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The 300 Spartans (1962)
Title: The 300 Spartans
Year: 1962
Director: Rudolph Maté
IMDB gives the following trivia:
While most of the Spartans wear the correct headgear, Leonidas and
his officers wear Roman legionnaire style helmets that wouldn't be
around for about 200 years. (This may have been so that they could
easily be identified.)
Spartan physician states that spear has missed an artery. Many
centuries early for circulatory system knowledge
Historical Background
Go here for the real
Battle of Thermopylae, fought
in 480 BC.
And here is more on the real
Xerxes I and his invasion of
Greece.
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