Jail Caesar (2012)

Actors: Alice Krige (producer), Alice Krige (actress), Derek Jacobi (actor), Grant Swanby (actor), John Kani (actor), Richard Clifford (actor), Grethe Fox (actress), Bo Petersen (actress), Aletta Bezuidenhout (actress), Eda Lishman (producer), Nicola Hanekom (actress), Vaneshran Arumugam (actor), Kweku Mandela (producer), Michelle Hill (actress), Sahil Gill (producer),

Plot: The early life of the Roman ruler Julius Caesar (up to the age 33) as told in three working prisons: Pollsmoor in Cape Town (South Africa), Cardiff Prison in Wales (United Kingdom) and the Brotherhood Lodge Penitentiary in Alberta (Canada). The cast contains a small group of superb professional actors, led by Sir 'Derek Jacobi' (qv) and 'John Kani' (qv), together with hundreds of prisoners, some taking leading parts, together forming an unrivalled ensemble telling the tumultuous story of one of history's foremost personalities. Young Julius Caesar. His Rome is a prison. In order to survive he seduces, he borrows, he kills. But Rome's fat cats will back him only so far. The drug dealers, the pirates and the gangs all want his blood... The prisoner who finally at the age of 51 becomes "dictator in perpetuity".

Spartacus: The Bolshoi Ballet (2008)

Actors: Ross MacGibbon (director), Aram Khachaturyan (composer), Yuri Grigorovich (writer), Carlos Acosta (actor), Aleksandr Volchkov (actor), Raffaello Giovagnolli (writer), Nina Kaptsova (actress), Maria Allash (actress),

Crassus (2007)

Actors: Denis Podalydès (actor), Sébastien Descoins (editor), Lucie Moreau (actress), Olivier Treiner (writer), Olivier Treiner (director), Olivier Treiner (actor), Camille Moreau (producer), Raphaël Treiner (composer),

Gladiatress (2004)

Actors: Mark Benton (actor), Greg Bennett (actor), Mark Benton (actor), Michael J. Harker (miscellaneous crew), Oliver Ford Davies (actor), Roger Phillips (miscellaneous crew), Bruce Davey (producer), David Hayman (actor), Sally Phillips (actress), Pam Ferris (actress), Brian Grant (director), Jen Lambert (miscellaneous crew), Jim Reeve (producer), Louise O'Malley (miscellaneous crew), Nicole Gregory (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: When a particularly sissy Caesar orders his general Rhinus to proceed with the conquest of Britain, which is just a mosaic of inter-warring Celtic tribes related to the Gauls he already subjugated, those send Marcosivellauniviromandiboule (aka Young Gaul) to the Dubonni, a measly tribe where three sisters play a leading role, and therefore see the messenger foremost as an ideal catch for the unmarried youngest; his bed-test goes great, while a Roman attack on the rivaling neighbor Kent tribe is welcomed without any strategic foresight. Nevertheless the Roman war machine rolls on, so war must be engaged, however again in their, female-shaped way.

Cosmocrator (2000)

Actors: Ramon Pipin (composer), Jean-Christophe Bouvet (actor), Sarah Lévy (editor), Sarah Lévy (actress), Sarah Lévy (writer), Hervé Ganem (producer), Hervé Ganem (editor), Hervé Ganem (director), Hervé Ganem (actor), Hervé Ganem (writer), Michel Voletti (actor), Thomas Badek (actor), Sebastien Fontaine (actor), Roger Patrice Bernard (actor), Jean-Marc Ouvrier-Buffet (editor),

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)

Actors: Frank Thornton (actor), John Bluthal (actor), Phil Silvers (actor), Ricardo Palacios (actor), Michael Crawford (actor), Frank Elliott (actor), Jon Pertwee (actor), Alfie Bass (actor), Peter Butterworth (actor), John Bennett (actor), Michael Hordern (actor), Buster Keaton (actor), Bill Kerr (actor), Melvin Frank (producer), Roy Kinnear (actor),

Plot: Pseudolus is the laziest slave in Rome and has but one wish, to purchase his freedom. When his master and mistress leave for the day he finds out that the young master has fallen in love with a virgin in the house of Lycus, a slave dealer specializing in beautiful women. Pseudolus concocts a deal in which he will be freed if he can procure the girl for young Hero. Of course, it can't be that simple as everything begins to go wrong.

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Spartacus (1960)

Actors: Richard Farnsworth (actor), Richard Farnsworth (actor), Johnny Duncan (actor), Kirk Douglas (actor), Dick Crockett (actor), Roy Engel (actor), Ted de Corsia (actor), David Bond (actor), Paul E. Burns (actor), Tony Curtis (actor), Peter Brocco (actor), Chuck Courtney (actor), John Daheim (actor), Harold Goodwin (actor), Richard Farnsworth (actor),

Plot: In 73 BCE, a Thracian slave leads a revolt at a gladiatorial school run by Lentulus Batiatus. The uprising soon spreads across the Italian Peninsula involving thousand of slaves. The plan is to acquire sufficient funds to acquire ships from Silesian pirates who could then transport them to other lands from Brandisium in the south. The Roman Senator Gracchus schemes to have Marcus Publius Glabrus, Commander of the garrison of Rome, lead an army against the slaves who are living on Vesuvius. When Glabrus is defeated his mentor, Senator and General Marcus Licinius Crassus is greatly embarrassed and leads his own army against the slaves. Spartacus and the thousands of freed slaves successfully make their way to Brandisium only to find that the Silesians have abandoned them. They then turn north and must face the might of Rome.

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