キーワード Ancient Rome

ローマ帝国が栄華を誇った時代―。ローマを支配する暴君の圧政によって自由を奪われたルシアスは、グラディエーター（剣闘士）となり、コロセウム（円形闘技場）での闘いに身を投じていく。果たして、怒りに燃えるルシアスは帝国への復讐を果たすことができるのか。

リドリー・スコット監督が放つスペクタクル活劇。古代ローマ帝国を舞台に、陰謀に陥れられた英雄騎士の死闘をダイナミックに描く。西暦180年、皇帝に絶大な信頼を置かれていた歴戦の勇者マキシマスは、次期皇帝の任を依頼される。しかしその晩、皇帝は息子によって暗殺。罠にはまったマキシマスは、処刑の危機に陥る。

偏執狂的なティベリウス皇帝の死後、その後継者カリグラが権力を掌握し、帝国を狂気と堕落の血なまぐさいスパイラルに陥れる。

“人間の想像を超える力”を持つ謎に満ちた伝説の秘宝を巡り、考古学者にして冒険家のインディが、因縁の宿敵、元ナチスの科学者フォラーと全世界を股にかけて陸・海・空と全方位で争奪戦を繰り広げる！

ユダヤの豪族の息子、ベン・ハーの数奇な運命を通してローマの圧政とキリストの最期を6年半の製作期間と54億円の巨費を投じて描いた一大スペクタクル。些細な出来事から旧友メッサラの裏切りにあい、奴隷船送りとなったベン・ハーはそこで命を救ったローマの将軍の養子となる。束の間の安住の後再び故郷へ戻った彼は、別れた家族が獄中死したと聞かされ戦車競技に出場する事を決意する。そこではメッサラとの宿命の対決が待っていた。

奴隷のスパルタカスは奴隷商人バタイアタスに買われ、剣闘士となり、剣闘士としての訓練を受けていた。ある日、ローマの偉大な将軍クラサスが訪れ、剣闘士の真剣勝負を要請した。スパルタカスを含め4人の奴隷が選ばれた。スパルタカスと黒人のドラバが戦い、スパルタカスを仕留める寸前にトラバはクラサスに向かって槍を投げつけたためその場で処刑される……。

公開当時、巨額の製作費を投じた事で有名な、その圧倒的な重厚感と豪華絢爛なセットに思わず驚嘆させられる歴史スペクタクル大作。エリザベス・テイラーが世界三大美女の一人クレオパトラを気高く演じる。紀元前48年、内乱の続くエジプトに侵略したローマ帝国の闘将シーザーは、そこでエジプトの女王クレオパトラの姿を見て一目で彼女の虜になってしまう……。

ユダヤの王子ジュダ＝ベン・ハーは、親友であり養子で弟となったメッサラによって、当時ユダヤの地を支配していたローマ帝国の軍隊に対して反逆行為を行ったという身に覚えのない罪で、終身刑を宣告され、奴隷の身でガレー船の漕ぎ手にされてしまう。さらに、母親と妹もローマの牢獄に投獄され、その獄舎でハンセン病に罹ってしまう。ベン・ハーは悲運と幸運に翻弄されながら、奴隷が漕ぐ死のガレー船から生還し、二輪戦車の乗り手となって、最後には家族を探し求めてユダヤの地に戻り、憎きメッサラへの復讐を誓う。

1950年代のハリウッド。某メジャースタジオでは、社運を懸けたスペクタクル超大作『ヘイル、シーザー!』が撮影されていた。しかし主演俳優である大スターのウィットロックが何者かに誘拐され、現場は大混乱。事態の収拾を任されたのは、スタジオの様々な問題を片付ける“何でも屋”のエディだった。セクシーな若手女優や、人気ミュージカルスター、演技が下手な西部劇俳優たちを巻き込んで、エディは事件解決に挑むが…。

西暦120年、名将アクイラ率いるローマ帝国最強の第九軍団の兵士5000名がカレドニアへと侵攻。しかし、同軍団は霧の中で忽然と姿を消し、再び故国へ戻ることはなかった…。それから20年後、アクイラの息子マーカスは、ローマ軍の立派な武将に成長したものの、戦闘中に重傷を負い、軍人生命を絶たれてしまう。絶望に沈む中、ある噂を聞き込んだ彼は、父と軍団の名誉を回復すべく、北の荒野へ向けて危険な旅に出発する。

シェンキウィッチの歴史小説を壮大なスケールで映像化した、50年代を代表するスペクタクル史劇。暴君ネロの時代、ローマ軍の大隊長マーカスは美しきクリスチャンの娘リジアに恋をする。だが二人の心はすれ違って……。

タイベリアス皇帝治下のローマ。キリストを処刑したローマの護民官マーセラスは、その後良心の呵責から恐怖に脅え、深い苦しみに溺れる。が、かつて奴隷として使いキリスト処刑後、姿を消したギリシア人デメテリオの導きにより神の心に触れ、宣教を志すようになる。

Torn from his homeland and the woman he loves, Spartacus is condemned to the brutal world of the arena where blood and death are primetime entertainment.

Friends and Heroes is a Christian children's program that airs on TBN, Smile of a Child TV, and was also shown on BBC TV. The show is both traditionally animated and computer animated. It takes place from 69 - 71 AD. There are three series each of 13 Episodes: Series 1 is set in Alexandria, Egypt; Series 2 in Jerusalem and Series 3 in Rome. The series was created by Brian D. Brown and Eric J. Danenberg, who also worked on The Storykeepers.

Sitcom about three desperate young men from the suburbs who try to get laid, hold down jobs and climb the social ladder in the big city - which just happens to be ancient Rome.

A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.

Within the spectacular, complex and corrupt world of gladiatorial sports in Ancient Rome, follow an ensemble of diverse characters across the many layers of Roman society where sports, politics and business intersect and collide.

Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius.

This stylish mix of documentary and historical epic chronicles the reign of Commodus, the emperor whose rule marked the beginning of Rome's fall.

Roar is an American television show that originally aired on the Fox network in July 1997. In the year AD 400, a young Irish man, Conor, sets out to rid his land of the invading Romans, but in order to accomplish this, he must unite the Celtic clans.

Cleopatra, the famed Egyptian Queen born in 69 B.C., is shown to have been brought by Roman ruler Julius Caesar at age 18. Caesar becomes sexually obsessed by the 18 year old queen, beds her, and eventually has a son by her. However, his Roman followers and his wife are not pleased by the union. In fact, as Caesar has only a daughter by his wife, he had picked Octavian as his successor.

The story is a comedy about Lucius, an architect of public bath houses in ancient Rome, who time-travels to various modern-day baths in Japan. The author explores the two cultures in the world "that have loved baths the most: the Japanese and the Romans."

Turning points in ancient Roman history and some of the Empire's greatest stories are brought to life in this drama documentary series.

Up Pompeii! is a British television comedy series broadcast between 1969 and 1970, starring Frankie Howerd. The first series was written by Talbot Rothwell, a scriptwriter for the Carry On films, and the second series by Rothwell and Sid Colin. Two later specials were transmitted in 1975 and 1991.

The Roman Holidays is a Hanna-Barbera animated television series that was broadcast in 1972 on NBC. It ran for 13 episodes before being cancelled. Very similar in theme to both The Flintstones and The Jetsons, The Roman Holidays brought a look at "modern-day" life in Ancient Rome, around 63 AD, as seen through the eyes of Augustus "Gus" Holiday and his family. The opening showed a chariot traffic jam and a TV showing football on Channel "IV" An Ancient Roman setting was actually one of the ideas that Hanna-Barbera considered as they were working to create The Flintstones.

This seven-hour British-Italian adaptation of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1834 epic, set against the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. and previously filmed in 1935, and in 1960 was a vehicle for muscleman Steve Reeves, was trashed by the critics as the campiest of sword and sandal sagas to emerge in years. This despite its reported $19-million price tag, the nobility of its cast that includes Laurence Olivier, Siobhan McKenna and Anthony Quayle, and its rather unspectacular special effects. The central figures are Nicholas Clay as Glaucus, the noble Athenian; Olivia Hussey as the high-born Ione, his love, who is seduced by the Egyptian, Arbaces (Franco Nero), a religious fanatic; Duncan Regehr as Lydon, the champion gladiator; and Linda Purl as the blind slave Nydia, who is torn between Glaucus and Lydon.

Supported by stunning 3D graphics, Dr. Darius Arya explains the purpose and architectural significance of ancient Roman buildings.

The history of Rome is a 1,000-year-long epic, filled with murder, ambition, betrayal and greed and encompassing such legendary characters as Rome’s Iron Age founders Romulus and Remus and its greatest general Julius Caesar. Larry is accompanied by some of Europe and America’s foremost classical experts who reveal the atmosphere of intrigue, conflict and violence at the places where the saga unfolded.

Twenty year-old Julius Caesar flees Rome for his life during the reign of Sulla but through skill and ambition rises four decades later to become Rome's supreme dictator.

Professor Mary Beard looks beyond the stories of emperors, armies, guts and gore to meet the everyday people at the heart of Ancient Rome's vast empire.

As Conqueror Julius Caesar is drawing his last breath, he swears Tyrannus—Rome's finest warrior—to an oath to protect his successor, Octavius, his 18-year-old nephew. Tyrannus and Octavius are forced into exile to protect the young man from those who want to sever Caesar's bloodline once and for all.

Forbidden love blossoms in the city of Pompeii, which until the eruption of volcano Vesuvius in 79 AD, is one of the empire's most powerful cities.