Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
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Genre	Docudrama
Written by	Nick Murphy James Wood Jeremy Hylton Davies Christopher Spencer Andrew Grieve Colin Heber-Percy Lyall B. Watson
Directed by	Nick Murphy Nick Green Christopher Spencer Andrew Grieve Tim Dunn Arif Nurmohamed
Starring	Sean Pertwee Catherine McCormack Michael Sheen David Threlfall
Narrated by	Alisdair Simpson
Composer	Samuel Sim
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of episodes	6
Production
Executive producer	Matthew Barrett
Producer	Mark Hedgecoe
Running time	60 minutes
Original release
Network	BBC One
Release	21 September (2006-09-21) – 26 October 2006 (2006-10-26)
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Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire is a 2006 BBC One docudrama series, with each episode looking at a different key turning point in the history of the Roman Republic and Empire. This docudrama focuses on the Latin western half of the Roman Empire.