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Japanese actors playing Roman people in Hadrian era of Roman Empire. One Roman architect of the bath time slipps to modern Japan and experience modern style bath. All dialogues are done in Japanese except some short Latin dialogues.  Interesting thing was viewers could learn how Roman Empire functioned. How Roman viewed other parts of the world, and how slavery functioned. How important it was for the Emperor Hadrian to be deifeid after retirement. One of the shocking thing shown was Emperor Hadrian had a boy lover and he was very much saddened by the boy's death. It was very...

Directed by Spike Lee. A story of Black soldiers fighting against Nazis in Italy during WW II. Although the film wasn't well-edited but I could learn so much about WW II history in Europe, especially Italy's position in the war. I also could learn how Black soldiers are treated in the war. They were never treated equally. Their white superior never trusted his Black comrades. Back home,...