List of films set in ancient Rome
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=====A list of films based more or less accurately upon historical events and famous persons of Ancient Rome. ===== In Chronological order:
Circa 1000 BC --- Aeneas settles in Latium
- External link Film: Last Glory of Troy (1962)
753 BC --- Founding of Rome
- External link Film: Romulus and Remus (1961)
Around 745 BC --- The rape of the Sabines women
- External link Film: Romulus and the Sabines (1961)
673-642 BC --- During the Reign of Tullus Hostilius, the Horatii fight the Curiatii from Alba Longa for the sake of Rome.
- External link Film: Duel of the Champions (1961)
Around 494 BC --- Coriolanus leads the Plebeians in a fight for their rights against the senate.
- External link Film: Coriolanus: Hero without a country (1963)
390 BC --- Romans defeated by the Gauls under Brennus at the Battle of Allia. Gauls sack Rome, only the Capitol is defended by the citizenry.
- External link Film: Brennus, Enemy of Rome (1963)
218-201 BC --- Second Punic war.
Hannibal invades Italy.
- External link Film: Annibale (1960)
211 BC --- Siege of Syracuse. Bright defenses by Archimedes.
- External link Film: Siege of Syracuse (1962)
73 BC --- Slaves revolt.
- External link Film: Spartacus (1960)
Around 52 BC --- Conquest of Gaul.
- External link Film: Caesar the Conqueror (1963)
48 - 30 BC --- Julius Caesar in Egypt, Fight between Marcus-Anthony and Octavius.
- External link Film: Cleopatra (1963)
44 BC --- Last days of Julius Caesar
- External link Film: Julius Caesar (1953)
- External link Film: Julius Caesar (1970)
The Julio-Claudian dynasty from 24 BC to Claudius death in 54 AD
- External link Film: I Claudius (1976, mini serie)
60-62 Queen Boudica leads a rebellion in Britannia
- External link Film: Warrior Queen (1978)
70-73 Revolt in Palestine
- External link Film: Masada (1981)
79 Destruction of Pompeii
- External link Film: Last Days of Pompeii (1960)
180-192 Marcus Aurelius and Commodus
- External link Film: The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
- External link tt0172495 Film: Gladiator (2000)
260-272 Queen Zenobia of Palmyra seizes large areas of Asia Minor, Syria, and Egypt and sets up an independent empire until defeated and taken prisoner by Aurelian
- External link Film: Nel segno di Roma (1959)
310-315 Conversion of Constantine I (emperor)
- External link Film: Constantine and the Cross (1962)
434-453 Attila's war with Rome
- External link Film: Attila (1954)
- External link Film: Sign of the Pagan (1954)
