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    Default Best documentaries about Rome or the Ancient world in general

    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.

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    Default Re: Best documentaries about Rome or the Ancient world in general

    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).
    It began on seven hills - an EB 1.1 Romani AAR with historical house-rules (now ceased)
    Heirs to Lysimachos - an EB 1.1 Epeiros-as-Pergamon AAR with semi-historical houserules (now ceased)
    Philetairos' Gift - a second EB 1.1 Epeiros-as-Pergamon AAR


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    Default Re: Best documentaries about Rome or the Ancient world in general

    I never saw Ancient Worlds, but Ancient Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire was pretty good. You can watch it on youtube :)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfKwywgs1g4

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    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
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    Default Re: Best documentaries about Rome or the Ancient world in general

    Quote Originally Posted by moonburn View Post
    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.
    It began on seven hills - an EB 1.1 Romani AAR with historical house-rules (now ceased)
    Heirs to Lysimachos - an EB 1.1 Epeiros-as-Pergamon AAR with semi-historical houserules (now ceased)
    Philetairos' Gift - a second EB 1.1 Epeiros-as-Pergamon AAR


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    Default Re: Best documentaries about Rome or the Ancient world in general

    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
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