The "Gladiator" sequel centers on Lucius Verus, the secret son of Russell Crowe's character from the 2000 film. Both men ...

Ridley Scott was eager for his movie "Gladiator II" to be as faithful as possible to real history, but he's blunt on whether ...

Sharks? Maybe not. But sea battles, semi-aquatic creatures and plenty of other eye-popping spectacles were part of the ...

Without giving away too much of the plot of Ridley Scott’s new epic Gladiator II, the sequel to the beloved first installment ...

Just as Joaquin Phoenix played Commodus, an actual Roman emperor, in the 2000 hit starring Russell Crowe, the new characters ...

Warning: Full spoilers follow for Gladiator II as well as ancient Roman history circa 200 CE. Ridley Scott’s historical ...

Gladiator II is great entertainment, but Ridley Scott missed the opportunity to tap into the provocative true story of when ...

Fights also included staged hunts, and it’s conceivable that gladiators rode exotic wildlife. In Gladiator II, a gladiator ...

A historian sheds light into the naval battle scene in Ridley Scotts Gladiator 2, detailing the scenes accuracy and how it ...

(The obelisk is an ancient Egyptian architectural feat. So why are so few in Egypt?) This story appeared in the November/December 2024 issue of National Geographic History magazine.

Gladiator II director Ridley Scott famously does not care about historical accuracy in his films but we had to ask.