Movies like Demetrius and the Gladiators

20 movies like Demetrius and the Gladiators, ordered by similarity : Hannibal(1960), The Fall of the Roman Empire(1964), Paul, Apostle of Christ(2018), They Shall Not Grow Old(2018), Dunkirk(2017), Polycarp(2015), Cabiria(1914), The Gospel According to St. Matthew(1964), The Royal Hunt of the Sun(1969), The Robe(1953), The Lost Legion(2014), Sunset Song(2015) ...

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Demetrius and the Gladiators

In first-century Rome, Christian slave Demetrius is sent to fight in the gladiatorial arena and Emperor Caligula seeks Jesus' robe for its alleged magical powers.

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Hannibal

During the Second Punic War in 218 BC, Carthaginian general Hannibal attacks the Roman Republic by crossing the Pyrenees and the Alps with his vast army.

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The Fall of the Roman Empire

The death of Marcus Aurelius leads to a succession crisis, in which the deceased emperor's son, Commodus, demonstrates that he is unwilling to let anything undermine his claim to the Roman Empire.

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Paul, Apostle of Christ

Luke travels Roma looking for apostle Paul, turned in Nero's prisoner, to tell his story before his execution.

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They Shall Not Grow Old

A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.

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Dunkirk

Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.

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Polycarp

A young slave girl, Anna, is rescued and adopted by Christians in 2nd Century Smyrna and befriended by their aged bishop, Polycarp. As Anna is taught by Polycarp and her new family, she ... See full summary »

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Cabiria

Cabiria is a Roman child when her home is destroyed by a volcano. Sold in Carthage to be sacrificed in a temple, is saved by Fulvio, a Roman spy. But danger lurks, and hatred between Rome and Carthage can only lead to war.

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The Gospel According to St. Matthew

The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Pasolini shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.

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The Royal Hunt of the Sun

In 1532, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro leads an expedition into the heart of the Inca Empire and captures the Incan Emperor Atahualpa and claims Peru for Spain.

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The Robe

In the Roman province of Judea during the 1st century, Roman tribune Marcellus Gallio is ordered to crucify Jesus of Nazareth but is tormented by his guilty conscience afterwards.

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The Lost Legion

Following the fall of the Roman Empire, a Roman woman plots to make her son the new Emperor and to fulfill the former glory of the city.

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Sunset Song

The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.

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Canopy

Singapore, February 1942. An Australian fighter pilot is shot down over the jungle and must find his way back to Allied lines, through Japanese-held territory.

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Henry V

In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

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Suffragette

In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end.

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Carve Her Name With Pride

During World War II, a recently widowed young woman is recruited to work as a spy in France.

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The Invisibles

While Joseph Goebbels infamously declared Berlin "free of Jews" in 1943, 1,700 managed to survive in the Nazi capital through the end of WWII. The Invisibles traces the stories of four young people who learned to hide in plain sight.

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The Battleship Island

During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island ("Hashima Island") to mine for coal, attempt to a dramatic escape.

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The Last Emperor

The story of the final Emperor of China.

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The Colossus of Rhodes

While on holiday in Rhodes, an Athenian war hero 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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