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The Eagle is a 2011 epic historical drama film set in Roman Britain directed by Kevin Macdonald, and starring Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell and Donald Sutherland.Adapted by Jeremy Brock from Rosemary Sutcliff's historical adventure novel The Eagle of the Ninth (1954), the film tells the story of a young Roman officer attempting to recover the lost Roman eagle standard of his father's legion in ...
The 2010 movie Centurion follows the destiny of the Ninth Legion, as seen from the perspective of centurion Quintus Dias. The 2011 movie The Eagle is based on the book The Eagle of the Ninth. The 2013 book The Eagle has Fallen written by Brian Young also subscribes to the theory that the Legion was destroyed in Britain.
The Eagle of the Ninth: 1977 a six-part BBC mini-series, based on the novel by Rosemary Sutcliff, starring Anthony Higgins Centurion: 2010 an action film based on the massacre of the Ninth Legion, directed by Neil Marshall: The Eagle: 2011 adaption of the novel The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff, directed by Kevin Macdonald
Roman ornament with an aquila (100–200 AD) from the Cleveland Museum of Art A modern reconstruction of an aquila. An aquila (Classical Latin: [ˈakᶣɪla]; lit. ' eagle ') was a prominent symbol used in ancient Rome, especially as the standard of a Roman legion. A legionary known as an aquilifer, the "eagle
Eagle in the Snow (ISBN 1-59071-011-8) is a 1970 historical fiction novel written by Wallace Breem, which was reprinted in 2003 following the success of the film Gladiator. [1] A commercial success, the critically acclaimed novel is Breem's best known work. [2] The story revolves around the fictional Roman general Paulinus Gaius Maximus. [1]
The film The Eagle is a film that is about a man's search for what happened to his father and the 9th Legion, and thus continues the story of the film Centurion which is the story of his father and the 9th Legion. No other evidence than this fact as fully authenticated in the articles about thes two titles can possibly be needed.
The Roman (1964) by Mika Waltari; The Cleft by Doris Lessing is a book supposedly written by an historian during Nero's reign. Venator (2024) by A. M. Swink, the first in the Roman Equestrian series, which is set in Roman Britain just before the onset of the Boudican revolt.
Jack Higgins was born Henry Patterson [4] on 27 July 1929 in Newcastle upon Tyne to an English father and a Northern Irish mother. [1] When his father abandoned them soon afterward, his mother returned with him to her home town of Belfast, Northern Ireland, to live with her mother and her grandfather on the Shankill Road.