“Ancient Empires” is a seven-hour miniseries, airing across three consecutive nights, that sheds new light on the way that history remembers Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Cleopatra through exceptional, dramatic narrative sequences and explosive premium battle scenes as well as insightful expert interviews and the latest contemporary scholarship.
Night one kicks off with Alexander the Great, followed by Julius Caesar and Cleopatra. Each episode chronicles the ruler’s rise to influence and astonishing power with the events and choices that led to their eventual fall.
Expert interviews include Pulitzer Prize®-winning biographer and historian Stacy Schiff, retired four-star General Stanley McChrystal, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO General Wesley Clark, retired Major General Marcia Anderson, the first African American woman to achieve the rank and renowned classicist and Cleopatra expert Dr. Shelley Haley to name a few.
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