Sea battles in the morning and gladiator fights in the afternoon with wild beasts magically appearing in the arena? A subterranean archaeologist investigates tunnels to see how the Colosseum could be flooded; and architects, engineers, and builders construct a lift and trap door system to attempt the release of a wolf into the most famous amphitheater in the world for the first time in 1500 years.

Following the fall of the Roman Empire, a Roman woman plots to make her son the new Emperor and to f...

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding o...

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

On the evening of March 11, 1950, Annabella Bracci, a 12-year-old girl, was brutally killed and thro...

The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.

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

In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the mid...

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

An ex-prostitute, feeling an emptiness in her life, decides to fill it by buying a car.

Originally produced in 1997 on the threshold of the Third Millennium of the Christian Era, and in ce...

Rome, 1968. A football passionate PE teacher formed the first woman team. Thirty eight years later, ...

This vehicle for the great actress Anna Magnani was one of the four made for Italian television and ...

Why did the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe and the Mediterranean for five centuries, inexorabl...

Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart hi...

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lyg...

The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legen...

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...
A tribute not so much to the river that runs through the Eternal City, but to that part of Rome that...

Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice...