https://ancientrome.org/tags/the-eagle-film/ Recent content in The Eagle Film on Ancient Rome Hugo en-us Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ancientrome.org/the-eagle-2011-romes-northern-edge/ Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ancientrome.org/the-eagle-2011-romes-northern-edge/ <p>Kevin Macdonald&rsquo;s The Eagle, based on Rosemary Sutcliff&rsquo;s 1954 novel The Eagle of the Ninth, occupies a different register from the gladiatorial epics and political dramas that constitute most of Hollywood&rsquo;s Roman output. It is a frontier film, a journey narrative, set in Roman Britain and the territory beyond Hadrian&rsquo;s Wall, and it is interested in questions that the arena films are not: what does it mean to serve an empire at its geographical and civilizational limits, and what does Rome look like from outside?</p>