• Director: Peter Nicholson
  • Release Year: 2003
  • Production Country: United Kingdom, Spain
  • Language: English
  • Run Time: 120 minutes

Pompeii: The Last Day

Description

Based on archaeological excavations and extrapolation based on locations where various victims were found, the events in the lives of several residents of Pompei and Herculaneum—just before the eruption of Vesuvius—are dramatized.

Themes

Roman Empire (27 BCE – 476 CE), Pompeii, Mount Vesuvius, Ecosystems, Communities, Social classes, Diseases, Science, Pliny the Younger (61 – c. 112), Gladiators, Historical reenactments, Historians, Primary sources, Archaeology, Made for TV