Spartacus
A Thracian warrior is captured and enslaved by Romans, then placed in gladiator school, where he battles to save his life, gain his freedom and become reunited with his wife, who was also condemned to slavery.
20 August 1929
14 November 1916, Mt. Carmel, Illinois, USA
9 April 1923, Tacoma, Washington, USA
23 May 1914, Manhattan, New York, USA
July 12, 1921 in Manchester Depot, Iowa, USA
11 September 1917, Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
16 September 1921, Nebraska, USA
September 8, 1932 in Santa Barbara, California, USA
9 October 1929, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
4 June 1914, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
September 23, 1897 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
February 13, 1915 in Texas, USA
22 June 1916, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
10 January 1921, Sacramento, California, USA
3 April 1927, New York City, New York, USA
August 1, 1904 in Russia
October 25, 1931 in Tilsit, East Prussia, Germany [now Sovetsk, Russia]
26 September 1925, Brooklyn, New York, USA
June 19, 1916 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
14 August 1916, Lewiston, Idaho, USA
22 May 1907, Dorking, Surrey, England, UK
21 November 1933, Los Angeles, California, USA
15 July 1906, Manila, Philippines
26 April 1916, Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, USA
29 September 1905, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
9 May 1925, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA
10 May 1919, near Shannon, Clay County, Texas, USA
8 April 1931, Los Angeles, California, USA
10 August 1920, Los Angeles, California, USA
December 28, 2010
Thrilling epic is too intense for the youngest.
February 09, 2006
Asurprisingly apt companion piece to Paths of Glory in its consideration of the mechanisms of power.
November 18, 2014
...a passable historical epic that has little in common with the rest of Kubrick's output...
August 01, 2010
While it suffers from some of the flaws of epics of this era-such as an overly sanitized portrait of life at the time, and anachronistic visions of fashion and lifestyle-Spartacus also boasts some stirring action and intelligent dialogue
October 23, 2014
There have been other versions of the Spartacus story, including a silent epic and a more recent TV series, but Kubrick's film can't be beaten.
May 08, 2007
This may be the most literate of all the spectacles set in antiquity.
May 09, 2002
It is a spotty, uneven drama.
July 30, 2012
Kirk Douglas, while a little old in the role, makes a fine action hero, and Stanley Kubrick's still-accessible directing made the movie click.
June 12, 2009
The great-granddaddy of Ridley Scott's Gladiator hasn't lost any muscle tone after nearly half a century, and Kirk Douglas's direct, unpretentious performance as the great slave-rebel Spartacus is more engaging than ever.
October 17, 2015
An epic that engages the intellect as well as the eyes and the emotions.
June 12, 2009
Douglas is terrific as the iron-jawed slave fuelled by righteous fury.
January 01, 2000
The most courageous thing about it, from today's standards, is that it closes without an obligatory happy ending, and an audience that has watched for 187 minutes doesn't get a tidy, mindless conclusion.
