9 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 3rd Century BC
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Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare
๐ช๐ธ Spain ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐น๐ณ Tunisia The 3rd Century BCIt is 200 years before the birth of Christ and Rome is the new superpower of the ancient world. She believes she is invincible - but one man is destined to change that. He is a man bound by oath to avenge the wrongs inflicted on his home and, in pursuit of revenge, he will stop at nothing. Hannibal explores the man behind the myth, revealing what drove the 26-year-old to mastermind one of the most audacious military moves in history. With 40,000 soldiers and 37 elephants, he marched 1,500 miles to challenge his enemies on their own soil. It was an act so daring that few people believed it possible.
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Alexander
๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐น๐ท Turkey ๐ฎ๐ณ India ๐ต๐ฐ Pakistan ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฎ๐ท Iran ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt ๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan The 3rd Century BC The 4th Century BCThe greatest legend of all was real โ Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.
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The Colossus of Rhodes
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 3rd Century BCA monster statue of bronze and stone...A fabulous fortress 20 stories tall! โ While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.
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Siege of Syracuse
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 3rd Century BCAmazing Secret Weapon of Archimedes! โ Syracuse lies between the warring nations of Rome and Carthage; as long as the balance of power between the nations remains intact, both nations are willing to preserve the neutrality of Syracuse. However, Rome has now gotten the upper hand in its struggle for power. The fate of Syracuse lies in the hands of its leader, the famed inventor and scientist Archimedes.
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The Barbarians
๐ช๐ธ Spain ๐น๐ณ Tunisia The 3rd Century BCRevak is an Iberian prince from Penda, a small island where the Carthagian fleet ransacked and enslaved the surviving native men, including him. After an eventful passage aboard a galley, Revak becomes an elephant driver in Carthage city, and could become the favorite of mighty women, but has only one thirst: bloody revenge, at all cost, so the barbarian makes common cause with the attacking Romans, Carthage's historical enemy and rival for Mediterranean hegemony, scorning love...
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Hannibal
๐ช๐ธ Spain ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐น๐ณ Tunisia The 3rd Century BCHannibal and His Fantastic Elephant Army That Clobbered Half the World! โ A Carthaginian general attempts to cross the Alps with an army of elephants in order to conquer Rome.
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Jupiter's Darling
๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐น๐ณ Tunisia The 3rd Century BCThe Love Story of the Beauty and the Barbarian! Clash of Armies! Underwater spectacle! Never before such sights to see! โ Rome is on the verge of being conquered by Hannibal (Howard Keel). While Rome's ruler, Fabius Maximus (George Sanders), plots a defense against Hannibal's armies, Fabius' fiancรฉe, Amytis (Esther Williams), is curious about the fearless conquerer. Amytis travels to Hannibal's camp just to get a look at him, but she ends up being captured. However, she is instantly smitten by the Carthaginian commander, so she tries to shift his attentions away from Rome -- and to her instead.
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Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
๐น๐ณ Tunisia ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 3rd Century BCFacist Italy's 1937 Spectacular Epic โ A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.
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Cabiria
๐น๐ณ Tunisia ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 3rd Century BCAll Nations Bow to This - The Greatest Spectacle the World Has Seen! โ Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrificed to Moloch, Cabiria is rescued by Fulvius Axilla, a good-hearted Roman spy, and his powerful slave, Maciste. The trio are broken up as Cabiria is entrusted to a woman of noble birth. With Cabiria's fate unknown, Maciste punished for his heroism, and Fulvius sent away to fight for Rome, is there any hope of our heroes reuniting?