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ANCIENT HUMANS
EARLY CIVILIZATIONS
1. EGYPT
2. CHINA
3. INDIA
4. IRAQ
Babylon
The Bible
LATER CIVILIZATIONS
1. GREECE
Mycenaean Period
Persian-Greek Wars
Age of Pericles
Battles between Athens, Sparta and Thebes
Alexander the Great
2. ROME
Foundation of a Roman Republic
Fall of the Roman Empire
Rise of Christianity
Foundation of the Roman Empire
3. BYZANTINE EMPIRE
4. RISE OF ISLAM
MEDIEVAL AGES
1. EUROPE
England, Scotland, Ireland
Scandinavia
France
Italy and Germany
Russia
Poland
Romania
Bulgaria
Serbia (& others)
Turkey
Hungary
2. CHINA & MONGOLIA
3. INDIA
4. JAPAN
RENAISSANCE AND RELIGIOUS REFORMATIONS
1. RENAISSANCE, ITALY
2. REFORMATION AND RELIGIOUS CONFLICT
3. CATHOLIC COUNTER-REFORMATION
4. ENGLAND
5. FRANCE & HOLLAND
6. SPAIN & PORTUGAL
7. GERMANY
8. POLAND
9. RUSSIAN & TURKEY
10. INDIA
11. JAPAN
AGE OF DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT
1. EARLY EXPLORATION
2. USA & CANADA
3. SETTLEMENT OF MEXICO
4. LATIN AMERICA
5. AUSTRALIA
REVOLUTION AND AFTERMATH
1. AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR
2. FRENCH REVOLUTION
3. AGE OF NAPOLEON
4. EARLY YEARS OF USA & CANADA
5. VICTORIAN ENGLAND TO WWI
6. FRANCE
7. CRIMEAN WAR
8. ITALY
9. AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
Prequel
Bloody Kansas
Civil War
10. SIAM & BURMA
Thailand
Burma
11. POST-CIVIL WAR PERIOD
USA: Reconstrucion & Separate but equal
USA: Cowboys
Australia
Canada
Others
12. INDIANS
Comanche and Cheyenne
Custer and the Sioux
Apache
Other
Canada
Argentina
13. MEXICO UNDER JUAREZ
14. FRANCE
Third French Republic
French Art Scene
15. RUSSIA AND TURKEY
Alexander II (1855-1881)
Others
16. WORKERS’ STRUGGLE
17. RACE TO THE POLES
AGE OF IMPERIALISM
1. SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
USA
Philippines
Hawaii
Other events
2. AFRICA
3. BRITISH PERIOD OF INDIA
4. CHINA & FRENCH INDO-CHINA
5. JAPAN
6. KOREA
PRE-WORLD WAR I PERIOD
1. ITALY
2. USA
3. MEXICAN REVOLUTION
4. GERMANY, AUSTRIA & OTHERS
Germany
Austria
Hungary
Other
WORLD WAR I & AFTERMATH
1. WORLD WAR I
Assassination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand
Austria-Hungary
Gallipoli and Turkey
Armenia
Western Front 1916 onwards
USA
Canada
The Air War
Others
2. RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, CIVIL WAR & SOVIET UNION
3. INDEPENDENCE FOR IRELAND
INTERWAR PERIOD
1. USA: 1920s
2. USA: GREAT DEPRESSION
3. GREAT BRITAIN & AUSTRALIA
4. USA: THE BLACK EXPERIENCE
5. HITLER’S RISE
6. MUSSOLINI’S RISE
7. FASCISM IN ARGENTINA
8. PRE-WAR JAPAN
9. PRE-WAR GREECE & MACEDONIA
10. SPANISH CIVIL WAR
WORLD WAR II
1. THE FIGHT AGAINST GERMANY AND ITALY
Germany
Naval Warfare
Germans Kicked out of Africa
Allied Invasion of Italy
Russian Front
Allied Invasion of France
German Counter-Attack
Air War
Others
Hitler’s Last Days
Italy’s Last Days of Fascism
Holocaust
2. THE FIGHT AGAINST JAPAN
The War in China and Burma
The USA finally gets into the war
The USA strikes back
POST-WAR PERIOD
1. JAPAN
2. CHINA
Communist Rule
Taiwan
Tibet
Korea
3. PHILIPPINES
4. ENGLAND
5. GERMANY
East Germany
West Germany
Austria
6. ITALY
7. FRANCE
8. GREECE & MACEDONIA
9. SPAIN & PORTUGAL
10. SOVIET UNION/RUSSIA
11. INDEPENDENCE FOR INDIA
12. INDEPENDENCE FOR ALGERIA
THE FIGHT AGAINST COMMUNISM (I)
1. USA: LOSS OF CHINA, KOREAN WAR & MCCARTHYISM DURING COLD WAR
The Korean War
McCarthyism and the Hollywood Blacklists
Other
2. TEEN REBELLION & ROCK AND ROLL
THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
1. USA
2. NORTHERN IRELAND
3. GREAT BRITAIN
4. SOUTH AFRICA
5. CANADA
6. AUSTRALIA
7. SPAIN
8. GAY RIGHTS
THE FIGHT AGAINST COMMUNISM (II)
1. USA STRUGGLE TO STOP ALL LEFTISTS IN LATIN & SOUTH AMERICA
2. VIETNAM WAR
3. HIPPIE ERA
THE TRIUMPH OF THE REACTIONARIES AND CONSERVATIVES IN USA
1. BACKLASH: NIXON & THE 70’s
2. POST-WAR VIETNAM
3. RONALD REAGAN (1981-1989)
4. GEORGE BUSH I (1989-1993)
5. BILL CLINTON (1993-2000)
6. GEORGE BUSH II (2001-2009)
REVOLT AND FREEDOM IN THE SOVIET BLOC
1. HUNGARY
2. CZECHOSLOVAKIA
3. POLAND
4. ROMANIA, BULGARIA & OTHERS
YUGOSLAV WARS
TROUBLES IN AFRICA
AMERICANISM VERSUS RADICAL ISLAM
1. ISRAEL & PALESTINE
2. EGYPT
3. SYRIA, TURKEY & LEBANON
4. AFGHANISTAN
5. IRAN & IRAQ
Iran
Iraq
6. OTHERS
HISTORICAL MOVIES
I, Claudius
(1976)
Handicapped emperor of Rome after Caligula, 42 to 54 AD
RATINGS
IMDB
8.7
Metacritic
-
RUNTIME
669 min
AGE RATING
Not Rated
COUNTRY
United Kingdom
LANGUAGE
English
DIRECTOR
No director found.
CAST
Derek Jacobi, George Baker, Margaret Tyzack, Siân Phillips
Plot
The history of the Roman Empire as experienced by one of its rulers.
ANCIENT HUMANS
EARLY CIVILIZATIONS
1. EGYPT
2. CHINA
3. INDIA
4. IRAQ
Babylon
The Bible
LATER CIVILIZATIONS
1. GREECE
Mycenaean Period
Persian-Greek Wars
Age of Pericles
Battles between Athens, Sparta and Thebes
Alexander the Great
2. ROME
Foundation of a Roman Republic
Fall of the Roman Empire
Rise of Christianity
Foundation of the Roman Empire
3. BYZANTINE EMPIRE
4. RISE OF ISLAM
MEDIEVAL AGES
1. EUROPE
England, Scotland, Ireland
Scandinavia
France
Italy and Germany
Russia
Poland
Romania
Bulgaria
Serbia (& others)
Turkey
Hungary
2. CHINA & MONGOLIA
3. INDIA
4. JAPAN
RENAISSANCE AND RELIGIOUS REFORMATIONS
1. RENAISSANCE, ITALY
2. REFORMATION AND RELIGIOUS CONFLICT
3. CATHOLIC COUNTER-REFORMATION
4. ENGLAND
5. FRANCE & HOLLAND
6. SPAIN & PORTUGAL
7. GERMANY
8. POLAND
9. RUSSIAN & TURKEY
10. INDIA
11. JAPAN
AGE OF DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT
1. EARLY EXPLORATION
2. USA & CANADA
3. SETTLEMENT OF MEXICO
4. LATIN AMERICA
5. AUSTRALIA
REVOLUTION AND AFTERMATH
1. AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR
2. FRENCH REVOLUTION
3. AGE OF NAPOLEON
4. EARLY YEARS OF USA & CANADA
5. VICTORIAN ENGLAND TO WWI
6. FRANCE
7. CRIMEAN WAR
8. ITALY
9. AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
Prequel
Bloody Kansas
Civil War
10. SIAM & BURMA
Thailand
Burma
11. POST-CIVIL WAR PERIOD
USA: Reconstrucion & Separate but equal
USA: Cowboys
Australia
Canada
Others
12. INDIANS
Comanche and Cheyenne
Custer and the Sioux
Apache
Other
Canada
Argentina
13. MEXICO UNDER JUAREZ
14. FRANCE
Third French Republic
French Art Scene
15. RUSSIA AND TURKEY
Alexander II (1855-1881)
Others
16. WORKERS’ STRUGGLE
17. RACE TO THE POLES
AGE OF IMPERIALISM
1. SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
USA
Philippines
Hawaii
Other events
2. AFRICA
3. BRITISH PERIOD OF INDIA
4. CHINA & FRENCH INDO-CHINA
5. JAPAN
6. KOREA
PRE-WORLD WAR I PERIOD
1. ITALY
2. USA
3. MEXICAN REVOLUTION
4. GERMANY, AUSTRIA & OTHERS
Germany
Austria
Hungary
Other
WORLD WAR I & AFTERMATH
1. WORLD WAR I
Assassination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand
Austria-Hungary
Gallipoli and Turkey
Armenia
Western Front 1916 onwards
USA
Canada
The Air War
Others
2. RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, CIVIL WAR & SOVIET UNION
3. INDEPENDENCE FOR IRELAND
INTERWAR PERIOD
1. USA: 1920s
2. USA: GREAT DEPRESSION
3. GREAT BRITAIN & AUSTRALIA
4. USA: THE BLACK EXPERIENCE
5. HITLER’S RISE
6. MUSSOLINI’S RISE
7. FASCISM IN ARGENTINA
8. PRE-WAR JAPAN
9. PRE-WAR GREECE & MACEDONIA
10. SPANISH CIVIL WAR
WORLD WAR II
1. THE FIGHT AGAINST GERMANY AND ITALY
Germany
Naval Warfare
Germans Kicked out of Africa
Allied Invasion of Italy
Russian Front
Allied Invasion of France
German Counter-Attack
Air War
Others
Hitler’s Last Days
Italy’s Last Days of Fascism
Holocaust
2. THE FIGHT AGAINST JAPAN
The War in China and Burma
The USA finally gets into the war
The USA strikes back
POST-WAR PERIOD
1. JAPAN
2. CHINA
Communist Rule
Taiwan
Tibet
Korea
3. PHILIPPINES
4. ENGLAND
5. GERMANY
East Germany
West Germany
Austria
6. ITALY
7. FRANCE
8. GREECE & MACEDONIA
9. SPAIN & PORTUGAL
10. SOVIET UNION/RUSSIA
11. INDEPENDENCE FOR INDIA
12. INDEPENDENCE FOR ALGERIA
THE FIGHT AGAINST COMMUNISM (I)
1. USA: LOSS OF CHINA, KOREAN WAR & MCCARTHYISM DURING COLD WAR
The Korean War
McCarthyism and the Hollywood Blacklists
Other
2. TEEN REBELLION & ROCK AND ROLL
THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
1. USA
2. NORTHERN IRELAND
3. GREAT BRITAIN
4. SOUTH AFRICA
5. CANADA
6. AUSTRALIA
7. SPAIN
8. GAY RIGHTS
THE FIGHT AGAINST COMMUNISM (II)
1. USA STRUGGLE TO STOP ALL LEFTISTS IN LATIN & SOUTH AMERICA
2. VIETNAM WAR
3. HIPPIE ERA
THE TRIUMPH OF THE REACTIONARIES AND CONSERVATIVES IN USA
1. BACKLASH: NIXON & THE 70’s
2. POST-WAR VIETNAM
3. RONALD REAGAN (1981-1989)
4. GEORGE BUSH I (1989-1993)
5. BILL CLINTON (1993-2000)
6. GEORGE BUSH II (2001-2009)
REVOLT AND FREEDOM IN THE SOVIET BLOC
1. HUNGARY
2. CZECHOSLOVAKIA
3. POLAND
4. ROMANIA, BULGARIA & OTHERS
YUGOSLAV WARS
TROUBLES IN AFRICA
AMERICANISM VERSUS RADICAL ISLAM
1. ISRAEL & PALESTINE
2. EGYPT
3. SYRIA, TURKEY & LEBANON
4. AFGHANISTAN
5. IRAN & IRAQ
Iran
Iraq
6. OTHERS
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