159 Films & TV Shows Set In Italy During Ancient History
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Sign of the Pagan
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 5th CenturyThe Story of Attila the Hun! โ Roman centurion Marcian is captured by Attila the Hun en route to Constantinople, but escapes. On arrival, he finds the eastern Roman emperor Theodosius plotting with Attila to look the other way while the latter marches against Rome. But Marcian gains the favor of Pulcheria, lovely sister of Theodosius, who favors a united Empire.
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Julius Caesar
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st Century BCMGM's acclaimed production of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. โ The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.
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Androcles and the Lion
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 2nd CenturyStory of a Christian in ancient Rome who befriends a lion โ George Bernard Shawโs breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fableโabout a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lionโs paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind actโwas written as a meditation on modern Christian values. Pascalโs final Shaw production is played broadly, with comic character actor Alan Young as the titular naรฏf. Heโs ably supported by Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, and Elsa Lanchester.
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Quo Vadis
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st CenturyTHIS IS THE BIG ONE! The splendor and savagery of the world's wickedest empire! Three hours of spectacle you'll remember for a lifetime! โ Set against the back drop of Rome in crisis, General Marcus Vinicius returns to the city from the battle fields and falls in love with a Christian woman, Lygia. Caught in the grip of insanity, Nero's atrocities become more extreme and he burns Rome, laying the blame on the Christians. Vinicius races to save Lygia from the wrath of Nero as the empire of Rome collapses around them.
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The Affairs of Messalina
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st CenturyA story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, and her eventual hounding to death.
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Julius Caesar
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st Century BCAdaptation of the Shakespeare play.
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The Last Days of Pompeii
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st CenturyIn Pompeii in the year 79, Lycias and Helen fall in love. Helen's guardian, the high priest of Isis, wants to separate them. To do so, he tries to make Lycias drink a love potion, but a young slave threatens to reveal everything. The high priest, unable to silence her, kills her and arranges to have Lycias accused...
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Caesar and Cleopatra
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt ๐ฎ๐น Italy Ancient HistoryThe most lavish picture ever on the screen! โ The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
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Fiddlers Three
England ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940s The 1st CenturyTwo British soldiers and a WREN take refuge at Stonehenge during a thunderstorm, they are struck by lightning and transported back to ancient Rome.
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Life of St. Paul
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st CenturyThe Life of St. Paul, including reenactment of the Book of Acts, and St. Paul's Epistles.
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Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
๐น๐ณ Tunisia ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 3rd Century BCFacist Italy's 1937 Spectacular Epic โ A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.
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Roman Scandals
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 4th Century The 3rd CenturyA kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.
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The Sign of the Cross
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st CenturyA picture which will proudly lead all the entertainments the world has ever seen โ After burning Rome, Emperor Nero decides to blame the Christians, and issues the edict that they are all to be caught and sent to the arena. Two old Christians are caught, and about to be hauled off, when Marcus, the highest military official in Rome, comes upon them. When he sees their stepdaughter Mercia, he instantly falls in love with her and frees them. Marcus pursues Mercia, which gets him into trouble with Emperor (for being easy on Christians) and with the Empress, who loves him and is jealous.
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Boadicea
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st CenturyThe life of the Celtic Queen Boudica (Boadicea) and her rebellion against the Roman Empire.
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Quo Vadis?
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st CenturyThe Roman Banquet The golden glories, the unrivaled luxuries, the wine, the dance, the song, the beautiful women, the sumptuous splendors that taxed a barbaric world for a night of feasting and revel- re-created for your entertainment in the most colossal drama produced. (Print Ad in Daily Argus, Mount Vernon NY, 6 June 1925)
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Messalina
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1st Century"Messalina" (1924), the tale of that wicked and lustful empress who had a talent for causing problems.
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Three Ages
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1920s Ancient HistoryA cyclone of laughs and thrills โ The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry and love play out three times as a man vies with a villain for the girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry is set off by dinosaurs, a turtle used as a ouija board, and a round of golf with stones. In ancient Rome, the men display their brawn through a chariot race, using dogs instead of horses. In contemporary times, the man finds himself overcome by modernity, including a very fragile car.
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Fabiola
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 4th CenturyIn "Fabiola" (1918) Herr Guarzzoni moved from the earliest days of Christianity when the new faith was struggling to just survive to a later period in the Roman Empire when the religion was a major force and attempting to win over Rome.
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Woman
๐บ๐ธ United States of America ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1860s The 12th Century The 1st CenturyA series of stories reflecting the changing position of women in the world, including the familiar tales of Adam and Eve, Messalina and Claudius, Abelard and Heloise, Cyrene and the Fisherman, as well as that of a young girl and an officer in the American Civil War.
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1910s The 1st Century The 16th CenturyThe Cruel Hand of Intolerance โ The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
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Cabiria
๐น๐ณ Tunisia ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 3rd Century BCAll Nations Bow to This - The Greatest Spectacle the World Has Seen! โ Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrificed to Moloch, Cabiria is rescued by Fulvius Axilla, a good-hearted Roman spy, and his powerful slave, Maciste. The trio are broken up as Cabiria is entrusted to a woman of noble birth. With Cabiria's fate unknown, Maciste punished for his heroism, and Fulvius sent away to fight for Rome, is there any hope of our heroes reuniting?
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