Watch the story of history's greatest gladiator unfold with graphic violence and explicit sex. This is Spartacus.

Watch the story of history's greatest gladiator unfold with graphic violence and explicit sex. This is Spartacus.

Warriors is a three-disc set from BBC Video featuring an interesting approach to the standard documentary. Each hour-long production features a docu-drama about a famous warlord or leader from history. The figures covered in the main discs are Napoleon, the Shogun, Spartacus, Cortes, Richard the Lionheart, Genghis Khan, and Attila the Hun. Woven amongst the dramatic scenes detailing each conquerors life and military exploits is narration from the perspective of an individual that had been close to him. In some cases the information from these narrators has been gleaned from actual documentary evidence, written accounts of the times they lived and lead men to battle.

Warriors is a three-disc set from BBC Video featuring an interesting approach to the standard documentary. Each hour-long production features a docu-drama about a famous warlord or leader from history. The figures covered in the main discs are Napoleon, the Shogun, Spartacus, Cortes, Richard the Lionheart, Genghis Khan, and Attila the Hun. Woven amongst the dramatic scenes detailing each conquerors life and military exploits is narration from the perspective of an individual that had been close to him. In some cases the information from these narrators has been gleaned from actual documentary evidence, written accounts of the times they lived and lead men to battle.

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The span of this 12-CD box set is generally acknowledged as the best Bill Evans material available. That's saying a lot, considering the high quality of The Complete Fantasy Recordings and The Complete Bill Evans on Verve. What the Riverside recordings display is a young Evans discovering his revolutionary harmonic depth and improvisational genius with bursts of energy that, by his second session, had established a kind of moody intensity that seemed to deepen the music while making it at once more complex and easier to absorb. Evans's Riverside years encompass his early dynamos: Everybody Digs Bill Evans is resplendently here, as is the material from Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby. So, too, are sessions with Cannonball Adderley, Jim Hall, and Zoot Sims. Through it all, Evans remains firmly planted in a winding style that's creatively unstoppable and visceral in its intensity. One could write hundreds of pages about these 12 CDs. Instead, you should indulge their dozen-plus hours. --Andrew Bartlett

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This compilation presents the results of 20 recording sessions on 12 compact discs from the pivotal eight-year period (1956-63) that launched the remarkable career of Bill Evans and defined his position as one of the most significant, pace-setting jazz pianists of all time. Here, in chronological order, are 151 performances, including of the legendary 1961 Village Vanguard session, as well as 24 selections that were previously unissued at the time the first edition of this boxed set was released. Ranging from solo to quintet, this collection also features such major artists as Cannonball Adderley, Freddie Hubbard, Philly Joe Jones, Jim Hall, Percy Heath, Paul Chambers, Ron Carter, Zoot Sims, and Scott LaFaro.

A pre-Spartacus prequel about life in the House of Batiatus. In the opener, a younger Batiatus is placed in command of his father's gladiator-training school..

A pre-Spartacus prequel about life in the House of Batiatus. In the opener, a younger Batiatus is placed in command of his father's gladiator-training school..