is Valerius Rufus, one of the Emperor's trusted centurions who's aided by none other than the Emperor's court jester, the diminutive Elpidion. Rebels in league with Valerius kidnap Artamne, planning to exchange her for two of their imprisoned colleagues, but Artamne escapes and soon both Valerius, (now exposed as the Red Wolf), and his fiancee, Lucilla, are sentenced to be immersed in a cauldron of molten lead. Valerius's friends, however, rise up to rescue him and to liberate Rome.
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Rome Against Rome
🇮🇹 Italy Ancient HistoryUnconquerable Warriors of the Dead! — A fantastic yarn about a plot to conquer the world with an army of zombies!
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The Revenge of the Gladiators
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st Century BCLa vendetta di Spartacus (US title: Revenge of the Gladiators) is a 1965 Italian film directed by Michele Lupo. It was shot back to back with Seven Slaves Against the World.
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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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Sword of the Empire
🇮🇹 Italy The 2nd CenturyRome, under Commodus: intrigue, fight for power, gladiators, senators, Christians, Barbarians, slaves, Pretorians, battles, wrestles, swords and muscles in by-the-numbers Italian epic.
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Triumph of the Ten Gladiators
🇮🇹 Italy Ancient HistoryThe ten gladiators are hired to travel to Arbela, a small country on the outskirts of the Roman Empire to learn if Parthia is planning to war with Rome. Upon arriving, the heroes decide to kidnap the beautiful Parthian queen and spirit her to Syria to serve as a hostage.
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Cleopatra
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇮🇹 Italy The 1st Century BCThe motion picture the world has been waiting for! — Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.
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The Fall of Rome
🇮🇹 Italy The 4th CenturyImmediately following the death of Constantine the proconsul Junio resumed the persecutions against Christians. Among them is the centurion Mark, who manages to escape arrest and, together with her sister Licia, sets out on a journey to the consul Gaius. Attacked by soldiers of Valerio, Marco is saved with the help of a barbarian tribe, but loses Licia. Junio promises to Marco that all Christians will be freed if he agrees to fight in the arena and manages to defeat all his opponents. Accompanied by Svetla, a girl barbara, Marco fights and returns freedom to Christians, but suddenly an earthquake strikes.
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Gold for the Caesars
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyThe slave seized Rome's greatest treasure... and its wickedest woman! — A gladiator gets caught up in a slave revolt and the invasion of England.
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The Ten Gladiators
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyRoccia and a band of fellow gladiators join forces with a patrician named Glaucus Valerius to replace Nero, (and his evil henchman, Tigelinus), with a new emperor: Servius Galba. During the course of this bloody struggle, the gladiators lose their mentor and trainer - Resius - and then must rescue Lidia, Resius' beautiful niece, from death on the cross.
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Snapaka Yohanan
🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇮🇹 Italy Ancient History1963 film starring Thikkurisi Sukumaran Nair and Prem Nazir
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Brennus, Enemy of Rome
🇮🇹 Italy The 4th Century BCAKA: Brennus, Enemy of Rome, AKA: Battle of the Valiant A 1963 film about the sack of Rome in 387 BC
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Gladiator of Rome
🇮🇹 Italy Ancient HistoryA warrior protecting a slave girl, who is really a princess, winds up as a gladiator in the Roman arenas.
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79 A.D.
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyIntrigue at the Roman Emperor's court prior to its destruction by Vesuvius.
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Caesar The Conqueror
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st Century BCJulius Caesar leads the Roman army to battle against rebels in Gaul. — In 54 B.C. Julius Caesar seeks to solidify his position in Rome by putting down a rebellion in Gaul led by a tribal chieftain named Vercingetorix. Vercingetorix has rallied many tribes to his cause, including one led by the beautiful Queen Asterix and others who'd once pledged allegiance to Rome. At first things go badly for the Romans, complicated by the fact that Vercingetorix has captured and tortured a centurion named Claudius Valerius who's in love with Caesar's ward, Publia, who has also fallen into the hands of Vercingetorix. Eventually a great battle pitting Caesar against the rebellious Gaul decides the fate of all concerned.
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