By the spring of 480 Xerxes' army had reached Macedonia in the north of Greece. In response a contingent of 300 Spartans and several thousand allies were sent to occupy the narrow mountain pass of ...

as he leads 300 Spartans into a seemingly impossible battle against Xerxes and his Persian army of over 300,000 soldiers. It leads to a violent action movie that is beautifully shot, with some ...

In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in ...