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Civilization is a 1916 American pacifist drama film produced by Thomas H. Ince, written by C. Gardner Sullivan and Edward Sloman, and directed by Ince, Reginald Barker and Raymond B. West. The story involves a submarine commander who refuses to fire at a civilian ocean liner supposedly carrying ammunition for his country's enemies.
The Ancients! The Ancients always amaze us about their lifestyles and cultures. This is a list of 10 Ancient Civilization films.
Vintage movies about ancient times were usually about Rome and always involved certain famous historic characters that general audiences would already recognize. Since then, the ancient world, on film, has branched out to include comedies, war stories, and serious dramas.
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- Caligula. Caligula shares an interesting history of being produced by Bob Guccione, the founder of the pornographic Penthouse magazine. The film was solely conceptualized with the intention to produce an erotic drama with A-list actors.
- Mulan: Rise of a Warrior. Mulan: Rise of a Warrior is a Chinese action war film starring Zhao Wei as Mulan, who was a legendary folk heroine who took her father’s place in the army in the 4th to 6th century of Chinese history.
- Agora. Agora is a fictionalized biopic of a real-life Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician named Hypatia who lived in Alexandria, Egypt.
- Cleopatra. Cleopatra chronicles the Egyptian queen Cleopatra’s struggles to save Egypt from the imperial invasions by Romans. The film was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and also portrayed the passionate love triangle filled with lust, power, and sacrifice between Cleopatra, played by Elizabeth Taylor, Julius Caesar, played by Rex Harrison and Mark Antony played by Richard Burton.
Civilization: Directed by Reginald Barker, Thomas H. Ince, Raymond B. West, Walter Edwards, David Hartford, Jay Hunt, J. Parker Read Jr.. With Howard Hickman, Enid Markey, Lola May, Kate Bruce. Christ takes on the form of a pacifist count to end a senseless war.
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- 1916-06-02
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On October 21, 1916, the La Crosse Tribune carried a full-page advertisement for the next day’s release of Thomas Ince’s epic silent movie Civilization. Under a black and white picture of a listing ship going down in a storm as a lifeboat full of people foundered nearby, the breathless headline proclaimed:
Oct 15, 2020 · This is a list of great sci-fi films about dystopias, utopias, and far futures in space, like Fury Road, Alita, The Purge, The Martian and more, streaming on Netflix, Amazon and beyond.
