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Posted March 10, 2011 to photo album "Tom Holland’s Ancient World"
As a primer for The Eagle, an award-winning historian gives us list of top ten ancient films.
Hero
Zhang Yimou’s film about the legendary King of Qin who went on to become the first Emperor of a unified China outraged critics quite as much as did 300––and for very similar reasons. By eulogising the King of Qin as the only man capable of bringing peace to a bleeding world, the film provided audiences with a stirring glorification of monarchical authoritarianism and global conquest: ideals of which Xerxes, the Spartans’ opponent at Thermopylae, would thoroughly have approved. Viewers who want a bit of balance after watching 300 should definitely check Hero out.
The World's End
We Steal Secrets
Closed Circuit
The Deep
The Place Beyond The Pines
Greetings from Tim Buckley
Admission
Promised Land
Anna Karenina
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Brokeback Mountain
Lost in Translation
Pride & Prejudice
The Pianist
Gosford Park