Joan Fontaine, Bob Hope, and Audrey Dalton in Casanova's Big Night (1954)

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A More Perfect Union: America Becomes a Nation (1989)

The Jewish 48'ers: in the American Civil War (2020)

Gladiators, We Salute You!

 “The only reward of a slave is scars.”

Spartacus Spartaco (1953)

“[After quickly killing another gladiator]

Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? Is this not why you are here?”

Maximus  Gladiator (2000)

“When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it.”

Spartacus Spartacus (1960)

 Hail Rome, Hail the gladiators!

The Magnificent Gladiators (Gladiator films)

Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Tony Curtis, John Gavin, Charles Laughton, Jean Simmons, and Peter Ustinov in Spartacus (1960)

“Legate, I had the news last night - my cohort ordered home By ships to Portus Itius and thence by road to Rome. I've marched the companies aboard, the arms are stowed below: Now let another take my sword. Command me not to go!

I've served in Britain forty years, from Vectis to the Wall, I have none other home than this, nor any life at all. Last night I did not understand, but, now the hour draws near  That calls me to my native land, I feel that land is here.”


* Roman Centurion’s Song


 “Roma, Roma, O Roma!   Legio, aeterna, aeterna victrix! Legio, aeterna, aeterna victrix!   Verti est sua aeterni Corda nostra solum tibi Verti est sua aeterni Vita nostra solum tibi   Roma, Roma, O Roma! Legio, aeterna, aeterna victrix! Legio, aeterna, aeterna victrix! Legio, aeterna, aeterna victrix! Legio, aeterna, aeterna victrix!”


* Legio Aeterna Victrix
(Legion! Eternal! Victory!)

March Roman Centurion! (The Roman Soldier in films)

Deborah Kerr, Robert Taylor, Peter Ustinov, and Patricia Laffan in Quo Vadis (1951)

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