id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8001 List of films set in ancient Rome - Wikipedia .html text/html 3566 285 71 List of films set in ancient Rome Wikipedia This page lists films set in the city of Rome during the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic, or the Roman Empire. The Giants of Rome (1964) – Italian-French adventure film set in the Roman warfare against Vercingetorix (directed by Antonio Margheriti), with Richard Harrison as Claudius Marcellus Cleopatra (1963) – including the Battle of Actium and the Final War of the Roman Republic, with Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra, Richard Burton as Mark Antony and Rex Harrison as Julius Caesar (dir. Rome (2005–2007) – 22-episode TV series, a joint British-American-Italian production on Rome's transition from Republic to Empire (dir. Gladiator (2000) – latter half set in Rome, partly a remake of The Fall of the Roman Empire (dir. The Fall of Rome (1963) – an Italian peplum-film, the story based on persecution of Christians after the death of Emperor Constantine (dir. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8001.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8001.txt