2000's "Gladiator" revitalized the sword-and-sandal genre with its epic depiction of ancient Rome. While "Gladiator's" Maximus (Russell Crowe) wasn't a real person, the film does depict several ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you don't know, Gladiator II is now officially out, but before you go and see the sequel in theaters, below are some of the top ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not that he'll need to. The mad twin emperors have taken care of that, staging gonzo battle royales between gladiators and a ...

Neither Gladiator nor its cinematic sequel is particularly concerned with historical fact. For one thing, the emperor Marcus Aurelius had no intention of restoring the republic. Gladiatorial contests ...

Warning: Full spoilers follow for Gladiator II as well as ancient Roman history circa 200 CE. Ridley Scott’s historical action film Gladiator II has arrived, and as with the 2000 original starring ...

Gladiator is about a general-turned-gladiator named Maximus (Russell Crowe), who was created just for the film. He is likely a fictionalized combination of the historical general Marcus Nonius ...