Kinas skånselsløse Dragekeiser og hans 10 000 krigere har ligget glemt i århundrer, innbakt i leire som en enorm, taus terrakottahær. Etter å ha blitt utsatt for en forbannelse av den forrådte heksen Zi Yuan (MICHELLE YEOH fra Snikende tiger, skjult drage og Geisha), skulle de tilbringe evigheten i skinndød tilstand. Men da den flotte, unge eventyreren Alex O'Connell lures til å vekke keiseren fra den evige søvn, må den dumdristige unge arkeologen be om hjelp fra de eneste som vet mer enn ham selv om å stanse de udøde: Mor og far.
For over 2.000 år siden kjempet sju konger om all makt i det kommende keiserdømmet Kina. Kongen av Qin var den mest nådeløse og forhatte. Tre legendariske krigere vil ta ham av dage, og én mann beseirer dem. Eller er beretningene hans en del av sviket mot kongen?
While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.
A Carthaginian general attempts to cross the Alps with an army of elephants in order to conquer Rome.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The life story of emperor Ashoka.