Gladiators

Italy | 2004

The Gladiators have marched back into Rome - thanks in no small part to the popularity of Russell Crowe's swords-and-sandals Hollywood epic. Reporter Mark Corcoran takes a front row seat at the Colosseum for the revival of an ancient blood sport. But in this supposedly enlightened age, combatants do battle safe in the knowledge that they can live by the sword, without having to die by it.