300: Rise Of An Empire [DVD] [2013]

Purchased as a gift

A great pre and a sequel to a great movie rolled up into one.

This DVD does not work at all in my DVD player . It just has a ? mark on the tv screen when trying to play it .

“300: Rise of an Empire” is a companion feature to the original 300 movie. This 2013 film shows what happened with Athens, Greece, while in the former film Leonidas led 300 Spartans against the overwhelming odds of the Persians. The Spartans held off the Persians until all 300 died heroically.According to this film, Themistocles of Athens (524-460 BCE) led the Athenians in a sea battle against the Persians and killed the Persian king Darius by shooting him with a bow and Arrow. Darius is followed by his son Xerxes as ruler of the Persians. He is determined to wipe out the Greeks. Xerxes is aided by a very skillful female, Artemisia. He proclaims himself a king and a god.Artemisia led a huge naval fleet against Themistocles who was the creator of the Athenian sea power. The Persians had a much larger fleet than him. He was, as the film shows, responsible for the Greek defeat of the Persian fleet at Salamis. As a result the democracy of Athens was saved as well as its culture that influenced Rome which in turn influenced the building of America.The film is filled with action and brutal warfare.

Put it in my dvd play and the only thing that it showed was Playback prohibited

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