Foundation of the Roman Empire

Solid telling in this mini-series of the Caesar tale; Jeremy Sisto as Julius Caesar & Samuela Sardo as Cleopatra

Janet Baker as Caesar; Valerie Masterson as Cleopatra; made for TV

Charlton Heston as Caesar; no Cleopatra

Shakespeare's play with Marlon Brando as Julius Caesar (48-44 B.C.); no Cleopatra

Caesar conquers Gaul; with Cameron Mitchell as Caesar

Story of the battle of the Gauls against the tyranny of Rome; Klaus Maria Brandauer as Caesar

Caesar and assassination; made for German TV

Julius Caesar & Company; Ciarán Hinds as Caesar & Lyndsey Marshal as Cleopatra

With Leonor Varela

The blockbuster with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton

Love affairs with Caesar (to 44 BC) and Mark Antony (second triumvirate, 43-27 BC) (with Claudette Colbert)

British film with Vivian Leigh as Cleopatra

Janet Suzman as Cleopatra

With Hildegard Neil

Shakespeare version ; Lynn Redgrave as Cleopatra

Miniseries of the Ptolemaic dynasty (305-30 BC) in Egypt

Total fiction

The great emperor of Rome, 27 B.C. to 14 A.D.

Rise of Octavius (the future Emperor Augustus of the Roman Empire)

Germanic Cheruski ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions in 9 AD

The backstory of the Teutenburg Ambush, a massacre of the Romans by Germanic tribesmen; only 22 minutes long

37 to 42 A.D., very wicked emperor of Rome after Tiberius, 14-37 AD

Handicapped emperor of Rome after Caligula, 42 to 54 AD

Incredibly ambitious wife of Claudius who will do anything to get power for herself

Devastation of the 9th Legion of Rome by the Picts in modern Scotland

54-68 A.D., emperor of Rome after Caligula