Movies: Ancient greece

  • 1928
    Vamping Venus

    Vamping Venus (1928)

    Vamping Venus

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    A present-day stereotypically-Irish American politician is vaulted into ancient Greece after receiving a bump on the head. This film is lost....

    Vamping Venus
  • 1981
    The Search for Alexander the Great

    The Search for Alexander the Great (1981)

    The Search for Alexander the Great

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    Friends, contemporaries and even enemies of Alexander the Great gather in a tent to tell his tale through their eyes....

    The Search for Alexander the Great
  • 1946
    Night in Paradise

    Night in Paradise (1946)

    Night in Paradise

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    Aesop of fable fame poses as an old man and woos away a princess who wants a king for his gold....

    Night in Paradise
  • 1961
    Antigone

    Antigone (1961)

    Antigone

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    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...

    Antigone
  • 2009
    Alexander's Greatest Battle

    Alexander's Greatest Battle (2009)

    Alexander's Greatest Battle

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    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,...

    Alexander's Greatest Battle
  • 2011
    The Tragedy of Man

    The Tragedy of Man (2011)

    The Tragedy of Man

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    Jankovics's adaptation of the eponymous play is divided into multiple parts, and depicts the creation and fall of Man throughout history....

    The Tragedy of Man
  • 1966
    Barefoot in Athens

    Barefoot in Athens (1966)

    Barefoot in Athens

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    The last few days in the life of Socrates, including his trial....

    Barefoot in Athens
  • 1940
    The Boys from Syracuse

    The Boys from Syracuse (1940)

    The Boys from Syracuse

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    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...

    The Boys from Syracuse
  • 2008
    Secrets of the Parthenon

    Secrets of the Parthenon (2008)

    Secrets of the Parthenon

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    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...

    Secrets of the Parthenon
  • 1961
    It's Greek to Me-ow!

    It's Greek to Me-ow! (1961)

    It's Greek to Me-ow!

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    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....

    It's Greek to Me-ow!
  • 2011
    Pavlopetri: The City Beneath the Waves

    Pavlopetri: The City Beneath the Waves (2011)

    Pavlopetri: The City Beneath the Waves

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    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...

    Pavlopetri: The City Beneath the Waves
  • 2010
    Greek Myths: Tales of Travelling Heroes

    Greek Myths: Tales of Travelling Heroes (2010)

    Greek Myths: Tales of Travelling Heroes

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    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...

    Greek Myths: Tales of Travelling Heroes
  • 2018
    RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida

    RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida (2018)

    RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida

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    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....

    RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida
  • 1931
    Daphnis and Chloe

    Daphnis and Chloe (1931)

    Daphnis and Chloe

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    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...

    Daphnis and Chloe
  • 2024
    Les secrets du mont Olympe

    Les secrets du mont Olympe (2024)

    Les secrets du mont Olympe

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    Les secrets du mont Olympe
  • 1937
    Porky's Hero Agency

    Porky's Hero Agency (1937)

    Porky's Hero Agency

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    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....

    Porky's Hero Agency
  • 2021
    Spectres

    Spectres (2021)

    Spectres

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    Three ancient heroes encounter the spectres of their dead loved ones and struggle to let them go....

    Spectres
  • 2015
    Sappho: Love and Life on Lesbos

    Sappho: Love and Life on Lesbos (2015)

    Sappho: Love and Life on Lesbos

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    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...

    Sappho: Love and Life on Lesbos
  • 1996
    Mystical World of Ancient Greece

    Mystical World of Ancient Greece (1996)

    Mystical World of Ancient Greece

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    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...

    Mystical World of Ancient Greece
  • 2021
    The Time Factory

    The Time Factory (2021)

    The Time Factory

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    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...

    The Time Factory