Spartacus
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea… From TMDB
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60 of 115 · most liked firstThey're gonna "Spartacus" him -- Meaning from SPARTACUS movie/story i.e. Everyone saying "I am Spartacus" It is about standing up to the social-justice madness and asking for an equal playing field for everyone; and it's about standing up against witch hunts and lies, and caring about the truth.
unlabelledView post →Ridley Scott's Napoleon: not my favorite movie, but definitely the most accurate portrayal of Napoleon as Unhinged Wife Guy. STARZ's Spartacus: perfect depiction of the upwardly mobile, grasping, ruthless heart of the Roman Republic.
unlabelledView post →In the movie Spartacus, the title character leads a rebellion against the Roman Empire and when the rebels are defeated, the Romans promise leniency in return for IDing their leader. Rather than betray him, the rebel slaves stand up 1 by 1 to declare "I am Spartacus".
unlabelledView post →Denzel is in one movie. Pedro is a different play I think and Paul is in a filler episode of Spartacus where you fully expect his character to die.
unlabelledView post →We felt like watching a historical epic, so we went for Spartacus, but we're tired parents, so we did the first hour, and now it's bedtime, but there's still more than two hours of the film to go, and the thing is, I rented it on a 48 hour rental, so it's unlikely we'll get through it by then, ->
unlabelledView post →Spartacus (1960) Directed by Stanley Kubrick
unlabelledView post →Open defiance shattered the film industry’s blacklist. In 1960, director Otto Preminger and actor-producer Kirk Douglas gave blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo screen credit for Exodus and Spartacus. These films became massive commercial successes and the fear driving the blacklist evaporated. /end
unlabelledView post →podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... Here we dig into the movie Spartacus and its modern politics (plus glance at Gladiator). With the wonderful Maria Wyke
unlabelledView post →Sin #153: At the 157min mark, several members of the roman slave rebellion identify themselves as Spartacus in spite of the fact that the character of Spartacus had been well established throughout the course of the movie.
unlabelledView post →BOTD Peter Ustinov!! MCCT5: 5)We're No Angels (Curtiz) 4)One of our Aircraft is Missing (Powell/Pressburger) 3)Lola Montes (Ophüls) 2)Spartacus (best performance in the film) (Kubrick) 1) Les Espions (Clouzot) More via 2004 obit: www.theguardian.com/media/2004/m...
unlabelledView post →This is the part of the movie where we all stand up and yell "I'm Spartacus"
unlabelledView post →Remembering 196️⃣0️⃣ classic film starring Kirk Douglas 🇺🇸 as Spartacus 🎬 an epic historical drama 🍿about a slave⛓️ and Gladiator⚔️ who leads a rebellion against Rome🏛️and Jean Simmons 🇬🇧 as Varinia and Tony Curtis 🇺🇸 as AntoninusOne of my all time favourites❤️ #Spartacus #KirkDouglas #JeanSimmons #TonyCurtis
unlabelledView post →Books to film 📚=🎞️ Spartacus (1951) by Howard Fast was filmed (1960) by Stanley Kubrick. The book is narrated by Roman aristocrats whereas the film tells the tale through Spartacus himself. A socialist bent is ascribed to the book whereas the film focuses on personal freedom. 🩸⚔️🏟️ #filmsky #booksky
unlabelledView post →#Edwards1000SixtiesMovies 12/1000: SPARTACUS Hands down, we've got now the most definitive historical epic of 60s cinema. You'll truly enjoy this film thanks to breathtaking scenery, enjoyable moments, excellent acting from the cast and themes of freedom and unconditional love.
unlabelledView post →The weekend following May Day, Spartacus Books in Vancouver, BC will be hosting a movie night about anarchism in the Spanish Civil War. bsky.app/profile/crit...
unlabelledView post →#filmsky #Spartacus #tcmparty #filmnoir John Dall — Gun Crazy, Rope, The Corn is Green, and Spartacus Gone too soon.
unlabelledView post →Films we were shown in school include: Spartacus, Singles, Mountains Of The Moon, When Jenny When, La vie est un long fleuve tranquille, The Treaty, Schindler's List, A Man For All Seasons. Every film our French teacher showed us, without fail, had boobies in it.
unlabelledView post →The personal archive of Stanley #Kubrick goes on sale next February in an auction at Bonhams in London. Hundreds of items from The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Barry Lyndon, Spartacus, Full Metal Jacket, and Eyes Wide Shut. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc... #Filmsky 📽️
unlabelledView post →I once had a beloved cat named Agador Spartacus because of this film.
unlabelledView post →What are the chances that that many guys called Spartacus would just happen to be in that exact place at the exact same time. Stupid film
unlabelledView post →Spartacus. 1960. The 4K is an entirely different film compared to older TV broadcasts in 4:3 ratio — it’s now in its 2.20:1 widescreen ratio and uncut. The restoration is magnificent. Kubrick clearly inspired the cinematics of Gladiator, Braveheart & GoT — and it’s a real tear jerker too. #filmsky
unlabelledView post →so Kirk Douglas’ therapist tells him “you should go see Spartacus it’s an inspiring uplifting film,” but he breaks down and cries “but doctor I am Spartacus,” right about then the door opens and the secretary declares “I am Spartacus,” and shows in the next patient who says “I am Spartacus” and then
unlabelledView post →JFK helped end the Hollywood blacklist by watching "Spartacus" at a Washington movie theater in February 1961.
unlabelledView post →The film also briefly threatens to turn into a good time when we go Spartacus Blood and Sand hottie gladiators but … minus all the wild sex and hyper violence and politics. Too little, too late. /5
unlabelledView post →#TheBigStreet cinematographer Russell Metty worked frequently with Orson Welles, for whom he shot the classic noir #TouchOfEvil– almost entirely on one 18.5mm lens. Metty also worked often with John Huston and Douglas Sirk, and won an Oscar for shooting Kubrick's #Spartacus. #TCMParty #NoirAlley
unlabelledView post →So how long into this movie before Paul Mescal says that he's Spartacus?
unlabelledView post →The novelist, Howard Fast, was a Communist jailed by HUAC who had to self publish. The screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, also jailed by HUAC and blacklisted. President John Kennedy had to cross a picket line to see it. Spartacus, released #OTD in 1960, was a smash. #booksky #writers #moviesky #filmsky
unlabelledView post →This is not important... but in the movie NO ONE says "I am Spartacus." They each say "I'm Spartacus." [The Latin would be "Spartacus sum"] The "I am" thing strikes me as a post-film sophisticating that thing up. And it's everywhere. Stop that.
unlabelledView post →Kirk Douglas & Tony Curtis dans le film 'Spartacus', Péplum américain de Stanley Kubrick, sorti en 1960, adapté du roman éponyme de Howard Fast publié en 1951. #HowardFast #KirkDouglas #TonyCurtis #Spartacus #StanleyKubrick
unlabelledView post →Drop a film with a single word title SPARTACUS
unlabelledView post →i watched a "Leave It To Beaver" earlier where Beaver and his friends go to see SPARTACUS at the movies, and the idea of Beaver Cleaver watching a Kubrick film cracked me up.
unlabelledView post →Love theme from "Spartacus" (Alex North, from the film) 1969. Bill Evans was impressed by a hippy funk-jazz flautist (an Ian Anderson w more range - overblowing, passion & all - & skill) & suggested a recording. Inspired choice! Jeremy Steig - fl BE - p Eddie Gomez - db Marty Morell - d jazzsky
unlabelledView post →The Restorationists Behind ‘Lawrence of Arabia,’ ‘Spartacus,’ and ‘Apocalypse Now’ Turn to a Forgotten Epic - Herbert Brenon's 'Beau Geste' (1926) - the film he made the year after 'The Street of Forgotten Men' with Louise Brooks www.indiewire.com/features/cra...
unlabelledView post →IIRC, the "overture" was designed to: 1. alert people to take their seats (from the lobby) 2. get people in the mood for the film. #TCMParty #Spartacus
unlabelledView post →#stanleykubrick on the film set for #spartacus #behindthescenes🎬 🎥 1960
unlabelledView post →I'm watching a Youtube video with 2 Australians reviewing the Adam Sandler film PIXELS, and the first recommended video to follow it up is the Stanley Kubrick film, SPARTACUS. lol
unlabelledView post →Spartacus is an incredible film.
unlabelledView post →Introduce yourself with one book, one film, one TV show. 📖Book: The City of Brass 🎞Film: Jurassic Park 📺TV show: Spartacus
unlabelledView post →1960: The film Spartacus, directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas, had its world premiere; it won several Academy Awards, including best supporting actor for Peter Ustinov. #MovieHistory
unlabelledView post →This movie is the macho-actor version of it’s A Mad, Mad, Mad World. They’ve rounded up every working name actor available in 1960. #spartacus #tcmparty
unlabelledView post →A great film (that you actually saw at the time) from each year of the 1960s - 1960 Spartacus 1961 El Cid 1962 Lawrence of Arabia 1963 Jason and the Argonauts 1964 A Hard Day's Night 1965 The War Lord 1966 Fahrenheit 451 1967 Bonnie and Clyde 1968 If... 1969 Midnight Cowboy
unlabelledView post →With the Odyssey in cinemas, can't help thinking in comparison to Ancient Rome - Gladiator, Falco, the series Rome, I Clavdivs, Spartacus and so on, how little in terms of TV, novels, film etc there is of Ancient Greece. Even alt hist ignores it.
unlabelledView post →I'm Spartacus Wrong movie #TCMParty
unlabelledView post →Tony Curtis and Kirk Douglas on the set of the film, "Spartacus," 1960. #History #Photography #Film
unlabelledView post →Charles McGraw looking great even without a fedora and suit. I really think I might need to revise my Top 10 Noses of Classic Film list to include his. #Spartacus #TCMParty
unlabelledView post →Spartacus was a hellova film to have made in 1960
unlabelledView post →Man plays with sticks, declares himself Spartacus #blutoid #film #movies
unlabelledView post →This is the very opposite of that Charlton Heston film. Is this Spartacus? No, is this Spartacus? No, is *this* Spartacus? No, is /this/ Spartacus?
unlabelledView post →What do you want YOUR "Bluey"-watching preschooler sitting through? "Lawrence of Arabia"? "Doctor Zhivago"? "The Ten Commandments"? "Fiddler on the Roof"? "Ben-Hur"? "Spartacus"? "Patton"? Those are LONG movies, as long as a two-hour film would be for the attention span of the typical preschooler.
unlabelledView post →That's the other thing with this list. Are Dune" and "Elephant Man" David Lynch films? He's there, for sure, but he's kinda just the guy behind the camera. Is "Spartacus" a Stanley Kubrick movie?
unlabelledView post →Finally watching the long epic film directed by Stanley Kubrick where everyone is Spartacus.
unlabelledView post →il gattopardo 🐆 ! regia del maestro Luchino Visconti. from a film released nearly same era as Spartacus, Lancaster as the Sicilian patriarch. #TCMParty
unlabelledView post →Oscar winner Henry Mancini and cinematography by Russell Metty (Spartacus). On release in 1958, the film was re-edited without Welles’ knowledge into a 95-minute cut that left him deeply unhappy, and prompted a 58-page passionate memo to the studio. That memo was then used for the 1998
unlabelledView post →AS AN ASIDE PLEASE TELL ME YOU HAVE SEEN SPARTACUS (the show not the movie)
unlabelledView post →I'll qualify that, he can't act in movies. I think he was in the movie Spartacus, one of those 60s movies in the desert. He's acting as if he is on a stage, not a movie. Still, the movie is great.
unlabelledView post →Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick, 1960, Eye Filmmuseum) NL: www.moviemeter.nl/film/464/inf... It's an anti-slavery film, but the three Brits playing the Roman slaveholders walk away with it: Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton and Peter Ustinov. #filmsky #film #movie
unlabelledView post →A great film from each year of the 60s: 1960: Spartacus 1961: One Hundred and One Dalmatians 1962: Tales of Terror 1963: From Russia With Love 1964: A Hard Days Night 1965: Help! 1966: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1967: Bedazzled 1968: Head 1969: The Bed Sitting Room
unlabelledView post →I spoked to Heather Bigley of BYU Radio about the 1960 film Spartacus, and concluded that the message of the film is that the vicious are incapable of understanding the virtuous. The motivations of the latter are alien to the former. open.spotify.com/episode/6V0k...
unlabelledView post →Finally started watching #Spartacus #HouseOfAshur (2025), an attempt by the Starz network to continue the original trilogy of mini-series that ran from 2010-2013. The weird dialogue, cheap sets & hyper-masculinity are atrocious - but the premise seems interesting: After dying on Mount Vesuvius, Ashur is to be tormented in the Underworld by ... becoming the hero that killed Spartacus himself and so earning his place as Dominus of his old ludus? Wait, you don't think this sounds like punishment?
unlabelledView post →Caligula Pete; give them spectacle, blood and death. His favorite movie is Spartacus and he images the gladiatorial ring as high social art. I mean it. Watch the sexy, bloody series. Bet he has it on speed-play on his phone!
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