Nero's reign. The invasion of Parthia has been a fiasco. Two Roman legions have been brought to a stand still in the snowy mountains of Armenia, and the men are dying slowly in the cold.

Now, as darkness prevails on the outskirts of the Empire where the Roman legions struggle to subdue the invading hordes, delusional Commodus declares himself a god, and no one is safe; not even ...

From director Neil Marshall, this Roman Britain-set actioner imagines the fate of the Ninth Legion, having them betrayed by a Boudica-like warrioress (Olga Kurylenko) and obliterated by the Picts ...

In 680-81, in alliance with the Slavs, he inflicted stunning defeats on the Roman legions and forced the Byzantine Empire to recognize the formation of the new state of Bulgaria in the lands where ...