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Films based on the work of Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus
Medea, a 1959 video directed by Jose Quintero, Actors: Judith Anderson, Colleen Dewhurst as the Chorus Leader; translation 'freely adapted' by Robinson Jeffers.
Antigone with Irene Papas
Antigone, by Sophocles: 1960 film with Irene Papas in the title role, in Greek with English subtitles.
Antigone 1974, Gerald Freedman. Broadway Theater Archive
Oedipus Rex, 1967 Pier Paolo Pasolini, with Sylvana Mangano as Jocasta and Franco Citti as Oedipus
Oedipus Rex , 1957 Abraham Polonsky, Tyrone Guthrie. Stage Recording of Oedipus Rex with actors^wearing masks like the ancient Greeks .
The Trojan Women, Michael Cacoyannis, with Katherine Hepburn as Hecuba, Genevieve Bujold as Cassandra, Vanessa Redgrave as Andromahe, and Irene Papas as Helen.
Medea, a Paolo Pasolini film with Maria Callas in the title role.
Electra, film by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Irene Papas, based on Euripides.
Mythology
Films about Iliad and Troy
Helena (1924) Helen of Troy (1956) , Stanley Baker (Achilles) Arturo Dominici (Achilles) , La Guerra di Troia(1962) Achilles (Channel Four Television) (1995), Derek Jacobi [voice] (Achilles) La Belle Hélène (TV, 1996) Steve Davislim (Achilles) Helen of Troy (TV, 2003) , Joe Montana (Achilles) Troy (2004) , Brad Pitt (Achilles)
Films about the Odyssey
Ulysses (1954) Ulysses (1967) The Odyssey (1997)
Other
Clash of the Titans (1981) My Fair Lady (1964) O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) Orphée (Orpheus) (1950)
Hercules (a very large)
Hercules (1959) Hercules in New York (or Hercules Goes Bananas) (1970)
Hercules (1997)
The many faces of Hercules in Film (including the Governor of California as Hercules in New York) (A real image of Hercules in New York)
The Argonauts
Jason and the Argonauts (1963) Jason and the Argonauts (2000)
Cleopatra
Films about the Greek Queen of Egypt Clepatra VII
Antony and Cleopatra (1908) with Florence Lawrence as Cleopatra.
Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, starring Helen Gardner (1912).
Cleopatra (1917):: Theda Bara (Cleopatra), Fritz Leiber (Caesar), Thurston Hall (Antony). Directed by J. Gordon Edwards. Based on Émile Moreau's play Cléopatre, Sardou's play Cléopatre, and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.
Cleopatra (1934): Claudette Colbert (Cleopatra), Warren William (Caesar), Henry Wilcoxon (Antony). Oscar-winning Cecil B. DeMille epic.
Caesar and Cleopatra (1946): Vivien Leigh (Cleopatra), Claude Rains (Caesar), Stewart Granger, Flora Robson — Oscar-nominated version of George Bernard Shaw's play. Leigh also played Cleopatra opposite then-husband's Laurence Olivier's Caesar in a later London stage version.
Cleopatra (1963): Elizabeth Taylor (Cleopatra), Rex Harrison (Caesar), Richard Burton (Antony). Oscar-winning block-buster most (in)famously remembered for the off-screen affair between Taylor and Burton. In 1964, Carry On Cleo spoofed this, with Amanda Barrie as Cleopatra, and Sid James as Mark Antony.
Antony & Cleopatra (1974): performed by London's Royal Shakespeare Company. Starred Janet Suzman (Cleopatra), Richard Johnson (Antony), and Patrick Stewart (Enobarbus).
Cleopatra (1999): Leonor Varela (Cleopatra), Timothy Dalton (Caesar), Billy Zane (Antony). Based on the book Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George
More about Cleopatra Movies
Alexander the Great
Alexander, Oliver Stone :German Version / Deutsche Version
Alexander, The Oliver Stone Movie , Images from the Film
The Alexander Movie: How are Iranians and Greeks Portrayed
Some obvious (artistic?) errors of the Stone Film
Music
Oedipus Rex - Stravisnsky, Jessye Norman, Seji Ozawa, Saito Kinen Opera Orchestra , Release 14 June 2005
Alexander, the Oliver Stone Movie
ANCIENT GREECE IN THE CINEMA. a filmography , List of films
Ancient History in the Movies
See also
Medieval History in the Movies
Cinemythology - Greek Myths and Literature in World Cinema A tribute to Greek myths in cinema
Modern Greece
Films, Directors, Actors
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