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CONTEXTE HISTORIQUE
Pyramids and Old Kingdom imagination
Pyramid construction was an enormously complex state project. The Hollywood film here should be read critically rather than as a literal account of builders’ lives.
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Ancient Egypt
Pharaohs, dynastic power, beliefs and the last Ptolemies
A guided encounter with ancient Egyptian state power, religion, monuments and dynasties, ending with Ptolemaic Egypt under Cleopatra. The current library relies heavily on fictional pharaohs, biblical tradition and classical-era spectacle; these works illuminate cinema’s image of Egypt better than they establish historical chronology. Gaps are identified instead of filled with unrelated films.
2600 p.n.e. → 18812 guides éditoriaux11 titres sélectionnés
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Essentiel
A selective starting itinerary through the major transformations, with explicit evidence warnings and a manageable number of key works.
- Titres
- 5
- Chapitres
- 4
- Durée
- 12h 16m
- Mixte
- 4 films · 0 documentation · 1 TV
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CHAPITRE HISTORIQUE
Pyramids and Old Kingdom imagination
2600 p.n.e. → 2560 p.n.e.
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Essentiel
Land of the Pharaohs
HISTOIRE REPRÉSENTÉE 2600 p.n.e. → 2560 p.n.e.
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Provides a cinematic way to discuss pyramid building, labor and monumental kingship.
Fictional court intrigue, uncertain archaeology and spectacular invented details.
105 minIMDb 6.6 · 5.4K votes
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New Kingdom courts and religion
The Eighteenth Dynasty and its successors provide some of our richest Egyptian records, but the selected films dramatize kingship and religion.
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CHAPITRE HISTORIQUE
New Kingdom courts and religion
1353 p.n.e. → 1292 p.n.e.
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Essentiel
The Egyptian
L'ÉgyptienHISTOIRE REPRÉSENTÉE 1353 p.n.e. → 1292 p.n.e.
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Uses an invented physician to enter the political and religious world of the Eighteenth Dynasty.
Based on a historical novel; Sinuhe is not a verified eyewitness to these events.
139 minIMDb 6.5 · 4.6K votes
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Tut
Toutânkhamon : Le pharaon mauditHISTOIRE REPRÉSENTÉE 1332 p.n.e. → 1323 p.n.e.
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Centers the court around Tutankhamun and the political imagination of late Eighteenth-Dynasty Egypt.
Docudrama-style fiction with speculative plots and unsupported personal motivations.
90 minIMDb 7.0 · 9.3K votes
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Priesthood, state and an imagined late pharaoh
The authority of temples and elites offers a useful discussion of state and religion, despite fictional protagonists.
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CHAPITRE HISTORIQUE
Priesthood, state and an imagined late pharaoh
1100 p.n.e. → 1070 p.n.e.
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Faraon
PharaohHISTOIRE REPRÉSENTÉE 1100 p.n.e. → 1070 p.n.e.
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A compelling political allegory about royal authority, priesthood and institutions in an imagined ancient Egypt.
Ramses XIII is fictional; do not present the film as a royal biography.
151 minIMDb 7.3 · 2.8K votes
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Ptolemaic Egypt and Rome
The last Ptolemies ruled a Hellenistic dynasty amid intense Roman interference. Films tend to sensationalize Cleopatra’s private life.
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CHAPITRE HISTORIQUE
Ptolemaic Egypt and Rome
48 p.n.e. → 30 p.n.e.
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Essentiel
Cleopatra
CléopâtreHISTOIRE REPRÉSENTÉE 48 p.n.e. → 30 p.n.e.
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An expansive film treatment of Cleopatra VII and the relations with Caesar and Antony.
Spectacle and romance foregrounded over Egyptian political and social perspectives.
251 minIMDb 7.0 · 41.9K votes
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