A historian goes to the movies Ancient Rome
DVD - 2020
"The glory of ancient Rome meets the grandeur of modern Hollywood as you join a historian to examine the accuracy of classic sword-and-sandal films."--container.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Lectures
Educational films
Instructional films
Nonfiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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Chantilly, VA :
The Teaching Company
[2020]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Main Author
- Corporate Author
- Item Description
- "The Great courses, Topic: History ; Subtopic: Ancient history"--Cover.
"Course number 8635"--Disc labels.
12 lectures lasting 30 minutes each.
Course guidebooks laid in each container. Guidebooks contain outlines for each 30 minute lecture. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (122 pages : illustrations)
- Format
- DVD.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references in course guidebook.
- ISBN
- 9781629978277
- Disc 1. Quo Vadis kick-starts the sword-and-sandal genre
- Ben-Hur: the greatest chariot race
- Spartacus: Kubrick's controversial epic
- Cleopatra: spectacle gone wild
- The Fall of the Roman Empire and ancient epics
- I, Claudius: the BBC makes an anti-epic
- Disc 2. Life of Brian: the Roman world's a funny place
- Gladiator: the historical epic revived
- Rome: HBO's gritty take on ancient history
- Centurion and The Eagle: the legions in Britain
- Scipione l'africano and Fellini Satyricon
- Bread and circuses in sci-fi films.