anubis88 20:45 03-13-2011
The title says it all. I wanna know if you guys know of any good (meaning historically correct and interesting) documentaries on Rome and the ancient world in general...
I don't have time to read much these days, but i can watch documentaries in the late hours of the day, so any suggestion would be great.
Thanx
QuintusSertorius 21:49 03-13-2011
The BBC did a six-part series called Ancient Worlds, which was about the known world around the Med from the end of the Bronze Age to the late Roman Empire.
There was another six-parter called Ancient Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire which picked six pivotal events in Roman history and semi-dramatised them (borrowing sets and actors from the production of HBO/BBC's Rome).
Harkilaz 22:13 03-13-2011
moonburn 05:49 03-14-2011
thanks for the sugestions i need a break on my job search and this might just be it
herm can anyone post a link to Ancient Worlds ? i searched it and all i got was a brothel in pompeii wich altough gives a nice idea for a few breaks one normally needs a job and nice earnings before engaging in such historical investigations
QuintusSertorius 10:24 03-14-2011
Originally Posted by moonburn:
thanks for the sugestions i need a break on my job search and this might just be it
herm can anyone post a link to Ancient Worlds ? i searched it and all i got was a brothel in pompeii wich altough gives a nice idea for a few breaks one normally needs a job and nice earnings before engaging in such historical investigations
The main page for it is
here. It's being repeated on BBC HD, but no idea if you've got access to that.
anubis88 12:07 03-14-2011
Yep, thanks for the replies... I'm hoping even more will come... I once saw a great documentary on Traian, but i have no idea what it was called :S
Could be the documentary I Caesar? I haven't seen it but it could be reasonable.
Harkilaz 12:33 03-14-2011
This is a link to the first part of Hannibal, Rome's Worst Nightmare:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S_oso_J6dE
There's a few sections of it which are made for dramatic purposes and it really doesn't consider the possible reason for things (i.e, that the myth of Hannibal's oath and hatred was created by the Romans to justify their declaration of war - or Hannibal's correct choice of not investing Rome after Cannae and that rubbish Marharbal spouts about Hannibal not knowing how to use victories, and a few other points) but as a whole, it is well made, and does reveal at least, lots of the important events and give you an overview of what happened.
got that one on DVD :> real nice
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