With more than seven million visitors a year, its massive structure and awesome architecture testify to the genius of ancient Roman building techniques, earning it a place not only among UNESCO's World Heritage sites but as one of the new seven wonders of the world. The Roman Colosseum is an emblem of the power of a bygone empire.

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

Terry Jones' Barbarians is a 4-part TV documentary series first broadcast on BBC 2 in 2006. It was w...

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

This film is a documentary on the archaeological excavation of the Snaketown Dig just out of Phoenix...

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

This historical drama tells the story of Qin Shihuang, who unified China's vast territory and declar...

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

Ancient pharaoh Akhenaten was almost lost to history. Canadian archaeologist Donald Redford, who unc...

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

The Scythians, skilled horsemen and nomadic conquerors, built a feared empire in the vast Eurasian s...

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

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

Chaco Canyon, located in northwest New Mexico, is perhaps the only site in the world constructed in ...

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

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

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

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

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

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassi...