Nøkkelord Ancient Rome

Gladiatoren, som vant fem Academy Awards, deriblant for Beste Film og Beste Skuespiller, er en storslått kombinasjon av levende action og enestående fortellerkunst. Oppdag Gladiatorens uovervinnelige kraft, strålende regissert av Ridley Scott (Hannibal, Blade Runner, Alien), Russell Crowes (Master and Commander, A Beautiful Mind) enorme skuespillerprestasjon som Newsweek beskrev som en "ekte større-enn-livet helt!"

Den arkeologiske eventyreren har forlengst slått seg til ro med pensjonisttilværelsen, men når tentaklene til en gammel ondskap kommer tilbake må Indy igjen ta på seg hatten og plukke opp pisken. Sammen med Ford spiller også Fleabag-stjernen Phoebe Waller-Bridge og vår danske venn Mads Mikkelsen.

Spartacus, den sjangerdefnerende storflmen fra regissøren Stanley Kubrick, er den legendariske fortellingen om en tapper gladiator som ledet et vellykket romersk slaveopprør. Spartacus, en inspirerende, sann beretning om menneskets evige kamp for frihet, kombinerer historie og voldsomme scener for å lage et rørende drama om kjærlighet og engasjement.

Kan dronning Kleopatra få oppført et storslått byggverk på tre måneder og imponere selvgode Julius Cæsar? Arkitekten Linealis får ansvaret, men han blir krokodillemat om han ikke holder fristen. Her trengs et mirakel - eller kanskje gallisk trylledrikk? Han oppsøker Miraculix, og sammen med våre to hardtslående venner drar trollmannen til Egypt for å få fart i byggesakene. Men i Kleopatras rike er det ikke bare krokodillene som er farlige. Criminalis, hoffarkitekten som føler seg snytt for byggeoppdraget, vil sabotere prosjektet, koste hva det koste vil.

HAIL, CAESAR! følger én dag i livet til en studiosjef som har hendene fulle av problemer han må fikse.

Dette dramaet følger de 18 kaotiske årene som førte til grunnleggelsen av romerriket. Kleopatra møter Julius Cæsar, og planlegger å danne en allianse med Roma.

I Romerrikets siste år, dreg unge Romulus Augustus ut på ei farefull sjøreise til dei britiske øyane for å skaffe støtte før imperiet smuldrar heilt opp.

Nå skal Cæsar få smake sin egen medisin. Asterix & Obelix inntar Roma! Nå har Cæsar fått nok! Én gang for alle skal det avgjøres hvem som er sterkest: Det romerske imperium eller den lille gallerbyen. Asterix & Obelix skal gjennom en ny versjon av Herkules' berømte 12 prøvelser. Klarer de den, blir de herskere over det romerske imperium - klarer de den ikke, må den lille gallerbyen overgi seg...

Vi kjenner vel alle den lille landsbyen i Gallia som romerne ikke klarer å overvinne, selv etter 30 tegneseriealbum med iherdige forsøk og mye mørbanking. Så da er vel denne filmen et nytt kapittel i historien om de tapre gallerens kamp for selvstendighet? Det også, men i tillegg skjer dette: Asterix kommer i kamp med bestevennen Obelix... Obelix overgir Asterix til romerne... Asterix hjelper Cæsar tilbake til tronen... Majestetix stjeler romernes skattekiste - for deretter å miste den... trylledrikken som gir overnaturlige krefter blir erstattet med en enda mer hemmelig drikk... En Asterix-historie på vrangen? Slett ikke. All galskap, moro og mannjevning er som vi er vant til fra den lille landsbyen. Det skjer bare enda mer, ved alle Gallias guder og gudinner!

Torn from his homeland and the woman he loves, Spartacus is condemned to the brutal world of the arena where blood and death are primetime entertainment.

A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.

Within the spectacular, complex and corrupt world of gladiatorial sports in Ancient Rome, follow an ensemble of diverse characters across the many layers of Roman society where sports, politics and business intersect and collide.

This stylish mix of documentary and historical epic chronicles the reign of Commodus, the emperor whose rule marked the beginning of Rome's fall.

Sitcom about three desperate young men from the suburbs who try to get laid, hold down jobs and climb the social ladder in the big city - which just happens to be ancient Rome.

Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius.

Cleopatra, the famed Egyptian Queen born in 69 B.C., is shown to have been brought by Roman ruler Julius Caesar at age 18. Caesar becomes sexually obsessed by the 18 year old queen, beds her, and eventually has a son by her. However, his Roman followers and his wife are not pleased by the union. In fact, as Caesar has only a daughter by his wife, he had picked Octavian as his successor.

As Conqueror Julius Caesar is drawing his last breath, he swears Tyrannus—Rome's finest warrior—to an oath to protect his successor, Octavius, his 18-year-old nephew. Tyrannus and Octavius are forced into exile to protect the young man from those who want to sever Caesar's bloodline once and for all.

Friends and Heroes is a Christian children's program that airs on TBN, Smile of a Child TV, and was also shown on BBC TV. The show is both traditionally animated and computer animated. It takes place from 69 - 71 AD. There are three series each of 13 Episodes: Series 1 is set in Alexandria, Egypt; Series 2 in Jerusalem and Series 3 in Rome. The series was created by Brian D. Brown and Eric J. Danenberg, who also worked on The Storykeepers.

Turning points in ancient Roman history and some of the Empire's greatest stories are brought to life in this drama documentary series.

Roar is an American television show that originally aired on the Fox network in July 1997. In the year AD 400, a young Irish man, Conor, sets out to rid his land of the invading Romans, but in order to accomplish this, he must unite the Celtic clans.

The story is a comedy about Lucius, an architect of public bath houses in ancient Rome, who time-travels to various modern-day baths in Japan. The author explores the two cultures in the world "that have loved baths the most: the Japanese and the Romans."

This seven-hour British-Italian adaptation of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1834 epic, set against the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. and previously filmed in 1935, and in 1960 was a vehicle for muscleman Steve Reeves, was trashed by the critics as the campiest of sword and sandal sagas to emerge in years. This despite its reported $19-million price tag, the nobility of its cast that includes Laurence Olivier, Siobhan McKenna and Anthony Quayle, and its rather unspectacular special effects. The central figures are Nicholas Clay as Glaucus, the noble Athenian; Olivia Hussey as the high-born Ione, his love, who is seduced by the Egyptian, Arbaces (Franco Nero), a religious fanatic; Duncan Regehr as Lydon, the champion gladiator; and Linda Purl as the blind slave Nydia, who is torn between Glaucus and Lydon.

Forbidden love blossoms in the city of Pompeii, which until the eruption of volcano Vesuvius in 79 AD, is one of the empire's most powerful cities.

Twenty year-old Julius Caesar flees Rome for his life during the reign of Sulla but through skill and ambition rises four decades later to become Rome's supreme dictator.

The Roman Holidays is a Hanna-Barbera animated television series that was broadcast in 1972 on NBC. It ran for 13 episodes before being cancelled. Very similar in theme to both The Flintstones and The Jetsons, The Roman Holidays brought a look at "modern-day" life in Ancient Rome, around 63 AD, as seen through the eyes of Augustus "Gus" Holiday and his family. The opening showed a chariot traffic jam and a TV showing football on Channel "IV" An Ancient Roman setting was actually one of the ideas that Hanna-Barbera considered as they were working to create The Flintstones.

The Caesars is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1968. Made in black-and-white and written and produced by Philip Mackie, it covered similar dramatic territory to the later BBC adaptation of I, Claudius, dealing with the lives of the early emperors of Ancient Rome, but differed in its less sensationalist depictions of historical characters and their motives.

Up Pompeii! is a British television comedy series broadcast between 1969 and 1970, starring Frankie Howerd. The first series was written by Talbot Rothwell, a scriptwriter for the Carry On films, and the second series by Rothwell and Sid Colin. Two later specials were transmitted in 1975 and 1991.

As a young boy, future emperor Nero witnesses the mad Emperor Caligula kill his father and exile his mother. While in exile in the pontine islands, Agrippina, his mother, sees a vision telling her that her son can become emperor, but she will have to die first. She accepts the proposal. Back in Rome, Nero, now being raised by emperor Claudius after Caligula's death, Agrippina returns. She poisons Claudius' food and Nero becomes emperor. At first, Nero cuts taxes and introduces successful programs and invades Brittania. Soon he meets a beautiful slave named Claudia Acte, and marries her, throwing off his engagement with Claudius' daughter, Claudia Octavia, telling her she can marry someone she will be happy with. Heartbroken, she arrives at an island and kills herself. Nero enjoys being married to Claudia Acte, but soon he gradually goes mad with power and sets fire to Rome.

Professor Mary Beard looks beyond the stories of emperors, armies, guts and gore to meet the everyday people at the heart of Ancient Rome's vast empire.