La Antigua Roma: El Ascenso y la Caída de un Imperio (Temporada 1)
How greed, violence and betrayal helped create and destroy the ancient world's great superpower.
Historia de Roma contada a través de 6 momentos cruciales que determinaron el destino del Imperio.
El Imperio Romano –el mayor imperio del mundo antiguo- se perpetuó durante 600 años, un periodo en el que la dictadura usurpó la democracia, las naciones fueron esclavizadas, la ciudad de Roma fue reconstruida y el imperio abrazó la religión cristiana. En este documental se mezclan con fuerza varios sucesos que llevaron a la grandeza y caída del Imperio Romano, en escenarios monumentales donde queda plasmado un retrato de Roma tal y como era: valiente, a veces mezquina y finalmente magnífica.
La serie comienza en el año 146 AC, con la victoria de Roma ante Cártago, su gran enemigo. El liderazgo de Julio César, y la derrota de la República; la locura del emperador Nerón; la revuelta judía, la mayor rebelión de la historia del Imperio; la conversión al cristianismo de Constantino; y finalmente, la caída de Roma contada a través del relato del Rey Godo Alarico I.

Nero 5.0
Fecha de emisión: 2006-09-21
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Recounts how Nero charted his murderous reign and how he was finally overthrown.

Caesar 5.0
Fecha de emisión: 2006-09-26
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Recounts how Julius Caesar succeeded in overthrowing a 500-year-old Republic.

Revolution 5.0
Fecha de emisión: 2006-10-05
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: 132 BC. Tiberius Gracchus, with the final victory in Rome's 120 year long Punic Wars against Carthage, its greatest ever Mediterranean rival, brings him immense glory and the rich unseen wealth, but almost nothing trickles down to the destitute. The rich patricians yest removing the military threat of Carthage also removes the best control on them. He learns many veteran families lose everything, even their land, which is taken by the rich. Now he joins the army against a Hispanic tribe, the Numantines, which manages to encircle the 20,000 legionnaires and refuses to negotiate with consul Mancinus, but takes the word of Gracchus, for the sake of his father who concluded an honorable peace with them; the troops return, their families rejoice but the senate blames the commanders for a disgraceful surrender. Tiberius uses his popularity to stand for the office of popular tribune, hoping to counter Nasicas extremist line in the senate.

Rebellion 6.5
Fecha de emisión: 2006-10-12
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Recounts how the Jewish Revolt, which swept through Judea in AD66, was stopped by General Vespasian and his son Titus.

Constantine 5.0
Fecha de emisión: 2006-10-18
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Recounts how the Emperor Constantine brought Christianity to the western world.

Fall of Rome 5.0
Fecha de emisión: 2006-10-26
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: In AD 410, the Goth hordes sacked the city. This event symbolised Rome's collapse, but it should never have happened at all.