Topic: Roman Empire

Direction José Antonio Muñiz · Javier Téllez

Direction Herbert Wise

Cast Derek Jacobi · Sian Phillips · John Hurt · George Baker

Plot This 13-episode miniseries was adapted from the book by Robert Graves, which chronicles the tumultuous life and times of Claudius (Derek Jacobi), who despite a deformed leg and a speech...

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Kirk Douglas · Tony Curtis · Laurence Olivier · Peter Ustinov

Plot Based on the homonymous novel by Howard Fast about the historical life of Spartacus and the Third Servile War. Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave who leads a violent...

Direction William Wyler

Cast Charlton Heston · Jack Hawkins · Stephen Boyd · Haya Harareet

Plot Anno Domini: the seventh year of Augustus Caesar's reign. In the Roman province of Judea, Jews return to the city of their birth for the census. A bright star in...

Direction Ridley Scott

Cast Russell Crowe · Joaquin Phoenix · Connie Nielsen · Oliver Reed

Plot Maximus (Crowe) is a brave and loyal military general to the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Harris). His loyalty does not go unnoticed as the Emperor makes preparations for Maximus to succeed...

Direction John Milius · William J. MacDonald · Bruno Heller · Michael Apted

Cast Kevin McKidd · Ray Stevenson · Polly Walker · James Purefoy

Plot TV Series (2005-2007). 2 Seasons. 22 Episodes. The year is 52 B.C. Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a...

Direction Steven S. DeKnight · Michael Hurst · Rick Jacobson · Jesse Warn

Cast Liam McIntyre · Manu Bennett · Dustin Clare · Daniel Feuerriegel

Plot TV Miniseries (2013). 10 Episodes. Gaius Claudius Glaber is dead. Many months have passed since his defeat, and the rebel army, led by Spartacus and his generals Crixus, Gannicus and...

Direction Fred Niblo

Cast Ramon Novarro · May McAvoy · Francis X. Bushman · Betty Bronson

Plot Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Marlon Brando · Louis Calhern · Deborah Kerr · James Mason

Plot The grandeur of the Roman world and powerful jealousy thunder together in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s famous JULIUS CAESAR. Scheming Cassius (John Gielgud), envious of the honors...

Direction Steven S. DeKnight · Rick Jacobson · Michael Hurst · Jesse Warn

Cast Andy Whitfield · Lucy Lawless · John Hannah · Manu Bennett

Plot TV Series (2010). 13 Episodes. Betrayed by the Romans. Forced into slavery. Reborn as a Gladiator. The classic tale of the Republic’s most infamous rebel comes alive in the graphic...

Direction René Goscinny · Albert Uderzo · Pierre Watrin

Plot The Gauls have the chance to become the new masters of the Roman empire if they can solve twelve tasks set by Julius Cesar.

Direction Chris Mitchell

Cast Mary Beard

Plot How could a mediocre city in central Italy come to dominate such a huge area? What held the empire together and tore it apart? Mary Beard takes in the history...

Direction Steven S. DeKnight · Rick Jacobson

Cast John Hannah · Dustin Clare · Lucy Lawless · Peter Mensah

Plot TV Miniseries (2011). 6 Episodes. Spartacus: Gods of the Arena is a Starz television mini-series and prequel to Spartacus: Blood and Sand, scheduled to premiere January 21, 2011.[1] The series...

Direction Rex Piano · Alexander Emmert · Nick Gardner · Robert H. Gardner

Cast Leif Anders

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Wallace Beery · Margaret Leahy · Joe Roberts

Plot Keaton spoofs D.W. Griffith's "Intolerance" in his debut feature as creator/star. He demonstrates both comic and dramatic skills as he parodies the evils of intolerance in prehistoric times, ancient Rome...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Robert Taylor · Deborah Kerr · Peter Ustinov · Leo Genn

Plot Returning to Rome after 3 years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia and falls in love with her. She is a Christian and doesn't want to have anything...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Richard Burton · Rex Harrison · Roddy McDowall

Plot In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word -- an epic investment, an epic in the annals of Hollywood gossip, and,...

Direction Steven S. DeKnight · Rick Jacobson

Cast Liam McIntyre · Manu Bennett · Dustin Clare · Daniel Feuerriegel

Plot TV Series (2012). 10 Episodes. Spartacus: Vengeance is the title of the second season of Spartacus, a New Zealand produced, Starz television series, which follows Spartacus: Blood and Sand. It...

Direction Hugo Macgregor · Jack MacInnis

Plot TV Mini-Series (2012). 4 Episodes. The acclaimed British historian Mary Beard fell in love with the intrigue of classical Rome as a child - here she delves deep into the...

Direction David Maloney

Cast Patrick Troughton · Frazer Hines · Wendy Padbury · Jane Sherwin

Plot This ambitious ten-part adventure is the last Second Doctor story, with the introduction of the Time Lords. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe believe the TARDIS has brought them back to...