Alexander

Genre: Biography

Worldwide gross$167M

Conquering ninety percent of the known world by the age of twenty-five, Alexander the Great (Colin Farrell) led his armies through twenty-two thousand miles of sieges and conquests in just eight years. Coming out of tiny Macedonia, Alexander led his armies against the mighty Persian Empire, drove west to Egypt, and finally made his way east to India. This movie concentrated on those eight years of battles, as well as his relationship with his boyhood friend and battle mate, Hephaistion (Jared Leto). Alexander died young, of illness, at the age of thirty-two. Alexander's conquests paved the way for the spread of Greek culture (facilitating the spread of Christianity centuries later), and removed many of the obstacles that might have prevented the expansion of the Roman Empire. In other words, the world we know today might never have been if not for Alexander's bloody, yet unifying, conquest.

🏆 6 wins & 19 nominations total

Genres

Action, Biography, Drama

Director

Oliver Stone

Cast

Colin Farrell, Anthony Hopkins, Rosario Dawson

Released

24 November 2004

Runtime

2h 55m

Certificate

R

IMDb rating

5.6 / 10

Votes

182,330

Metascore

40

Rotten Tomatoes

15%

Box office

$34,297,191

Budget

$155,000,000

Edition

Base