Rome DVD's Best & Worst

Being a keen collector and watcher of all films from this era I thought it might be fun to start a thread on your favourite (and worst) films, TV Programmes and DVD's from from the Rome era

2 I can recommend are
Murder in Rome (BBC) Court room style drama about Cicero's most famous case
Hannibal Rome's worst nightmare (BBC) awesome drama/documentary about the life and times of Carthage's greatest general
Could do with more battle scenes but still top notch

And the worst anything from the History of Warfare series

I got these from ebay

T.V DRAMA
- Seasons 1 and 2 of "Rome" (an HBO original)
- "I, Claudius" (BBC) (the price has dropped tremendously for this DVD set)
- "Masada" (one of the best mini-series I've ever seen)

CINEMA
- "Gladiator" (for sheer entertainment)
- "Spartacus" (starring Kirk Douglas)
- "Ben Hur" (Charlton Heston)
- "Fall of the Roman Empire" (it's hard to find this one in the US)

T.V Documentaries
- "Rome: Engineering an Empire" (History Channel)
- "Warrior Queen Boudica" (History Channel)
- "Roman War Machine" (I think it was History Channel)

To Barbarian Prince's list I would add:

Cleopatra ( Rex Harrison, Liz Taylor, Richard Burton)
(If you can find it D.W. Griffiths 1912 movie it is a hoot)

The new boxed set of I, Claudius also has an early 60's documentary on the 1930's movie version staring Charles Laughton. The documentary is called the greatest movie never made.

Originally Posted by allypup

To Barbarian Prince's list I would add:

Cleopatra ( Rex Harrison, Liz Taylor, Richard Burton)
(If you can find it D.W. Griffiths 1912 movie it is a hoot)

I totally forgot about "Cleopatra" (the one starring Elizabeth Taylor). They don't make movies like that anymore!

CINEMA
- "Gladiator" (for sheer entertainment)
- "Spartacus" (starring Kirk Douglas)
- "Ben Hur" (Charlton Heston)
- "Fall of the Roman Empire" (it's hard to find this one in the US)

Barbarian Prince Agree with all I just bought a 3 DVD set fron UK ebay (Gladiator,Spartacus & Fall of the Roman Empire) SUPERB
Would add "Ancient Rome the rise and fall of an empire" (BBC)
There was a Timewatch series which had Augustus (octavian) Gladiators and Gengis Khan but the only copies I found are very low quality and copied off the History channel

The History Channel also did a good show on Hannibal. Anybody that gets elephants across the Alps in November gets my vote. Hannibal ad portas!

Many times I wish the History Channel would do more History and less Modern Marvels.