A Historian Goes to the Movies: Ancient Rome

Spartacus: Kubrick’s Controversial Epic

Educational Nov 19, 2020 33 min The Great Courses Signature Collection

Available on Prime Video, The Great Courses Signature Collection

S1 E3: Discover what makes Spartacus (despite being one of the best-known cinema epics of ancient Rome) something of an oddity. It’s a gladiator film with only one scene of combat. Its production was rife with conflict. Its narrative misrepresents the real-life Spartacus’s goals. And it played an important role in Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist movement.

Educational Nov 19, 2020 33 min The Great Courses Signature Collection

TV-PG

Information

Released: 2020
Run Time: 33 min
Rated: TV-PG

Languages

Original Audio: English
Audio: English (AAC), English (United States)
Subtitles: English (CC)

Accessibility

: Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.