From 180 to 192 C.E., Emperor Commodus ruled ancient Rome with an insatiable lust for power that brought an end to the fabled ...

Nowadays, Marcus Aurelius is remembered less for his philosophizing than for being smothered by young Commodus at the start of the swords-and-sandals epic Gladiator. In reality, he succumbed to a ...

When Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) attempts to name Maximus as his successor, Maximus immediately and profusely turns him down. As with many great epics, the essence of Gladiator's story comes ...

“Gladiator II” is set 16 years after the death of Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) and is centered around Lucius (Paul Mescal), the long-lost son of Queen Lucilla (Connie Nielsen) and heir to ...

Beneath the starched togas and the pungent fug of gladiator sweat there are real ... strong and masculine emperor Marcus Aurelius to discover a much more complicated, naïve, flirtatious and ...

After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power ... Eventually, Maximus is forced to become a gladiator and battle to the death against other men for the amusement of ...

Contrary to the "strength and honor" depicted in Hollywood films "Gladiator" and "Gladiator ... drama "Resolution 819" won the gold Marcus Aurelius award for best film voted by the public at ...

Yes, we are, of course, talking about Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II ... Lucilla is introduced as the daughter of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris), and the sister of Prince Commodus ...

Rome, circa 209 A.D. Sixteen years after the demise of Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator (2000), the Roman Empire is now ruled by the tyrannical Emperors Caracalla ...

Danny Dyer guest stars as Cynthia's new boyfriend Cassius, a friendly local gladiator ... charmed apart from Marcus who hopes that, one way or another, their relationship will be short-lived.