16 minutes to build an empire? Rome wasn't built in a day, but this doc tries anyway.
The rise of the Roman Empire towards world power is reconstructed with the help of cartographies and re-enactments. It also shows where traces of ancient Rome can still be found today.
Production
Re-enactors giving their ALL for 16 minutes of glory.
Direction
Lynn Spiegel: doing the most with the least runtime.
Director
Lynn Spiegel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lynn Spiegel is better known as a media theorist—this might be her only documentary credit, making it a fascinating one-off.
The 'Holy Roman Empire' keyword is technically a millennium-spanning misnomer; this doc focuses on ancient Rome, not the medieval Germanic confederation that Voltaire famously said was 'neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.'
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