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silent film told in several time-periods with a segment set in 27 AD leading to the Crucifixion Three Ages: 1923 a parody of Intolerance starring Buster Keaton also with its own Roman section Ben-Hur: 1925 silent film dir. by Fred Niblo, starring Ramon Novarro (the picture noteworthy for its color segments and for the female nudity in the ...
This was the first film about Anna Anderson who pretended to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna. 1928 Weimar Republic Anastasia, die falsche Zarentochter: Arthur Bergen: This film has hastily written and produced to take advantage of the allegation that Anna Anderson was actually Fransziska Schanskowska, a missing factory worker from Poland.
The guards draw their guns and shoot. Not everyone is dead immediately, so they shoot the survivors individually. As they clear the bodies, the guards discover diamonds hidden in the family's clothes. The film then switches to the canonization of Tsar Nicholas II and his family. This is the last scene before the end of the film.
Cleopatra is a 1963 American epic historical drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, with a screenplay adapted by Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall and Sidney Buchman from the 1957 book The Life and Times of Cleopatra by Carlo Maria Franzero, and from histories by Plutarch, Suetonius, and Appian.
The film was first released on LaserDisc in a letterboxed format during the 1990s. The most complete version of the film was released on Super 8mm in the early 1990s, extracted from a 16mm print. [41] On April 29, 2008, the film was released on a three-disc limited collector's edition DVD as part of the Miriam Collection by the Weinstein Company.
The Last Legion is a 2007 historical action adventure film directed by Doug Lefler and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. It is based on the 2002 novel of the same name by Valerio Massimo Manfredi . It stars Colin Firth , Ben Kingsley , Aishwarya Rai , Thomas Brodie-Sangster , Peter Mullan , Kevin McKidd , John Hannah , and Iain Glen .
Caligula is the young heir to the throne of his great-uncle, Emperor Tiberius.One morning, a blackbird flies into his room; Caligula considers this a bad omen. Shortly afterward, one of the heads of the Praetorian Guard, Naevius Sutorius Macro, tells Caligula that Tiberius demands his immediate presence at Capri, where the Emperor lives with his close friend Nerva, Caligula's dim-witted uncle ...
The Eagle is a 2011 epic historical drama film set in Roman Britain directed by Kevin Macdonald, and starring Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell and Donald Sutherland.Adapted by Jeremy Brock from Rosemary Sutcliff's historical adventure novel The Eagle of the Ninth (1954), the film tells the story of a young Roman officer attempting to recover the lost Roman eagle standard of his father's legion in ...