The 300 Spartans

Original title: The 300 Spartans

114 minutes • 1962 • 6.4 Score

Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army now thought to have numbered 250,000.

Rudolph Maté

Director

Adventure

History

War

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