Alexander the Great

437 00:40:08,468 --> 00:40:11,284 Again, the Macedonian is on the march... 438 00:40:11,388 --> 00:40:15,351 the wolf, Philip, and his whelp, Alexander. 439 00:40:15,455 --> 00:40:18,897 Again, all we hold sacred is in peril. 440 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,712 But here, at Chaeronea, 441 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:25,675 the fate of Greece will once and for all be decided. 442 00:40:25,882 --> 00:40:29,429 Shall it live under freedom? Or tyranny? 443 00:40:30,366 --> 00:40:36,520 For this sacred struggle, even the graves of our fathers will yield up their dead. 444 00:40:36,622 --> 00:40:37,874 Athenians! 445 00:40:41,106 --> 00:40:42,880 Macedonians! 446 00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:50,909 Demosthenes declares openly 447 00:40:51,117 --> 00:40:54,351 that the battle of Chaeronea will decide once and for all 448 00:40:54,558 --> 00:40:57,583 who is to be master in Greece. 449 00:40:57,686 --> 00:41:01,650 Macedonians, give him his answer! 450 00:43:21,381 --> 00:43:24,928 Hail, Alexander, hero. Hero of Chaeronea. 451 00:43:31,183 --> 00:43:34,625 We Athenians would like permission to bury our dead. 452 00:43:34,729 --> 00:43:39,944 Let them lie and rot on the field of Chaeronea till they stink to the heavens. 453 00:44:03,196 --> 00:44:05,386 To the hero of Chaeronea! 454 00:44:05,491 --> 00:44:07,785 Alexander! 455 00:44:07,993 --> 00:44:11,644 And now... to the victor. 456 00:44:12,581 --> 00:44:14,667 - To me! - To Philip! 457 00:44:14,771 --> 00:44:16,544 To Philip. 458 00:44:16,648 --> 00:44:19,151 Fierce in battle, generous in victory. 459 00:44:23,008 --> 00:44:25,512 You see, Memnon? 460 00:44:25,720 --> 00:44:28,432 I defeat you and I invite you to dine with me. 461 00:44:28,536 --> 00:44:31,874 Isn't that the way an Athenian gentleman behaves? 462 00:44:31,977 --> 00:44:35,315 I could destroy Athens now, but I won't. 463 00:44:35,418 --> 00:44:39,382 To destroy a centre of culture would be the act of a barbarian. 464 00:44:39,588 --> 00:44:41,779 And that, Philip is not. 465 00:44:45,533 --> 00:44:48,036 Is he, Memnon? 466 00:44:48,140 --> 00:44:50,121 Is he, Athenians? 467 00:44:52,415 --> 00:44:55,127 Is he, Demosthenes? 468 00:44:57,316 --> 00:44:59,193 Is he, Demosthenes? 469 00:44:59,402 --> 00:45:01,384 Is he? 470 00:45:01,591 --> 00:45:03,573 Is he, Demosthenes? 471 00:45:04,928 --> 00:45:07,745 Is he, Demosthenes? 472 00:45:08,787 --> 00:45:10,769 Philip the Barbarian. 473 00:45:11,811 --> 00:45:13,271 Philip the Barbarian 474 00:45:13,479 --> 00:45:15,982 Philip the Barbarian 475 00:45:16,086 --> 00:45:22,345 Philip the Barbarian dances over your dead bodies, you Athenians! 476 00:45:22,447 --> 00:45:28,288 Father, you're Philip of Macedonia, now captain general of all Greece. 477 00:45:28,391 --> 00:45:33,815 You're right. My victory, my kingdom, my Greece! 478 00:45:34,021 --> 00:45:35,899 Not yours! 479 00:45:36,107 --> 00:45:38,506 Philip the Barbarian! 480 00:45:38,714 --> 00:45:40,487 Alexander. 481 00:45:46,222 --> 00:45:48,308 Too much to drink. 482 00:45:49,559 --> 00:45:52,063 Much too much to drink. 483 00:46:05,409 --> 00:46:07,287 Athenians... 484 00:46:08,433 --> 00:46:10,206 Demosthenes... 485 00:46:15,211 --> 00:46:17,506 Saved my life. 486 00:46:17,609 --> 00:46:20,738 He could have been king. Saved my life. 487 00:46:22,823 --> 00:46:24,910 Don't ever forget that. 488 00:46:27,828 --> 00:46:29,289 Philip the Barbarian 489 00:46:29,497 --> 00:46:31,270 Philip the Barbarian 490 00:46:31,374 --> 00:46:33,147 Philip... 491 00:46:34,086 --> 00:46:36,485 A young girl... 492 00:46:36,588 --> 00:46:40,760 and a drunken, foolish old man. 493 00:47:14,232 --> 00:47:17,362 In tribute to the heroic Athenian dead, 494 00:47:17,569 --> 00:47:22,889 I send their ashes back to Athens under the escort of my son Alexander. 495 00:47:22,991 --> 00:47:25,286 And there, in Athens, 496 00:47:25,389 --> 00:47:30,501 a treaty of peace will be drawn up between us by my son Alexander. 497 00:47:34,149 --> 00:47:38,947 To all those who died like men on the bloody field of Chaeronea, all hail! 498 00:47:59,592 --> 00:48:02,722 Alexander rides to Athens, 499 00:48:02,929 --> 00:48:04,703 and I stay here. 500 00:48:04,911 --> 00:48:06,997 It was a wise decision. 501 00:48:07,101 --> 00:48:10,230 To win the war and lose the peace is folly. 502 00:48:11,481 --> 00:48:13,880 There'd be no cheers for you in Athens. 503 00:48:13,983 --> 00:48:18,990 Only hatred, and perhaps an assassin's dagger at your throat. 504 00:48:21,074 --> 00:48:25,559 When and where will I meet that dagger, friend? 505 00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:56,113 To my humble home, Alexander, and in the name of Athens, I bid you welcome. 506 00:48:56,215 --> 00:48:58,718 Oratory, Demosthenes, is a noble profession, 507 00:48:58