In the end, King Leonidas and all of his Spartans were killed by the Persians. 300 is a movie brimming with action and is highly stylized, though possessing many historical inaccuracies.

The movie was Rudolph Maté’s The 300 Spartans. Miller was 5. “It had a deep, deep effect on me,” Miller says. “I actually snuck across the theater in order to confer with my dad and ...

The Hot Gates, a cramped mountainside adjacent to the ocean, serves as the battlefield throughout the movie. The crashing waves and the ... The story of the 300 Spartans' last stand portrays the ...

The movie, which depicts the brave stand of 300 Spartans against a marauding army of hundreds of thousands of Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C., "is about as violent as 'Apocalypto' and twice as ...

When the vast Persian army met 300 furious Spartans at Thermopylae back in 480 B.C., they didn’t bring along any charging elephants or rhinos. Their leader, Xerxes — who sported a ZZ Top beard ...

On the history front, the battle of Thermopylae has been portrayed in film before, though it's unlikely too many moviegoers have seen "The 300 Spartans," the 1962 movie starring the immortal ...

It will surprise precisely nobody that the 300 movies are not historically accurate portrayals of the Spartans, but the movies do lean on an existing myth. We all grew up thinking of the Spartans ...

The legend of the 300 Spartans is one of the most thrilling in all of Ancient Greece. A small army against a billion guys? How ’bout it! Several movies have featured the story, but the 2006 ...

300 Spartans-The Real Story. Putting aside the myths and legends, this documentary takes a detailed look at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC Greece leading to the last stand of the 300 Spartans ...