Lucius Verus faces a rhinoceros and feral baboons while fighting in Gladiator II, but how accurate is this to the real ...

Ridley Scott is known for taking liberties with his historical epics. But how historically accurate is his latest, Gladiator ...

History consultant Alexander Mariotti speaks with Yahoo UK about the criticism levelled at the sequel, and calls Ridley Scott ...

Gladiator II director Ridley Scott famously does not care about historical accuracy in his films but we had to ask.

The image of a gladiator standing tall on top of a charging rhino flying through the Roman Colosseum became one of the ...

A Roman culture expert reveals which of Ridley Scott’s arena battles are based on real history — and which are “fun, but ...

"Gladiator II" is a monument to Scott, who is 86 and still without a directing Oscar after displaying mind-blowing mastery in ...

The image of a gladiator standing tall on top of a charging rhino flying through the Roman ... but they weren’t so common as to become boring. People were always still really excited when ...

"I teach people about Homer ... that has drawn criticism is Scott's decision to have Lucius go up against a rhino-riding gladiator in the colosseum. This was an idea of the directors long before ...

(There are also accounts of Commodus — played in Gladiator by Joaquin Phoenix — fighting a rhino from a safe distance, she says. The emperor wanted “to show off, big time, and the people ...

And his latest, Gladiator II, has already drawn the ire of historians. Details like a rhino ridden by a gladiator and sharks munching on unlucky combatants in the Colosseum have been raising eyebrows ...

The leading star, 28, looked happier than ever as he relaxed with his nearest and dearest after the very star-studded red ...