Gladiator (2000)

Sunday

More4, 9pm

British director Ridley Scott collected five Oscars including Best Picture for this muscular and goreladen sword and sandals epic. Maximus (Russell Crowe) is a general in the army of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris). Conniving h eir Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) murders the Emperor and Maximus is forced into training as a gladiator under the debonair Proximo (Oliver Reed).