Silent Peplum/Sword and Sandal Films

Two love triangles intersect in ancient Pompei.

The fabled queen of Egypt's affair with Roman general Marc Antony is ultimately disastrous for both of them.

After the murder of her lover Julius Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor, Octavius.

The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.

Spectacle in the expected silent Italian style with elaborate sets, athletic events, and a notorious Roman empress lusting after a Persian slave who drives chariots.

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

An epic Italian film, "Quo Vadis" influenced many of the later movies.

Spartacus sold as a slave rises up and battles the evil Crassus.

In Rome, during the reign of Nero, a young pagan general named Marcus Vinicius falls in love with a beautiful Christian hostage named Licia. Their love appears to be impossible, because of the conflict of their religions. Nero burns the city of Rome and blames the Christians, already hated by the pagan Romans.

Roman emperor Nero is used to getting what he wants. He has grown tired of his wife Octavia, and has become infatuated with Poppea. He succeeds in making Poppea the new empress, but soon he faces opposition from an outraged populace.

Epic, melodramatic and rather risque adaptation of the British novel about ancient Roman decadence, culminates in the eruption of a nearby volcano.

Romulus, the founder of Rome, and his compatriots are entertaining the daughters of their neighbors, the Sabines, at a feast when at a given signal the Sabine women are made prisoners. Ersilia, the daughter of the Sabine king, falls in love with Romulus and man of the others marry the Roman warriors. Ersilia's father makes an attack on Romulus and is killed by him. The Sabines decide to avenge the death of their ruler and are assisted by a Roman girl, daughter of the custodian of the citadel. She poisons the sentries and leads the Sabines into the city, where they attack the Romans. The Sabine maidens, however, seeing their fathers and brothers fighting with their husbands, interfere and stop the battle and join the hands of the two bands of enemies in friendship. The real scenes where the events actually took place are given, for the film was made in Rome amidst the most beautiful natural scenery.

The son of Emperor Nero's poisoner drinks the fatal potion prepared by his mother.

The dissolute Emperor Heliogabalus dresses as a woman, and looses lions among his guests.

Film adaptation of Homer's 'The Odyssey.'

Helena is a 1924 German silent drama film directed by Manfred Noa and starring Edy Darclea, Vladimir Gajdarov and Albert Steinrück.

One of the first epics on the History of Movies, it tells the story of the Fall of Troy: Paris seduces Helen, queen of Sparta, and takes her to Troy, city state of his father, King Priam. The Greeks declare war against the Trojans, and after ten years of siege finally manage to invade the city with a wooden horse.

After a prologue which shows several aerial views of the Acropolis, the story begins. The friendship of Damon, the senator, and Pythias, the soldier, is famous in Ancient Syracuse. Because the general Dionysius is infatuated with Calanthe, Pythias' sweetheart, he sends the soldier to fight the Carthaginians at the Battle of Agrigentum. Pythias returns in triumph, and then angers Dionysius even further when he defeats Aristle, the general's favorite, in a chariot race. During the wedding ceremony for Pythias and Calanthe, Dionysius has himself proclaimed sovereign while Damon is absent from the Senate. Shocked, Damon attempts to assassinate Dionysius, but he fails and is sentenced to death. In order for Damon to say goodbye to his wife and son, Pythias leaves Calanthe and takes his friend's place in prison, offering to die in Damon's place if he does not return. Despite several tests of the strength of their friendship, they remain loyal to each other and so impress Dionysius that he allows them both Free.

Brief "trick film" in which Zeus and two other gods romp with dancing girls on Olympian clouds.

A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.

Four historical tales depict the ongoing human struggle against prejudice and inhumanity.

In the last days of ancient Babylon, a tomboyish mountain girl fights for her king when the city is attacked.

Cabiria is a Roman child when her home is destroyed by a volcano. Sold in Carthage to be sacrificed in a temple, she is saved by Fulvio, a Roman spy. But danger lurks, and hatred between Rome and Carthage can only lead to war.