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In 480 BC, King Leonidas leads three hundred Spartan warriors to make a legendary last stand against the vast invading army of the Persian king Xerxes at the pass of Thermopylae. Zack Snyder's stylized, hyperkinetic battle spectacle.
Why it’s here
A foreign, English-language mythic rendering of Leonidas and the Spartan stand at Thermopylae, with ancient Greek history and identity as its sustained subject.