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When the boy was born...

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like all Spartans, he was inspected.

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If he'd been small or puny
or sickly or misshapen...

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he would have been discarded.

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From the time he could stand,
he was baptized in the fire of combat.

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Taught never to retreat,
never to surrender.

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Taught that death on the battlefield
in service to Sparta...

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was the greatest glory
he could achieve in his life.

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At age 7, as is customary in Sparta...

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the boy was taken from his mother
and plunged into a world of violence.

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Manufactured by 300 years
of Spartan warrior society...

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to create the finest soldiers
the world has ever known.

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The agoge, as it's called,
forces the boy to fight.

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Starves them, forces them to steal...

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and if necessary, to kill.

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By rod and lash the boy was punished...

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taught to show no pain, no mercy.

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Constantly tested, tossed into the wild.

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Left to pit his wits and will
against nature's fury.

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It was his initiation...

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his time in the wild...

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for he would return to his people
a Spartan...

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or not at all.

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The wolf begins to circle the boy.

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Claws of black steel...

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fur as dark night.

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Eyes glowing red...

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jewels from the pit of hell itself.

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The giant wolf sniffing...

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savoring the scent of the meal to come.

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It's not fear that grips him...

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only a heightened sense of things.

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The cold air in his lungs.

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Windswept pines
moving against the coming night.

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His hands are steady.

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His form...

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perfect.

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And so the boy, given up for dead...

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returns to his people,
to sacred Sparta, a king!

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Our king, Leonidas!

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It's been more than 30 years
since the wolf and the winter cold.

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And now, as then, a beast approaches.

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Patient and confident,
savoring the meal to come.

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But this beast
is made of men and horses...

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swords and spears.

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An army of slaves, vast beyond imagining,
ready to devour tiny Greece.

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Ready to snuff out the world's
one hope for reason and justice.

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A beast approaches...

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and it was King Leonidas himself
who provoked it.

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That's it.

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Now, the more you sweat
here, the less you'll bleed in battle.

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My father taught me...

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that fear is always a constant.

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But accepting it...

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makes you stronger.

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My queen.

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A Persian emissary awaits Leonidas.

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In the end...

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a Spartan's true strength
is the warrior next to him.

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So give respect and honor to him,
and it will be returned to you.

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First...

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- ...you fight with your head.
- Then you fight with your heart.

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What is it?

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A Persian messenger awaits you.

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Do not forget today's lesson.

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- Respect and honor.
- Respect and honor.

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Councilman Theron.
You found yourself needed, for once.

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My king and queen,
I was just entertaining your guests.

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I"m sure.

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Before you speak, Persian...

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know that in Sparta everyone,
even a king's messenger...

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is held accountable
for the words of his voice.

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Now, what message do you bring?

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Earth and water.

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You rode all the way from Persia
for earth and water?

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Do not be coy or stupid, Persian.
You can afford neither in Sparta.

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What makes this woman
think she can speak among men?

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Because only Spartan women
give birth to real men.

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Let us walk to cool our tongues.

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If you value your lives
over your complete annihilation...

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listen carefully, Leonidas.

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Xerxes conquers and controls
everything he rests his eyes upon.

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He leads an army so massive,
it shakes the ground with its march.

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So vast, it drinks the rivers dry.

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All the God-King Xerxes requires is this:

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A simple offering of earth and water...

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a token of Sparta's submission
to the will of Xerxes.

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Submission.

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Now, that's a bit of a problem.

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See, rumor has it...

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the Athenians
have already turned you down.

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And if those philosophers and boy-lovers
have found that kind of nerve, then...

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- We must be diplomatic.
- And, of course, Spartans...

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have their reputation to consider.

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Choose your next words carefully,
Leonidas.

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They may be your last as king.

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"Earth and water."

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Madman. You"re a madman.

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Earth and water.

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You'll find plenty of both down there.

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No man, Persian or Greek,
no man threatens a messenger.

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You bring the crowns and heads
of conquered kings to my city steps.

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You insult my queen.

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You threaten my people
with slavery and death.

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Oh, I've chosen my words carefully,
Persian.

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Perhaps you should have done the same.

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This is blasphemy. This is madness!

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Madness?

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This is Sparta!

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Welcome, Leonidas.

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We have been expecting you.

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The ephors, priests to the old gods.

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Inbred swine.

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More creature than man.

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Creatures whom even Leonidas
must bribe and beg.

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For no Spartan king has gone to war
without the ephors' blessing.

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The Persians claim
their forces number in the millions.

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I hope, for our sake, they exaggerate.

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But there's no question, we face
the most massive army ever assembled.

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Before your plan is heard...

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what do you offer?

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We will use our superior fighting skills...

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and the terrain of Greece herself
to destroy them.

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We will march north to the coast,
where I will make sure...

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It is August, Leonidas.
The full moon approaches.

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The sacred and ancient festival.

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Sparta wages no war
at the time of the Carneia.

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Sparta will burn!

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Her men will die at arms...

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and her women and children
will be slaves or worse.

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Now, we will block
the Persian coastal assault...

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by rebuilding the great Phocian Wall.

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And from there, we will funnel them into
the mountain pass we call the Hot Gates.

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Now, in that narrow corridor,
their numbers will count for nothing.

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And wave after wave of Persian attack...

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will smash against Spartan shields.

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Xerxes' losses will be so great,
his men so demoralized...

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he will have no choice
but to abandon his campaign.

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We must consult the oracle.

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Trust the gods, Leonidas.

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I'd prefer you trusted your reason.

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Your blasphemies...

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have cost us quite enough already.

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Don't compound them.

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We will consult the oracle.

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Diseased old mystics.

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Worthless remnants of a time
before Sparta's ascent from darkness.

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Remnants of a senseless tradition.

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Tradition even Leonidas cannot defy...

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for he must respect
the word of the ephors.

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That is the law.

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And no Spartan, subject or citizen,
man or woman...

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slave or king, is above the law.

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The ephors choose only
the most beautiful Spartan girls...

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to live among them as oracles.

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Their beauty is their curse...

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for the old wretches
have the needs of men...

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and souls as black as hell.

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"Pray to the winds..."

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Sparta will fall.

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All Greece will fall.

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Trust not in men...

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honor the gods.

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"Honor the Carneia."

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The king's climb down is harder.

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Pompous, inbred swine.

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Worthless, diseased, rotten...

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corrupt.

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Truly, you"re
in the god-king's favor now...

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O wise and holy men.

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Yes.

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And when Sparta burns,
you shall bathe in gold.

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Fresh oracles shall be delivered to you...

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daily...

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from every corner of the empire.

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Your lips can finish
what your fingers have started.

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Or has the oracle robbed you
of your desire as well?

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It would take more than the words
of a drunken adolescent girl...

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to rob me of my desire for you.

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Then why so distant?

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Because it seems...

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though a slave and captive
of lecherous old men...

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the oracle's words
could set fire to all that I love.

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So that is why my king loses sleep
and is forced from the warmth of his bed?

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There's only one woman's words that
should affect the mood of my husband.

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Those are mine.

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Then what must a king do
to save his world...

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when the very laws he is sworn
to protect force him to do nothing?

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It is not a question
of what a Spartan citizen should do...

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nor a husband, nor a king.

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Instead ask yourself, my dearest love...

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what should a free man do?

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- Is this all of them?
- As you ordered. Three hundred.

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All with born sons to carry on their name.

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We are with you, sire.

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For Sparta. For freedom.

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To the death.

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He is your son.

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He is too young
to have felt a woman's warmth.

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I have others to replace him.
Astinos is as brave and ready as any.

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No younger than we were the first time
you stood next to me in battle.

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You are a good friend...

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but a better captain, there is none.

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My good king.

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My good king, the oracle has spoken.

206
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The ephors have spoken.
There must be no march.

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It is the law, my lord.

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- The Spartan army must not go to war.
- Nor shall it.

209
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I've issued no such orders.

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I"m here just taking a stroll,
stretching my legs.

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These 300 men
are my personal bodyguard.

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Our army will stay in Sparta.

213
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Where will you go?

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I hadn't really thought about it...

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but now that you ask...

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I suppose I'll head north.

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The Hot Gates?

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Move out!

219
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Move out!

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What shall we do?

221
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What can we do?

222
00:24:40,103 --> 00:24:41,854
What can you do?

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Sparta will need sons.

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Spartan!

225
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Yes, milady?

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Come back with your shield...

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or on it.

228
00:26:10,986 --> 00:26:12,319
Yes, milady.

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"Goodbye, my love."

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He doesn't say it.

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There's no room for softness...

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not in Sparta.

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No place for weakness.

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Only the hard and strong
may call themselves Spartans.

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Only the hard. Only the strong.

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We march...

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for our lands, for our families,
for our freedoms.

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We march.

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Daxos.

240
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What a pleasant surprise.

241
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This morning's full
of surprises, Leonidas.

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- We've been tricked.
- Can't be more than a hundred.

243
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- This is a surprise.
- Silence.

244
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This isn't their army.

245
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We heard Sparta was on the warpath
and we were eager to join forces.

246
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If it is blood you seek,
you are welcome to join us.

247
00:27:50,126 --> 00:27:53,379
But you bring only this handful
of soldiers against Xerxes?

248
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I see I was wrong to expect Sparta's
commitment to at least match our own.

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Doesn't it?

250
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You, there.

251
00:28:03,765 --> 00:28:04,932
What is your profession?

252
00:28:05,475 --> 00:28:07,601
I"m a potter, sir.

253
00:28:08,770 --> 00:28:12,564
And you, Arcadian.
What is your profession?

254
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- Sculptor, sir.
- Sculptor.

255
00:28:16,736 --> 00:28:18,654
- And you?
- Blacksmith.

256
00:28:23,326 --> 00:28:26,620
Spartans! What is your profession?

257
00:28:33,795 --> 00:28:35,754
You see, old friend?

258
00:28:35,922 --> 00:28:38,799
I brought more soldiers than you did.

259
00:28:48,768 --> 00:28:50,561
No sleep tonight...

260
00:28:51,646 --> 00:28:54,106
not for the king.

261
00:28:54,274 --> 00:28:56,483
All his 40 years
have been a straight road...

262
00:28:56,651 --> 00:29:00,237
to this one gleaming moment
in destiny...

263
00:29:00,405 --> 00:29:03,157
this one radiant clash
of shield and spear...

264
00:29:03,324 --> 00:29:06,952
sword and bone, and flesh and blood.

265
00:29:08,663 --> 00:29:10,456
His only regret...

266
00:29:10,623 --> 00:29:14,334
is that he has so few to sacrifice.

267
00:29:35,648 --> 00:29:37,649
We"re being followed.

268
00:29:42,697 --> 00:29:44,865
It has followed us since Sparta.

269
00:29:49,829 --> 00:29:52,831
My king! Look!

270
00:30:13,770 --> 00:30:15,229
What happened here?

271
00:30:15,814 --> 00:30:17,147
Where are all the people?

272
00:30:18,233 --> 00:30:19,942
Persians.

273
00:30:20,109 --> 00:30:21,902
I put their number at around 20.

274
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:25,656
A scouting party.

275
00:30:29,035 --> 00:30:30,536
But these footprints...

276
00:30:41,923 --> 00:30:43,382
Behind us!

277
00:30:57,438 --> 00:30:58,647
Child!

278
00:31:31,639 --> 00:31:34,349
It's quiet now.

279
00:31:34,809 --> 00:31:36,643
They...

280
00:31:36,978 --> 00:31:41,023
They came with beasts
from the blackness.

281
00:31:42,609 --> 00:31:44,860
With their claws and fangs...

282
00:31:45,028 --> 00:31:47,279
they grabbed them.

283
00:31:48,156 --> 00:31:50,324
Everyone...

284
00:31:51,326 --> 00:31:53,410
but me.

285
00:32:05,673 --> 00:32:07,215
The villagers.

286
00:32:07,759 --> 00:32:09,676
I found them.

287
00:32:21,189 --> 00:32:24,024
Have the gods no mercy?

288
00:32:25,193 --> 00:32:27,194
We are doomed.

289
00:32:27,362 --> 00:32:30,030
Quiet yourself.

290
00:32:33,409 --> 00:32:38,664
The child speaks of the Persian ghosts,
known from the ancient times.

291
00:32:39,540 --> 00:32:42,209
They are the hunters of men's souls.

292
00:32:43,252 --> 00:32:45,879
They cannot be killed or defeated.

293
00:32:46,506 --> 00:32:50,676
Not this darkness. Not these Immortals.

294
00:32:52,845 --> 00:32:55,055
Immortals?

295
00:32:55,348 --> 00:32:58,392
We'll put their name to the test.

296
00:33:20,456 --> 00:33:23,250
Into the Hot Gates we march.

297
00:33:23,418 --> 00:33:26,712
Into that narrow corridor we march...

298
00:33:26,879 --> 00:33:29,131
where Xerxes' numbers
count for nothing.

299
00:33:30,299 --> 00:33:34,261
Spartans, citizen-soldiers, freed slaves.

300
00:33:34,429 --> 00:33:36,304
Brave Greeks, all.

301
00:33:37,306 --> 00:33:40,434
Brothers, fathers, sons...

302
00:33:40,601 --> 00:33:42,602
we march.

303
00:33:43,271 --> 00:33:47,441
For honor´s sake, for duty's sake,
for glory's sake, we march.

304
00:33:47,608 --> 00:33:50,736
Look! Persians.

305
00:33:55,867 --> 00:33:59,619
Into hell's mouth we march.

306
00:34:08,629 --> 00:34:10,714
Let's watch these motherless dogs...

307
00:34:10,965 --> 00:34:15,010
as they"re embraced by the loving arms
of Greece herself. Come.

308
00:34:17,805 --> 00:34:19,514
True.

309
00:34:23,728 --> 00:34:26,188
It does look like rain.

310
00:34:29,484 --> 00:34:32,736
Zeus stabs the sky with thunderbolts...

311
00:34:33,029 --> 00:34:37,074
and batters the Persian ships
with hurricane wind.

312
00:34:38,201 --> 00:34:40,660
Glorious.

313
00:34:52,924 --> 00:34:55,801
Only one among us
keeps his Spartan reserve.

314
00:35:01,724 --> 00:35:03,683
Only he.

315
00:35:03,851 --> 00:35:06,311
Only our king.

316
00:35:23,704 --> 00:35:25,664
My queen?

317
00:35:30,837 --> 00:35:32,170
My queen...

318
00:35:32,338 --> 00:35:35,674
the courtyard is a more fitting place
for a married woman.

319
00:35:35,842 --> 00:35:37,509
I"m afraid gossip and protocol...

320
00:35:37,677 --> 00:35:40,220
are the least of my worries now,
councilman.

321
00:35:41,889 --> 00:35:43,723
Is such secrecy needed?

322
00:35:43,891 --> 00:35:46,560
How am I to trust beyond the walls
of my own home?

323
00:35:46,727 --> 00:35:50,438
Even here, Theron has eyes and ears
which fuel Sparta with doubt and fear.

324
00:35:50,857 --> 00:35:54,234
You speak as if all Sparta
conspires against you.

325
00:35:54,902 --> 00:35:56,945
I wish it were only against me.

326
00:35:59,574 --> 00:36:03,076
Many on our council
would vote to give all we have...

327
00:36:03,244 --> 00:36:05,120
and follow Leonidas...

328
00:36:05,454 --> 00:36:07,414
but you must show them favor.

329
00:36:09,750 --> 00:36:12,210
And you can arrange for me
to speak to the council?

330
00:36:12,378 --> 00:36:14,796
If it is reason they want,
I will let them know.

331
00:36:14,964 --> 00:36:17,090
Know what, my queen?

332
00:36:17,466 --> 00:36:19,467
Freedom isn't free at all.

333
00:36:19,635 --> 00:36:22,971
That it comes with the highest of costs,
the cost of blood.

334
00:36:25,266 --> 00:36:27,893
I will do my best to gather our council.

335
00:36:28,311 --> 00:36:32,147
And its chamber
shall be filled with your voice.

336
00:36:32,481 --> 00:36:34,316
- I"m in your debt.
- No.

337
00:36:34,650 --> 00:36:38,820
Leonidas is my king as well as yours.

338
00:37:03,638 --> 00:37:05,472
I saw those ships smash on the rocks.

339
00:37:06,599 --> 00:37:07,974
How can this be?

340
00:37:08,142 --> 00:37:11,436
We saw but a fraction of the monster
that is Xerxes' army.

341
00:37:12,104 --> 00:37:14,481
There can be no victory here.

342
00:37:18,444 --> 00:37:20,153
Why do you smile?

343
00:37:21,822 --> 00:37:23,782
Arcadian...

344
00:37:23,950 --> 00:37:26,993
I have fought countless times...

345
00:37:27,245 --> 00:37:29,913
yet I've never met an adversary
who could offer me...

346
00:37:30,081 --> 00:37:32,249
what we Spartans
call "a beautiful death."

347
00:37:33,042 --> 00:37:34,709
I can only hope...

348
00:37:34,877 --> 00:37:37,629
with all the world's warriors
gathered against us...

349
00:37:37,797 --> 00:37:41,466
there might be one down there
who's up to the task.

350
00:37:52,895 --> 00:37:54,771
Move!

351
00:37:56,524 --> 00:37:59,484
Keep going, you dogs!

352
00:38:07,159 --> 00:38:09,202
Move!

353
00:38:10,621 --> 00:38:13,206
Forward, I say!

354
00:38:15,543 --> 00:38:17,127
Stop here!

355
00:38:17,962 --> 00:38:20,130
Who commands here?

356
00:38:22,341 --> 00:38:25,010
I am the emissary...

357
00:38:25,177 --> 00:38:27,429
to the ruler of all the world...

358
00:38:28,222 --> 00:38:32,142
the god of gods, king of kings...

359
00:38:32,310 --> 00:38:33,893
and by that authority...

360
00:38:34,061 --> 00:38:37,856
I demand that someone
show me your commander.

361
00:38:41,610 --> 00:38:47,532
Listen. Do you think the paltry dozen
you slew scares us?

362
00:38:47,700 --> 00:38:51,202
These hills swarm with our scouts.

363
00:38:51,370 --> 00:38:56,082
And do you think your pathetic wall
will do anything...

364
00:38:56,250 --> 00:39:02,547
except fall like a heap of dry leaves
in the face of...?

365
00:39:14,268 --> 00:39:16,561
Our ancestors built this wall...

366
00:39:17,271 --> 00:39:21,232
using ancient stones
from the bosom of Greece herself.

367
00:39:21,650 --> 00:39:24,027
And with a little Spartan help...

368
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,780
your Persian scouts supplied the mortar.

369
00:39:27,406 --> 00:39:31,368
You will pay for your barbarism!

370
00:39:50,513 --> 00:39:52,097
My arm!

371
00:39:54,642 --> 00:39:56,518
It's not yours anymore.

372
00:39:56,811 --> 00:40:01,439
Go now. Run along and tell your Xerxes
he faces free men here...

373
00:40:01,816 --> 00:40:03,149
not slaves.

374
00:40:03,317 --> 00:40:04,567
Do it quickly...

375
00:40:04,819 --> 00:40:07,737
before we decide to make our wall
just a little bit bigger.

376
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:09,823
No.

377
00:40:09,990 --> 00:40:12,033
Not slaves.

378
00:40:14,245 --> 00:40:17,664
Your women will be slaves.

379
00:40:17,998 --> 00:40:20,834
Your sons, your daughters...

380
00:40:21,001 --> 00:40:23,336
your elders will be slaves!

381
00:40:23,504 --> 00:40:26,297
But not you, no.

382
00:40:26,465 --> 00:40:30,510
By noon this day you will be dead men.

383
00:40:31,679 --> 00:40:37,684
A thousand nations of the Persian Empire
descend upon you.

384
00:40:38,102 --> 00:40:41,604
Our arrows will blot out the sun.

385
00:40:43,357 --> 00:40:46,067
Then we will fight in the shade.

386
00:40:47,611 --> 00:40:49,362
The wall is solid.

387
00:40:49,530 --> 00:40:52,699
It'll do the job of funneling the Persians
into the Hot Gates.

388
00:40:53,033 --> 00:40:55,743
Have the men found any route
through the hills to our back?

389
00:40:56,245 --> 00:40:58,288
None, sire.

390
00:40:58,539 --> 00:41:00,123
There is such a route, good king.

391
00:41:00,666 --> 00:41:02,375
Just pass that western ridge.

392
00:41:03,043 --> 00:41:04,752
It's an old goat path.

393
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,755
The Persians could use it to outflank us.

394
00:41:07,923 --> 00:41:11,676
Not one step closer, monster!

395
00:41:13,304 --> 00:41:16,890
Wise king, I humbly request an audience.

396
00:41:17,057 --> 00:41:20,435
- I'll skewer you where you stand.
- I gave no such order.

397
00:41:30,946 --> 00:41:32,197
Forgive the captain.

398
00:41:32,865 --> 00:41:34,365
He is a good soldier...

399
00:41:34,909 --> 00:41:37,577
but a bit short on manners.

400
00:41:37,745 --> 00:41:41,789
There is nothing to forgive, brave king.
I know what I look like.

401
00:41:42,249 --> 00:41:44,250
You wear the crimson of a Spartan.

402
00:41:44,877 --> 00:41:50,507
I am Ephialtes, born of Sparta.

403
00:41:51,091 --> 00:41:55,178
My mother's love
led my parents to flee Sparta...

404
00:41:55,346 --> 00:41:56,804
lest I be discarded.

405
00:41:57,348 --> 00:42:00,141
Your shield and armor?

406
00:42:01,060 --> 00:42:02,727
My father's, sir.

407
00:42:04,063 --> 00:42:08,107
I beg you, bold king,
to permit me...

408
00:42:08,275 --> 00:42:13,321
to redeem my father's name
by serving you in combat.

409
00:42:13,614 --> 00:42:19,494
My father trained me to feel no fear,
to make spear and shield and sword...

410
00:42:19,662 --> 00:42:22,413
as much a part of me
as my own beating heart.

411
00:42:22,831 --> 00:42:26,125
I will earn my father's
armor, noble king...

412
00:42:26,293 --> 00:42:28,461
by serving you in the battle.

413
00:42:33,634 --> 00:42:35,760
A fine thrust.

414
00:42:35,928 --> 00:42:37,512
I will kill many Persians.

415
00:42:43,394 --> 00:42:44,978
Raise your shield.

416
00:42:45,145 --> 00:42:47,814
- Sire?
- Raise your shield as high as you can.

417
00:42:56,073 --> 00:42:59,117
Your father should have taught you
how our phalanx works.

418
00:42:59,785 --> 00:43:01,077
We fight...

419
00:43:01,620 --> 00:43:04,497
as a single, impenetrable unit.

420
00:43:04,665 --> 00:43:07,625
That is the source of our strength.

421
00:43:08,460 --> 00:43:12,088
Each Spartan protects the man
to his left...

422
00:43:12,256 --> 00:43:15,466
from thigh to neck with his shield.

423
00:43:15,634 --> 00:43:20,305
A single weak spot
and the phalanx shatters.

424
00:43:21,682 --> 00:43:24,934
From thigh to neck, Ephialtes.

425
00:43:26,979 --> 00:43:29,355
I am sorry, my friend.

426
00:43:29,523 --> 00:43:30,825
But not all of us were
made to be soldiers.

427
00:43:30,838 --> 00:43:32,150
But I...

428
00:43:32,318 --> 00:43:33,515
If you want to help
in a Spartan victory...

429
00:43:33,528 --> 00:43:34,736
Yes.

430
00:43:34,903 --> 00:43:40,074
Clear the battlefield of the dead,
tend the wounded, bring them water...

431
00:43:40,242 --> 00:43:41,868
but as for the fight itself...

432
00:43:43,245 --> 00:43:45,163
I cannot use you.

433
00:43:46,999 --> 00:43:48,416
You...

434
00:43:56,300 --> 00:44:00,386
Mother! Father! You were wrong!

435
00:44:03,682 --> 00:44:05,433
You are wrong!

436
00:44:05,601 --> 00:44:10,146
Leonidas! You are wrong!

437
00:44:10,606 --> 00:44:13,066
Dispatch the Phocians to the goat path...

438
00:44:13,233 --> 00:44:17,779
and pray to the gods
nobody tells the Persians about it.

439
00:44:23,494 --> 00:44:25,078
Earthquake.

440
00:44:25,579 --> 00:44:26,829
No, captain.

441
00:44:28,415 --> 00:44:30,375
Battle formations.

442
00:44:54,274 --> 00:44:57,443
This is where we hold them.

443
00:44:57,611 --> 00:44:59,904
This is where we fight!

444
00:45:00,447 --> 00:45:02,699
This is where they die!

445
00:45:03,033 --> 00:45:04,909
Earn these shields, boys!

446
00:45:07,621 --> 00:45:10,123
Remember this day, men...

447
00:45:10,290 --> 00:45:14,043
for it will be yours for all time.

448
00:45:25,139 --> 00:45:26,931
Spartans!

449
00:45:27,099 --> 00:45:29,225
Lay down your weapons!

450
00:45:46,118 --> 00:45:48,369
Persians!

451
00:45:48,954 --> 00:45:50,997
Come and get them!

452
00:46:12,519 --> 00:46:14,145
Hold!

453
00:46:16,982 --> 00:46:18,524
Give them nothing...

454
00:46:18,984 --> 00:46:22,570
but take from them everything!

455
00:46:24,281 --> 00:46:26,032
Steady!

456
00:46:36,794 --> 00:46:38,336
Push!

457
00:46:42,174 --> 00:46:44,550
Is that the best you can do?

458
00:46:46,762 --> 00:46:48,763
Push! Push!

459
00:46:58,857 --> 00:47:00,399
Now!

460
00:47:12,204 --> 00:47:13,704
Push!

461
00:47:57,249 --> 00:47:59,834
No prisoners!

462
00:48:00,168 --> 00:48:01,919
No mercy!

463
00:49:21,208 --> 00:49:23,376
They look thirsty.

464
00:49:24,461 --> 00:49:27,380
Well, let's give them something to drink.

465
00:49:30,300 --> 00:49:32,969
To the cliffs.

466
00:49:56,576 --> 00:49:58,744
Halt.

467
00:50:00,872 --> 00:50:02,957
Hell of a good start.

468
00:50:25,605 --> 00:50:28,107
Tuck tail!

469
00:50:33,572 --> 00:50:35,114
Persian cowards.

470
00:50:42,914 --> 00:50:45,833
- What the hell are you laughing at?
- Well, you had to say it.

471
00:50:46,626 --> 00:50:50,296
- What?
- "Fight in the shade."

472
00:51:03,810 --> 00:51:05,770
Recover.

473
00:51:29,044 --> 00:51:31,670
Today no Spartan dies.

474
00:51:56,822 --> 00:51:58,239
Easy, son.

475
00:52:24,474 --> 00:52:26,433
We do what we were trained to do...

476
00:52:26,601 --> 00:52:28,060
what we were bred to do...

477
00:52:28,228 --> 00:52:31,230
what we were born to do.

478
00:52:38,613 --> 00:52:41,615
No prisoners. No mercy.

479
00:52:41,783 --> 00:52:43,242
A good start.

480
00:53:52,729 --> 00:53:54,605
I was afraid you might not come.

481
00:53:54,773 --> 00:53:55,981
I"m sorry, my son is...

482
00:53:56,149 --> 00:54:01,779
Is doing what children do best.
Please, don't apologize.

483
00:54:02,781 --> 00:54:04,907
Your son starts the agoge next year.

484
00:54:05,492 --> 00:54:09,495
That is always a difficult time
for a Spartan mother.

485
00:54:10,622 --> 00:54:15,167
Yes, it will be hard. But also necessary.

486
00:54:17,629 --> 00:54:21,840
You will speak before the council
in two days' time.

487
00:54:23,718 --> 00:54:25,761
My husband does not have two days.

488
00:54:26,179 --> 00:54:28,138
Think of the two days as a gift.

489
00:54:30,183 --> 00:54:32,226
It's no secret...

490
00:54:32,394 --> 00:54:35,271
Theron wants what you control.

491
00:54:35,438 --> 00:54:38,274
It's his voice you must silence.

492
00:54:38,441 --> 00:54:40,526
Make him your ally...

493
00:54:40,860 --> 00:54:43,404
and you will have your victory.

494
00:54:44,197 --> 00:54:45,990
Thank you.

495
00:54:46,324 --> 00:54:48,701
You are wise as you are kind.

496
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:17,563
Ah, there's your mother.

497
00:55:24,029 --> 00:55:27,448
You should keep a better eye on him
if he's to be king one day.

498
00:55:27,657 --> 00:55:30,117
Be unfortunate if anything
were to happen to him.

499
00:55:31,619 --> 00:55:33,495
Or to his beautiful mother.

500
00:55:49,554 --> 00:55:51,055
No! Ahh!

501
00:55:54,267 --> 00:55:59,730
Our Greek comrades are begging
for a crack at the Persians, sire.

502
00:56:00,023 --> 00:56:01,357
Good.

503
00:56:01,524 --> 00:56:04,276
I've got something
I think they can handle.

504
00:56:04,778 --> 00:56:06,487
Tell Daxos that I want him...

505
00:56:06,654 --> 00:56:11,200
and 20 of his best eager, sober
and ready for the next charge.

506
00:56:11,368 --> 00:56:13,202
King Leonidas.

507
00:56:15,705 --> 00:56:19,500
- Stelios, catch your breath, boy.
- Yes, milord.

508
00:56:20,126 --> 00:56:22,294
The Persians are approaching.

509
00:56:23,630 --> 00:56:27,508
A small contingent.
Too small for an attack.

510
00:56:31,262 --> 00:56:34,807
- Captain, I leave you in charge.
- But sire...

511
00:56:34,974 --> 00:56:36,225
Relax, old friend.

512
00:56:36,393 --> 00:56:40,979
If they assassinate me,
all of Sparta goes to war.

513
00:56:41,898 --> 00:56:44,483
Pray they"re that stupid.

514
00:56:45,610 --> 00:56:47,319
Pray...

515
00:56:47,821 --> 00:56:50,030
we"re that lucky.

516
00:56:53,159 --> 00:56:54,952
Besides...

517
00:56:57,205 --> 00:57:00,541
there's no reason we can't be civil...

518
00:57:00,834 --> 00:57:02,459
is there?

519
00:57:04,045 --> 00:57:05,546
None, sire.

520
00:57:24,190 --> 00:57:26,400
Let me guess.

521
00:57:27,152 --> 00:57:30,154
You must be Xerxes.

522
00:57:42,167 --> 00:57:44,376
Come, Leonidas.

523
00:57:45,795 --> 00:57:47,546
Let us reason together.

524
00:57:47,839 --> 00:57:49,798
It would be a regrettable waste...

525
00:57:50,216 --> 00:57:53,385
it would be nothing short of madness
were you, brave king...

526
00:57:53,553 --> 00:57:56,763
and your valiant troops to perish...

527
00:57:57,390 --> 00:57:59,475
all because of a simple
misunderstanding.

528
00:58:00,059 --> 00:58:02,895
- There's much our cultures could share.
- Haven't you noticed?

529
00:58:03,062 --> 00:58:05,481
We've been sharing our culture
with you all morning.

530
00:58:06,065 --> 00:58:08,358
Yours is a fascinating tribe.

531
00:58:08,526 --> 00:58:10,694
Even now you are defiant...

532
00:58:10,862 --> 00:58:14,990
in the face of annihilation
and the presence of a god.

533
00:58:15,158 --> 00:58:17,201
It isn't wise to stand against me,
Leonidas.

534
00:58:17,869 --> 00:58:20,078
Imagine what a horrible fate
awaits my enemies...

535
00:58:20,246 --> 00:58:23,165
when I would gladly kill
any of my own men for victory.

536
00:58:23,333 --> 00:58:25,959
And I would die for any one of mine.

537
00:58:26,127 --> 00:58:30,380
You Greeks take pride in your logic.
I suggest you employ it.

538
00:58:30,548 --> 00:58:34,092
Consider the beautiful land
you so vigorously defend.

539
00:58:34,260 --> 00:58:36,762
Picture it reduced to ash at my whim.

540
00:58:37,013 --> 00:58:38,472
Consider the fate of your women.

541
00:58:39,098 --> 00:58:41,600
Clearly you don't know our women.

542
00:58:41,768 --> 00:58:45,312
I might as well have marched them up here,
judging by what I've seen.

543
00:58:46,439 --> 00:58:48,941
You have many slaves, Xerxes...

544
00:58:49,901 --> 00:58:52,194
but few warriors.

545
00:58:52,362 --> 00:58:56,281
It won't be long
before they fear my spears...

546
00:58:56,699 --> 00:58:59,117
more than your whips.

547
00:59:02,956 --> 00:59:05,832
It's not the lash they fear...

548
00:59:08,586 --> 00:59:10,254
it is my divine power.

549
00:59:10,964 --> 00:59:15,467
But I am a generous god.
I can make you rich beyond all measure.

550
00:59:15,927 --> 00:59:18,303
I will make you warlord of all Greece.

551
00:59:18,972 --> 00:59:22,849
You will carry my battle standard
to the heart of Europa.

552
00:59:23,017 --> 00:59:25,644
Your Athenian rivals...

553
00:59:25,937 --> 00:59:28,105
will kneel at your feet...

554
00:59:28,815 --> 00:59:31,608
if you will but kneel at mine.

555
00:59:32,443 --> 00:59:34,695
You are generous...

556
00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:37,656
as you are divine...

557
00:59:38,408 --> 00:59:40,033
O king of kings.

558
00:59:40,201 --> 00:59:44,121
Such an offer
only a madman would refuse.

559
00:59:44,706 --> 00:59:46,707
But the...

560
00:59:47,625 --> 00:59:50,460
The idea of kneeling, it's...

561
00:59:50,628 --> 00:59:55,173
You see, slaughtering
all those men of yours has...

562
00:59:55,341 --> 00:59:59,177
Well, it's left a nasty cramp in my leg...

563
00:59:59,345 --> 01:00:01,430
so kneeling will be hard for me.

564
01:00:01,681 --> 01:00:05,058
There will be no glory in your sacrifice.

565
01:00:05,226 --> 01:00:08,854
I will erase even the memory of Sparta
from the histories.

566
01:00:09,022 --> 01:00:12,190
Every piece of Greek parchment
shall be burned.

567
01:00:12,358 --> 01:00:15,694
Every Greek historian and every scribe
shall have their eyes put out...

568
01:00:15,862 --> 01:00:18,155
and their tongues
cut from their mouths.

569
01:00:18,323 --> 01:00:24,328
Why, uttering the very name of Sparta
or Leonidas will be punishable by death.

570
01:00:24,954 --> 01:00:28,206
The world will never know
you existed at all.

571
01:00:30,376 --> 01:00:34,963
The world will know
that free men stood against a tyrant.

572
01:00:35,173 --> 01:00:38,675
That few stood against many.

573
01:00:39,052 --> 01:00:42,220
And before this battle was over...

574
01:00:42,472 --> 01:00:45,432
that even a god-king can bleed.

575
01:00:52,815 --> 01:00:55,025
You fought well today...

576
01:00:56,361 --> 01:00:58,236
for a woman.

577
01:00:59,405 --> 01:01:01,073
As did you.

578
01:01:01,240 --> 01:01:04,368
Maybe if I"m injured,
you'll be able to keep up with me.

579
01:01:04,869 --> 01:01:09,831
Perhaps I was so
far ahead you couldn't see me.

580
01:01:10,416 --> 01:01:13,627
More likely offering your backside
to the Thespians.

581
01:01:14,587 --> 01:01:16,213
Jealousy...

582
01:01:16,381 --> 01:01:18,882
does not become you, my friend.

583
01:01:21,594 --> 01:01:23,929
Move it, men!

584
01:01:26,057 --> 01:01:28,266
Pile those Persians high.

585
01:01:31,437 --> 01:01:34,231
For unless I miss my guess...

586
01:01:34,774 --> 01:01:37,776
we"re in for one wild night.

587
01:02:01,718 --> 01:02:06,888
They have served the dark
will of Persian kings for 500 years.

588
01:02:07,056 --> 01:02:09,391
Eyes as dark as night.

589
01:02:09,559 --> 01:02:11,560
Teeth filed to fangs.

590
01:02:13,646 --> 01:02:15,939
Soulless.

591
01:02:23,322 --> 01:02:28,118
The personal guard to King Xerxes himself.
The Persian warrior elite.

592
01:02:29,912 --> 01:02:32,998
The deadliest fighting
force in all of Asia:

593
01:02:33,791 --> 01:02:35,834
The Immortals.

594
01:02:44,051 --> 01:02:47,471
The god-king has betrayed a fatal flaw:

595
01:02:47,972 --> 01:02:49,723
Hubris.

596
01:02:51,976 --> 01:02:54,728
Easy to taunt, easy to trick.

597
01:02:55,396 --> 01:02:57,856
Before wounds and weariness
have taken their toll...

598
01:02:58,024 --> 01:03:01,526
the mad king
throws the best he has at us.

599
01:03:02,028 --> 01:03:03,737
Xerxes has taken the bait.

600
01:03:03,905 --> 01:03:05,697
Spartans, push!

601
01:03:16,375 --> 01:03:18,001
Immortals.

602
01:03:18,461 --> 01:03:21,421
We put their name to the test.

603
01:04:05,591 --> 01:04:07,050
Father!

604
01:05:52,698 --> 01:05:53,990
My king!

605
01:07:06,772 --> 01:07:08,732
Arcadians, now!

606
01:07:11,027 --> 01:07:13,778
Go! Show the Spartans what we can do.

607
01:07:14,405 --> 01:07:15,822
Go!

608
01:07:25,249 --> 01:07:27,125
They shout and curse...

609
01:07:27,293 --> 01:07:30,503
stabbing wildly,
more brawlers than warriors.

610
01:07:31,630 --> 01:07:34,215
They make a wondrous mess of things.

611
01:07:35,259 --> 01:07:38,011
Brave amateurs, they do their part.

612
01:08:25,643 --> 01:08:27,519
Immortals.

613
01:08:27,686 --> 01:08:30,271
They fail our king's test.

614
01:08:30,439 --> 01:08:33,358
And a man who fancies himself a god...

615
01:08:34,110 --> 01:08:39,030
feels a very human chill
crawl up his spine.

616
01:08:46,163 --> 01:08:48,289
To our king!

617
01:08:48,666 --> 01:08:50,667
And our honored dead.

618
01:08:50,835 --> 01:08:53,628
Whom will Xerxes dare to send next?
Whom?!

619
01:08:53,963 --> 01:08:56,673
There's nothing that can stop us now!

620
01:08:57,550 --> 01:09:01,052
Even the king allows himself
to hope for more than glory.

621
01:09:01,220 --> 01:09:04,556
Such mad hope, but there it is:

622
01:09:05,015 --> 01:09:10,395
"Against Asia's endless hordes,
against all odds, we can do it."

623
01:09:10,563 --> 01:09:13,314
We can hold the Hot Gates.

624
01:09:13,482 --> 01:09:15,608
"We can win."

625
01:09:23,200 --> 01:09:24,951
Dawn.

626
01:09:25,578 --> 01:09:29,581
Whips crack. Barbarians howl.

627
01:09:29,748 --> 01:09:33,668
Those behind cry, ' "Forward!'".

628
01:09:35,546 --> 01:09:39,340
Those in front cry, "Back!"

629
01:09:45,431 --> 01:09:47,974
Our eyes bear witness
to the grotesque spectacle...

630
01:09:48,142 --> 01:09:52,270
coughed forth from the darkest corner
of Xerxes' empire.

631
01:10:42,488 --> 01:10:43,988
When muscle failed...

632
01:10:44,448 --> 01:10:47,116
they turned to their magic.

633
01:10:48,160 --> 01:10:52,956
One hundred nations descend upon us,
the armies of all Asia.

634
01:10:53,123 --> 01:10:57,585
Funneled into this narrow corridor,
their numbers count for nothing.

635
01:11:31,954 --> 01:11:33,913
They fall by the hundreds.

636
01:11:34,081 --> 01:11:39,711
We send the severed bodies and the
fragile hearts back to Xerxes' feet.

637
01:11:56,312 --> 01:12:00,481
King Xerxes is displeased
with his generals.

638
01:12:00,649 --> 01:12:03,234
He disciplines them.

639
01:12:20,085 --> 01:12:24,505
Xerxes dispatches his monsters
from half the world away.

640
01:12:35,476 --> 01:12:37,602
They"re clumsy beasts...

641
01:12:37,770 --> 01:12:40,104
and the piled Persian dead are slippery.

642
01:13:16,558 --> 01:13:18,976
- You still here?
- Somebody's gotta watch your back.

643
01:13:19,144 --> 01:13:20,770
Not now, I"m a little busy.

644
01:14:01,019 --> 01:14:03,563
Regroup!

645
01:14:06,775 --> 01:14:08,401
Astinos!

646
01:14:08,610 --> 01:14:10,319
My son!

647
01:14:19,246 --> 01:14:20,872
Astinos!

648
01:14:21,039 --> 01:14:23,833
No!

649
01:14:47,065 --> 01:14:49,233
Day wears on.

650
01:14:49,568 --> 01:14:51,736
We lose few...

651
01:14:51,904 --> 01:14:55,114
but each felled is a friend,
or dearest blood.

652
01:14:57,326 --> 01:15:01,245
And upon seeing the headless body
of his own young son...

653
01:15:01,413 --> 01:15:03,247
the captain breaks rank.

654
01:15:03,415 --> 01:15:06,876
He goes wild, blood-drunk.

655
01:15:31,485 --> 01:15:33,986
The captain's cries of pain
at the loss of his son...

656
01:15:34,154 --> 01:15:37,907
are more frightening to the enemy
than the deepest battle drums.

657
01:15:38,075 --> 01:15:42,078
It takes three men to restrain him
and bring him back to our own.

658
01:15:42,412 --> 01:15:44,747
The day is ours.

659
01:15:45,123 --> 01:15:47,792
No songs are sung.

660
01:16:27,916 --> 01:16:32,503
Your gods were cruel to shape you so,
friend Ephialtes.

661
01:16:34,923 --> 01:16:36,215
The Spartans, too...

662
01:16:36,967 --> 01:16:39,844
were cruel to reject you.

663
01:16:42,681 --> 01:16:45,141
But I am kind.

664
01:16:51,648 --> 01:16:53,774
Everything you could ever desire...

665
01:16:55,027 --> 01:16:56,777
every happiness you can imagine...

666
01:16:58,989 --> 01:17:03,576
every pleasure your fellow Greeks
and your false gods have denied you...

667
01:17:04,369 --> 01:17:06,662
I will grant you.

668
01:17:07,914 --> 01:17:10,333
For I am kind.

669
01:17:24,264 --> 01:17:27,558
Embrace me as your king
and as your god.

670
01:17:28,727 --> 01:17:30,394
Yes.

671
01:17:31,897 --> 01:17:36,692
Lead my soldiers to the hidden path
that empties behind the cursed Spartans...

672
01:17:36,860 --> 01:17:39,111
and your joys will be endless.

673
01:17:47,579 --> 01:17:50,748
Yes! I want it all.

674
01:17:51,166 --> 01:17:54,752
Wealth. Women.

675
01:17:56,755 --> 01:17:58,422
And one more thing...

676
01:18:01,593 --> 01:18:04,261
I want a uniform.

677
01:18:08,767 --> 01:18:10,476
Done.

678
01:18:12,104 --> 01:18:13,813
You will find...

679
01:18:14,439 --> 01:18:16,357
I am kind.

680
01:18:17,484 --> 01:18:21,737
Unlike the cruel Leonidas,
who demanded that you stand...

681
01:18:23,824 --> 01:18:25,533
I require only...

682
01:18:26,284 --> 01:18:27,702
that you kneel.

683
01:18:55,355 --> 01:18:57,314
Beautiful night.

684
01:18:58,734 --> 01:19:02,737
Yes, but I did not ask you here
for small talk, Theron.

685
01:19:03,363 --> 01:19:05,489
You can be sure of that.

686
01:19:06,867 --> 01:19:09,535
You never spared words with me.

687
01:19:10,120 --> 01:19:13,372
Can I offer you something?
A drink, perhaps?

688
01:19:13,540 --> 01:19:15,374
Is it poison?

689
01:19:15,792 --> 01:19:18,544
I"m sorry to disappoint you,
it's only water.

690
01:19:28,346 --> 01:19:31,515
I"m told it's been arranged for you
to go before the council.

691
01:19:32,184 --> 01:19:33,893
Yes.

692
01:19:34,102 --> 01:19:37,438
I need your help in winning votes
to send the army north to our king.

693
01:19:38,023 --> 01:19:39,648
Yes.

694
01:19:40,317 --> 01:19:42,860
I can see it,
the two of us standing together.

695
01:19:43,028 --> 01:19:47,406
Me, politician. You, warrior.
Our voices as one.

696
01:19:48,742 --> 01:19:50,201
But why would I want to do that?

697
01:19:51,203 --> 01:19:55,164
It proves you care for a king who right now
fights for the very water we drink.

698
01:19:55,499 --> 01:19:57,082
True.

699
01:19:57,459 --> 01:20:00,085
But this is politics, not war.

700
01:20:00,378 --> 01:20:01,921
Leonidas is an idealist.

701
01:20:02,339 --> 01:20:06,258
I know your kind too well. You send men
to slaughter for your own gain.

702
01:20:06,426 --> 01:20:11,347
Your husband, our king,
has taken 300 of our finest to slaughter.

703
01:20:11,515 --> 01:20:16,143
He's broken our laws
and left without the council's consent.

704
01:20:16,645 --> 01:20:19,647
- I"m simply a realist.
- You"re an opportunist.

705
01:20:20,607 --> 01:20:24,902
You"re as foolish as Leonidas if you think
men don't have a price in this world.

706
01:20:25,070 --> 01:20:29,657
All men are not created equal.
That's the Spartan code, my little queen.

707
01:20:33,328 --> 01:20:35,746
I admire your passion.

708
01:20:37,082 --> 01:20:38,791
But don't think that you...

709
01:20:39,251 --> 01:20:41,585
a woman, even a queen...

710
01:20:41,753 --> 01:20:45,673
can walk into the council chamber
and sway the minds of men.

711
01:20:45,841 --> 01:20:48,259
I own that chamber...

712
01:20:48,426 --> 01:20:50,511
as if it were built with these hands.

713
01:20:54,975 --> 01:20:58,519
I could crush
the life out of you right now.

714
01:20:59,604 --> 01:21:03,274
You will go before the council,
but your words will fall on deaf ears.

715
01:21:03,441 --> 01:21:09,196
Leonidas will receive no reinforcements,
and if he returns, without my help...

716
01:21:09,364 --> 01:21:12,324
he will go to jail or worse.

717
01:21:16,079 --> 01:21:17,538
Do you love your Sparta?

718
01:21:18,039 --> 01:21:19,748
Yes.

719
01:21:19,916 --> 01:21:22,167
- And your king?
- I do.

720
01:21:28,008 --> 01:21:31,719
Your husband fights for his land
and his love.

721
01:21:32,387 --> 01:21:34,680
What do you have to offer...

722
01:21:35,473 --> 01:21:38,434
in return for my word
that I'll help you send our army north?

723
01:21:42,397 --> 01:21:45,065
What does a realist want with his queen?

724
01:21:49,654 --> 01:21:51,405
I think you know.

725
01:22:05,837 --> 01:22:08,547
This will not be over quickly.

726
01:22:09,591 --> 01:22:12,092
You will not enjoy this.

727
01:22:12,636 --> 01:22:14,887
I"m not your king.

728
01:22:39,704 --> 01:22:41,497
Dilios.

729
01:22:43,500 --> 01:22:47,544
I trust that scratch
hasn't made you useless?

730
01:22:47,712 --> 01:22:50,714
Hardly, my lord. It's just an eye.

731
01:22:50,882 --> 01:22:54,093
The gods saw fit to grace me
with a spare.

732
01:22:55,971 --> 01:22:57,888
My captain?

733
01:22:59,224 --> 01:23:03,018
Curses the gods and mourns alone.

734
01:23:04,980 --> 01:23:06,939
Leonidas!

735
01:23:08,149 --> 01:23:11,151
We are undone.
Undone, I tell you. Destroyed.

736
01:23:11,319 --> 01:23:12,736
Daxos, calm yourself.

737
01:23:12,904 --> 01:23:16,532
Our hunchback traitor led Xerxes' Immortals
to the hidden goat path behind us.

738
01:23:16,908 --> 01:23:19,743
The Phocians you posted there
were scattered without a fight.

739
01:23:19,911 --> 01:23:22,526
This battle is over, Leonidas.

740
01:23:22,539 --> 01:23:25,165
This battle is over
when I say it is over.

741
01:23:25,333 --> 01:23:29,712
By morning, the Immortals will surround us.
The Hot Gates will fall.

742
01:23:30,338 --> 01:23:34,717
Spartans! Prepare for glory!

743
01:23:34,884 --> 01:23:38,095
Glory? Have you gone mad?

744
01:23:38,263 --> 01:23:39,805
There is no glory to be had now.

745
01:23:40,432 --> 01:23:44,018
Only retreat or surrender. Or death.

746
01:23:44,185 --> 01:23:47,354
Well, that's an easy choice
for us, Arcadian.

747
01:23:47,522 --> 01:23:53,027
Spartans never retreat.
Spartans never surrender.

748
01:23:53,611 --> 01:23:55,738
Go spread the word.

749
01:23:55,947 --> 01:23:59,616
Let every Greek assembled
know the truth of this.

750
01:23:59,784 --> 01:24:02,619
Let each among them
search his own soul.

751
01:24:04,330 --> 01:24:08,459
And while you"re at it, search your own.

752
01:24:15,967 --> 01:24:18,260
My men will leave with me.

753
01:24:23,600 --> 01:24:25,809
Godspeed, Leonidas.

754
01:24:32,150 --> 01:24:33,734
Children!

755
01:24:34,694 --> 01:24:36,028
Children.

756
01:24:37,072 --> 01:24:39,073
Gather round.

757
01:24:40,950 --> 01:24:44,203
No retreat, no surrender.

758
01:24:44,370 --> 01:24:48,248
That is Spartan law.

759
01:24:48,500 --> 01:24:53,545
And by Spartan law,
we will stand and fight...

760
01:24:53,713 --> 01:24:55,714
and die.

761
01:24:59,177 --> 01:25:02,679
A new age has begun.

762
01:25:04,390 --> 01:25:07,518
An age of freedom.

763
01:25:08,603 --> 01:25:12,272
And all will know that 300 Spartans...

764
01:25:12,440 --> 01:25:15,692
gave their last breath to defend it.

765
01:25:36,005 --> 01:25:37,756
My friend.

766
01:25:41,302 --> 01:25:46,890
I have lived my entire life
without regret until now.

767
01:25:50,228 --> 01:25:56,191
It's not that my son
gave up his life for his country.

768
01:25:58,069 --> 01:26:01,947
It's just that I never told him
that I loved him the most.

769
01:26:03,575 --> 01:26:06,410
That he stood by me with honor.

770
01:26:07,871 --> 01:26:10,789
That he was all that was best in me.

771
01:26:19,924 --> 01:26:22,426
My heart is broken for your loss.

772
01:26:23,178 --> 01:26:24,887
Heart?

773
01:26:29,934 --> 01:26:33,061
I have filled my heart...

774
01:26:33,229 --> 01:26:34,938
with hate.

775
01:26:39,110 --> 01:26:40,777
Good.

776
01:26:49,913 --> 01:26:51,747
Dilios...

777
01:26:53,458 --> 01:26:55,584
let's take a walk.

778
01:26:57,045 --> 01:26:59,129
Yes, my lord.

779
01:27:01,507 --> 01:27:04,176
But, sire, I am fit and ready for battle.

780
01:27:04,344 --> 01:27:07,471
That you are, one of the finest.

781
01:27:07,805 --> 01:27:11,391
But you have another talent
unlike any other Spartan.

782
01:27:14,103 --> 01:27:17,522
You will deliver my final orders
to the council...

783
01:27:17,690 --> 01:27:20,192
with force and verve.

784
01:27:22,695 --> 01:27:24,988
Tell them our story.

785
01:27:25,156 --> 01:27:29,660
Make every Greek know
what happened here.

786
01:27:30,495 --> 01:27:33,163
You'll have a grand tale to tell.

787
01:27:34,958 --> 01:27:36,667
A tale of victory.

788
01:27:37,335 --> 01:27:38,877
Victory.

789
01:27:42,924 --> 01:27:44,925
Yes, my lord.

790
01:27:50,598 --> 01:27:52,975
Sire, any message...?

791
01:27:55,853 --> 01:27:57,187
For the queen?

792
01:28:19,669 --> 01:28:22,087
None that need be spoken.

793
01:28:37,228 --> 01:28:39,604
Hundreds leave.

794
01:28:40,231 --> 01:28:42,691
A handful stay.

795
01:28:47,864 --> 01:28:50,490
Only one looks back.

796
01:29:00,793 --> 01:29:03,003
Spartans!

797
01:29:04,088 --> 01:29:07,257
Ready your breakfast and eat hearty...

798
01:29:07,425 --> 01:29:11,345
for tonight we dine in hell!

799
01:29:20,229 --> 01:29:22,898
May I give the floor now...

800
01:29:23,066 --> 01:29:27,486
to the wife of Leonidas
and queen of Sparta.

801
01:29:39,207 --> 01:29:40,957
- What's this?
- This is nothing.

802
01:29:41,125 --> 01:29:42,959
Councilmen...

803
01:29:43,127 --> 01:29:46,880
I stand before you
not only as your queen.

804
01:29:47,757 --> 01:29:50,467
I come to you as a mother.

805
01:29:51,761 --> 01:29:54,137
I come to you as a wife.

806
01:29:55,973 --> 01:29:58,475
I come to you as a Spartan woman.

807
01:30:03,481 --> 01:30:06,608
I come to you with great humility.

808
01:30:10,029 --> 01:30:12,447
I am not here to represent Leonidas.

809
01:30:12,615 --> 01:30:15,367
His actions speak louder
than my words ever could.

810
01:30:15,701 --> 01:30:18,120
I am here for all those voices
which cannot be heard.

811
01:30:18,287 --> 01:30:20,831
Mothers, daughters, fathers, sons.

812
01:30:20,998 --> 01:30:23,959
Three hundred families
that bleed for our rights...

813
01:30:24,377 --> 01:30:27,587
and for the very principles
this room was built upon.

814
01:30:28,172 --> 01:30:30,298
We are at war, gentlemen.

815
01:30:30,716 --> 01:30:33,260
We must send the entire Spartan army
to aid our king...

816
01:30:33,428 --> 01:30:36,513
in the preservation of not just
ourselves, but of our children.

817
01:30:37,098 --> 01:30:40,225
Send the army
for the preservation of liberty.

818
01:30:40,393 --> 01:30:42,727
Send it for justice.

819
01:30:42,895 --> 01:30:44,521
Send it for law and order.

820
01:30:45,064 --> 01:30:47,274
Send it for reason.

821
01:30:47,442 --> 01:30:51,528
But most importantly,
send our army for hope.

822
01:30:51,696 --> 01:30:55,282
Hope that a king and his men have not
been wasted to the pages of history.

823
01:30:56,117 --> 01:30:59,536
That their courage bonds us together.

824
01:30:59,871 --> 01:31:03,039
That we are made stronger
by their actions...

825
01:31:04,041 --> 01:31:08,170
and that your choices today
reflect their bravery.

826
01:31:10,089 --> 01:31:11,756
Three hundred.

827
01:31:14,093 --> 01:31:15,927
We must send them.

828
01:31:19,724 --> 01:31:21,558
Moving...

829
01:31:21,893 --> 01:31:24,769
eloquent, passionate.

830
01:31:25,188 --> 01:31:29,357
But it doesn't change the fact
that your husband has brought war upon us.

831
01:31:29,525 --> 01:31:31,943
You are wrong.
Xerxes brought it forth...

832
01:31:32,111 --> 01:31:34,571
and before that,
his father Darius at Marathon.

833
01:31:34,739 --> 01:31:36,490
The Persians will not stop...

834
01:31:36,657 --> 01:31:40,035
until the only shelter we will find
is rubble and chaos.

835
01:31:40,411 --> 01:31:44,164
This chamber needs no
history lesson, my queen.

836
01:31:44,665 --> 01:31:46,875
Then what is the lesson
you would like to leave?

837
01:31:47,043 --> 01:31:49,127
Shall I begin to enumerate all of them?

838
01:31:49,545 --> 01:31:52,964
Honor. Duty. Glory.

839
01:31:53,257 --> 01:31:58,261
You speak of honor, duty and glory?

840
01:31:59,597 --> 01:32:00,805
But what of adultery?

841
01:32:00,973 --> 01:32:03,433
- How dare you.
- How dare I?

842
01:32:03,893 --> 01:32:06,895
Watch her carefully.

843
01:32:07,063 --> 01:32:10,023
She is a trickster in true form.

844
01:32:10,191 --> 01:32:13,360
Do not play with the members
of this sacred chamber, my queen.

845
01:32:13,528 --> 01:32:16,613
Just hours ago,
you offered yourself to me.

846
01:32:16,781 --> 01:32:21,243
Were I a weaker man,
I would have her scent on me still.

847
01:32:21,410 --> 01:32:24,412
- This is outrage.
- Oh, the hypocrite speaks!

848
01:32:24,580 --> 01:32:27,582
Did you not receive a similar payment,
which you took...

849
01:32:27,750 --> 01:32:30,961
in exchange for her having an audience
with these noble men?

850
01:32:31,128 --> 01:32:32,921
- That is a lie.
- Is it?

851
01:32:33,089 --> 01:32:36,841
Was he not, by your invitation,
asked to come to the king's bedchamber?

852
01:32:37,385 --> 01:32:42,013
The very bed where you attempted
to negotiate with me so vigorously?

853
01:32:44,642 --> 01:32:48,144
You look shocked.
A bribe of the flesh, gentlemen...

854
01:32:48,312 --> 01:32:51,606
while her husband
promotes anarchy and war.

855
01:32:54,527 --> 01:32:55,735
He speaks truth.

856
01:32:56,320 --> 01:32:59,531
Words escape
even the most cunning tongue...

857
01:32:59,699 --> 01:33:01,783
my little whore queen.

858
01:33:06,497 --> 01:33:08,331
What queen-like behavior.

859
01:33:10,042 --> 01:33:13,169
Remove her from this chamber
before she infects us further...

860
01:33:13,337 --> 01:33:16,339
with her inglorious and shabby self.

861
01:33:23,180 --> 01:33:24,764
This will not be over quickly.

862
01:33:26,100 --> 01:33:29,644
You will not enjoy this.
I am not your queen.

863
01:33:51,792 --> 01:33:53,710
Traitor.

864
01:33:54,253 --> 01:33:59,049
Traitor! Traitor! Traitor!

865
01:33:59,342 --> 01:34:01,593
Traitor!

866
01:34:38,631 --> 01:34:44,636
Leonidas, my compliments
and congratulations.

867
01:34:44,804 --> 01:34:48,473
You surely have turned calamity
into victory.

868
01:34:48,641 --> 01:34:51,643
Despite your insufferable arrogance...

869
01:34:51,811 --> 01:34:55,980
the god-king has come
to admire Spartan valor and fighting skill.

870
01:34:56,732 --> 01:34:58,108
You will make a mighty ally.

871
01:34:58,275 --> 01:34:59,984
Yield, Leonidas.

872
01:35:01,153 --> 01:35:04,030
Use your reason. Think of your men.

873
01:35:06,867 --> 01:35:08,493
I beg you.

874
01:35:09,078 --> 01:35:11,037
Listen to your fellow Greek.

875
01:35:11,205 --> 01:35:14,916
He can attest
to the divine one's generosity.

876
01:35:15,084 --> 01:35:19,546
Despite your several insults,
despite your horrid blasphemies...

877
01:35:20,464 --> 01:35:23,633
the lord of hosts
is prepared to forgive all...

878
01:35:23,884 --> 01:35:26,928
and more, to reward your service.

879
01:35:27,179 --> 01:35:28,513
You fight for your lands.

880
01:35:29,223 --> 01:35:31,057
Keep them.

881
01:35:31,767 --> 01:35:33,727
You fight for Sparta.

882
01:35:33,894 --> 01:35:37,897
She will be wealthier and more powerful
than ever before.

883
01:35:38,107 --> 01:35:40,024
You fight for your kingship.

884
01:35:40,943 --> 01:35:43,903
You will be proclaimed warlord
of all Greece...

885
01:35:44,071 --> 01:35:48,366
answerable only
to the one true master of the world.

886
01:35:48,743 --> 01:35:53,496
Leonidas, your victory will be complete...

887
01:35:53,664 --> 01:35:56,249
if you but lay down your arms...

888
01:35:56,417 --> 01:35:59,586
and kneel to holy Xerxes.

889
01:36:30,075 --> 01:36:35,038
It's been more than 30 years
since the wolf in the winter cold.

890
01:36:35,206 --> 01:36:39,751
And now, as then,
it's not fear that grips him...

891
01:36:39,919 --> 01:36:45,089
only restlessness.
A heightened sense of things.

892
01:36:45,883 --> 01:36:50,678
The seaborne breeze coolly kissing
the sweat at his chest and neck.

893
01:36:50,846 --> 01:36:52,347
Gulls cawing...

894
01:36:52,515 --> 01:36:56,726
complaining even as they feast
on the thousands of floating dead.

895
01:36:58,354 --> 01:37:03,399
The steady breathing
of the 300 at his back...

896
01:37:04,193 --> 01:37:07,654
ready to die for him
without a moment's pause.

897
01:37:10,241 --> 01:37:11,616
Every one of them...

898
01:37:13,077 --> 01:37:15,036
ready to die.

899
01:37:30,553 --> 01:37:33,471
His helmet is stifling.

900
01:37:54,159 --> 01:37:56,995
His shield is heavy.

901
01:38:04,628 --> 01:38:05,962
Your spear.

902
01:38:14,805 --> 01:38:16,222
You there...

903
01:38:16,640 --> 01:38:18,641
Ephialtes.

904
01:38:23,772 --> 01:38:26,024
May you live forever.

905
01:38:33,449 --> 01:38:35,742
Leonidas, your spear.

906
01:39:42,977 --> 01:39:44,560
Stelios!

907
01:39:54,571 --> 01:39:56,197
Slaughter them!

908
01:39:59,576 --> 01:40:01,160
His helmet was stifling.

909
01:40:01,328 --> 01:40:04,455
It narrowed his vision,
and he must see far.

910
01:40:05,749 --> 01:40:09,627
His shield was heavy.
It threw him off balance...

911
01:40:09,795 --> 01:40:13,464
and his target is far away.

912
01:41:18,030 --> 01:41:22,617
The old ones say we Spartans
are descended from Hercules himself.

913
01:41:24,078 --> 01:41:28,414
Bold Leonidas gives testament
to our bloodline.

914
01:41:28,582 --> 01:41:32,710
His roar is long and loud.

915
01:42:02,825 --> 01:42:04,408
My king.

916
01:42:16,672 --> 01:42:20,299
It's an honor to die at your side.

917
01:42:21,885 --> 01:42:26,389
It's an honor to have lived at yours.

918
01:42:47,286 --> 01:42:49,412
My queen!

919
01:42:57,629 --> 01:42:59,380
My wife.

920
01:43:10,809 --> 01:43:12,602
My love.

921
01:45:39,041 --> 01:45:41,167
"Remember us."

922
01:45:42,836 --> 01:45:46,255
As simple an order as a king can give.

923
01:45:47,841 --> 01:45:51,052
"Remember why we died."

924
01:45:53,055 --> 01:45:57,099
For he did not wish tribute or song...

925
01:45:58,935 --> 01:46:03,105
nor monuments,
nor poems of war and valor.

926
01:46:05,984 --> 01:46:08,277
His wish was simple.

927
01:46:13,658 --> 01:46:15,743
"Remember us"...

928
01:46:16,787 --> 01:46:18,496
he said to me.

929
01:46:20,165 --> 01:46:22,375
That was his hope.

930
01:46:22,584 --> 01:46:26,295
Should any free soul
come across that place...

931
01:46:27,089 --> 01:46:30,424
in all the countless
centuries yet to be...

932
01:46:30,842 --> 01:46:33,427
may all our voices...

933
01:46:33,595 --> 01:46:37,640
whisper to you
from the ageless stones.

934
01:46:38,642 --> 01:46:42,269
Go tell the Spartans, passerby...

935
01:46:42,604 --> 01:46:48,484
that here, by Spartan law, we lie.

936
01:46:51,238 --> 01:46:53,948
And so my king died...

937
01:46:54,825 --> 01:46:57,451
and my brothers died...

938
01:46:59,830 --> 01:47:02,289
barely a year ago.

939
01:47:06,211 --> 01:47:11,465
Long I pondered my king's
cryptic talk of victory.

940
01:47:11,675 --> 01:47:14,343
Time has proven him wise.

941
01:47:15,220 --> 01:47:18,264
For from free Greek to free Greek...

942
01:47:18,432 --> 01:47:23,018
the word was spread
that bold Leonidas and his 300...

943
01:47:23,186 --> 01:47:25,187
so far from home...

944
01:47:25,355 --> 01:47:28,774
laid down their lives
not just for Sparta...

945
01:47:28,942 --> 01:47:32,736
but for all Greece
and the promise this country holds.

946
01:47:33,655 --> 01:47:38,701
Now, here on this rugged patch of earth
called Plataea...

947
01:47:38,869 --> 01:47:43,873
Xerxes' hordes face obliteration!

948
01:47:45,542 --> 01:47:48,961
Just there the barbarians huddle...

949
01:47:49,129 --> 01:47:54,008
sheer terror gripping
tight their hearts...

950
01:47:54,176 --> 01:47:56,051
with icy fingers...

951
01:47:56,219 --> 01:47:59,472
knowing full well
what merciless horrors they suffered...

952
01:47:59,639 --> 01:48:02,183
at the swords and spears of 300.

953
01:48:03,560 --> 01:48:09,148
Yet they stare now across the plain
at 10,000 Spartans...

954
01:48:09,316 --> 01:48:12,610
commanding 30,000 free Greeks!

955
01:48:19,409 --> 01:48:23,329
The enemy outnumber us
a paltry three to one.

956
01:48:23,622 --> 01:48:25,623
Good odds for any Greek.

957
01:48:26,333 --> 01:48:31,045
This day, we rescue a world
from mysticism and tyranny...

958
01:48:31,213 --> 01:48:35,591
and usher in a future
brighter than anything we can imagine.

959
01:48:40,013 --> 01:48:41,514
Give thanks, men...

960
01:48:42,224 --> 01:48:45,976
to Leonidas and the brave 300.

961
01:48:46,144 --> 01:48:48,896
To victory!