This article focuses on films released after 1990, according to historical background→ titles→ poster format, arranged in chronological order.
Douban score is only for reference, movies with more than 8 points basically belong to classics; 7 to 8 points of several religious themes are more lengthy and tedious, recommended "Troy", "Spartan Three Hundred Warriors", "King Arthur: Fighting Beasts", "Doctor".
3500 BC - 3100 BC, Ancient Egypt
During the pre-dynastic period to the unification of the upper and lower Egyptian kingdoms during the First Dynasty, historians still debate the first ruler of ancient Egypt, and the Scorpion King may have been the earliest Egyptian ruler who has been proven to exist so far. The main evidence of his rule in Egypt is the scorpion throne header unearthed in Hierakonpolis. However, there is still no evidence that the Scorpion King completed the unification of upper and lower Egypt.
The Scorpion King
Release date: 2002
Douban score: 6.5
13th century BC
An ancient Hebrew tribe from Mesopotamia into Syria and then into Egypt, because the population multiplied quickly and was feared by the Egyptian rulers, the leader Moses led 600,000 people to move east, across the Red Sea to Canaan, which was later Palestine, this Hebrew people became the forerunners of later Israel.
The Prince of Egypt
Release date: 1998
Douban score: 8.0
Pharaoh and the Gods
Release date: 2014
In the 12th century BC, the mycenaean kingdom of ancient Greece broke out into a war with the southwestern coastal countries of Asia Minor for maritime supremacy, and the siege of Troy for ten years was full of corpses under the city, the only thing that was not old was the peerless appearance of Orlando Bloom.
Troy
Release date: 2004
Douban score: 7.4
Mycenae was devastated by the war, its national power declined, and in the Dorian invasion, the Bronze Age of ancient Greece ended and entered the Dark Ages. At the end of the Dark Ages, iron was introduced, maritime trade was revived, and new city-states were established. At the same time, Cyrus II the Great of the Iranian Plateau established the Persian Empire in 550 BC, known as the First Persian Empire. The Persian Empire was ambitious, and in 539 BC Cyrus II raised an army to attack Babylon.
A Night with the King
Release date: 2006
In 525 BC, the Persian Empire conquered Egypt and then turned to Greece. In 420 BC, Athens repelled ten times as many Persian invaders as itself on the Plain of Marathon. In 480 BC, the Persian army of 300,000 and 1,000 warships returned under Xerxes I. Athens and Sparta united with the Greek city-states to block the strong enemy, Athens was responsible for intercepting at sea, Spartan king Leonidas led his own elite 300 people and other city-state friendly troops 7,000 to defend the hot spring pass, and the Persian 300,000 troops fought for three days and killed 20,000 enemies, but the traitors betrayed, in order to cover the retreat of friendly troops, the Spartans were all killed.
Three Hundred Spartan Warriors
Douban score: 7.6
The Battle of Thermos Pass bought precious time for Athens and retained its strength. In the ensuing Battle of Salami Bay, the enemy was lured in a successful breach of the Persian navy. In 479 BC, the Persian army was defeated by Athens and Sparta in a decisive battle, and counterattacked Asia Minor, and the Persian-Greek War ended in victory for the Athenian city-state.
300 Warriors: Rise of the Empire
Douban score: 6.1
In the 4th century BC, the city of Macedonia on the northern frontier of Greece rose, King Philip II unified the centralized power, conquered the Greek city-states in the south, and shook Greece. In 349 BC, Athens, together with the city-states of Megara, Corinth, and Gas, formed an anti-Macedonian alliance, and the two armies fought a decisive battle in Caronia, and the Athenian army was defeated. The Macedonian ironclads captured the Peloponnese, isolating Sparta completely and officially ending the era of the Greek city-states. In 337 BC, Philip II decided to conquer Persia, and the following year he was assassinated at his daughter's wedding, and his son Alexander took the throne. In 334 BC, Alexander led an army to the East, defeated hundreds of thousands of Persian troops with 30,000 people, destroyed the Persian state, and then marched into ancient India, and finally returned to the division due to soldiers' war weariness and plague. Alexander died suddenly in 323 BC at the age of 33.
Alexander the Great
In 814 BC, The City was built by Carthage, and in 753 BC the sons of wolves, Romulus and Lemos, built the city of Rome. Carthage had been at odds with the Greek city-states until the Peloponnesian War, when the Greeks were devastated, when the dispute between the two countries came to an end. By this time Rome had basically unified Italy and had begun a war with Carthage over interests in the Mediterranean, and after three Punic wars Carthage was destroyed by Rome. Then conquer the fragmented Macedonia and Spain, control all of Greece, and dominate the Mediterranean. During this period, the roman republic developed rapidly economically, slavery reached its peak, and social contradictions were constantly intensified, and large-scale slave revolts broke out everywhere, the most famous of which was the Spartacus Revolt in 73 BC.
Spartacus
Douban score: 6.9
Spartacus (drama)
Release date: 2010
Douban score: 8.5
In 60 BC, Crassus, Caesar, and Pompey secretly allied to control Roman politics. In 48 BC, Julius Caesar defeated two others and was declared a dictator for life, combining military and political power. He reformed vigorously, but was hated by his political enemies because of his dictatorship, and was assassinated by aristocratic conspirators on March 15, 44 BC.
Julius Caesar
Douban score: 6.7
In 58 BC Caesar attacked Gaul
Heroes of Gaul Series
Brave New World series
Release date: 1999
Gladiatorial Heroes
Release date: 2003
Douban score: 6.0
After Alexander's death, his empire was torn apart, three of which were stronger. Alexander's general Seleucus I created the Seleucid Empire on the map of the former Persian Empire, and the general Ptolemaic ruled Egypt, and in the 3rd century BC, Ptolemaic Egypt and the Seleucid Kingdom competed for Palestine and Syria, and the Syrian War broke out. There were 5 wars before and after, and finally Ptolemaic Egypt was defeated, the national strength was seriously damaged, and it has been devastated ever since. At the end of the 1st century BC, the last queen, Cleopatra VII, defected to the Roman Octavian.
Cleopatra
Release date: 1963
Douban score: 7.7
After Caesar's death, the Roman Civil War resumed. In 43 BC, Antony, Rebida, and Octavian openly allied themselves and gained the legal right to rule the country for 5 years, known in history as the Three-Headed Alliance. Octavian defeated the other two, and in 27 BC the Senate conferred the title of "Augustus" on Octavian and established the system of Führer. The Republic was declared demise and Rome entered the Age of Empire.
The Roman Emperor
In 5 BC, Israel under the Roman Empire gave birth to a baby, Jesus. The birth of Jesus greatly threatened the position of the local rulers and Romans, and was constantly hunted down. In the 1st century BC, the Roman Republic invaded Jerusalem and established the province of Judea. The Romans continued to brutally exploit and oppress the Jews, and in 66 AD the first large-scale Jewish revolt broke out, which was bloodily suppressed and slaughtered by Rome, killing more than a million people. In 131 AD, the Jews rose up again, and the Roman Empire at its peak quelled the riots in 3 years, slaughtered 580,000 Jews, razed Jerusalem to the ground, and expelled all Jews from the Holy City, and since then the Jews have begun to disperse throughout Europe and become a stateless nation. Two Jewish wars accelerated the division between Christianity and Judaism.