Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 5.0
great dvd - not too accurate opening battle scene
excellent dvd and very good movie. fun to watch. I enjoyed it enormously. Gladiators fighting against chariots is one of the best combat scenes ever made and make you understand why it took so long to outlaw gladiator fights in Rome. Almost makes you want to be there and watch it live!opening battle with Germans is done impressively, but super inaccurate:Romans won their wars not with cavalry charges but with marches of superbly disciplined, trained and equipped infantry.Cavalry at that time was used only to chase and finish off routed enemy.They did not even have stirrups yet, which made horseman effective on the battle field few centuries later. during the period when Gladiator takes place cavalry could not and would not make a "decisive charge".and finally, in that battle German tribesmen were MUCH more likely to have mounted troops than Romans, which they don't.