Movies: Ancient greece
- 1928
Vamping Venus (1928)
Vamping Venus01928HD
A present-day stereotypically-Irish American politician is vaulted into ancient Greece after receiving a bump on the head. This film is lost....
- 1981
The Search for Alexander the Great (1981)
The Search for Alexander the Great01981HD
Friends, contemporaries and even enemies of Alexander the Great gather in a tent to tell his tale through their eyes....
- 1946
Night in Paradise (1946)
Night in Paradise41946HD
Aesop of fable fame poses as an old man and woos away a princess who wants a king for his gold....
- 1961
Antigone (1961)
Antigone7.61961HD
In Thebes in ancient Greece, King Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother Jocasta, having two sons - Eteocles and Polyneices - and two daughters - Ismene and Antigone. King Oedipus dies a beggar in the exile after gouging out his own eye, and...
- 2009
Alexander's Greatest Battle (2009)
Alexander's Greatest Battle02009HD
Michael Wood travels through Syria and Iraq to uncover the story of Alexander the Great's decisive battle against the might of the Persian Empire in 331 BCE. Ancient writers agreed that it was fought somewhere near the city of Irbil in northern Iraq,...
- 2011
The Tragedy of Man (2011)
The Tragedy of Man7.62011HD
Jankovics's adaptation of the eponymous play is divided into multiple parts, and depicts the creation and fall of Man throughout history....
- 1966
Barefoot in Athens (1966)
Barefoot in Athens6.31966HD
The last few days in the life of Socrates, including his trial....
- 1940
The Boys from Syracuse (1940)
The Boys from Syracuse5.81940HD
The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus and Dromi...
- 2008
Secrets of the Parthenon (2008)
Secrets of the Parthenon82008HD
For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at, set on fire, rocked by earthquakes, looted for its sculptures, and disfigured by catastrophic renovations. To save it from collapse, the modern restoration team must uncover the secrets of how the anci...
- 1961
It's Greek to Me-ow! (1961)
It's Greek to Me-ow!6.51961HD
This cartoon opens with a narrator introducing the ancient Greek Acropolis, describing its wealth and beautiful architecture. Tom is depicted as one of these inhabitants, an alley cat who lives in the shadows of Athens searching for food....
- 2011
Pavlopetri: The City Beneath the Waves (2011)
Pavlopetri: The City Beneath the Waves72011HD
Just off the southern coast of mainland Greece lies the oldest submerged city in the world. It thrived for 2,000 years during the time that saw the birth of western civilisation. An international team of experts is using cutting-edge technology to p...
- 2010
Greek Myths: Tales of Travelling Heroes (2010)
Greek Myths: Tales of Travelling Heroes62010HD
Eminent classical historian Robin Lane Fox embarks on a journey in search of the origins of the Greek myths. He firmly believes that these fantastical stories lie at the root of western culture, and yet little is known about where the myths of the Gr...
- 2018
RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida (2018)
RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida02018HD
Troilus and Cressida swear they will always be true to one another. But in the seventh year of the siege of Troy, their innocence is tested and exposed to the savage corrupting influence of war with tragic consequences....
- 1931
Daphnis and Chloe (1931)
Daphnis and Chloe5.61931HD
In Lesvos, shepherd Lamonas someday finds an abandoned baby boy suckling a goat and adopts it, and names him Daphnis. Around the same time, another shepherd, Dryantas, finds too an abandoned baby girl and adopts it, naming her Chloe. Daphnis and Chlo...
- 2024
Les secrets du mont Olympe (2024)
Les secrets du mont Olympe82024HD
...
- 1937
Porky's Hero Agency (1937)
Porky's Hero Agency6.81937HD
Porky is reading the Greek myth of the gorgon, who turned everyone she looked at into stone. Mother tells him it's bedtime; he dreams of being Porkykarkus, the hero that saves Greece....
- 2021
Spectres (2021)
Spectres02021HD
Three ancient heroes encounter the spectres of their dead loved ones and struggle to let them go....
- 2015
Sappho: Love and Life on Lesbos (2015)
Sappho: Love and Life on Lesbos82015HD
Papyrology expert Margaret Mountford goes in search of the truth behind the legend of Sappho, the most controversial writer of the ancient world and the first authentic woman’s voice in Western history. The mysterious discovery of a lost papyrus cont...
- 1996
Mystical World of Ancient Greece (1996)
Mystical World of Ancient Greece01996HD
Over twenty-five hundred years ago, the ancient citizens of Athens, Greece built the most magnificent temples that mankind has ever been inspired to create. These towering shrines, shrouded with unworldly spirits, were home to mysterious cults that p...
- 2021
The Time Factory (2021)
The Time Factory8.22021HD
Who invented time, who invented the clock? Why 1 hour, why 60 minutes, why 60 seconds? Since prehistoric times, man has sought to measure time, to organize social and religious life, to plan food supply... Today we can surf the Internet, geolocate, p...