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6 films tagged ancient world
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2006 · Action
Three hundred Spartan soldiers march out to hold a narrow coastal pass against a Persian army many times their size. It is one fight after another, shot in slow motion, with a narrator carrying you between them.
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2006 · Action
A young man from a forest village is taken captive in a raid and marched to a Mayan city, and then he runs. Most of the film is a chase through the jungle, very violent, in Mayan with subtitles.
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2000 · Action
A Roman general betrayed by the new emperor is sold into slavery and fights his way back up through the arenas towards Rome. Big battles, big crowds, and a story that runs in a straight line.
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2024 · Action
Years after the first film, a captured man from a North African city is brought to Rome to fight in the Colosseum for an owner with plans of his own. Big crowds, big fights, and scheming in between.
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2002 · Action
A nameless swordsman is brought before the king of Qin to explain how he killed the three assassins who had been hunting him, and tells it more than once. Each version gets its own color, and the fights are closer to dance than to brawling.
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2013 · Animation
A bamboo cutter finds a tiny girl inside a stalk, and she grows fast into a young woman his new fortune turns into a lady of the capital. Drawn like a brush painting, and gentle for most of its length.
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