Maximus's quest for revenge in ancient Rome (2000).
Austerlitz and Waterloo hung on a marriage; Phoenix plays him as a sulk.
Moses against Ramesses, with the ten plagues staged as natural disasters.
A blacksmith becomes a knight and holds Jerusalem against Saladin; watch the director’s cut, not the release.
Columbus crosses, then governs badly; the Vangelis theme outlived the film by decades.
The archer before the legend: Crowe comes back from the Crusades to a bankrupt England.
One accusation told three ways, ending in the last judicial duel France allowed.
Two Napoleonic officers keep meeting to fight over an insult neither can remember; Scott's first feature.
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