Watch The Last Duel

Austerlitz and Waterloo hung on a marriage; Phoenix plays him as a sulk.

Columbus crosses, then governs badly; the Vangelis theme outlived the film by decades.

A blacksmith becomes a knight and holds Jerusalem against Saladin; watch the director’s cut, not the release.

Two Napoleonic officers keep meeting to fight over an insult neither can remember; Scott's first feature.

Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway singing live on set and the barricades of 1832.

Moses against Ramesses, with the ten plagues staged as natural disasters.

Lucius comes back to the arena twenty years on, with rhinos and a sea battle in the Colosseum.

A London trader inherits a Provence vineyard and is talked out of selling it.