ANCIENT WORLD · PRODUCTION ARCHIVE
Films, documentary series and selected episodes from 2024 and earlier.
An expanding archive of completed productions, with dated sources and connections to their historical worlds.
Completed productions dated 2024 or earlier; production-year records are labelled.
22 entries
Documentary series · 6 episodes · 2024
Released
Alexander & Hellenistic
A six-part Netflix docudrama combines historical interpretation, expert interviews and archaeology to follow Alexander’s rise.
Fantasy drama series · 8 episodes · 2024
Released
Greek Mythology
Charlie Covell reimagines Greek gods, prophecy and the underworld in a contemporary fantasy series.
Feature film · 2024
Released
Homeric & Mycenaean · Greek Mythology
Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche play Odysseus and Penelope in Uberto Pasolini’s adaptation of the final movement of the Odyssey.
Documentary · 2024
Released
Homeric & Mycenaean · Greek Mythology
A PBS documentary investigates the contested suggestion that a Mycenaean tomb on Kefalonia might be connected with Odysseus.
Documentary short · 20 minutes · 2024
Released
Classical Greece
Christos Sarris connects Greek tragedy and the Athenian political inheritance with contemporary debate through an Onassis Culture documentary.
Documentary · 24 minutes · 2024 · Production year
Released
Classical Greece
Jakob Schmidt and Jannis Funk examine the Athenian democracy story in a German documentary produced in 2024 and published by ARTE in 2025.
Documentary episode · Ancient Megacities · 2024 · Production year
Released
Homeric & Mycenaean
The Troy episode of Ancient Megacities investigates the city’s construction and archaeology through expert contributions and digital reconstruction.
Documentary series · Selected episodes · 2024
Released
Homeric & Mycenaean · Classical Greece · Alexander & Hellenistic
Four ancient-Greek episodes of the 2024 series explore Homer, Alexander, classical political leaders and the great tragedians through their sculptural afterlives.
Documentary · 52 minutes · 2023
Released
Classical Greece · Greek Mythology
Sébastien Reichenbach follows the discovery of the sanctuary of Artemis at Amarynthos after decades of Swiss and Greek archaeological investigation.
Animated short film · 2023
Released
Classical Greece
Martin Klekner’s independent CGI short explores the human memory of war within the world of the Greco-Persian conflicts.
Feature film · Ancient Greek language · 2023
Released
Classical Greece · Greek Mythology
An independent tragicomedy spoken and sung in Ancient Greek brings Aristophanes, Euripides and other classical texts into a new screen story.
Feature documentary · 99 minutes · 2023
Released
Minoan World
Filippos Koutsaftis follows the excavation of the Minoan palace at Zakros, archaeologist Nikolaos Platon and the lives surrounding the site.
Documentary series · 8 episodes · 2023
Released
Classical Greece
Theodoros Papakostas follows the people, manuscripts and historical circumstances through which ancient Greek texts reached the present.
Documentary series · 3 episodes · 2023
Released
Homeric & Mycenaean · Classical Greece
Lina Damaskopoulou examines how Greeks defined themselves through changing ideas about foreigners, enemies, freedom and slavery.
Docudrama episode · 1 hour 47 minutes · 2023
Released
Alexander & Hellenistic
The opening episode of Ancient Empires follows Alexander’s rapid expansion from Macedonia into a vast empire.
Speculative factual entertainment · Episode · 2023
Released
Greek Mythology
An Ancient Aliens episode reinterprets Zeus, Apollo and Poseidon through extraterrestrial speculation. Included as screen entertainment, not archaeological evidence.
History and comedy · Episode · 2023
Released
Classical Greece · Greek Mythology
A history-and-comedy episode uses Zeus and Ganymede to discuss Greek mythology and sexuality through a contemporary queer perspective.
Documentary episode · 45 minutes · 2022 · Production year
Released
Classical Greece · Greek Mythology
Giannis Vakrinos explores Arcadian mystery cults through archaeological discussion and contemporary artistic responses.
Documentary series · International two-part version · 2021 · Production year
Released
Minoan World · Homeric & Mycenaean · Classical Greece · Alexander & Hellenistic
A survey of Greek sites and cultural legacies, catalogued by Autentic as a 2021 production and later distributed under English and German titles.
Online historical animation · Episode · 2023
Released
Classical Greece
The opening video examines the causes of the war between Athens and Sparta and the siege of Potidaea.
Online historical animation · Episode · 2023
Released
Classical Greece
The episode examines the siege of Plataea during the Peloponnesian War. This is the siege of 429–427 BCE, not the battle against the Persians in 479 BCE.
Online historical animation · Episode · 2023
Released
Classical Greece
The episode continues the account of the Peloponnesian War through an Athenian reversal of Spartan fortunes.
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