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SCAdian MOVIES: THE ANCIENT WORLD
Many people assume that the SCA period does not go farther back than the fall of Rome. However, the influence of Rome, Greece, and the rest of the ancient world on medieval society and culture is undeniable. Also, a lot of these movies have battle scenes and sword fights.
HOW TO USE THE MARKINGS:
! = a definite must-see for anyone with SCA related interests.
+ = good to see if you've already seen or if you can't find the must-sees.
% = either a weak movie with a SCA-related theme, or a good movie of limited SCA-related interest.
- = only for the most desparate completist.
I have reviewed some of these films on Amazon.com and Allwatchers.com. You can go to the reviews by clicking on the "AMZ" for Amazon and the "ALW" for Allwatchers.
To help you find certain types of movies, I have divided the list on this page into the following categories:
Egyptian
Greek
Roman
Other Ancient
Hercules
Maciste
See also the Biblical movies list.
- EGYPTIAN
- Caesar and Cleopatra ('46 Gabriel Pascal. Claude Rains, Vivian Leigh, Stewart Granger, Flora Robinson,Francis L. Sullivan, Cecil Parker)
- Cleopatra (Silent '12 Charles Gaskil. Helen Gardner)
- Cleopatra (Silent '17 J. Gordon Edwards. Theda Bara)
- Cleopatra (Animated Silent '20 Bud Fisher)
- Cleopatra ('34 C.B. DeMille. Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon, Gertrude Michael, Joseph Schildkraut, C. Aubrey Smith, Claudia Dell, Robert Warwick)
- Cleopatra ('63 Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown, George Cole, Hume Cronyn, Cesare Danova, Kennet Haigh Andrew Keir, Martin Landau, Roddy McDowall, Robert Stephens, Francesca Annis, Herbert Berghof, Michael Hordern, John Hoyt, Carroll O'Connor)
- Cleopatra (TV '99 Franc Roddam. Billy Zane, Timothy Dalton, Rupert Graves, Leonor Varela, Sean Pertwee, David Schofield)
- Cleopatra's Daughter (Italy '60 Richard McNamara. Debra Paget, Ettore Manni, Erno Crisa, Robert Alda, Corrado Panni)
- Land of the Pharaohs ('55 Howard Hawks. Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, James Robertson Justice, Dewey Martin, Alexis Minotis, Sidney Chaplin)
- The Egyptian('54 Michael Curtiz. Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Gene Tierney, Michael Wilding,Bella Darvi, Peter Ustinov, John Carradine)
- Le Legioni di Cleopatra(Legions of the Nile Italy '59 Vittorio Cottafavi. Linda Cristal, Georges Marchal)
- The Pharaoh's Woman (Italy,'60 Giorgio Rivalta. Linda Cristal, Pierre Brice, Armando Francioli, John Drew Barrymore)
- Princess of the Nile ('54 Harmon Jones. Debra Paget, Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie, Donna Drake, Wally Casell, Jack Elam, Lee Van Cleef)
- Queen of the Nile (Italy,'62 Fernando Cerchio. Jean Crain, Vincent Price, Edmund Purdom, Amedeo Nazzari)
- GREEK
- ! Alexander the Great ('56 Robert Rossen. Richard Burton, Frederic March, Claire Bloom, Danielle Darieux, Harry Andrews, Stanley Baker, Niall MacGinnis, Peter Cushing)
- Androcles and the Lion ('52 Chester Erskine. Jean Simmons, Alan Young, Victor Mature, Maurice Evans, Elsa Lanchester)
- Atlas ('61 Roger Corman. Michael Forest, Frank Wolff, Barboura Morris, Walter Maslow, Christos Exarcos)
- + Clash of the Titans ('81 Desmond Davis. Hary Hamlin, Burgess Merideth, Laurence Olivier, Judi Bowker, Sian Phillips, Maggie Smith, Claire Bloom, Ursula Andress, Tm Piggott- Smith)
- The Colossus of Rhodes (Italy '60 Sergio Leone. Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal, Conrado Sanmartin, Angela Aranda, Mabel Carr)
- Helen of Troy ('55 Robert Wise. Stanley Baker, Brigitte Bardot, Rossana Podesta Jacques Sernas, Cedric Hardwicke, Harry Andrews)
- Jason and the Argonauts ('63 Don Chaffey. Todd Armstron, Gary Raymond, Nanacy Kovack, Honor Blackman, Nigel Green, Niall MacGinnis. Ray Harryhausen effects)
- The Loves of Salammbo (France-Italy '60 Sergio Greico. Jeanne Valerie, Jacques Sernas, Edmund Purdom, Arnoldo Foa, Riccardo Garrone)
- Loves of Three Queens (The Face that Launched a Thousand Ships, Italy,'53 Marc Allegret. Heddy Lamarr, Massimo Serato, Cathy O'Donnell, Luigi Tossi, Guido Celano, Robert Beatty)
- The Minotaur (Italy,'61 Silvio Amadio. Bob Mathias, Rosanna Schiaffino, Alberto Lupo, Rik Battaglia)
- My Son, the Hero (Arrivano i titaniItaly,'62 Duccio Tessari. Pedro Armendariz, Jacqueline Sassard, Antonella Lualdi, Giuliano Gemma. Some suspect the English dubbing was for comic effect)
- + The Oddysey (TV '97 Armand Assante, Eric Roberts, Vanessa Williams, Bernadette Peters, Michael J. Pollard)
- Oedipus Rex (Canada '57 Tyrone Guthrie. Douglas Rain, Douglas Campbell, ERic House, Eleanor Stuart)
- Oedipus Rex (Italy,'67 Pier Paolo Pasolini. Franco Citti, Sylvana Mangano, Alida Valli, Carmelo Bene, Julian Beck)
- Oedipus the King ('68 Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Donald Sutherland)
- Siege of Syracuse (L'Assedio di Siracusa Italy,'62 Pietro Francisci. Rossano Brazzi, Tina Louise, Enrico Maria Salerno, Gino Servo)
- The Silver Chalice ('54 Victor Saville. Virginia Mayo, Pier Angeli, Jack Pallance, Paul Newman, Lorne Greene, E. G. Marshall, Natalie Wood)
- ! The 300 Spartans ('62 Rudolph Mate. Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, Diane Baker, Barry Coe)
- ! Time Bandits ('81 Monty Python allumni, Sean Connery, Shelly Duval, Ian Holm, Ralph Richardson, Peter Vaughan, David Warner, Kenny Baker, David Rappaport)
- The Trojan Horse (Italy,'62 Giorgio Ferroni. Steve Reeves, John Drew Barrymore, Hedy Vessel, Juliette Mayniel)
- The Trojan Women (Greece,'72 Michael Cacoyannis. Katherine Hepburn, Irene Papas, Genevieve Bujold, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Magee, Brian Blessed)
- Ulysses (Italy,'55 Mario Camerini. Kirk Douglas, Sylvana Mangana, Anthony Quinn, Sylvie, Rossana Podesta)
- ROMAN
- The Arena (Naked Warriors Roger Corman '73 Steve Carver. Pam Grier, Margaret Markov, Lucretia Love, Paul Muller)
- Caesar and Cleopatra ('46 Gabriel Pascal. Claude Rains, Vivian Leigh, Stewart Granger, Flora Robinson,Francis L. Sullivan, Cecil Parker)
- Caligula ('80 Tinto Brass. Malcom McDowell, Peter O'Toole, Teresa Ann Savoy, Helen Mirren, John Gielgud, Guido Mannari)
- % Caligula (Italy. Laura Gemser, David Caine Haughton)
- % Calicula II: Messalina, Empress of Love (Italy. Anneka Di Lorenzo, Vittorio Caprioli, Giancarlo Prete)
- Carthage in Flames (Italy '59 Carmine Gallone. Jose Suarez, Pierre Basseur, Anne Heywood, Illaria Occini)
- Cleopatra ('34 C.B. DeMille. Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon, Gertrude Michael, Joseph Schildkraut, C. Aubrey Smith, Claudia Dell, Robert Warwick)
- Cleopatra ('63 Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown, George Cole, Hume Cronyn, Cesare Danova, Kennet Haigh Andrew Keir, Martin Landau, Roddy McDowall, Robert Stephens, Francesca Annis, Herbert Berghof, Michael Hordern, John Hoyt, Carroll O'Connor)
- Cleopatra's Daughter (Italy '60 Richard McNamara. Debra Paget, Ettore Manni, Erno Crisa, Robert Alda, Corrado Panni)
- ! Fall of the Roman Empire ('64 Anthony Mann. Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, William Holden, Christopher Plummer, James Mason, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quayle, John Ireland, Omar Sharif, Mel Ferrer, Eric Porter) ALW
- Fellini Satyricon (Italy '70 Frederico Fellini. Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Capucine, Salvo Randone)
- + A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ('66 Richard Lester. Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton, Jack Gifford, Michael Crawford, Annette Andre, Michael Hordern)
- Fury of the Pagans (Italy '63 Guido Malatesta. Edmund Purdom, Rossana Podesta, Livio Lorenzon, Carlo Calo)
- ! Gladiator (2000 Ridley Scott. Russell Crowe, Connie Nielsen, Joachim Phoenix, Oliver Reed, Derek Jacobi, Djimon Hounsou, David Schofield, Ralf Moeller, Sven-Ole Thorson)
- Gold for the Caesers (France-Italy '64 Andre de Toth. Jeffrey Hunter, Mylene Demongeot, Ron Randell, Massimo Giulio Bosetti, Ettore Manni)
- Duel of Champions (Italy '61 Ferdinando Baldi. Alan Ladd, Franca Bettoja, Franco Fabrizi, Robert Keith, Luciano Marin)
- Duel of the Titans (Italy '63 Sergio Corbucci. Steve Reeves, Gordon Scott, Virna Lisi, Massimo Girotti)
- Constantine and the Cross (Italy '60 Lionello de Felice. Cornel Wilde, Christine Kaufmann, Belinda Lee,Elisa Cegani, Massimo Serato)
- The Last Days of Pompeii ('35 Ernest B. Schoedsack. Basil Rathbone, Dorothy Wilson, David Holt, Alan Hale, John Wood, Louis Calhern)
- The Last Days of Pompeii (Italy '60 Mario Bonnard. Steve Reeves, Christine Kaufmann, Barbara Carroll, Anne Marie Baumann, Mimmo Palmara)
- The Last Roman (Germany-Rumania,'68 Robert Siodmak. Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylvia Koscina, Honor Blackman, Michael Dunn, Harriet Andersson, Lang Jeffries, Robert Hoffman)
- + Norman's Awesome Experience ('89 Tom McCamus, Laurie Paton, Jacques Lussier)
- The Pagans (Il Sacco di Roma, The Barbarians Italy,'53 Ferrucio Cereo. Pierre Cressoy, Helen Remy, Vittorio Sanipoli, Luigi Tosi, Franco Fabrizi)
- ! Quo Vadis? ('51 Mervyn LeRoy. Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov, Leo Genn, Patricia Laffan, Finlay Currie, Abraham Sofaer, Buddy Baer. Miklos Rozsa music. Novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz)
- Quo Vadis? (Italy,'85 Franco Rossi. Klaus Maria Brandauer, Frederic Forrest, Cristina Raines, Barbara DeRossi, Francesco Quinn, Marie-Theres Relin, Gabrielle Frezetti, Massimo Girotti, Leopoldi Trieste, Max von Sydow. Novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz)
- Revenge of the Gladiators (Italy,'65 Michele Lupo. Roger Browne, Scila Gabel, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Danielle Vargas, Gordon Mitchell)
- + Roar (TV series,'97)
- Roman Scandals ('33 Frank Tuttle. Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stewart, David Manners, Verree Teasdale, Alan Mowbray, Edward Arnold)
- Seven Slaves Against the World (Gli Schiavi pił forti del mondo, Seven Slaves Against Rome Italy,'65 Michele Lupo. Roger Browne, Gordon Mitchell, Scilla Gabel, Germano Longo, Alfredo Rizzo)
- Sign of the Gladiator (Italy,'59 Vittorio Musy Glori. Anita Ekberg, Georges Marchal, Folco Lulli, Chelo Alonso, Jacques Sernas)
- Sign of the Pagan ('54 Douglas Sirk. Jeff Chandler, Jack Pallance, Ludmilla Tcherina, Rita Gam, Jeff Morrow, Alexander Scourby)
- Sins of Rome (Italy,'54 Ricardo Freda. Ludmilla Tcherina, Massimo Girotti, Gianna Maria Canale, Yves Vincent)
- The Slave (Son of Spartacus, Italy,'63 Sergio Corbucci. Steve Reeves, Jacques Semas, Gianna Maria Canale, Claudio Gora)
- ! Spartacus ('60 Stanley Kubrick. Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Tony Curtis, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin, Nina Foch, Herbert Lom, John Ireland, Charles McGraw, Woody Strode,
Joanna Barnes. Music by Alex North. Novel by Howard Fast. Titles by Saul Bass. Anthony Hopkins dubbed Laurence Olivier's voice in the restored "oysters and snails" bathing scene)
- Sword of the Conqueror (Italy '61 Carlo Campogalliani. Jack Pallance, Eleanor Rossi-Drrago, Guy Madison, Carlo D'Angelo)
- Theodora, Slave Empress (Italy,'54 Riccardo Freda. Gianna Maria Canale, Georges Marchal, Renato Baldini, Henri Guisol, Irene Papas)
- The Three Ages (Silent,'23 Buster Keaton, Edward F. Kline. B.K., Margaret Leahy, Wallace Beery, Joe Roberts, Horace Morgan, Lillian Lawrence)
- Triumph of the Ten Gladiators (Italy,'64 nNick Nostro. Dan Vadis, Helga Line, Stanley Kent, Gianni Rizzo, Halina Zalewska, John Heston)
- 2000 Years Later ('69 Bert Tenzer. Terry-Thomas, Edward Everett Horton, John Abbott, Pat Harrington, Lisa Seagram, Monti Rock, III, Rudy Gernreich)
- The Viking Queen ('67 Hammer, Don Chafney. Don Murray, Carita), Donald Houston, Andrew Kier, Adrienne Cori, Niall MacGinnis. Loosely based on Queen Boudicca, Romans in Britain, no actual Vikings)
- The Warrior and the Slave Girl (Italy,'58 Vittorio Cottafavi. Ettore Manni, Georges Marchal, Gianna Maria Canale)
- % Warrior Queen ('87 Chuck Vincent. Sybil Danning, Donald Pleasance, Richard Hill, Josephine Jacqueline Jones, Samantha Fox) AMZ
- OTHER ANCIENT
- Atlantis, the Lost Continent ('61 George Pal. Anthony Hall, Joyce Taylor, Frank de Kova
- Atilla (Italy-France '80 Pietro Francisi. Anthony Quinn, Sophia Loren, Henri Vidal, Irene Papas)
- Hannibal (Italy '60 Edgar G. Ulmer. Victor Mature, Rita Gam, Gabrielle ferzetti, Milly Vitale)
- Intolerance (Silent '16 D. W. Griffith. Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, Constance Talmadge, Bessie Love, Sheena Owen, Alfred Paget, Eugene Pallette)
- Queen of Babylon (Italy,'54 Carlo Bragaglia. Rhonda Flemming, Ricardo Montalban, Rolando Lupi, Carlo Ninchi)
- Slaves of Babylon ('53 William Castle. Richard Conte, Linda Christian, Maurice Schwartz, Michael Ansara, Julie Newmar)
- The Three Avengers (Gli Invincibili tre, Italy,'64 Gianfranco Parolini. Alan Steel, Mimmo Palmara, Lisa Gastroni, Rosalba Neri)
- Untamed Women ('52 Merle Connell. Mikel Conrad, Doris Merrick, Richard Monahan, Mark Lowell, Midge Ware)
- Ursus in the Land of Fire (Italy,'63 Giorgio Simonelli. Ed Fury, Claudia Mori, Adriano Micantori, Luciana Gilli)
- Ursus in the Valley of the Lions (Italy,'61 Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia. Ed Fury, Moira Orfei, Mary Marlon, Alberto Lupo.
- MACISTE
- Maciste-The Mighty (Italy,'60 Carlo Campogalliani. Mark Forest, Chelo Alonso, Angelo Zanolli, Federica Ranchi)
- HERCULES
- % Adventures of Hercules (Hercules II, Italy '85 Luigi Cozzi. Lou Ferigno, Milly Carlucci, Sonia Vivani, William Berger, Carlotta Green)
- Fury of Hercules (Italy '61 Gianfranco Parolini. Brad Harris, Brigitte Corey, Mara Berni, Carlo Tamberlani, Serge Gainsbourg)
- + Hercules (Italy '59 Pietro Francisci. Steve Reeves, Sylvia Koscina, Gianna Maria Canale, Fabrizio Mioni, Ivo Garrane)
- Hercules (Italy '83 Luigi Cozzi. Lou Ferigno, Mirella D'Angelo, Sybil Danning, Ingrid Anderson, William Berger, Brad Harris)
- Hercules ('97 Disney Animated)
- Hercules Against Rome (Italy '60 Piero Pierott. Alan Steel, Wandisa Guida, Livio Lorenzon, Danielle Vargas)
- Hercules Against the Moon Men (Italy '64 Giacomo Gentilomo. Alan Steel, Jany Claire, Anna-Maria Polani, Nando Tamberlani)
- Hercules Against the Sons of the Sun (Italy '63 Osvaldo Civirani. Mark Forrest, Anna Pace, Giuliano Gemma, Andrea Rhu)
- Hercules and the Captive Women (Italy '63 Vittorio Cottafavi. Reg Park, Fay Spain, Ettore Manni, Marlo Pietri)
- Hercules In New York (Hercules - the Movie, Hercules Goes Bananas, '70 Arthur Alan Seidelman. Arnold Stang, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Taina Elg, James Karen, Deborah Loomis)
- % Hercules in the Haunted World (Italy '61 Mario Brava. Reg Park, Christopher Lee, Leonora Ruffo, Giorgio Anderson, Ida Galli)
- Hercules, Samson & Ulysses (Italy '65 Pietro Francisci. Kirk Morris, Richard Lloyd, Liana Orfei, Enzo Cerusio)
- + Hercules Unchained (Italy '60 Pietro Francisci. Steve Reeves, Sylvia Koscina, Primo Carnera, Sylvia Lopez)
- The Three Stooges Meet Hercules ('62 3 Stooges)
- The Triumph of Hercules (Italy,'62 Dan Vadis, Moira Orfei,)
- Ulysses against Hercules (Italy,'61 Georges Marchal, Michael Lane, Allesandra Panaro)
- With Fire and Sword (Daggers of Blood, Italy,'61 Fernando Cerchio. Jeanne Crain, John Drew Barrymore, Pierre, Brice, Akim Tamiroff)
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