Today, let’s look at a cinema classic - the 1960 film Spartacus. It has a great deal of problems historically. It is a great movie, but really has no bearing the historical reality. ------------------------------------------------------------ more videos: previous: https://youtu.be/gJh7jXlALKY related: https://youtu.be/M84bPv5o91M ------------------------------------------------------------ references: Natalie Zemon Davis. _Slaves on Screen_. MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. 17-40. https://amzn.to/2udiKkU William Harris. “Spartacus.” _Past Imperfect_. edited by Mark Carnes. NY: Henry Holt Co, 1996. 40-43. https://amzn.to/2J5iGc7 http://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/sep/24/spartacus-reel-history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacus_(film)#Political_commentary.2C_Christianity.2C_and_reception ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88 contribute to my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian LET'S CONNECT: https://www.facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 https://twitter.com/Cynical_History ------------------------------------------------------------ wiki: Spartacus is a 1960 American epic historical drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick.[3] The screenplay by Dalton Trumbo was based on the novel Spartacus by Howard Fast. It was inspired by the life story of the leader of a slave revolt in antiquity, Spartacus, and the events of the Third Servile War. The film starred Kirk Douglas as Spartacus, Laurence Olivier as the Roman general and politician Marcus Licinius Crassus, Peter Ustinov, who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, as slave trader Lentulus Batiatus, John Gavin as Julius Caesar, Jean Simmons as Varinia, Charles Laughton as Sempronius Gracchus and Tony Curtis as Antoninus. The film won four Academy Awards in all. Douglas, whose Bryna Productions company was producing the film, remo