Selvom den onde kinesiske Dragekonge har sovet i 2000 år, er han stadig temmelig opsat på at overtage verdensherredømmet, da han vågner. Heldigvis beslutter familien O'Connell at stille sig i vejen for Dragekongens skumle planer, og så er det jo heldigt at familien af hårdtslående arkæologer efterhånden har en del erfaring med den slags.
For 2000 år siden var Kina opdelt i syv kongeriger, der alle bekæmpede hinanden. Som resultat af mange års krig var befolkningen plaget af død og lidelse. Af de syv kongedømmer var Qin det mest aggressive: Qins hersker var besat af tanken om at blive Kinas første kejser. Men mange så ham gerne død, og af dem var ingen så frygtede som de tre legendariske lejemordere Broken Sword, Flying og Sky. Herskeren af Qin udlover en stor dusør til den, der kan overvinde de tre. Men dette er så godt som umuligt, og i ti år er ingen kommet bare tæt på at løse opgaven. Så da den mystiske sherif Nameless kommer til paladset medbringende de tre lejemorderes våben, er kongen meget ivrig efter at høre hans historie om, hvordan han fik ram på de tre...
Dario, en krigshelt fra Athen, er på besøg på den græske ø Rhodos. Her får han lejlighed til at overvære den officielle ceremoni, der markerer afslutningen af konstruktionen af en gigantisk statue, som øens beboere tror vil beskytte dem. Hvad Dario ikke ved er, at der allerede er sat et skummelt plot i gang fra en gruppe oprørere på øen, og pludselig er krigshelten fanget midt i denne konflikt.
Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrificed to Moloch, Cabiria is rescued by Fulvius Axilla, a good-hearted Roman spy, and his powerful slave, Maciste. The trio are broken up as Cabiria is entrusted to a woman of noble birth. With Cabiria's fate unknown, Maciste punished for his heroism, and Fulvius sent away to fight for Rome, is there any hope of our heroes reuniting?
In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.
A Carthaginian general attempts to cross the Alps with an army of elephants in order to conquer Rome.
During the 3rd century B.C. a horde of barbarians are hired by the Phoenian city of Carthage to fight against the Roman empire, but when the city's ruler is unable to fulfill the promised payment made to the mercenaries, they attack the African settlement, where Salammbô --the king's daughter and high priestess of goddess Tanit- tries to settle the matter when the Barbarian leader who has fallen for her steals the sacred veil of Carthage from the temple, without taking into account the evil schemes of a powerful member of the council of wise men.
The film is a historical story, based on the 3rd century BC Maurya Emperor Chandragupta Maurya and his mentor Chanakya. It begins with the Greek invader Alexander intruding on our borders, Magadha as his last step of sovereignty. Discerning it, fear-defying scholar Chanakya is under trace of the dynamic King to hinder it.
In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted autocratic dictatorship and led a luxurious life: abolition of feudalism and the centralization of power in the form of a now-hereditary bureaucracy loyal to himself; burning books and burying scholars; the construction of a sumptuous palace for his concubines and also the Great Wall.
Syracuse lies between the warring nations of Rome and Carthage; as long as the balance of power between the nations remains intact, both nations are willing to preserve the neutrality of Syracuse. However, Rome has now gotten the upper hand in its struggle for power. The fate of Syracuse lies in the hands of its leader, the famed inventor and scientist Archimedes.
The life story of emperor Ashoka.