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"Colosseum: A Gladiator's Story" (BBC)

This documentary is the story of Verus a slave who escaped death in a quarry by going to gladiator school in Rome. The time of the story is AD79 just before the Colosseum was completed. The original of the structure was the Flavius Amphitheater for the family of Vespasian, Emperor, and Titus, his son to succeed him.

Verus goes to training school and manages to pass his final acceptance test. If he had failed he would have been sent back to the quarry. The scenes of first combat Verus lost but was spared. We are informed that a gladiator usaully had a 90% chance of surviving any combat because the sponsor of the game had to pay for the dead. When the Colosseum was finished Titus gave 100 days of games to Rome to improve his poll standings with the Gods and citizens. By the opening Verus had already earned a name and was one of the first solo acts of the game. He fought a man he had known earlier in his training days. Their fight was some competitive and bloody that Titus, for the first time that day, declared it a competitive and even contest and gave them wooden swords and a palm leaf which allowed them to go free.

Another interesting point brought forward was that lions and wild beasts had not been fully trained to attack and eat while 50K people were screaming and clapping. They cowered against the walls. Later techniques got them up to speed, though. An entertaining part of the show was that the actors spoke in rudimentary Latin. My high school Latin was quit up for the job.

NF Streamer about 43 minutes long.

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Topic - More Gladiator Stuff . . . . - mr grits 23:01:01 04/23/12 (8)

Math - Brian A 12:13:46 04/24/12 (3)

Okay.......Verus was given his freedom early on....... - mr grits 14:23:12 04/24/12 (2)

You'd Think Gladiators Would Be Put In The Army - Brian A 19:15:47 04/24/12 (1)

That was my very favorite version of the Musketeers . . . . - mr grits 22:48:37 04/24/12 (0)

What's your favorite Turkish prison film? :-) nt - tinear 08:02:11 04/24/12 (2)

Now THAT's a Niche!!! - oldmkvi 09:33:02 04/25/12 (0)

There are so many four and five stars ones it's difficult to choose. * - mr grits 09:18:40 04/24/12 (0)

Even more - Prisoners 07:28:16 04/24/12 (0)

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