A gladiator-slave (Kirk Douglas) challenged the awesome might of Imperial Rome with an army of slaves in Stanley Kubrick’s intelligent and politically sophisticated epic. In SPARTACUS Kubrick deals with one of his favorite themes: the problem of adapting to a civilization which can be seen as either brutalizing individualism or liberating one from it.

"Probably the best epic about the ancient world ever produced for the screen."

- TV GUIDE

"A very well-made, exciting adventure story, a superior example of the spectacle."

- Bjorn Thomson, SAVOY MAGAZINE