• Director: Rudolph Maté
  • Release Year: 1962
  • Production Country: United States
  • Language: English

The 300 Spartans

Description

Leonidas and his 300 Spartans lead a small Greek army to hold the pass at Thermopylae against 250,000 Persians in a desperate but doomed attempt to give the rest of Greece time to stop squabbling and organize a greater army that actually has a chance of defending their homes.

Themes

Ancient Greece, Sparta, The Greco-Persian Wars "Persian Wars" (499 – 449 BCE), Peloponnesian War (431 – 404 BCE), Persian Empire (c. 550 – 330 BCE), Battle of Thermopylae (480 BCE), Leotychidas (c. 545 – 469 BCE), Xerxes I of Persia (519 – 465 BCE), Themistocles (c. 524 – 459 BCE), Classical history, Ancient Warfare, Military Sociology, Legends and mythologies, Western Civilization, Oligarchy, Aristocracy, Democracy, Martyrs