re: Best Ancient Historical movies that are mostly accurate

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You do know Commodus was an actual Roman emperor who rigged gladiator games, correct?

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Bruh.... because Commodus was a real person you’re going to argue that Gladiator wasn’t fiction??

Commodus was also loved by the army until the very end of his reign, trained very hard to be a gladiator and would murder cripples, or poor schmucks using dull led swords in front of the coliseum crowds, he thought he was the greatest gladiator to ever live. He used to host big game hunts where everyone would just watch him shoot arrows at lions, ostrich’s, etc....

Dude was a fricking loon, he was also assassinated by his wrestling partner Narcissus, he had a wife and almost definitely did not have the hots for his sister. Oh and he certainly didn’t fight in the arena against a disgraced general who brought an end to the emperors and gave control of Rome back to the Senate.

It’s a fictional movie my man

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Henry V

The Lion In Winter

Masada

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I watched Henry V I did like that

When you say Masada are you talking about the mini series or is there a movie?

ceouching tyger hiddne dragon

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300

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Here’s the thing about Spartacus. We know basically nothing about the man other than he’s from Thrace and rebelled as a gladiator.

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We know he was a Roman soldier prior to being enslaved into the games. Nothing he did outside of the Third Servile War was of any historical consequence, so who cares? He was killed in battle trying to "have at" the general of the other army, not afterwards with the "I'm Spartacus" scene, but as far as major events, it's reasonably accurate. Definitely no gay bath scenes, though.

The TV show actually gets a lot more of the details correct.

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Bruh.... because Commodus was a real person you’re going to argue that Gladiator wasn’t fiction??

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When was this said? You said "complete fiction".What exactly is your definition of "complete fiction?"Pretty sure what my definition is

The movie was an outline of a real emperor who in fact rigged phoney gladiator fights he was involved in and his father, Marcus Aurelius was an actual person.Lucilla was a real person.And Rome fought in Germanic wars during that period. Sorry but it's not "complete fiction"...which means the entire story and characters were made up or a Novel like Ben Hur.

I mean,how do we know the details of any actual events that took place 2000+ years ago in any movie?

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Oh and he certainly didn’t fight in the arena against a disgraced general who brought an end to the emperors and gave control of Rome back to the Senate.

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Who said any of this was true?

Historical,period piece movies are made all the time with just an outline of characters and events with the rest just filled in but they aren't "complete fiction"

Kingdom of Heaven (strictly Directors Cut) probably sneaks into my Top 15 movies all time. Wish there more movies about the Crusades

Inglorious Bastards

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I mean,how do we know the details of any actual events that took place 2000+ years ago in any movie?

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Yeah, We don’t know much about the distant past, really. Any pre-1860ish historical movie won’t even have the benefit of photos. So we don’t know what most people looked like, much less what they said or did. The best that can be done is get the big events as accurate as possible (based on our limited knowledge) and then fill in the storylines with contextually consistent dialogue and characters. So we’ll never have a completely accurate historical movie Bc no one even knows what that would look like.