Gladiator - Sword of Maximus

Gladiator:
Gladiator is a 2000 historical adventure film directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix. It won five Academy Awards in the 73rd Academy Awards ceremony, including the Academy Award for Best Picture. Gladiator is a critically acclaimed and commercially successful film but, like most films based in antiquity, it was criticized by historians for historical inaccuracies. Nonetheless, it is considered a classic among many, because of its epic nature, vivid battles, and praised direction from Ridley Scott. It is also credited with reviving the genre of the historical epic, leading to films like Troy, Alexander and Kingdom of Heaven, the latter also being directed by Ridley Scott.

Though Commodus stabs Maximus with his dagger before the fight begins, Maximus emerges victorious by killing Commodus but dies also soon after, but not before ordering that governance be returned to the Senate. Through this last gesture, the original wish of Marcus Aurelius is finally realized.

A character in the film asserts that "Rome was founded as a Republic", and the conclusion implies that it returned to republicanism upon the death of Commodus. Rome did not revert to republicanism after the death of Commodus and Rome was not founded as a republic but as a kingdom, becoming a republic after the last King of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, was deposed in 510BC. After Commodus' death he was replaced as emperor by the general Pertinax, who is never mentioned in the film.

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