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The Flavians and Vesuvius

AD 68 – 96

Four emperors, the Jewish War, the Colosseum, and the ash.

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8h 20mThose About to Die Drama

Roland Emmerich doing the chariot-racing and gladiator business under Vespasian. Historically loose and gleefully so; watch it for the machinery of the games, not for the dates.

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3hPompeii: The New Dig Documentary

Filmed inside the largest excavation at Pompeii in a generation, with the archaeologists working rather than narrating. You watch rooms come out of the ash in real time, which no reconstruction has ever matched.

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1hPompeii: The Last Day Docudrama

One hour, real people reconstructed from the bodies in the ash, and a volcanic timeline you can set your watch by. The scene everyone remembers is the pyroclastic surge, and it earns it.

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1hColosseum: Rome's Arena of Death Docudrama

One gladiator's career reconstructed from the epigraphy, and the most convincing hour ever filmed inside the arena. It treats the games as an industry with a payroll rather than as spectacle.

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1hPompeii: New Secrets Revealed with Mary Beard Documentary

Beard on the excavation as it happens, with the bodies treated as people rather than props. The section on what the casts can and cannot tell us is the honest counterweight to every dramatised eruption.

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