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The Last Days of Pompeii

The Last Days of Pompeii

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Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1935 IMDB Rating: 6.4

In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuviu...

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King Arthur

King Arthur

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2004 IMDB Rating: 6.3

The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in Britain, and that the...

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Centurion

Centurion

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2010 IMDB Rating: 6.3

Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face...

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The Eagle

The Eagle

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Film Age rating: 11 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 6.2

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 th...

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Sebastiane

Sebastiane

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Film Age rating: 18 Year: 1976 IMDB Rating: 6.2

Rome, AD 303. Emperor Diocletian demotes his favourite, Sebastian, from captain of the palace guard to the rank of common soldier and banishes him to a remote coastal outpost where his fellow soldiers...

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Jesus

Jesus

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1973 IMDB Rating: 6

King Herod has ruled Judea for over 37 years and believes himself to be supreme. When three wise men from the Far East come to visit him, he is initially pleased, but this pleasure turns to anger when...

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Mary Magdalene

Mary Magdalene

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 5.9

In the first century, free-spirited Mary Magdalene flees the marriage her family has arranged for her, finding refuge and a sense of purpose in a radical new movement led by the charismatic, rabble-ro...

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Constantine and the Cross

Constantine and the Cross

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1961 IMDB Rating: 5.8

Constantin is fighting against Barbarians with his father when he is called to Rome. In his way to Rome, he falls in an ambush planned by Maxence, who wants to become emperor.

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Messalina

Messalina

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Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1960 IMDB Rating: 5.7

Messalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of terror that shook the empire to its very foundations....

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Pompeii

Pompeii

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 5.5

In 79 A.D., Milo, a slave turned gladiator, finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corr...

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