The acclaimed romantic “horror” movie Ghost is a prime example of a film in which the main character is dead for the majority ...

True, he actually wasn’t stabbed to death in the ring by a hunky gladiator, but his demise was no less theatrical: Commodus’ dissolute reign was cut short in A.D. 192 when, after several ...

Movies are filled with great and creepy villains. Wicked characters who, even if we cannot root for, we grow fond of. We might be repelled by their moral compass, but their charisma and wit make them ...

“He will bring them death, and they will love him for it,” a Roman senator says of Commodus, the unstable emperor in Gladiator, the 2000 film. In the movies and real life, chaos-as ...

He fights for one purpose: to return to Rome, exact his revenge on Commodus and restore Rome to ... effort to lead 500 Marines into the jaws of death to save 8,000 more. "Uncommon Valor" was ...

giving them a slow death. While he was cruel and eventually had a story of a vampire based on him, Vlad the Impaler is considered a national hero of Romania. Rome is known to have had some of the ...