You likely know the name Commodus as the bad guy from Gladiator, the Best Picture winner from 2000. Played as a pervy psychotic by Joaquin Phoenix, Emperor Commodus is portrayed as a man with ...

Soon after securing a plan for Maximus to escape, Lucius accidentally betrays his mother and Commodus learns of her connection with and support of the gladiator. In the final match, Maximus and ...

In the original Gladiator, Crowe’s Maximus is betrayed by Commodus, sold into slavery, and then returns to the Colosseum as a successful gladiator as he attempts to get revenge on the men that ...

The EBRC’s latest report isn’t just about population shifts—it’s a masterstroke of political alchemy, tilting the arena to ...

Commodus, and a power struggle leaves Maximus and his family condemned to death. The powerful general is captured and put into the Gladiator games until he dies. The only desire that fuels him now ...

a slave and a gladiator who eventually takes down the corrupt Emperor Commodus before dying a noble death in the gladiator arena. In the first film, we briefly meet Lucilla’s young son ...

Commodus, and a power struggle leaves Maximus and his family condemned to death. The powerful general is captured and put into the Gladiator games until he dies. The only desire that fuels him now ...