Filmen er en fortælling om Bella Baxter, en ung kvinde, der genoplives af den geniale og uortodokse videnskabsmand dr. Godwin Baxter. Den videbegærlige Bella hungrer efter at opleve verden, så hun stikker af med Duncan Wedderburn, en slikket og amoralsk advokat, på et hæsblæsende eventyr over flere kontinenter. Befriet for datidens moraliserende bånd bliver Bellas liv en stræben efter lighed og frigørelse.
Cleopatra er en spektakulær og storslået film om en af oldtidshistoriens mest kontroversielle personer. Fra hun som syttenårig bestiger tronen til hendes bitre undergang og selvmord, skildrer Elizabeth Taylor på imponerende vis dronningen af Egypten som en følsom og passioneret kvinde, der bliver opslugt af sin ambition om at herske over hele den civiliserede verden. En af de største kærlighedshistorier nogensinde bliver genskabt, da hendes forhold til Mark Antony fører til hendes undergang. Et detaljeret og stærkt portræt af en genial og fascinerende kvinde.
Alexandria, Egypt, 1940. Three young Egyptians come to the aid of a woman being attacked by three British soldiers. One of them is arrested and thrown in jail. When the military surrounds the police station and begins an all-out assault, it's up to one man, Gen. Youssef al-Masri, to defend his prison and protect his people.
The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, the beautiful and mysterious wife of a Coptic banker. He observes the affairs of her heart and incidentally discovers that she is involved in a plot against the British, meant to arm the Jewish underground in Palestine. The plot finally fails, Justine is sent to jail and Darley decides to return to England.
On the Pacific coast of Los Angeles, Ali and Yaffa struggle to remember the Arab Mediterranean cities they have left behind.
En egyptisk teenager bosiddende i Alexandria under Anden verdenskrig er vild med amerikanske film og drømmer om at slå igennem i Hollywood.
Katherine af Alexandrias liv. Konstantin slutter sig til den romerske hær for at finde sin forsvundne barndomsven. Når han først er blevet advaret om, hvor hans ven befinder sig, forbereder han sig på en fuldstændig krig mellem øst og vest. Indeholder den sidste filmrolle af Peter O'Toole, som døde før filmen blev udgivet.
Bettany Hughes goes in search of this lost civilisation, revealing the story of a city founded out of the desert by Alexander the Great in 331 BC to become the world's first global centre of culture. The documentary also looks at the role of astronomer and philosopher Hypatia, and incorporates stunning footage from the feature film 'Agora'.
This James A. FitzPatrick's People on Parade series short takes the viewer to Alexandria, Egypt, with emphasis on the modern nature of the city.
A travel documentary about the ship "Macedonia" which sets sail from the port of Rijeka, travels along the Mediterranean Sea stopping at Alexandria, Genova, Marseilles, Algiers and arrives at the final destination in New York.