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في عام 180 ، ألقت وفاة الإمبراطور ماركوس أوريليوس الإمبراطورية الرومانية في حالة من الفوضى. ماكسيموس هو أحد أكثر جنرالات الجيش الروماني قدرة وثقة ومستشارا رئيسيا للإمبراطور. بينما يصعد كومودوس ابن ماركوس المخادع إلى العرش ، من المقرر إعدام ماكسيموس. يهرب ، ولكن يتم القبض عليه من قبل تجار الرقيق. أعيدت تسميته الإسباني وأجبر على أن يصبح مصارعا ، يجب على ماكسيموس أن يقاتل حتى الموت مع رجال آخرين من أجل تسلية الجماهير التي تدفع.
بريطانيا ، 117 م. كوينتوس دياس ، الناجي الوحيد من غارة بيكتيش على حصن حدودي روماني ، يسير شمالًا مع الفيلق التاسع الأسطوري للجنرال فيريلوس ، بأوامر بمسح البيكتس من على وجه الأرض وتدمير زعيمهم ، جورلاكون.
In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila arrives from Rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father, the commander of the Ninth. Accompanied only by his British slave Esca, Marcus sets out across Hadrian's Wall into the uncharted highlands of Caledonia - to confront its savage tribes, make peace with his father's memory, and retrieve the lost legion's golden emblem, the Eagle of the Ninth.
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decision about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values. Pascal’s final Shaw production is played broadly, with comic character actor Alan Young as the titular naïf. He’s ably supported by Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, and Elsa Lanchester.
The emperor of Satavahana kingdom, Satakarni comes across many challenges when he attempts to convince his wife that their son is bound to take part in battles and vanquish his enemies.
Marcus Numidius, a Roman tribune sent to Armenia to put down a gladiators' revolt, captures the rebels' popular leader, Aselepius. Princess Amira, with ambitions of being Queen and jealous of Asclepius' popularity, plans his death in the arena by substituting a lion for his human opponent
Rome, under Commodus: intrigue, fight for power, gladiators, senators, Christians, Barbarians, slaves, Pretorians, battles, wrestles, swords and muscles in by-the-numbers Italian epic.