What life was like in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii moments before it was devastated by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.

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The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. A...

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From the legendary times of Romulus and Remus to the present day, the compelling story of the eterna...

Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...

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A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betray...

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

Carmine Gallone and Amleto Palermi’s The Last Days of Pompeii 1926 stages in sumptuous colour tintin...

In 1872, in the cave of Cavillon in Monaco, archaeologist Émile Rivière (1835-1922) unearthed an app...

When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer...

A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imp...

Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. S...

The devious general Cethegus plays the Byzantine and Gothic forces against each other for his own ga...

For over 85 years, steamship Ste. Claire transported generations of Detroiters to Boblo Island, an a...

What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the R...