Alexandria: The Greatest City (2010)
Bettany Hughes goes in search of this lost civilisation, revealing the story of a city founded out of the desert by Alexander the Great in 331 BC to become the world's first global centre of culture. The documentary also looks at the role of astronomer and philosopher Hypatia, and incorporates stunning footage from the feature film 'Agora'.
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I love this movie so much
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After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
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It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
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One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
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