1 00:01:09,404 --> 00:01:11,948 When the boy was born... 2 00:01:12,824 --> 00:01:14,909 like all Spartans, he was inspected. 3 00:01:16,703 --> 00:01:21,332 If he'd been small or puny or sickly or misshapen... 4 00:01:21,499 --> 00:01:23,835 he would have been discarded. 5 00:01:30,967 --> 00:01:36,681 From the time he could stand, he was baptized in the fire of combat. 6 00:01:58,703 --> 00:02:02,373 Taught never to retreat, never to surrender. 7 00:02:02,540 --> 00:02:07,420 Taught that death on the battlefield in service to Sparta... 8 00:02:07,629 --> 00:02:10,923 was the greatest glory he could achieve in his life. 9 00:02:26,064 --> 00:02:30,610 At age 7, as is customary in Sparta... 10 00:02:30,777 --> 00:02:35,948 the boy was taken from his mother and plunged into a world of violence. 11 00:02:36,741 --> 00:02:41,287 Manufactured by 300 years of Spartan warrior society... 12 00:02:42,330 --> 00:02:46,626 to create the finest soldiers the world has ever known. 13 00:02:46,793 --> 00:02:51,381 The agoge, as it's called, forces the boy to fight. 14 00:02:51,547 --> 00:02:55,176 Starves them, forces them to steal... 15 00:02:55,343 --> 00:02:59,722 and if necessary, to kill. 16 00:03:00,765 --> 00:03:03,768 By rod and lash the boy was punished... 17 00:03:03,935 --> 00:03:07,271 taught to show no pain, no mercy. 18 00:03:08,940 --> 00:03:12,443 Constantly tested, tossed into the wild. 19 00:03:12,610 --> 00:03:17,949 Left to pit his wits and will against nature's fury. 20 00:03:18,282 --> 00:03:20,493 It was his initiation... 21 00:03:20,660 --> 00:03:23,246 his time in the wild... 22 00:03:23,413 --> 00:03:27,917 for he would return to his people a Spartan... 23 00:03:28,084 --> 00:03:30,211 or not at all. 24 00:03:52,525 --> 00:03:55,403 The wolf begins to circle the boy. 25 00:03:55,570 --> 00:03:57,989 Claws of black steel... 26 00:03:58,156 --> 00:04:00,408 fur as dark night. 27 00:04:00,908 --> 00:04:02,243 Eyes glowing red... 28 00:04:02,410 --> 00:04:06,330 jewels from the pit of hell itself. 29 00:04:15,089 --> 00:04:19,093 The giant wolf sniffing... 30 00:04:19,260 --> 00:04:22,346 savoring the scent of the meal to come. 31 00:04:46,496 --> 00:04:48,039 It's not fear that grips him... 32 00:04:48,623 --> 00:04:51,793 only a heightened sense of things. 33 00:04:52,126 --> 00:04:55,505 The cold air in his lungs. 34 00:04:56,047 --> 00:04:59,383 Windswept pines moving against the coming night. 35 00:05:07,391 --> 00:05:09,811 His hands are steady. 36 00:05:09,977 --> 00:05:12,230 His form... 37 00:05:12,396 --> 00:05:14,524 perfect. 38 00:05:40,299 --> 00:05:43,052 And so the boy, given up for dead... 39 00:05:43,219 --> 00:05:47,932 returns to his people, to sacred Sparta, a king! 40 00:05:48,391 --> 00:05:52,103 Our king, Leonidas! 41 00:05:58,025 --> 00:06:01,779 It's been more than 30 years since the wolf and the winter cold. 42 00:06:03,197 --> 00:06:07,493 And now, as then, a beast approaches. 43 00:06:07,660 --> 00:06:12,623 Patient and confident, savoring the meal to come. 44 00:06:13,249 --> 00:06:16,544 But this beast is made of men and horses... 45 00:06:16,711 --> 00:06:19,505 swords and spears. 46 00:06:19,714 --> 00:06:24,677 An army of slaves, vast beyond imagining, ready to devour tiny Greece. 47 00:06:25,011 --> 00:06:29,807 Ready to snuff out the world's one hope for reason and justice. 48 00:06:32,518 --> 00:06:35,313 A beast approaches... 49 00:06:38,065 --> 00:06:43,613 and it was King Leonidas himself who provoked it. 50 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:50,400 FarangSiam thanks you. Enjoy! 51 00:07:54,225 --> 00:07:56,060 That's it. 52 00:07:56,394 --> 00:08:01,273 Now, the more you sweat here, the less you'll bleed in battle. 53 00:08:02,483 --> 00:08:04,944 My father taught me... 54 00:08:05,111 --> 00:08:07,571 that fear is always a constant. 55 00:08:07,738 --> 00:08:09,281 But accepting it... 56 00:08:09,657 --> 00:08:10,783 makes you stronger. 57 00:08:10,950 --> 00:08:12,326 My queen. 58 00:08:12,493 --> 00:08:15,329 A Persian emissary awaits Leonidas. 59 00:08:17,873 --> 00:08:19,250 In the end... 60 00:08:19,417 --> 00:08:23,004 a Spartan's true strength is the warrior next to him. 61 00:08:23,754 --> 00:08:28,259 So give respect and honor to him, and it will be returned to you. 62 00:08:28,801 --> 00:08:30,302 First... 63 00:08:31,095 --> 00:08:34,015 - you fight with your head. - Then you fight with your heart. 64 00:08:36,350 --> 00:08:38,060 What is it? 65 00:08:38,269 --> 00:08:40,146 A Persian messenger awaits you. 66 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:43,941 Do not forget today's lesson. 67 00:08:44,108 --> 00:08:46,777 - Respect and honor. - Respect and honor. 68 00:09:02,293 --> 00:09:06,797 Councilman Theron. You found yourself needed, for once. 69 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:10,801 My king and queen, I was just entertaining your guests. 70 00:09:10,968 --> 00:09:12,219 I'm sure. 71 00:09:13,471 --> 00:09:15,306 Before you speak, Persian... 72 00:09:15,473 --> 00:09:18,726 know that in Sparta everyone, even a king's messenger... 73 00:09:18,893 --> 00:09:21,479 is held accountable for the words of his voice. 74 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:25,232 Now, what message do you bring? 75 00:09:26,317 --> 00:09:28,819 Earth and water. 76 00:09:31,072 --> 00:09:34,700 You rode all the way from Persia for earth and water? 77 00:09:36,285 --> 00:09:40,164 Do not be coy or stupid, Persian. You can afford neither in Sparta. 78 00:09:40,664 --> 00:09:43,167 What makes this woman think she can speak among men? 79 00:09:43,334 --> 00:09:46,170 Because only Spartan women give birth to real men. 80 00:09:47,671 --> 00:09:51,258 Let us walk to cool our tongues. 81 00:09:53,844 --> 00:09:57,014 If you value your lives over your complete annihilation... 82 00:09:57,181 --> 00:09:58,849 listen carefully, Leonidas. 83 00:09:59,016 --> 00:10:03,729 Xerxes conquers and controls everything he rests his eyes upon. 84 00:10:03,896 --> 00:10:07,024 He leads an army so massive, it shakes the ground with its march. 85 00:10:07,191 --> 00:10:09,860 So vast, it drinks the rivers dry. 86 00:10:10,027 --> 00:10:13,030 All the God-King Xerxes requires is this: 87 00:10:13,364 --> 00:10:16,617 A simple offering of earth and water... 88 00:10:16,784 --> 00:10:20,955 a token of Sparta's submission to the will of Xerxes. 89 00:10:32,007 --> 00:10:34,176 Submission. 90 00:10:36,345 --> 00:10:38,264 Now, that's a bit of a problem. 91 00:10:38,722 --> 00:10:39,932 See, rumor has it... 92 00:10:40,099 --> 00:10:42,726 the Athenians have already turned you down. 93 00:10:43,644 --> 00:10:48,899 And if those philosophers and boy-lovers have found that kind of nerve, then... 94 00:10:49,066 --> 00:10:53,279 - We must be diplomatic. - And, of course, Spartans... 95 00:10:54,321 --> 00:10:56,407 have their reputation to consider. 96 00:10:56,574 --> 00:11:00,578 Choose your next words carefully, Leonidas. 97 00:11:00,828 --> 00:11:03,455 They may be your last as king. 98 00:11:43,954 --> 00:11:47,249 "Earth and water." 99 00:11:52,504 --> 00:11:54,632 Madman. You're a madman. 100 00:11:54,798 --> 00:11:56,467 Earth and water. 101 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:58,969 You'll find plenty of both down there. 102 00:11:59,261 --> 00:12:02,681 No man, Persian or Greek, no man threatens a messenger. 103 00:12:03,140 --> 00:12:08,145 You bring the crowns and heads of conquered kings to my city steps. 104 00:12:08,312 --> 00:12:10,356 You insult my queen. 105 00:12:10,522 --> 00:12:14,276 You threaten my people with slavery and death. 106 00:12:14,443 --> 00:12:17,363 Oh, I've chosen my words carefully, Persian. 107 00:12:17,529 --> 00:12:19,490 Perhaps you should have done the same. 108 00:12:19,657 --> 00:12:23,327 This is blasphemy. This is madness! 109 00:12:40,719 --> 00:12:42,805 Madness? 110 00:12:43,430 --> 00:12:45,557 This is Sparta! 111 00:14:12,102 --> 00:14:14,438 Welcome, Leonidas. 112 00:14:15,064 --> 00:14:18,233 We have been expecting you. 113 00:14:24,698 --> 00:14:30,037 The ephors, priests to the old gods. 114 00:14:30,454 --> 00:14:32,790 Inbred swine. 115 00:14:32,956 --> 00:14:35,709 More creature than man. 116 00:14:36,126 --> 00:14:41,590 Creatures whom even Leonidas must bribe and beg. 117 00:14:42,466 --> 00:14:47,304 For no Spartan king has gone to war without the ephors' blessing. 118 00:14:48,972 --> 00:14:53,018 The Persians claim their forces number in the millions. 119 00:14:53,644 --> 00:14:56,939 I hope, for our sake, they exaggerate. 120 00:14:57,398 --> 00:15:01,652 But there's no question, we face the most massive army ever assembled. 121 00:15:01,860 --> 00:15:05,197 Before your plan is heard... 122 00:15:05,364 --> 00:15:07,658 what do you offer? 123 00:15:17,167 --> 00:15:21,505 We will use our superior fighting skills... 124 00:15:21,672 --> 00:15:25,759 and the terrain of Greece herself to destroy them. 125 00:15:25,926 --> 00:15:28,762 We will march north to the coast, where I will make sure- 126 00:15:28,929 --> 00:15:33,851 It is August, Leonidas. The full moon approaches. 127 00:15:34,184 --> 00:15:37,396 The sacred and ancient festival. 128 00:15:37,563 --> 00:15:41,692 Sparta wages no war at the time of the Carneia. 129 00:15:41,859 --> 00:15:43,444 Sparta will burn! 130 00:15:43,861 --> 00:15:45,404 Her men will die at arms... 131 00:15:45,571 --> 00:15:49,241 and her women and children will be slaves or worse. 132 00:15:51,368 --> 00:15:56,457 Now, we will block the Persian coastal assault... 133 00:15:56,748 --> 00:15:59,042 by rebuilding the great Phocian Wall. 134 00:15:59,209 --> 00:16:03,922 And from there, we will funnel them into the mountain pass we call the Hot Gates. 135 00:16:04,089 --> 00:16:08,469 Now, in that narrow corridor, their numbers will count for nothing. 136 00:16:08,635 --> 00:16:11,221 And wave after wave of Persian attack... 137 00:16:11,388 --> 00:16:15,350 will smash against Spartan shields. 138 00:16:15,893 --> 00:16:20,230 Xerxes' losses will be so great, his men so demoralized... 139 00:16:20,397 --> 00:16:24,776 he will have no choice but to abandon his campaign. 140 00:16:24,943 --> 00:16:27,654 We must consult the oracle. 141 00:16:28,363 --> 00:16:30,949 Trust the gods, Leonidas. 142 00:16:31,116 --> 00:16:34,453 I'd prefer you trusted your reason. 143 00:16:34,620 --> 00:16:36,663 Your blasphemies... 144 00:16:36,830 --> 00:16:41,210 have cost us quite enough already. 145 00:16:41,919 --> 00:16:44,963 Don't compound them. 146 00:16:47,049 --> 00:16:51,845 We will consult the oracle. 147 00:16:53,972 --> 00:16:56,475 Diseased old mystics. 148 00:16:57,476 --> 00:17:02,105 Worthless remnants of a time before Sparta's ascent from darkness. 149 00:17:02,439 --> 00:17:05,734 Remnants of a senseless tradition. 150 00:17:05,901 --> 00:17:10,280 Tradition even Leonidas cannot defy... 151 00:17:10,447 --> 00:17:14,826 for he must respect the word of the ephors. 152 00:17:14,993 --> 00:17:16,954 That is the law. 153 00:17:19,957 --> 00:17:24,294 And no Spartan, subject or citizen, man or woman... 154 00:17:24,461 --> 00:17:28,507 slave or king, is above the law. 155 00:18:03,375 --> 00:18:07,671 The ephors choose only the most beautiful Spartan girls... 156 00:18:07,838 --> 00:18:10,340 to live among them as oracles. 157 00:18:10,507 --> 00:18:13,760 Their beauty is their curse... 158 00:18:13,927 --> 00:18:17,723 for the old wretches have the needs of men... 159 00:18:18,724 --> 00:18:22,853 and souls as black as hell. 160 00:18:25,814 --> 00:18:29,026 "Pray to the winds..." 161 00:18:31,528 --> 00:18:33,697 Sparta will fall. 162 00:18:36,658 --> 00:18:40,370 All Greece will fall. 163 00:18:42,539 --> 00:18:46,168 Trust not in men... 164 00:18:48,211 --> 00:18:51,465 honor the gods. 165 00:18:55,218 --> 00:18:58,889 "Honor the Carneia." 166 00:19:00,682 --> 00:19:04,269 The king's climb down is harder. 167 00:19:04,436 --> 00:19:07,356 Pompous, inbred swine. 168 00:19:07,522 --> 00:19:10,734 Worthless, diseased, rotten... 169 00:19:10,901 --> 00:19:12,944 corrupt. 170 00:19:16,323 --> 00:19:19,951 Truly, you're in the god-king's favor now... 171 00:19:20,535 --> 00:19:22,621 O wise and holy men. 172 00:19:22,913 --> 00:19:24,373 Yes. 173 00:19:24,539 --> 00:19:29,503 And when Sparta burns, you shall bathe in gold. 174 00:19:29,670 --> 00:19:32,255 Fresh oracles shall be delivered to you... 175 00:19:32,756 --> 00:19:34,132 daily... 176 00:19:34,299 --> 00:19:38,095 from every corner of the empire. 177 00:20:13,797 --> 00:20:17,342 Your lips can finish what your fingers have started. 178 00:20:20,470 --> 00:20:22,973 Or has the oracle robbed you of your desire as well? 179 00:20:24,474 --> 00:20:27,519 It would take more than the words of a drunken adolescent girl... 180 00:20:27,686 --> 00:20:29,396 to rob me of my desire for you. 181 00:20:33,567 --> 00:20:35,026 Then why so distant? 182 00:20:38,155 --> 00:20:40,157 Because it seems... 183 00:20:40,323 --> 00:20:46,288 though a slave and captive of lecherous old men... 184 00:20:46,621 --> 00:20:49,833 the oracle's words could set fire to all that I love. 185 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,670 So that is why my king loses sleep and is forced from the warmth of his bed? 186 00:20:56,673 --> 00:21:01,011 There's only one woman's words that should affect the mood of my husband. 187 00:21:01,845 --> 00:21:03,388 Those are mine. 188 00:21:07,559 --> 00:21:09,978 Then what must a king do to save his world... 189 00:21:10,145 --> 00:21:14,566 when the very laws he is sworn to protect force him to do nothing? 190 00:21:17,527 --> 00:21:20,864 It is not a question of what a Spartan citizen should do... 191 00:21:21,031 --> 00:21:23,867 nor a husband, nor a king. 192 00:21:24,534 --> 00:21:27,204 Instead ask yourself, my dearest love... 193 00:21:28,872 --> 00:21:30,874 what should a free man do? 194 00:22:36,314 --> 00:22:40,485 - Is this all of them? - As you ordered. Three hundred. 195 00:22:41,486 --> 00:22:44,781 All with born sons to carry on their name. 196 00:22:55,542 --> 00:22:56,877 We are with you, sire. 197 00:22:57,252 --> 00:22:59,379 For Sparta. For freedom. 198 00:22:59,546 --> 00:23:01,506 To the death. 199 00:23:12,309 --> 00:23:13,977 He is your son. 200 00:23:14,811 --> 00:23:17,689 He is too young to have felt a woman's warmth. 201 00:23:17,856 --> 00:23:21,818 I have others to replace him. Astinos is as brave and ready as any. 202 00:23:22,152 --> 00:23:26,197 No younger than we were the first time you stood next to me in battle. 203 00:23:29,993 --> 00:23:32,120 You are a good friend... 204 00:23:32,287 --> 00:23:35,790 but a better captain, there is none. 205 00:23:41,296 --> 00:23:43,214 My good king. 206 00:23:44,174 --> 00:23:47,510 My good king, the oracle has spoken. 207 00:23:47,677 --> 00:23:50,513 The ephors have spoken. There must be no march. 208 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:52,515 It is the law, my lord. 209 00:23:52,682 --> 00:23:56,686 - The Spartan army must not go to war. - Nor shall it. 210 00:23:57,562 --> 00:23:59,189 I've issued no such orders. 211 00:23:59,522 --> 00:24:03,068 I'm here just taking a stroll, stretching my legs. 212 00:24:03,318 --> 00:24:08,490 These 300 men are my personal bodyguard. 213 00:24:08,740 --> 00:24:10,909 Our army will stay in Sparta. 214 00:24:11,534 --> 00:24:12,869 Where will you go? 215 00:24:15,830 --> 00:24:18,041 I hadn't really thought about it... 216 00:24:18,875 --> 00:24:21,044 but now that you ask... 217 00:24:21,211 --> 00:24:23,922 I suppose I'll head north. 218 00:24:25,382 --> 00:24:26,466 The Hot Gates? 219 00:24:29,094 --> 00:24:31,513 Move out! 220 00:24:31,721 --> 00:24:33,765 Move out! 221 00:24:34,891 --> 00:24:36,518 What shall we do? 222 00:24:38,061 --> 00:24:39,396 What can we do? 223 00:24:40,063 --> 00:24:41,815 What can you do? 224 00:24:44,859 --> 00:24:48,697 Sparta will need sons. 225 00:25:36,453 --> 00:25:38,204 Spartan! 226 00:25:47,464 --> 00:25:48,715 Yes, milady? 227 00:26:04,814 --> 00:26:07,108 Come back with your shield... 228 00:26:08,026 --> 00:26:09,486 or on it. 229 00:26:10,945 --> 00:26:12,322 Yes, milady. 230 00:26:20,830 --> 00:26:23,124 "Goodbye, my love." 231 00:26:23,750 --> 00:26:25,960 He doesn't say it. 232 00:26:26,461 --> 00:26:28,671 There's no room for softness... 233 00:26:28,838 --> 00:26:30,840 not in Sparta. 234 00:26:31,007 --> 00:26:33,802 No place for weakness. 235 00:26:37,305 --> 00:26:41,518 Only the hard and strong may call themselves Spartans. 236 00:26:42,352 --> 00:26:46,856 Only the hard. Only the strong. 237 00:27:15,301 --> 00:27:17,178 We march... 238 00:27:17,887 --> 00:27:23,393 for our lands, for our families, for our freedoms. 239 00:27:24,144 --> 00:27:26,312 We march. 240 00:27:28,064 --> 00:27:29,732 Daxos. 241 00:27:29,899 --> 00:27:31,086 What a pleasant surprise. 242 00:27:31,137 --> 00:27:33,328 This morning's full of surprises, Leonidas. 243 00:27:33,444 --> 00:27:35,864 - We've been tricked. - Can't be more than a hundred. 244 00:27:36,030 --> 00:27:38,241 - This is a surprise. - Silence. 245 00:27:38,700 --> 00:27:40,660 This isn't their army. 246 00:27:40,827 --> 00:27:44,998 We heard Sparta was on the warpath and we were eager to join forces. 247 00:27:45,665 --> 00:27:49,752 If it is blood you seek, you are welcome to join us. 248 00:27:50,086 --> 00:27:53,339 But you bring only this handful of soldiers against Xerxes? 249 00:27:53,506 --> 00:27:57,093 I see I was wrong to expect Sparta's commitment to at least match our own. 250 00:27:58,261 --> 00:28:00,096 Doesn't it? 251 00:28:01,556 --> 00:28:03,266 You, there. 252 00:28:03,725 --> 00:28:04,934 What is your profession? 253 00:28:05,435 --> 00:28:07,604 I'm a potter, sir. 254 00:28:08,771 --> 00:28:12,525 And you, Arcadian. What is your profession? 255 00:28:12,901 --> 00:28:16,321 - Sculptor, sir. - Sculptor. 256 00:28:16,696 --> 00:28:18,615 - And you? - Blacksmith. 257 00:28:23,286 --> 00:28:26,623 Spartans! What is your profession? 258 00:28:33,796 --> 00:28:35,715 You see, old friend? 259 00:28:35,882 --> 00:28:38,801 I brought more soldiers than you did. 260 00:28:48,728 --> 00:28:50,521 No sleep tonight... 261 00:28:51,606 --> 00:28:54,067 not for the king. 262 00:28:54,234 --> 00:28:56,486 All his 40 years have been a straight road... 263 00:28:56,653 --> 00:29:00,198 to this one gleaming moment in destiny... 264 00:29:00,365 --> 00:29:03,159 this one radiant clash of shield and spear... 265 00:29:03,326 --> 00:29:06,913 sword and bone, and flesh and blood. 266 00:29:08,623 --> 00:29:10,416 His only regret... 267 00:29:10,583 --> 00:29:14,337 is that he has so few to sacrifice. 268 00:29:35,608 --> 00:29:37,610 We're being followed. 269 00:29:42,657 --> 00:29:44,867 It has followed us since Sparta. 270 00:29:49,789 --> 00:29:52,792 My king! Look! 271 00:30:13,730 --> 00:30:15,231 What happened here? 272 00:30:15,773 --> 00:30:17,108 Where are all the people? 273 00:30:18,234 --> 00:30:19,902 Persians. 274 00:30:20,069 --> 00:30:21,904 I put their number at around 20. 275 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:25,616 A scouting party. 276 00:30:28,995 --> 00:30:30,496 But these footprints... 277 00:30:41,883 --> 00:30:43,343 Behind us! 278 00:30:57,398 --> 00:30:58,608 Child! 279 00:31:31,599 --> 00:31:34,310 It's quiet now. 280 00:31:34,811 --> 00:31:36,604 ... 281 00:31:36,979 --> 00:31:40,983 They came with beasts from the blackness. 282 00:31:42,568 --> 00:31:44,821 With their claws and fangs... 283 00:31:44,987 --> 00:31:47,240 they grabbed them. 284 00:31:48,157 --> 00:31:50,326 Everyone... 285 00:31:51,327 --> 00:31:53,371 but me. 286 00:32:05,633 --> 00:32:07,176 The villagers. 287 00:32:07,718 --> 00:32:09,679 I found them. 288 00:32:21,190 --> 00:32:23,985 Have the gods no mercy? 289 00:32:25,153 --> 00:32:27,196 We are doomed. 290 00:32:27,363 --> 00:32:29,991 Quiet yourself. 291 00:32:33,369 --> 00:32:38,624 The child speaks of the Persian ghosts, known from the ancient times. 292 00:32:39,500 --> 00:32:42,211 They are the hunters of men's souls. 293 00:32:43,212 --> 00:32:45,882 They cannot be killed or defeated. 294 00:32:46,466 --> 00:32:50,636 Not this darkness. Not these Immortals. 295 00:32:52,805 --> 00:32:55,016 Immortals? 296 00:32:55,308 --> 00:32:58,394 We'll put their name to the test. 297 00:33:20,416 --> 00:33:23,211 Into the Hot Gates we march. 298 00:33:23,377 --> 00:33:26,672 Into that narrow corridor we march... 299 00:33:26,839 --> 00:33:29,091 where Xerxes' numbers count for nothing. 300 00:33:30,259 --> 00:33:34,222 Spartans, citizen-soldiers, freed slaves. 301 00:33:34,388 --> 00:33:36,265 Brave Greeks, all. 302 00:33:37,266 --> 00:33:40,394 Brothers, fathers, sons... 303 00:33:40,561 --> 00:33:42,563 we march. 304 00:33:43,231 --> 00:33:47,443 For honor's sake, for duty's sake, for glory's sake, we march. 305 00:33:47,610 --> 00:33:50,696 Look! Persians. 306 00:33:55,826 --> 00:33:59,580 Into hell's mouth we march. 307 00:34:08,631 --> 00:34:10,675 Let's watch these motherless dogs... 308 00:34:10,925 --> 00:34:14,971 as they're embraced by the loving arms of Greece herself. Come. 309 00:34:17,807 --> 00:34:19,475 True. 310 00:34:23,688 --> 00:34:26,148 It does look like rain. 311 00:34:29,485 --> 00:34:32,697 Zeus stabs the sky with thunderbolts... 312 00:34:32,989 --> 00:34:37,034 and batters the Persian ships with hurricane wind. 313 00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:40,621 Glorious. 314 00:34:52,883 --> 00:34:55,761 Only one among us keeps his Spartan reserve. 315 00:35:01,684 --> 00:35:03,644 Only he. 316 00:35:03,811 --> 00:35:06,272 Only our king. 317 00:35:23,706 --> 00:35:25,625 My queen? 318 00:35:30,796 --> 00:35:32,131 My queen... 319 00:35:32,298 --> 00:35:35,635 the courtyard is a more fitting place for a married woman. 320 00:35:35,801 --> 00:35:37,470 I'm afraid gossip and protocol... 321 00:35:37,637 --> 00:35:40,181 are the least of my worries now, councilman. 322 00:35:41,849 --> 00:35:43,684 Is such secrecy needed? 323 00:35:43,851 --> 00:35:46,520 How am I to trust beyond the walls of my own home? 324 00:35:46,687 --> 00:35:50,399 Even here, Theron has eyes and ears which fuel Sparta with doubt and fear. 325 00:35:50,816 --> 00:35:54,236 You speak as if all Sparta conspires against you. 326 00:35:54,862 --> 00:35:56,906 I wish it were only against me. 327 00:35:59,575 --> 00:36:03,079 Many on our council would vote to give all we have... 328 00:36:03,245 --> 00:36:05,081 and follow Leonidas... 329 00:36:05,414 --> 00:36:07,416 but you must show them favor. 330 00:36:09,710 --> 00:36:12,171 And you can arrange for me to speak to the council? 331 00:36:12,338 --> 00:36:14,757 If it is reason they want, I will let them know. 332 00:36:14,924 --> 00:36:17,093 Know what, my queen? 333 00:36:17,426 --> 00:36:19,428 Freedom isn't free at all. 334 00:36:19,595 --> 00:36:22,932 That it comes with the highest of costs, the cost of blood. 335 00:36:25,226 --> 00:36:27,853 I will do my best to gather our council. 336 00:36:28,270 --> 00:36:32,108 And its chamber shall be filled with your voice. 337 00:36:32,441 --> 00:36:34,276 - I'm in your debt. - No. 338 00:36:34,610 --> 00:36:38,781 Leonidas is my king as well as yours. 339 00:37:03,597 --> 00:37:05,474 I saw those ships smash on the rocks. 340 00:37:06,559 --> 00:37:07,935 How can this be? 341 00:37:08,102 --> 00:37:11,397 We saw but a fraction of the monster that is Xerxes' army. 342 00:37:12,064 --> 00:37:14,483 There can be no victory here. 343 00:37:18,404 --> 00:37:20,114 Why do you smile? 344 00:37:21,824 --> 00:37:23,743 Arcadian... 345 00:37:23,909 --> 00:37:26,954 I have fought countless times... 346 00:37:27,204 --> 00:37:29,874 yet I've never met an adversary who could offer me... 347 00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:32,209 what we Spartans call "a beautiful death." 348 00:37:33,002 --> 00:37:34,670 I can only hope... 349 00:37:34,837 --> 00:37:37,590 with all the world's warriors gathered against us... 350 00:37:37,757 --> 00:37:41,427 there might be one down there who's up to the task. 351 00:37:52,855 --> 00:37:55,191 Move! 352 00:37:56,525 --> 00:37:59,445 Keep going, you dogs! 353 00:38:07,119 --> 00:38:09,163 Move! 354 00:38:10,581 --> 00:38:13,167 Forward, I say! 355 00:38:15,503 --> 00:38:17,087 Stop here! 356 00:38:17,922 --> 00:38:20,090 Who commands here? 357 00:38:22,301 --> 00:38:24,970 I am the emissary... 358 00:38:25,137 --> 00:38:27,389 to the ruler of all the world... 359 00:38:28,224 --> 00:38:32,102 the god of gods, king of kings... 360 00:38:32,269 --> 00:38:33,896 and by that authority... 361 00:38:34,063 --> 00:38:37,817 I demand that someone show me your commander. 362 00:38:41,570 --> 00:38:47,493 Listen. Do you think the paltry dozen you slew scares us? 363 00:38:47,660 --> 00:38:51,163 These hills swarm with our scouts. 364 00:38:51,330 --> 00:38:56,043 And do you think your pathetic wall will do anything... 365 00:38:56,210 --> 00:39:02,508 except fall like a heap of dry leaves in the face of...? 366 00:39:14,228 --> 00:39:16,522 Our ancestors built this wall... 367 00:39:17,273 --> 00:39:21,193 using ancient stones from the bosom of Greece herself. 368 00:39:21,610 --> 00:39:23,988 And with a little Spartan help... 369 00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,782 your Persian scouts supplied the mortar. 370 00:39:27,366 --> 00:39:31,328 You will pay for your barbarism! 371 00:39:50,472 --> 00:39:52,057 My arm! 372 00:39:54,643 --> 00:39:56,478 It's not yours anymore. 373 00:39:56,770 --> 00:40:01,400 Go now. Run along and tell your Xerxes he faces free men here... 374 00:40:01,775 --> 00:40:03,152 not slaves. 375 00:40:03,319 --> 00:40:04,528 Do it quickly... 376 00:40:04,778 --> 00:40:07,698 before we decide to make our wall just a little bit bigger. 377 00:40:08,198 --> 00:40:09,825 No. 378 00:40:09,992 --> 00:40:12,411 Not slaves. 379 00:40:14,204 --> 00:40:17,666 Your women will be slaves. 380 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,836 Your sons, your daughters... 381 00:40:21,003 --> 00:40:23,339 your elders will be slaves! 382 00:40:23,505 --> 00:40:26,258 But not you, no. 383 00:40:26,425 --> 00:40:30,512 By noon this day you will be dead men. 384 00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:37,686 A thousand nations of the Persian Empire descend upon you. 385 00:40:38,062 --> 00:40:41,565 Our arrows will blot out the sun. 386 00:40:43,359 --> 00:40:46,028 Then we will fight in the shade. 387 00:40:47,571 --> 00:40:49,365 The wall is solid. 388 00:40:49,531 --> 00:40:52,701 It'll do the job of funneling the Persians into the Hot Gates. 389 00:40:53,035 --> 00:40:55,704 Have the men found any route through the hills to our back? 390 00:40:56,205 --> 00:40:58,248 None, sire. 391 00:40:58,540 --> 00:41:00,084 There is such a route, good king. 392 00:41:00,626 --> 00:41:02,378 Just pass that western ridge. 393 00:41:03,045 --> 00:41:04,713 It's an old goat path. 394 00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,716 The Persians could use it to outflank us. 395 00:41:07,883 --> 00:41:11,637 Not one step closer, monster! 396 00:41:13,263 --> 00:41:16,892 Wise king, I humbly request an audience. 397 00:41:17,059 --> 00:41:20,396 - I'll skewer you where you stand. - I gave no such order. 398 00:41:30,906 --> 00:41:32,157 Forgive the captain. 399 00:41:32,825 --> 00:41:34,326 He is a good soldier... 400 00:41:34,910 --> 00:41:37,538 but a bit short on manners. 401 00:41:37,705 --> 00:41:41,750 There is nothing to forgive, brave king. I know what I look like. 402 00:41:42,209 --> 00:41:44,253 You wear the crimson of a Spartan. 403 00:41:44,837 --> 00:41:50,467 I am Ephialtes, born of Sparta. 404 00:41:51,093 --> 00:41:55,139 My mother's love led my parents to flee Sparta... 405 00:41:55,305 --> 00:41:56,765 lest I be discarded. 406 00:41:57,307 --> 00:42:00,102 Your shield and armor? 407 00:42:01,020 --> 00:42:02,688 My father's, sir. 408 00:42:04,023 --> 00:42:08,110 I beg you, bold king, to permit me... 409 00:42:08,277 --> 00:42:13,282 to redeem my father's name by serving you in combat. 410 00:42:13,615 --> 00:42:19,455 My father trained me to feel no fear, to make spear and shield and sword... 411 00:42:19,621 --> 00:42:22,374 as much a part of me as my own beating heart. 412 00:42:22,791 --> 00:42:26,128 I will earn my father's armor, noble king... 413 00:42:26,295 --> 00:42:28,464 by serving you in the battle. 414 00:42:33,635 --> 00:42:35,721 A fine thrust. 415 00:42:35,888 --> 00:42:37,473 I will kill many Persians. 416 00:42:43,353 --> 00:42:44,980 Raise your shield. 417 00:42:45,147 --> 00:42:47,816 - Sire? - Raise your shield as high as you can. 418 00:42:56,033 --> 00:42:59,078 Your father should have taught you how our phalanx works. 419 00:42:59,745 --> 00:43:01,038 We fight... 420 00:43:01,580 --> 00:43:04,500 as a single, impenetrable unit. 421 00:43:04,666 --> 00:43:07,586 That is the source of our strength. 422 00:43:08,420 --> 00:43:12,049 Each Spartan protects the man to his left... 423 00:43:12,216 --> 00:43:15,427 from thigh to neck with his shield. 424 00:43:15,594 --> 00:43:20,265 A single weak spot and the phalanx shatters. 425 00:43:21,683 --> 00:43:24,895 From thigh to neck, Ephialtes. 426 00:43:26,939 --> 00:43:29,358 I am sorry, my friend. 427 00:43:29,525 --> 00:43:31,465 But not all of us were made to be soldiers. 428 00:43:31,470 --> 00:43:32,270 But I... 429 00:43:32,277 --> 00:43:34,191 If you want to help in a Spartan victory... 430 00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:35,000 Yes. 431 00:43:35,100 --> 00:43:40,072 Clear the battlefield of the dead, tend the wounded, bring them water... 432 00:43:40,202 --> 00:43:41,870 but as for the fight itself... 433 00:43:43,205 --> 00:43:45,124 I cannot use you. 434 00:43:46,959 --> 00:43:48,377 You... 435 00:43:56,260 --> 00:44:00,389 Mother! Father! You were wrong! 436 00:44:03,642 --> 00:44:05,394 You are wrong! 437 00:44:05,561 --> 00:44:10,107 Leonidas! You are wrong! 438 00:44:10,566 --> 00:44:13,068 Dispatch the Phocians to the goat path... 439 00:44:13,235 --> 00:44:17,739 and pray to the gods nobody tells the Persians about it. 440 00:44:23,453 --> 00:44:25,038 Earthquake. 441 00:44:25,581 --> 00:44:26,790 No, captain. 442 00:44:28,417 --> 00:44:30,335 Battle formations. 443 00:44:54,234 --> 00:44:57,446 This is where we hold them. 444 00:44:57,613 --> 00:44:59,865 This is where we fight! 445 00:45:00,449 --> 00:45:02,659 This is where they die! 446 00:45:02,993 --> 00:45:04,870 Earn these shields, boys! 447 00:45:07,623 --> 00:45:10,125 Remember this day, men... 448 00:45:10,292 --> 00:45:14,004 for it will be yours for all time. 449 00:45:25,140 --> 00:45:26,892 Spartans! 450 00:45:27,059 --> 00:45:29,186 Lay down your weapons! 451 00:45:46,078 --> 00:45:48,330 Persians! 452 00:45:48,914 --> 00:45:50,999 Come and get them! 453 00:46:12,479 --> 00:46:14,106 Hold! 454 00:46:16,942 --> 00:46:18,527 Give them nothing... 455 00:46:18,944 --> 00:46:22,531 but take from them everything! 456 00:46:24,241 --> 00:46:25,993 Steady! 457 00:46:36,753 --> 00:46:38,297 Push! 458 00:46:42,134 --> 00:46:44,553 Is that the best you can do? 459 00:46:46,722 --> 00:46:48,724 Push! Push! 460 00:46:58,817 --> 00:47:00,360 Now! 461 00:47:12,164 --> 00:47:13,665 Push! 462 00:47:57,209 --> 00:47:59,795 No prisoners! 463 00:48:00,128 --> 00:48:01,880 No mercy! 464 00:49:21,209 --> 00:49:23,336 They look thirsty. 465 00:49:24,421 --> 00:49:27,382 Well, let's give them something to drink. 466 00:49:30,260 --> 00:49:32,929 To the cliffs. 467 00:49:56,578 --> 00:49:58,747 Halt. 468 00:50:00,832 --> 00:50:02,918 Hell of a good start. 469 00:50:25,607 --> 00:50:28,068 Tuck tail! 470 00:50:33,532 --> 00:50:35,116 Persian cowards. 471 00:50:42,874 --> 00:50:45,794 - What the hell are you laughing at? - Well, you had to say it. 472 00:50:46,628 --> 00:50:50,298 - What? - "Fight in the shade." 473 00:51:03,812 --> 00:51:05,730 Recover. 474 00:51:29,004 --> 00:51:31,673 Today no Spartan dies. 475 00:51:56,781 --> 00:51:58,199 Easy, son. 476 00:52:24,434 --> 00:52:26,394 We do what we were trained to do... 477 00:52:26,561 --> 00:52:28,063 what we were bred to do... 478 00:52:28,229 --> 00:52:31,232 what we were born to do. 479 00:52:38,573 --> 00:52:41,576 No prisoners. No mercy. 480 00:52:41,743 --> 00:52:43,244 A good start. 481 00:53:52,689 --> 00:53:55,984 - I was afraid you might not come. - I'm sorry, my son is-—. 482 00:53:56,151 --> 00:54:01,740 Is doing what children do best. Please, don't apologize. 483 00:54:02,741 --> 00:54:04,868 Your son starts the agoge next year. 484 00:54:05,493 --> 00:54:09,497 That is always a difficult time for a Spartan mother. 485 00:54:10,582 --> 00:54:15,170 Yes, it will be hard. But also necessary. 486 00:54:17,589 --> 00:54:21,843 You will speak before the council in two days' time. 487 00:54:23,678 --> 00:54:25,722 My husband does not have two days. 488 00:54:26,139 --> 00:54:28,099 Think of the two days as a gift. 489 00:54:30,185 --> 00:54:32,187 It's no secret... 490 00:54:32,353 --> 00:54:35,231 Theron wants what you control. 491 00:54:35,398 --> 00:54:38,234 It's his voice you must silence. 492 00:54:38,401 --> 00:54:40,528 Make him your ally... 493 00:54:40,820 --> 00:54:43,364 and you will have your victory. 494 00:54:44,199 --> 00:54:45,950 Thank you. 495 00:54:46,284 --> 00:54:48,703 You are wise as you are kind. 496 00:55:15,730 --> 00:55:17,524 There's your mother. 497 00:55:23,988 --> 00:55:27,408 You should keep a better eye on him if he's to be king one day. 498 00:55:27,617 --> 00:55:30,078 Be unfortunate if anything were to happen to him. 499 00:55:31,579 --> 00:55:33,456 Or to his beautiful mother. 500 00:55:49,514 --> 00:55:51,015 No! 501 00:55:54,269 --> 00:55:59,691 Our Greek comrades are begging for a crack at the Persians, sire. 502 00:55:59,983 --> 00:56:01,317 Good. 503 00:56:01,484 --> 00:56:04,279 I've got something I think they can handle. 504 00:56:04,779 --> 00:56:06,447 Tell Daxos that I want him... 505 00:56:06,614 --> 00:56:11,160 and 20 of his best eager, sober and ready for the next charge. 506 00:56:11,327 --> 00:56:13,162 King Leonidas. 507 00:56:15,665 --> 00:56:19,460 - Stelios, catch your breath, boy. - Yes, milord. 508 00:56:20,128 --> 00:56:22,255 The Persians are approaching. 509 00:56:23,631 --> 00:56:27,468 A small contingent. Too small for an attack. 510 00:56:31,222 --> 00:56:34,809 - Captain, I leave you in charge. - But sire... 511 00:56:34,976 --> 00:56:36,185 Relax, old friend. 512 00:56:36,352 --> 00:56:40,940 If they assassinate me, all of Sparta goes to war. 513 00:56:41,858 --> 00:56:44,485 Pray they're that stupid. 514 00:56:45,570 --> 00:56:47,280 Pray. 515 00:56:47,822 --> 00:56:49,991 We're that lucky. 516 00:56:53,161 --> 00:56:54,913 Besides... 517 00:56:57,165 --> 00:57:00,501 there's no reason we can't be civil... 518 00:57:00,835 --> 00:57:02,420 is there? 519 00:57:03,755 --> 00:57:04,756 None, sire. 520 00:57:24,150 --> 00:57:26,361 Let me guess. 521 00:57:27,111 --> 00:57:30,114 You must be Xerxes. 522 00:57:42,126 --> 00:57:44,337 Come, Leonidas. 523 00:57:45,755 --> 00:57:47,548 Let us reason together. 524 00:57:47,799 --> 00:57:49,759 It would be a regrettable waste... 525 00:57:50,176 --> 00:57:53,388 it would be nothing short of madness were you, brave king... 526 00:57:53,554 --> 00:57:56,724 and your valiant troops to perish... 527 00:57:57,392 --> 00:57:59,435 all because of a simple misunderstanding. 528 00:58:00,061 --> 00:58:02,897 - There's much our cultures could share. - Haven't you noticed? 529 00:58:03,064 --> 00:58:05,441 We've been sharing our culture with you all morning. 530 00:58:06,067 --> 00:58:08,319 Yours is a fascinating tribe. 531 00:58:08,486 --> 00:58:10,655 Even now you are defiant... 532 00:58:10,822 --> 00:58:14,951 in the face of annihilation and the presence of a god. 533 00:58:15,118 --> 00:58:17,161 It isn't wise to stand against me, Leonidas. 534 00:58:17,829 --> 00:58:20,081 Imagine what a horrible fate awaits my enemies... 535 00:58:20,248 --> 00:58:23,126 when I would gladly kill any of my own men for victory. 536 00:58:23,292 --> 00:58:25,920 And I would die for any one of mine. 537 00:58:26,087 --> 00:58:30,341 You Greeks take pride in your logic. I suggest you employ it. 538 00:58:30,508 --> 00:58:34,095 Consider the beautiful land you so vigorously defend. 539 00:58:34,262 --> 00:58:36,764 Picture it reduced to ash at my whim. 540 00:58:36,973 --> 00:58:38,433 Consider the fate of your women. 541 00:58:39,058 --> 00:58:41,602 Clearly you don't know our women. 542 00:58:41,769 --> 00:58:45,273 I might as well have marched them up here, judging by what I've seen. 543 00:58:46,399 --> 00:58:48,943 You have many slaves, Xerxes... 544 00:58:49,861 --> 00:58:52,155 but few warriors. 545 00:58:52,321 --> 00:58:56,284 It won't be long before they fear my spears... 546 00:58:56,659 --> 00:58:59,120 more than your whips. 547 00:59:02,957 --> 00:59:05,793 It's not the lash they fear... 548 00:59:08,546 --> 00:59:10,214 it is my divine power. 549 00:59:10,965 --> 00:59:15,470 But I am a generous god. I can make you rich beyond all measure. 550 00:59:15,887 --> 00:59:18,306 I will make you warlord of all Greece. 551 00:59:18,931 --> 00:59:22,810 You will carry my battle standard to the heart of Europa. 552 00:59:22,977 --> 00:59:25,605 Your Athenian rivals... 553 00:59:25,897 --> 00:59:28,066 will kneel at your feet... 554 00:59:28,775 --> 00:59:31,569 if you will but kneel at mine. 555 00:59:32,403 --> 00:59:34,655 You are generous... 556 00:59:35,239 --> 00:59:37,658 as you are divine... 557 00:59:38,367 --> 00:59:39,994 O king of kings. 558 00:59:40,161 --> 00:59:44,082 Such an offer only a madman would refuse. 559 00:59:44,665 --> 00:59:46,667 But the... 560 00:59:47,585 --> 00:59:50,421 The idea of kneeling, it's... 561 00:59:50,588 --> 00:59:55,134 You see, slaughtering all those men of yours has... 562 00:59:55,301 --> 00:59:59,138 Well, it's left a nasty cramp in my leg... 563 00:59:59,305 --> 01:00:01,390 so kneeling will be hard for me. 564 01:00:01,682 --> 01:00:05,019 There will be no glory in your sacrifice. 565 01:00:05,186 --> 01:00:08,815 I will erase even the memory of Sparta from the histories. 566 01:00:08,981 --> 01:00:12,193 Every piece of Greek parchment shall be burned. 567 01:00:12,360 --> 01:00:15,696 Every Greek historian and every scribe shall have their eyes put out... 568 01:00:15,863 --> 01:00:18,116 and their tongues cut from their mouths. 569 01:00:18,282 --> 01:00:24,288 Why, uttering the very name of Sparta or Leonidas will be punishable by death. 570 01:00:24,914 --> 01:00:28,209 The world will never know you existed at all. 571 01:00:30,336 --> 01:00:34,924 The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant. 572 01:00:35,133 --> 01:00:38,636 That few stood against many. 573 01:00:39,053 --> 01:00:42,181 And before this battle was over... 574 01:00:42,431 --> 01:00:45,393 that even a god-king can bleed. 575 01:00:52,775 --> 01:00:54,986 You fought well today... 576 01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:58,239 for a woman. 577 01:00:59,407 --> 01:01:01,075 As did you. 578 01:01:01,242 --> 01:01:04,328 Maybe if I'm injured, you'll be able to keep up with me. 579 01:01:04,829 --> 01:01:09,792 Perhaps I was so far ahead you couldn't see me. 580 01:01:10,418 --> 01:01:13,588 More likely offering your backside to the Thespians. 581 01:01:14,547 --> 01:01:16,174 Jealousy... 582 01:01:16,340 --> 01:01:18,843 does not become you, my friend. 583 01:01:21,596 --> 01:01:23,931 Move it, men! 584 01:01:26,017 --> 01:01:28,269 Pile those Persians high. 585 01:01:31,397 --> 01:01:34,192 For unless I miss my guess... 586 01:01:34,775 --> 01:01:37,778 we're in for one wild night. 587 01:02:01,677 --> 01:02:06,849 They have served the dark will of Persian kings for 500 years. 588 01:02:07,016 --> 01:02:09,352 Eyes as dark as night. 589 01:02:09,518 --> 01:02:11,520 Teeth filed to fangs. 590 01:02:13,648 --> 01:02:15,900 Soulless. 591 01:02:23,324 --> 01:02:28,079 The personal guard to King Xerxes himself. The Persian warrior elite. 592 01:02:29,872 --> 01:02:33,000 The deadliest fighting force in all of Asia: 593 01:02:33,751 --> 01:02:35,836 The Immortals. 594 01:02:44,011 --> 01:02:47,431 The god-king has betrayed a fatal flaw: 595 01:02:47,932 --> 01:02:49,684 Hubris. 596 01:02:51,936 --> 01:02:54,689 Easy to taunt, easy to trick. 597 01:02:55,356 --> 01:02:57,817 Before wounds and weariness have taken their toll... 598 01:02:57,984 --> 01:03:01,529 the mad king throws the best he has at us. 599 01:03:02,029 --> 01:03:03,698 Xerxes has taken the bait. 600 01:03:03,864 --> 01:03:05,700 Spartans, push! 601 01:03:16,377 --> 01:03:17,962 Immortals. 602 01:03:18,421 --> 01:03:21,382 We put their name to the test. 603 01:04:05,593 --> 01:04:07,011 Father! 604 01:05:52,700 --> 01:05:53,951 My king! 605 01:07:06,732 --> 01:07:08,692 Arcadians, now! 606 01:07:10,986 --> 01:07:13,781 Go! Show the Spartans what we can do. 607 01:07:14,365 --> 01:07:15,783 Go! 608 01:07:25,209 --> 01:07:27,127 They shout and curse... 609 01:07:27,294 --> 01:07:30,464 stabbing wildly, more brawlers than warriors. 610 01:07:31,632 --> 01:07:34,176 They make a wondrous mess of things. 611 01:07:35,219 --> 01:07:37,972 Brave amateurs, they do their part. 612 01:08:25,603 --> 01:08:27,479 Immortals. 613 01:08:27,646 --> 01:08:30,232 They fail our king's test. 614 01:08:30,399 --> 01:08:33,360 And a man who fancies himself a god... 615 01:08:34,069 --> 01:08:39,033 feels a very human chill crawl up his spine. 616 01:08:46,123 --> 01:08:48,250 To our king! 617 01:08:48,626 --> 01:08:50,628 And our honored dead. 618 01:08:50,794 --> 01:08:53,589 Whom will Xerxes dare to send next? Whom?! 619 01:08:53,922 --> 01:08:56,634 There's nothing that can stop us now! 620 01:08:57,509 --> 01:09:01,055 Even the king allows himself to hope for more than glory. 621 01:09:01,221 --> 01:09:04,558 Such mad hope, but there it is: 622 01:09:04,975 --> 01:09:10,397 "Against Asia's endless hordes, against all odds, we can do it." 623 01:09:10,564 --> 01:09:13,275 We can hold the Hot Gates. 624 01:09:13,442 --> 01:09:15,569 "We can win." 625 01:09:23,160 --> 01:09:24,912 Dawn. 626 01:09:25,537 --> 01:09:29,583 Whips crack. Barbarians howl. 627 01:09:29,750 --> 01:09:33,629 Those behind cry, "Forward!" 628 01:09:35,506 --> 01:09:39,301 Those in front cry, "Back!" 629 01:09:45,432 --> 01:09:47,935 Our eyes bear witness to the grotesque spectacle... 630 01:09:48,102 --> 01:09:52,231 coughed forth from the darkest corner of Xerxes' empire. 631 01:10:42,448 --> 01:10:43,991 When muscle failed... 632 01:10:44,408 --> 01:10:47,077 they turned to their magic. 633 01:10:48,120 --> 01:10:52,916 One hundred nations descend upon us, the armies of all Asia. 634 01:10:53,083 --> 01:10:57,546 Funneled into this narrow corridor, their numbers count for nothing. 635 01:11:31,914 --> 01:11:33,874 They fall by the hundreds. 636 01:11:34,041 --> 01:11:39,671 We send the severed bodies and the fragile hearts back to Xerxes' feet. 637 01:11:56,271 --> 01:12:00,442 King Xerxes is displeased with his generals. 638 01:12:00,609 --> 01:12:03,195 He disciplines them. 639 01:12:20,087 --> 01:12:24,466 Xerxes dispatches his monsters from half the world away. 640 01:12:35,435 --> 01:12:37,563 They're clumsy beasts... 641 01:12:37,729 --> 01:12:40,107 and the piled Persian dead are slippery. 642 01:13:16,518 --> 01:13:18,979 - You still here? - Somebody's gotta watch your back. 643 01:13:19,146 --> 01:13:20,731 Not now, I'm a little busy. 644 01:14:01,021 --> 01:14:03,523 Regroup! 645 01:14:06,735 --> 01:14:08,362 Astinos! 646 01:14:08,570 --> 01:14:10,280 My Son! 647 01:14:19,206 --> 01:14:20,874 Astinos! 648 01:14:21,041 --> 01:14:23,794 No! 649 01:14:47,067 --> 01:14:49,194 Day wears on. 650 01:14:49,528 --> 01:14:51,697 We lose few... 651 01:14:51,863 --> 01:14:55,075 but each felled is a friend, or dearest blood. 652 01:14:57,285 --> 01:15:01,206 And upon seeing the headless body of his own young son... 653 01:15:01,373 --> 01:15:03,250 the captain breaks rank. 654 01:15:03,417 --> 01:15:06,837 He goes wild, blood-drunk. 655 01:15:31,445 --> 01:15:33,947 The captain's cries of pain at the loss of his son... 656 01:15:34,114 --> 01:15:37,868 are more frightening to the enemy than the deepest battle drums. 657 01:15:38,035 --> 01:15:42,039 It takes three men to restrain him and bring him back to our own. 658 01:15:42,372 --> 01:15:44,708 The day is ours. 659 01:15:45,125 --> 01:15:47,794 No songs are sung. 660 01:16:27,876 --> 01:16:32,506 Your gods were cruel to shape you so, friend Ephialtes. 661 01:16:34,883 --> 01:16:36,176 The Spartans, too... 662 01:16:36,927 --> 01:16:39,846 were cruel to reject you. 663 01:16:42,682 --> 01:16:45,102 But I am kind. 664 01:16:51,608 --> 01:16:53,735 Everything you could ever desire... 665 01:16:54,986 --> 01:16:56,738 every happiness you can imagine... 666 01:16:58,949 --> 01:17:03,537 every pleasure your fellow Greeks and your false gods have denied you... 667 01:17:04,371 --> 01:17:06,623 I will grant you. 668 01:17:07,874 --> 01:17:10,293 For I am kind. 669 01:17:24,224 --> 01:17:27,561 Embrace me as your king and as your god. 670 01:17:28,687 --> 01:17:30,397 Yes. 671 01:17:31,857 --> 01:17:36,653 Lead my soldiers to the hidden path that enters behind the cursed Spartans... 672 01:17:36,820 --> 01:17:39,072 and your joys will be endless. 673 01:17:47,539 --> 01:17:50,709 Yes! I want it all. 674 01:17:51,126 --> 01:17:54,713 Wealth. Women. 675 01:17:56,715 --> 01:17:58,425 And one more thing... 676 01:18:01,595 --> 01:18:04,264 I want a uniform. 677 01:18:08,768 --> 01:18:10,437 Done. 678 01:18:12,105 --> 01:18:13,773 You will find... 679 01:18:14,399 --> 01:18:16,318 I am kind. 680 01:18:17,444 --> 01:18:21,698 Unlike the cruel Leonidas, who demanded that you stand... 681 01:18:23,783 --> 01:18:25,493 I require only... 682 01:18:26,244 --> 01:18:27,662 that you kneel. 683 01:18:55,315 --> 01:18:57,275 Beautiful night. 684 01:18:58,693 --> 01:19:02,697 Yes, but I did not ask you here for small talk, Theron. 685 01:19:03,323 --> 01:19:05,450 You can be sure of that. 686 01:19:06,826 --> 01:19:09,496 You never spared words with me. 687 01:19:10,080 --> 01:19:13,333 Can I offer you something? A drink, perhaps? 688 01:19:13,500 --> 01:19:15,335 Is it poison? 689 01:19:15,752 --> 01:19:18,505 I'm sorry to disappoint you, it's only water. 690 01:19:28,306 --> 01:19:31,476 I'm told it's been arranged for you to go before the council. 691 01:19:32,143 --> 01:19:33,853 Yes. 692 01:19:34,062 --> 01:19:37,399 I need your help in winning votes to send the army north to our king. 693 01:19:37,983 --> 01:19:39,609 Yes. 694 01:19:40,277 --> 01:19:42,862 I can see it, the two of us standing together. 695 01:19:43,029 --> 01:19:47,367 Me, politician. You, warrior. Our voices as one. 696 01:19:48,702 --> 01:19:50,203 But why would I want to do that? 697 01:19:51,162 --> 01:19:53,238 It proves you care for a king who right now 698 01:19:53,289 --> 01:19:55,175 fights for the very water we drink. 699 01:19:55,458 --> 01:19:57,043 True. 700 01:19:57,419 --> 01:20:00,046 But this is politics, not war. 701 01:20:00,380 --> 01:20:01,881 Leonidas is an idealist. 702 01:20:02,299 --> 01:20:06,219 I know your kind too well. You send men to slaughter for your own gain. 703 01:20:06,386 --> 01:20:11,308 Your husband, our king, has taken 300 of our finest to slaughter. 704 01:20:11,474 --> 01:20:16,104 He's broken our laws and left without the council's consent. 705 01:20:16,604 --> 01:20:19,607 - I'm simply a realist. - You're an opportunist. 706 01:20:20,567 --> 01:20:24,904 You're as foolish as Leonidas if you think men don't have a price in this world. 707 01:20:25,071 --> 01:20:29,617 All men are not created equal. That's the Spartan code, my little queen. 708 01:20:33,288 --> 01:20:35,707 I admire your passion. 709 01:20:37,042 --> 01:20:38,752 But don't think that you... 710 01:20:39,210 --> 01:20:41,546 a woman, even a queen... 711 01:20:41,713 --> 01:20:45,633 can walk into the council chamber and sway the minds of men. 712 01:20:45,800 --> 01:20:48,261 I own that chamber... 713 01:20:48,428 --> 01:20:50,472 as if it were built with these hands. 714 01:20:54,934 --> 01:20:58,480 I could crush the life out of you right now. 715 01:20:59,564 --> 01:21:03,234 You will go before the council, but your words will fall on deaf ears. 716 01:21:03,401 --> 01:21:09,157 Leonidas will receive no reinforcements, and if he returns, without my help... 717 01:21:09,324 --> 01:21:12,285 he will go to jail or worse. 718 01:21:16,039 --> 01:21:17,499 Do you love your Sparta? 719 01:21:17,999 --> 01:21:19,709 Yes. 720 01:21:19,876 --> 01:21:22,128 - And your king? - I do. 721 01:21:27,967 --> 01:21:31,679 Your husband fights for his land and his love. 722 01:21:32,347 --> 01:21:34,641 What do you have to offer... 723 01:21:35,433 --> 01:21:38,395 in return for my word that I'll help you send our army north? 724 01:21:42,357 --> 01:21:45,026 What does a realist want with his queen? 725 01:21:49,656 --> 01:21:51,366 I think you know. 726 01:22:05,839 --> 01:22:08,508 This will not be over quickly. 727 01:22:09,551 --> 01:22:12,053 You will not enjoy this. 728 01:22:12,595 --> 01:22:14,848 I'm not your king. 729 01:22:39,664 --> 01:22:41,458 Dilios. 730 01:22:43,460 --> 01:22:47,505 I trust that scratch hasn't made you useless? 731 01:22:47,672 --> 01:22:50,717 Hardly, my lord. It's just an eye. 732 01:22:50,884 --> 01:22:54,053 The gods saw fit to grace me with a spare. 733 01:22:55,930 --> 01:22:57,891 My Captain? 734 01:22:59,184 --> 01:23:02,979 Curses the gods and mourns alone. 735 01:23:04,939 --> 01:23:06,900 Leonidas! 736 01:23:08,109 --> 01:23:11,112 We are undone. Undone, I tell you. Destroyed. 737 01:23:11,279 --> 01:23:12,739 Daxos, calm yourself. 738 01:23:12,906 --> 01:23:14,808 Our hunchback traitor led Xerxes' Immortals 739 01:23:14,859 --> 01:23:16,543 to the hidden goat path behind us. 740 01:23:16,910 --> 01:23:19,746 The Phocians you posted there were scattered without a fight. 741 01:23:19,913 --> 01:23:21,985 This battle is over, Leonidas. 742 01:23:22,036 --> 01:23:25,176 This battle is over when I say it is over. 743 01:23:25,293 --> 01:23:27,932 By morning, the Immortals will surround us. 744 01:23:27,983 --> 01:23:29,722 The Hot Gates will fall. 745 01:23:30,298 --> 01:23:34,677 Spartans! Prepare for glory! 746 01:23:34,844 --> 01:23:38,056 Glory? Have you gone mad? 747 01:23:38,223 --> 01:23:39,766 There is no glory to be had now. 748 01:23:40,391 --> 01:23:43,978 Only retreat or surrender. Or death. 749 01:23:44,145 --> 01:23:47,315 Well, that's an easy choice for us, Arcadian. 750 01:23:47,482 --> 01:23:52,987 Spartans never retreat. Spartans never surrender. 751 01:23:53,613 --> 01:23:55,698 Go spread the word. 752 01:23:55,949 --> 01:23:59,619 Let every Greek assembled know the truth of this. 753 01:23:59,786 --> 01:24:02,622 Let each among them search his own soul. 754 01:24:04,290 --> 01:24:08,461 And while you're at it, search your own. 755 01:24:15,969 --> 01:24:18,221 My men will leave with me. 756 01:24:23,560 --> 01:24:25,812 Godspeed, Leonidas. 757 01:24:32,110 --> 01:24:33,695 Children! 758 01:24:34,654 --> 01:24:35,989 Children. 759 01:24:37,031 --> 01:24:39,033 Gather round. 760 01:24:40,910 --> 01:24:44,163 No retreat, no surrender. 761 01:24:44,330 --> 01:24:48,209 That is Spartan law. 762 01:24:48,459 --> 01:24:53,506 And by Spartan law, we will stand and fight... 763 01:24:53,673 --> 01:24:55,675 and die. 764 01:24:59,137 --> 01:25:02,640 A new age has begun. 765 01:25:04,350 --> 01:25:07,520 An age of freedom. 766 01:25:08,563 --> 01:25:12,233 And all will know that 300 Spartans... 767 01:25:12,400 --> 01:25:15,695 gave their last breath to defend it. 768 01:25:35,965 --> 01:25:37,717 My friend. 769 01:25:41,262 --> 01:25:46,851 I have lived my entire life without regret until now. 770 01:25:50,229 --> 01:25:56,152 It's not that my son gave up his life for his country. 771 01:25:58,071 --> 01:26:01,908 It's just that I never told him that I loved him the most. 772 01:26:03,534 --> 01:26:06,412 That he stood by me with honor. 773 01:26:07,830 --> 01:26:10,750 That he was all that was best in me. 774 01:26:19,884 --> 01:26:22,428 My heart is broken for your loss. 775 01:26:23,137 --> 01:26:24,847 Head? 776 01:26:29,936 --> 01:26:33,022 I have filled my heart... 777 01:26:33,189 --> 01:26:34,941 with hate. 778 01:26:39,070 --> 01:26:40,738 Good. 779 01:26:49,872 --> 01:26:51,708 Dilios... 780 01:26:53,418 --> 01:26:55,545 let's take a walk. 781 01:26:57,004 --> 01:26:59,090 Yes, my lord. 782 01:27:01,467 --> 01:27:04,137 But, sire, I am fit and ready for battle. 783 01:27:04,303 --> 01:27:07,473 That you are, one of the finest. 784 01:27:07,765 --> 01:27:11,352 But you have another talent unlike any other Spartan. 785 01:27:14,063 --> 01:27:17,483 You will deliver my final orders to the council... 786 01:27:17,650 --> 01:27:20,153 with force and verve. 787 01:27:22,655 --> 01:27:24,949 Tell them our story. 788 01:27:25,116 --> 01:27:29,662 Make every Greek know what happened here. 789 01:27:30,496 --> 01:27:33,124 You'll have a grand tale to tell. 790 01:27:34,917 --> 01:27:36,627 A tale of victory. 791 01:27:37,295 --> 01:27:38,838 Victory. 792 01:27:42,884 --> 01:27:44,886 Yes, my lord. 793 01:27:50,558 --> 01:27:52,935 Sire, any message...? 794 01:27:55,813 --> 01:27:57,190 For the queen? 795 01:28:19,629 --> 01:28:22,048 None that need be spoken. 796 01:28:37,188 --> 01:28:39,565 Hundreds leave. 797 01:28:40,233 --> 01:28:42,652 A handful stay. 798 01:28:47,824 --> 01:28:50,451 Only one looks back. 799 01:29:00,753 --> 01:29:02,964 Spartans! 800 01:29:04,048 --> 01:29:07,218 Ready your breakfast and eat hearty... 801 01:29:07,385 --> 01:29:11,305 for tonight we dine in hell! 802 01:29:20,189 --> 01:29:22,859 May I give the floor now... 803 01:29:23,025 --> 01:29:27,446 to the wife of Leonidas and queen of Sparta. 804 01:29:39,166 --> 01:29:40,918 - What's this? - This is nothing. 805 01:29:41,085 --> 01:29:42,920 Councilmen... 806 01:29:43,087 --> 01:29:46,841 I stand before you not only as your queen. 807 01:29:47,717 --> 01:29:50,469 I come to you as a mother. 808 01:29:51,721 --> 01:29:54,140 I come to you as a wife. 809 01:29:55,933 --> 01:29:58,477 I come to you as a Spartan woman. 810 01:30:03,482 --> 01:30:06,569 I come to you with great humility. 811 01:30:09,989 --> 01:30:12,408 I am not here to represent Leonidas. 812 01:30:12,575 --> 01:30:15,328 His actions speak louder than my words ever could. 813 01:30:15,661 --> 01:30:18,080 I am here for all those voices which cannot be heard. 814 01:30:18,247 --> 01:30:20,791 Mothers, daughters, fathers, sons. 815 01:30:20,958 --> 01:30:23,920 Three hundred families that bleed for our rights... 816 01:30:24,337 --> 01:30:27,548 and for the very principles this room was built upon. 817 01:30:28,174 --> 01:30:30,259 We are at war, gentlemen. 818 01:30:30,676 --> 01:30:33,220 We must send the entire Spartan army to aid our king... 819 01:30:33,387 --> 01:30:36,515 in the preservation of not just ourselves, but of our children. 820 01:30:37,058 --> 01:30:40,186 Send the army for the preservation of liberty. 821 01:30:40,353 --> 01:30:42,688 Send it for justice. 822 01:30:42,855 --> 01:30:44,523 Send it for law and order. 823 01:30:45,024 --> 01:30:47,234 Send it for reason. 824 01:30:47,401 --> 01:30:51,530 But most importantly, send our army for hope. 825 01:30:51,697 --> 01:30:55,242 Hope that a king and his men have not been wasted to the pages of history. 826 01:30:56,077 --> 01:30:59,538 That their courage bonds us together. 827 01:30:59,830 --> 01:31:03,042 That we are made stronger by their actions... 828 01:31:04,043 --> 01:31:08,130 and that your choices today reflect their bravery. 829 01:31:10,049 --> 01:31:11,717 Three hundred. 830 01:31:14,053 --> 01:31:15,888 We must send them. 831 01:31:19,684 --> 01:31:21,519 Moving... 832 01:31:21,852 --> 01:31:24,730 eloquent, passionate. 833 01:31:25,147 --> 01:31:29,318 But it doesn't change the fact that your husband has brought war upon us. 834 01:31:29,485 --> 01:31:31,904 You are wrong. Xerxes brought it forth... 835 01:31:32,071 --> 01:31:34,573 and before that, his father Darius at Marathon. 836 01:31:34,740 --> 01:31:36,450 The Persians will not stop... 837 01:31:36,617 --> 01:31:39,996 until the only shelter we will find is rubble and chaos. 838 01:31:40,413 --> 01:31:44,125 This chamber needs no history lesson, my queen. 839 01:31:44,625 --> 01:31:46,836 Then what is the lesson you would like to leave? 840 01:31:47,003 --> 01:31:49,088 Shall I begin to enumerate all of them? 841 01:31:49,505 --> 01:31:52,925 Honor. Duty. Glory. 842 01:31:53,217 --> 01:31:58,264 You speak of honor, duty and glory? 843 01:31:59,557 --> 01:32:00,766 But what of adultery? 844 01:32:00,933 --> 01:32:03,436 - How dare you. - How dare I? 845 01:32:03,853 --> 01:32:06,856 Watch her carefully. 846 01:32:07,023 --> 01:32:09,984 She is a trickster in true form. 847 01:32:10,151 --> 01:32:13,320 Do not play with the members of this sacred chamber, my queen. 848 01:32:13,487 --> 01:32:16,615 Just hours ago, you offered yourself to me. 849 01:32:16,782 --> 01:32:21,203 Were I a weaker man, I would have her scent on me still. 850 01:32:21,370 --> 01:32:24,373 - This is outrage. - Oh, the hypocrite speaks! 851 01:32:24,540 --> 01:32:27,543 Did you not receive a similar payment, which you took... 852 01:32:27,710 --> 01:32:30,963 in exchange for her having an audience with these noble men? 853 01:32:31,130 --> 01:32:32,882 - That is a lie. - Is it? 854 01:32:33,049 --> 01:32:36,802 Was he not, by your invitation, asked to come to the king's bedchamber? 855 01:32:37,344 --> 01:32:41,974 The very bed where you attempted to negotiate with me so vigorously? 856 01:32:44,643 --> 01:32:48,105 You look shocked. A bribe of the flesh, gentlemen... 857 01:32:48,272 --> 01:32:51,567 while her husband promotes anarchy and war. 858 01:32:54,487 --> 01:32:55,696 He speaks truth. 859 01:32:56,322 --> 01:32:59,492 Words escape even the most cunning tongue... 860 01:32:59,658 --> 01:33:01,744 my little whore queen. 861 01:33:06,499 --> 01:33:08,334 What queen-like behavior. 862 01:33:10,002 --> 01:33:13,172 Remove her from this chamber before she infects us further... 863 01:33:13,339 --> 01:33:16,342 with her inglorious and shabby self. 864 01:33:23,140 --> 01:33:24,725 This will not be over quickly. 865 01:33:26,060 --> 01:33:29,605 You will not enjoy this. I am not your queen. 866 01:33:51,752 --> 01:33:53,712 Traitor. 867 01:33:54,213 --> 01:33:59,051 Traitor! Traitor! Traitor! 868 01:33:59,301 --> 01:34:01,554 Traitor! 869 01:34:38,591 --> 01:34:44,597 Leonidas, my compliments and congratulations. 870 01:34:44,763 --> 01:34:48,434 You surely have turned calamity into victory. 871 01:34:48,601 --> 01:34:51,604 Despite your insufferable arrogance... 872 01:34:51,770 --> 01:34:55,941 the god-king has come to admire Spartan valor and fighting skill. 873 01:34:56,692 --> 01:34:58,068 You will make a mighty ally. 874 01:34:58,235 --> 01:34:59,945 Yield, Leonidas. 875 01:35:01,113 --> 01:35:03,991 Use your reason. Think of your men. 876 01:35:06,827 --> 01:35:08,454 I beg you. 877 01:35:09,038 --> 01:35:10,998 Listen to your fellow Greek. 878 01:35:11,165 --> 01:35:14,877 He can attest to the divine one's generosity. 879 01:35:15,044 --> 01:35:19,506 Despite your several insults, despite your horrid blasphemies... 880 01:35:20,424 --> 01:35:23,636 the lord of hosts is prepared to forgive all... 881 01:35:23,844 --> 01:35:26,889 and more, to reward your service. 882 01:35:27,139 --> 01:35:28,474 You fight for your lands. 883 01:35:29,183 --> 01:35:31,018 Keep them. 884 01:35:31,727 --> 01:35:33,687 You fight for Sparta. 885 01:35:33,854 --> 01:35:37,858 She will be wealthier and more powerful than ever before. 886 01:35:38,067 --> 01:35:39,985 You fight for your kingship. 887 01:35:40,903 --> 01:35:43,864 You will be proclaimed warlord of all Greece... 888 01:35:44,031 --> 01:35:48,327 answerable only to the one true master of the world. 889 01:35:48,702 --> 01:35:53,457 Leonidas, your victory will be complete... 890 01:35:53,624 --> 01:35:56,210 if you but lay down your arms... 891 01:35:56,377 --> 01:35:59,546 and kneel to holy Xerxes. 892 01:36:30,035 --> 01:36:34,999 It's been more than 30 years since the wolf in the winter cold. 893 01:36:35,165 --> 01:36:39,712 And now, as then, it's not fear that grips him... 894 01:36:39,878 --> 01:36:45,050 . ..only restlessness. A heightened sense of things. 895 01:36:45,843 --> 01:36:50,639 The seaborne breeze coolly kissing the sweat at his chest and neck. 896 01:36:50,806 --> 01:36:52,308 Gulls cawing... 897 01:36:52,474 --> 01:36:56,729 complaining even as they feast on the thousands of floating dead. 898 01:36:58,314 --> 01:37:03,402 The steady breathing of the 300 at his back... 899 01:37:04,153 --> 01:37:07,614 ready to die for him without a moment's pause. 900 01:37:10,242 --> 01:37:11,577 Every one of them... 901 01:37:13,078 --> 01:37:14,997 ready to die. 902 01:37:30,512 --> 01:37:33,432 His helmet is stifling. 903 01:37:54,119 --> 01:37:56,955 His shield is heavy. 904 01:38:04,588 --> 01:38:05,964 Your spear. 905 01:38:14,765 --> 01:38:16,183 You there... 906 01:38:16,642 --> 01:38:18,644 Ephialtes. 907 01:38:23,732 --> 01:38:25,984 May you live forever. 908 01:38:33,409 --> 01:38:35,702 Leonidas, your spear. 909 01:39:42,936 --> 01:39:44,563 Stelios! 910 01:39:54,573 --> 01:39:56,158 Slaughter them! 911 01:39:59,536 --> 01:40:01,121 His helmet was stifling. 912 01:40:01,288 --> 01:40:04,416 It narrowed his vision, and he must see far. 913 01:40:05,751 --> 01:40:09,588 His shield was heavy. It threw him off balance... 914 01:40:09,755 --> 01:40:13,425 and his target is far away. 915 01:41:17,990 --> 01:41:22,578 The old ones say we Spartans are descended from Hercules himself. 916 01:41:24,037 --> 01:41:28,375 Bold Leonidas gives testament to our bloodline. 917 01:41:28,542 --> 01:41:32,671 His roar is long and loud. 918 01:42:02,784 --> 01:42:04,369 My king. 919 01:42:16,632 --> 01:42:20,260 It's an honor to die at your side. 920 01:42:21,845 --> 01:42:26,350 It's an honor to have lived at yours. 921 01:42:47,245 --> 01:42:49,373 My queen! 922 01:42:57,589 --> 01:42:59,341 My wife. 923 01:43:10,769 --> 01:43:12,604 My love. 924 01:45:39,000 --> 01:45:41,127 "Remember us." 925 01:45:42,796 --> 01:45:46,258 As simple an order as a king can give. 926 01:45:47,801 --> 01:45:51,012 "Remember why we died." 927 01:45:53,014 --> 01:45:57,060 For he did not wish tribute or song... 928 01:45:58,895 --> 01:46:03,108 nor monuments, nor poems of war and valor. 929 01:46:05,944 --> 01:46:08,280 His wish was simple. 930 01:46:13,618 --> 01:46:15,704 "Remember us"... 931 01:46:16,746 --> 01:46:18,456 he said to me. 932 01:46:20,125 --> 01:46:22,335 That was his hope. 933 01:46:22,544 --> 01:46:26,298 Should any free soul come across that place... 934 01:46:27,048 --> 01:46:30,385 in all the countless centuries yet to be... 935 01:46:30,802 --> 01:46:33,388 may all our voices... 936 01:46:33,555 --> 01:46:37,642 whisper to you from the ageless stones. 937 01:46:38,602 --> 01:46:42,230 Go tell the Spartans, passerby... 938 01:46:42,564 --> 01:46:48,445 that here, by Spartan law, we lie. 939 01:46:51,197 --> 01:46:53,909 And so my king died... 940 01:46:54,784 --> 01:46:57,412 and my brothers died... 941 01:46:59,789 --> 01:47:02,250 barely a year ago. 942 01:47:06,171 --> 01:47:11,426 Long I pondered my king's cryptic talk of victory. 943 01:47:11,676 --> 01:47:14,304 Time has proven him wise. 944 01:47:15,180 --> 01:47:18,224 For from free Greek to free Greek... 945 01:47:18,391 --> 01:47:23,021 the word was spread that bold Leonidas and his 300... 946 01:47:23,188 --> 01:47:25,190 so far from home... 947 01:47:25,357 --> 01:47:28,735 laid down their lives not just for Sparta... 948 01:47:28,902 --> 01:47:32,697 but for all Greece and the promise this country holds. 949 01:47:33,615 --> 01:47:38,703 Now, here on this rugged patch of earth called Plataea... 950 01:47:38,870 --> 01:47:43,875 Xerxes' hordes face obliteration! 951 01:47:45,543 --> 01:47:48,922 Just there the barbarians huddle... 952 01:47:49,089 --> 01:47:53,969 sheer terror gripping tight their hearts... 953 01:47:54,135 --> 01:47:56,054 with icy fingers... 954 01:47:56,221 --> 01:47:59,432 knowing full well what merciless horrors they suffered... 955 01:47:59,599 --> 01:48:02,143 at the swords and spears of 300. 956 01:48:03,561 --> 01:48:09,109 Yet they stare now across the plain at 10,000 Spartans... 957 01:48:09,275 --> 01:48:12,570 commanding 30,000 free Greeks! 958 01:48:19,411 --> 01:48:23,289 The enemy outnumber us a paltry three to one. 959 01:48:23,581 --> 01:48:25,583 Good odds for any Greek. 960 01:48:26,292 --> 01:48:31,006 This day, we rescue a world from mysticism and tyranny... 961 01:48:31,172 --> 01:48:35,552 and usher in a future brighter than anything we can imagine. 962 01:48:39,973 --> 01:48:41,474 Give thanks, men... 963 01:48:42,183 --> 01:48:45,937 to Leonidas and the brave 300. 964 01:48:46,104 --> 01:48:48,857 To victory!