Återuppväckt från de döda av den geniale och okonventionelle vetenskapsmannen doktor Godwin Baxter börjar Bella Baxter sitt liv under hans beskydd, ivrig att lära sig allt. I sin avsaknad av och hunger efter världslighet rymmer Bella med Duncan Wedderburn, en slipad och utsvävande advokat, på en hisnande äventyrsresa över kontinenterna. Fri från sin tids fördomar blir Bellas syfte tydligt: att stå för jämlikhet och frihet.
Elizabeth Taylor har huvudrollen som Egyptens glamorösa och knipsluga drottning. För att säkra makten förför hon Roms härskare, men möter till slut sin jämlike i Marcus Antonius, spelad av Richard Burton. Deras passionerade romans kan komma att avgöra ödet för världens mäktigaste välden.
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.
I Alexandria under andra världskriget flyr en ung man från verkligheten med hjälp av amerikanska filmer och börjar drömma om att söka lyckan i Hollywood.
The life of Katherine of Alexandria. Constantine joins the Roman army to find his missing childhood friend. Once alerted to his friend's whereabouts, he prepares for an all out war between the East and the West. Contains the last film role of Peter O'Toole, who died before the film was released.
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.