At the end because the romans' general body was abandoned on the battle field -it was judged as treason by his replacement- the legion most responsable for this (the Rhine Legion) was decimated(1 in 10 men were excuted according to who pulled the shortest sticks-luck based so it wasn't only the lower ranks inlcuded in this). The man you see at the end putting his head on a wide log will have his head choped off as he picked a short stick he was in a fact an high ranking officer...
Nothing like seeing the so called civilised getting their just desserts for going where they are not welcome or invited. Pity none of the modern Imperialists get the message. You might have fancy uniforms, classier weapons, better planning and technology but a bunch of people defending their home and families in sackcloths will always win because they are fighting to survive while the soldiers of "civilisation are fighting for the rich masters gain.
Roman cavalry arm was probably the weakest link in the Roman army. Not that they weren't strong, but that the legionnaires have always been the premier fighting arm of the Roman army since the era of the Roman republic, before Gaius Marius' reforms of the army.
Roman cavalry usually were auxiliaries, taken from Germanic tribes. The Roman legions were the ultimate fighting machine. In formation, they are almost unbreakable due to their discipline and skill with the shield and gladius.
Roman Cavalry didn't use stirrups at this time in their history. Not a very historically accurate film. Except for the giant purple plumes on the helmet. They all wore those.
Bet PETA flipped a shit at 3:28. That's either one hell of a job at editing(For 1966 standards) or that poor horse's 15 minutes of fame was cut short.
@555roc Most likely a dummy or an already dead horse. It was more common back then to have animal deaths during filming, but usually it was due to some accident (like War and Peace, they did a full scale recreation, and some horses died from falling over and being trampled by others behind it during cavalry charges) rather than intentional like that.
That horse falling of the cliff is fake, it has to be.
You see it from a long distance, so it's hard to see if it's a real horse. Like you can see, the horse hisself isn't moving, only when he hits a rock the body is changing from form.
I have to see, the producers of the movie did it very well.
Is this historical? When did this battle take place? It seems to me that the actors were not using saddles. Did they have stirrups? The Romans did use a very primitive stirrup from India as early in 100 BC but the true stirrup as we know it that enabled riders to wheel about and remain securely mounted did not appear in the West until the 700s (AD) when Oriental invaders such as Mongols and the Huns appeared on the scene. I don't think the Romans would have fought with extensive cavalry use.
Maan.. the romanians took the best influences / 'dna' out of them all..but then they've filtered 'em right out..coz they didn't need them..Viceversa! The other..nations neede(and took and still takes) the romanian's dna-s.. gold.. oil.. bred..etc The romanians may have kept the roman's ones 'dna' thou.JUST Maybe? What about you..r bad 'dna-s' such as being gay..sob or such.Ain't you (at least TRY) to get rid of them?Might be hard to do it.. but it's for your own sake
i can translate it 0:20-0:29 Fuscus general Severus has meted the enemy barbarians. And what is he doing? Waiting. Waiting?! 0:52-1:07 What are you waiting for Severus you have the best cavalry of empire take them out! Look at the terain.I think is a trap i sended some scouts Scouts? Why are you intimidated by this band of savages? Look at the rock and you will understand! 1:05-1-15 I dont see anything i give you the order to atack!
Trajan column in rome details the invasion and defeat of the dacians in detail and although bravely fought and well led was always doomed . @ this time the roman war machine was @ its finest with legionaires wearing segmenta armour . It boiled down to mountain passes and fortifications being taken by romes heavy infantry and not as this film suggests cavalry
@nobbytang Yes the Dacians did fight bravely. It should be noted that the Romans took very many casualties during their first encounter with the Dacians because they were ill equipped to fight against the Dacian falx. The Dacian falxmen decimated the ranks of the legionaries. Legionaries would suffer lacerations one their right arms because they were exposed and the falx had reach. So blacksmiths accompanying the Legions invented the Manica armguard. A big reason Roman legions were successful.
apoi urmeaza aventurile eroice pt supravietuire pana pe la 1700 aprox.cand se instapanesc fanariotii,. urmeaza 300 de ani de lupte pt rezistenta si razbunarea +protectia tarii si neamului,jertfe,sacrif,epidemii,,nenorociri.,bine descrise de poetii si scriitorii nostrii.Patrioti Adevarati au fost;in ordine=geto-dacii,ramanii,valahii,voivozii si boierii nationali,razboinicii,apoi in ultimii 300 ani-haiducii,t.vladim.a.i.cuza.intelectualii iluminati,garda de fier,luptatorii anti-bolsevii.si noi
@aedotnavzar the roman conquer 100% of dacian territory, destroied the capital Sarmingetusa and take the head of the suicide Decebalo...they kept dacia from 105 dC to 271dC.... it was a thing to celebrate for 123 days!!:)
My favourite is the short pteryges (leather strap skirts) that expose all the thighs. Sexy :D
Hmm, that said, the film could have simply made horned saddles. Roman saddles had four horns to secure the riders. It is a myth that stirrups were essential for effective cavalry. They were easier to use, yes, but not everything. The nomads invented them so that they could stand up when firing their bows/ javelins.They already had horned saddles that secured them in their saddles quite well.
The horse falling off the cliff could've been badly injured and the director just said, "fuck it--just throw it over and film it." It does seem a little gratuitous, though.
@FRAGIORGIO1 it might be down to the freemasons not allowing the enlightened ones to influnce them something like that i was reading about it last night
@FRAGIORGIO1 because latin speaked at ROME was verry close to dacian language,there are some studies that show this and even it is tought by some that dac's or trac's were the one's who formed ROME (dacians are trac's from the left of Danube (ROMANIA-Moldova) maybe this is the reason
@FRAGIORGIO1 Never in history a people can not be assimilated by another culture than superioara.De why we, the Romans have resisted all empires that have conquered and oppressed (Romans, Austro-Hungary, Turkey, Russia).
@issacky it could've been an already dead horse from the stables or just a dummy. Filmed from that distance, you can't tell if it's rubber or real... :) Note that Sergiu Nicolaescu in all his movies, used real explosions in his historical movies, and didn't have the ability to make digital duplications of people on-screen. So they REALLY had all those people there on the set and people REALLY fell from horses and all that :) I personally admire all the work those people made.
As soon as I saw that narrow valley I thought 'watch for archers up in those rocks' - just like any Roman general would (those guys were not so stupid as to be caught in such an Old and Obvious tactic!!) - is this a battle that actually happened?
@gyrofoam1 yes it happened but not like that.the roman army was caught in some sort of pasage,not in a narrow valley,and the roman general thought that Decebal has fleed with his army in the mountains.and it happend again before the final siege in front of Sarmisegetuzsa,the dacian citadel.sometimes an old tactic is bether than new one's:)
@gyrofoam1 They had fired the original experienced general for taking too long, though he had a perfect plan. they handed it over to the new general when this happened. they gave the other guy his job back. I forget the names, Publius Severus or something like that. There is a line of tactics named after him due to the success of them.
well... pretty inaccurate historically; Fuscus was actually killed in that battle as was most of the 5th Legion Alaudae; the romans would not decimate their already diminished forces; decimation occurred relatively few times through history and it was mostly gone by the time of the Roman Empire ( as oposed to the Roman Republic)
The romans continued the campaign next year in 68 AD, but sued for peace because of other setbacks on the Rhine and Panonic theatres of war.
6:47 "El nu s-a indoit ca n-o sa raspundeti la apel" e o prostie, o tripla negatie care inseamna: "el a fost sigur ca veti fi lasi", adica invers. Pe de alta parte, actiunea nu e in timpul lui Traian, cum cred unii, di al lui Domitian (Kovacs Gyorgy). Scena cu calul, daca e reala, ar fi trebuit taiata daca a fost accident iar daca nu, oamenii aia trimisi in judecata si Nicolaescu sa vina sa plinga in public
Romans weren't horsemen. They used better cavalry fighters, like the Gauls, to supply the horsemen for their armies. The Romans' strength, at the height of their power anyway, was always their heavy infantry.
romans did not conquer every nation they knew or knew existed. they did not take over china and some other places. tjat known world crap is euro-centric.let's say they took over their own world.
@Yomamma1338 Yeah, but there were a number of defeats, in this movie only a skirmish (aside from huge symbolicalel loss) but just research Brennus, Cannae, Carrhae, Varus, Battle of Adrianople and so on. The strength of the Roman Empire wasn't the ability to win every battle, it was the literal persistency of its armies - just look at the 2nd Punic War, nearly 200000 soldiers died, but they sent army after army and forced Hannibal to return to Carthago where only one real victory decided the war
@Yomamma1338 I think this movie portrays the engagement by Rom. Emp. Trajan in "Dacia" 102/106 - Dacia became Roman province 106-275.
I never watched this movie but the depiction of a roman vanguard skirmish and the penalty for this dishonored regiment seems pretty accurate for a Sword-and-sandal movie.
Btw is arguing over the superiority of ancient nations grounding on today's ancestry quite dumb- French arent Gauls, today's greeks arent the same etc. Nations will rise and also be destroyed
@Yomamma1338 Yeah, I wonder why did Cassius Dio wrote that the Dacian war was the greatest war that the Romans carried out. It it the first Battle of Tapae when the Thracian Dacian tribe won against the Romans!
@jwhitedirector Most riders today couldn't gallop without stirrups. They'd be falling off all the time. So when making a movie it is a lot cheaper to toss on stirrups than spend a couple of weeks training 2000 extras a different style of riding.
There are some theories saying that they were made of robe, and that's why we haven't found any remain of them. But stil, there's no evidence in iconography...
@MrSunlander Hey, it's the closest you can get to Latin these days, I guess. I mean, it's certainly better than having them all speak English with British accents as is so often the case in these older films.
Yea, A falling tree is a deadly weapon: Dumb Roman dude: "hey what are those guys doing with that axe over there? Ahh Ill just take a stroll in the shade ...ohhh crap" DEAD..
But in the end it's clear who won the war,just listen to romanian language today and you'll see Romans won(heck even the nation is named after them)...I studied Latin on first year of my high school and to me Romanian is closser to Latin than even Italian because of cases and some other shit.
why is ti they never hit the horses with the arrows??? i dont think anyone can be that accurate with arrows to hit the soldiers...and how about those rocks? can you be accurate with rocks also?
@cirosuperiore Maybe because horses are expensive and it'd be stupid to kill them for a movie? i also never heard of animation technology in the 60s ;)
Roman cavalry didn't suck, in fact they had some pretty good cavalry units. But compared to the Roman legions, the Roman cavalry sucked pretty bad. Btw the German horsemen were nothing compared to the Sarmatian horsemen. Decebal was allied with them, and the Roxolani cataphracts were a pain in the ass for Romans.
At the end because the romans' general body was abandoned on the battle field -it was judged as treason by his replacement- the legion most responsable for this (the Rhine Legion) was decimated(1 in 10 men were excuted according to who pulled the shortest sticks-luck based so it wasn't only the lower ranks inlcuded in this). The man you see at the end putting his head on a wide log will have his head choped off as he picked a short stick he was in a fact an high ranking officer...
alex3st 1 week ago
Nothing like seeing the so called civilised getting their just desserts for going where they are not welcome or invited. Pity none of the modern Imperialists get the message. You might have fancy uniforms, classier weapons, better planning and technology but a bunch of people defending their home and families in sackcloths will always win because they are fighting to survive while the soldiers of "civilisation are fighting for the rich masters gain.
lisduggan64 3 weeks ago
turcii au venit din asia centrala (kazahstan de astazi) prin anul 1000 etruscii au trait prin anii 700 si 400 inaintea erei noastre
basileuslucas 1 month ago
The guy had a stiffy before his head go cut off,,,lmao.
MrWhymetoo 1 month ago
running wild................!
sinbad75341 1 month ago
CÄSAR WAS A ETRUSCIAN TÜRK!
LIKE THE WHOLE HOUSE OF THE JULII
EVERYONE WITH THE NAME JULIUS IN ROMAN HISTORY IS A DIRECT TÜRK NOBLE!
Rachenwut 1 month ago
The Roman army never had particularly good cavalry.
1169Timothy 2 months ago
I like of a Romans
Barbarulful 2 months ago
Interesting. The word decimation comes from Roman. If the infantry line was broken, every tenth Roman soldier was executed by their centurion.
HDNighster1 3 months ago
Roman cavalry arm was probably the weakest link in the Roman army. Not that they weren't strong, but that the legionnaires have always been the premier fighting arm of the Roman army since the era of the Roman republic, before Gaius Marius' reforms of the army.
Roman cavalry usually were auxiliaries, taken from Germanic tribes. The Roman legions were the ultimate fighting machine. In formation, they are almost unbreakable due to their discipline and skill with the shield and gladius.
ConstantineJoseph 3 months ago
This is all nonsense - Roman cavalry did not have saddles neither stirrups.
zzp1 3 months ago
FRAGIORGIO1 wtf are you talking about? we come from the dacians and we have no slavic, NO HUNGARIAN, AND NO TURKISH INFLUENCE.
WDF123456789ify 3 months ago
Glad i speak latin or else i couldn't understand a word these legionairs are saying...
DukeOfTennessee117 4 months ago
@DukeOfTennessee117 They aren't speaking Latin, they are speaking Romanian :)
dessert57 2 months ago
@dessert57 Some sort of Latin anyway
fastcougar3200 2 months ago
How come those boulders sound like tin cans?
litehouse6 4 months ago 2
such a nice smooth road cut into the side of a mountain...
achillessniper 4 months ago
I'm hardly an animal rights activist, but pushing a horse off a cliff is certainly a little harsh.
paronomasiaster 4 months ago 5
Roman Cavalry didn't use stirrups at this time in their history. Not a very historically accurate film. Except for the giant purple plumes on the helmet. They all wore those.
insolvancy 5 months ago
5:55 ALL HAIL CAPTAIN GAY OUTFIT!!!
The20876 5 months ago 2
3:07 how come the horses arent dieing???????????
adekoon 5 months ago
Bet PETA flipped a shit at 3:28. That's either one hell of a job at editing(For 1966 standards) or that poor horse's 15 minutes of fame was cut short.
555roc 5 months ago
@555roc Most likely a dummy or an already dead horse. It was more common back then to have animal deaths during filming, but usually it was due to some accident (like War and Peace, they did a full scale recreation, and some horses died from falling over and being trampled by others behind it during cavalry charges) rather than intentional like that.
TalesOfWar 5 months ago
Man, the Dacians were like the Ewoks of the ancient world...
MadDrMark 5 months ago
Overdoing it with the purple plumes there I have to admit
evilhazza 5 months ago
Whats up with that horse being thrown off a cliff??
KONSMITH 5 months ago
I LOL at deaths in old movies and how exaggerated they are
No offence meant to anybody, just saying
TheTrollinSonOfAMoth 5 months ago
Romanian trees make funny noises when they are cut down.
1000thVoice 5 months ago
Haha nice mind fuck Romanians should be supporting who? The indiginous of modern Romania or the 'invaders' the Romans?
0jrhindo 6 months ago
@0jrhindo The indiginous of modern Romania. The Dacian people
ibizarise 2 months ago
Seems to me like the bloke at the end is all mouth & feathers! Well, thats Italians for ya!
lynwoodbear 6 months ago
That horse falling of the cliff is fake, it has to be.
You see it from a long distance, so it's hard to see if it's a real horse. Like you can see, the horse hisself isn't moving, only when he hits a rock the body is changing from form.
I have to see, the producers of the movie did it very well.
Hytjeie 6 months ago
I love how the Roman's wouldn't charge like this lmao.
odstsniper 6 months ago
that was one hell of an ambush
fajtik 7 months ago
Horrible history. Interesting language vey close.
healer378 7 months ago
Because Domitian conducted the first, inconclusive part of the Dacian wars. Trajan's part wasn't completely successful from the get-go either.
a6u5e 7 months ago 6
did they really throw a horse off the cliff??? 3:27
majinleoking 7 months ago
The bowmen suck.
halfassedfart 7 months ago
that horse scene is completely deletable
pedroissler 7 months ago
@pedroissler
You think its real horse?? Maybe dead already or "dummy"..?? I dunno...hope not real, poor bastard :-((
mynthon11 7 months ago
@mynthon11 i think its a real...
Djarzel 6 months ago
does anyone kno if this movie can come in english?
lteagle101 8 months ago
@lteagle101 The Dacians=in romanian Dacii
grasuX007 7 months ago
that horse at 3:31 looked real.....
zneekiii 8 months ago 3
you fight horseback standing still...thats asking for the animal to have its tendons sliced...
vaevictus 8 months ago
Is this historical? When did this battle take place? It seems to me that the actors were not using saddles. Did they have stirrups? The Romans did use a very primitive stirrup from India as early in 100 BC but the true stirrup as we know it that enabled riders to wheel about and remain securely mounted did not appear in the West until the 700s (AD) when Oriental invaders such as Mongols and the Huns appeared on the scene. I don't think the Romans would have fought with extensive cavalry use.
Etnecserc 8 months ago
WTF!!?!? 3:28 HORSEY!!!!!
Dontholdback747 8 months ago 29
@Dontholdback747 WTF IS DIS REAL?!?!?!?111
KiwiDillan23 5 months ago
Maan.. the romanians took the best influences / 'dna' out of them all..but then they've filtered 'em right out..coz they didn't need them..Viceversa! The other..nations neede(and took and still takes) the romanian's dna-s.. gold.. oil.. bred..etc The romanians may have kept the roman's ones 'dna' thou.JUST Maybe? What about you..r bad 'dna-s' such as being gay..sob or such.Ain't you (at least TRY) to get rid of them?Might be hard to do it.. but it's for your own sake
ElijahLudwig 8 months ago
vladlego 9 months ago
Trajan column in rome details the invasion and defeat of the dacians in detail and although bravely fought and well led was always doomed . @ this time the roman war machine was @ its finest with legionaires wearing segmenta armour . It boiled down to mountain passes and fortifications being taken by romes heavy infantry and not as this film suggests cavalry
nobbytang 9 months ago
@nobbytang Yes the Dacians did fight bravely. It should be noted that the Romans took very many casualties during their first encounter with the Dacians because they were ill equipped to fight against the Dacian falx. The Dacian falxmen decimated the ranks of the legionaries. Legionaries would suffer lacerations one their right arms because they were exposed and the falx had reach. So blacksmiths accompanying the Legions invented the Manica armguard. A big reason Roman legions were successful.
3dwardcullen69 2 months ago
3:28 they really did that aswell during the films making :(
TalonMercenary 9 months ago
Good lord! Have they kicked a horse from a cliff? o.O
CoIdHeat 9 months ago 4
u just have to love the sound effects from the bows LOL :D
FieryMastermind 9 months ago
3:28 OMG that must have hurt
XiCol4d2 9 months ago
That poor horse at 3:28............was there any need for them to do that?
I mean come on, no need to basically cripple the poor thing just for a film.
B8rkley 9 months ago
what's the "meoow"-sound supposed to be? falling trees? rubber trees?
TheReparedWings 10 months ago
apoi urmeaza aventurile eroice pt supravietuire pana pe la 1700 aprox.cand se instapanesc fanariotii,. urmeaza 300 de ani de lupte pt rezistenta si razbunarea +protectia tarii si neamului,jertfe,sacrif,epidemii,,nenorociri.,bine descrise de poetii si scriitorii nostrii.Patrioti Adevarati au fost;in ordine=geto-dacii,ramanii,valahii,voivozii si boierii nationali,razboinicii,apoi in ultimii 300 ani-haiducii,t.vladim.a.i.cuza.intelectualii iluminati,garda de fier,luptatorii anti-bolsevii.si noi
boogieman03ful 10 months ago
@boogieman03ful
trilu lilu
hehno1 9 months ago
Se scrie Romanian nu Rumanian. Cu o, ca romanii...
cyberenden 11 months ago
I wish they would made new movie of this, exactly same stroy, but more realistic eguipment formations etc.
TheRomanRuler 1 year ago
Care sunteti cu voturile negative......plecati dracului!
karapetean 1 year ago
thumbs up if you realized that all the romans who got hit by arrows didnt have arrows in them?
firephilip10 1 year ago 2
3:26 omg was that a real horse?
0Andurril0 1 year ago
@0Andurril0 I think it was... they shouldn't make movies like this if one animal has to suffer like that horse did... just green screen everything
robbyperez 1 year ago
@robbyperez Oh don't worry. That was two guys in a horse outfit...so don't worry
patgarrett5755 11 months ago
Romans conquered only 14% out of DACIA, and they celebrated 123 days, with food and wine. It was the biggest Roman celebration in history. ;)
aedotnavzar 1 year ago
@aedotnavzar the roman conquer 100% of dacian territory, destroied the capital Sarmingetusa and take the head of the suicide Decebalo...they kept dacia from 105 dC to 271dC.... it was a thing to celebrate for 123 days!!:)
maury8130 11 months ago
@maury8130 not true,the norden moldova was never under roman rule
octavianjuravle 11 months ago 3
@maury8130 the roman conquer 16% of dacian territory
vulturandrei 11 months ago
My favourite is the short pteryges (leather strap skirts) that expose all the thighs. Sexy :D
Hmm, that said, the film could have simply made horned saddles. Roman saddles had four horns to secure the riders. It is a myth that stirrups were essential for effective cavalry. They were easier to use, yes, but not everything. The nomads invented them so that they could stand up when firing their bows/ javelins.They already had horned saddles that secured them in their saddles quite well.
generalpatton3 1 year ago
probably is about the first war between dacians and romans, in the second wan dacians were conquered
nycktalus 1 year ago
is this event even true?
ItaMick 1 year ago
@ItaMick everything happened
TheMuslimism1 1 year ago
You can actually see the men pushing the horse over the cliff if you pause! wow sick!
3:28 !!!
MooseHunter911 1 year ago
No, assholes, that horse was already death during the film!
Hey what about the dead horse? Mm, throw it and film it and will look good!
racpembertondual 1 year ago
The horse falling off the cliff could've been badly injured and the director just said, "fuck it--just throw it over and film it." It does seem a little gratuitous, though.
Thevenizer 1 year ago
OMG are you serious about that horse being real???? what the hell is wrong with the producers
TalonMercenary 1 year ago
@TalonMercenary ..jsut a dman horse. Shit.
danuisortiz 1 year ago
2:32 - Nice blue pants!
mrlacey888 1 year ago
Interesting how the Romanians keep their Latin roots alive, inspite of Slavic, Hungarian, and Turkish influences.
FRAGIORGIO1 1 year ago 49
@FRAGIORGIO1 The Turkish influences aren't that big and noticeable. The Hungarian influences are only linguistically in the West of the Country.
EdwinMarc 9 months ago
@FRAGIORGIO1 it might be down to the freemasons not allowing the enlightened ones to influnce them something like that i was reading about it last night
markjoachen 8 months ago
@FRAGIORGIO1 because latin speaked at ROME was verry close to dacian language,there are some studies that show this and even it is tought by some that dac's or trac's were the one's who formed ROME (dacians are trac's from the left of Danube (ROMANIA-Moldova) maybe this is the reason
bogdanredlight 7 months ago
@FRAGIORGIO1 Never in history a people can not be assimilated by another culture than superioara.De why we, the Romans have resisted all empires that have conquered and oppressed (Romans, Austro-Hungary, Turkey, Russia).
dragoszizi 3 months ago
How do they fake the horse falling at 3:30??
issacky 1 year ago
@issacky Its real unfortunately, they didn't quite have the animal laws like we do today.
sourcemaster 1 year ago
@issacky
I am afraid it's not fake
Suv62 1 year ago
@issacky right... fake 8-)
Loxleiev 1 year ago
@issacky it could've been an already dead horse from the stables or just a dummy. Filmed from that distance, you can't tell if it's rubber or real... :) Note that Sergiu Nicolaescu in all his movies, used real explosions in his historical movies, and didn't have the ability to make digital duplications of people on-screen. So they REALLY had all those people there on the set and people REALLY fell from horses and all that :) I personally admire all the work those people made.
handicapated 1 year ago 3
Fuck, that looks a like real horse falling off the cliff!
PrimeChaosVC 1 year ago
bad charge :(
Joggaa18 1 year ago
I thought purple underwear was reserved for the Caesars.
Tsarevna303 1 year ago
@Tsarevna303 lol you mean pretorian guards? XD
Cobetck19 1 year ago
Nice package on that guy at the end.
stupidguyx 1 year ago
didnt romans focus on heavy infantry tactics and cavalry was a bonus?
sewagedweller 1 year ago
There is only one thing i dont like in old historic movies... the music
PompeusMagnus 1 year ago 50
@PompeusMagnus why dont you like the music
yes i know it isnt techno or death metal, its much better than that
scalemodellingtips 1 year ago
@PompeusMagnus Why?
fattoler 9 months ago
As soon as I saw that narrow valley I thought 'watch for archers up in those rocks' - just like any Roman general would (those guys were not so stupid as to be caught in such an Old and Obvious tactic!!) - is this a battle that actually happened?
gyrofoam1 1 year ago
@gyrofoam1 yes it happened but not like that.the roman army was caught in some sort of pasage,not in a narrow valley,and the roman general thought that Decebal has fleed with his army in the mountains.and it happend again before the final siege in front of Sarmisegetuzsa,the dacian citadel.sometimes an old tactic is bether than new one's:)
calulleonard 1 year ago
@gyrofoam1 They had fired the original experienced general for taking too long, though he had a perfect plan. they handed it over to the new general when this happened. they gave the other guy his job back. I forget the names, Publius Severus or something like that. There is a line of tactics named after him due to the success of them.
xpo50 1 year ago
led into an ambush sounds like the roman army
histatimaniples 1 year ago
I had a Romanian maths teacher, and he always joked that Romanian sounded like "retarded Italians" talking. He was a fucking legend.
murf69 1 year ago
well... pretty inaccurate historically; Fuscus was actually killed in that battle as was most of the 5th Legion Alaudae; the romans would not decimate their already diminished forces; decimation occurred relatively few times through history and it was mostly gone by the time of the Roman Empire ( as oposed to the Roman Republic)
The romans continued the campaign next year in 68 AD, but sued for peace because of other setbacks on the Rhine and Panonic theatres of war.
darkflame2001ro 1 year ago
lmao@the end wtf
MrRedeyedJedi 1 year ago
Nice movie i saw also in Italian. Actually WOLF is Italian the closest to the Latin cause well it's Latin Vulgaris.
veltroo 1 year ago
I can't understand a word from that language. Only the word "barbaric"
thesuperwillem 1 year ago
@thesuperwillem
if you don't understand latin you can use Google Translate ;)
UM01171 1 year ago
The must be the boss. He has the biggest hat.
Altaranalt 1 year ago
sweet ploom hat dude lol
jfkfgrygrr 1 year ago
6:47 "El nu s-a indoit ca n-o sa raspundeti la apel" e o prostie, o tripla negatie care inseamna: "el a fost sigur ca veti fi lasi", adica invers. Pe de alta parte, actiunea nu e in timpul lui Traian, cum cred unii, di al lui Domitian (Kovacs Gyorgy). Scena cu calul, daca e reala, ar fi trebuit taiata daca a fost accident iar daca nu, oamenii aia trimisi in judecata si Nicolaescu sa vina sa plinga in public
tex99pL 1 year ago
Lol the romans that died from the horse archers didnt have arrows in them
i thought cavalry didnt carry legionaire eagles
rometotalwarviper 1 year ago
lol the Romans that died from the horse archers didnt have arrows stuck in them
I thought cavalry didnt carry legionaire eagles
rometotalwarviper 1 year ago
That was absolutely a real horse at 3:27, and it's definitely dead. Watch the legs after the horse has only fallen a few feet.
BillBrasky01 1 year ago
ASTARDE? barbari pizza
chukurulugai 1 year ago
Epic poofy purple hat
Gneisenau 1 year ago
Romans weren't horsemen. They used better cavalry fighters, like the Gauls, to supply the horsemen for their armies. The Romans' strength, at the height of their power anyway, was always their heavy infantry.
deino117 1 year ago
Oh my god! It's cruel how they make the horses die
Theempore1234 1 year ago
@Theempore1234 maybe the horse was old and sick and would died anyway
MrMarkuss73 1 year ago
haha, i read this book one time and one of the characters was a roman auxiliary soldier with a smashed in nose from a dacian club lol
kakabukkake0 1 year ago
was that horse falling at 3:29 a real horse and if so, WHY DID THEY DO THAT and did it live?
bh5496 1 year ago
@bh5496 it's possible the "cliff" was mostly made of polyester or some softish type of material.
Either that or Italians think that such horses are cheap enough to risk serious injury.
beepandbop 1 year ago
@bh5496 They killed the horse for the film. Kind of a normal occurrence in movies believe it or not.
TheMrEPenguin 1 year ago
@bh5496 cause uh, tis justr a horse? its 1960? and hrises are like, everywhere? seriously, its nothing.
danuisortiz 1 year ago
I love the sound of falling wooden rocks lol. It's not great is it :(
blueray1969 1 year ago
romans did not conquer every nation they knew or knew existed. they did not take over china and some other places. tjat known world crap is euro-centric.let's say they took over their own world.
CELL111able 1 year ago
@CELL111able The Romans didn't even really know about China. All they knew is that silk came in from the ends of the earth.
Alexandros1294 1 year ago
The Dacians are our ancestors ! I'm proud to be Romanian, a follower of the Dacian and Roman people !
alex9920iasi 1 year ago
What war is this? I don't recall the Romans being such lousy fighters. They conquered the known world for a reason, after all.
Yomamma1338 1 year ago
@Yomamma1338 Yeah, but there were a number of defeats, in this movie only a skirmish (aside from huge symbolicalel loss) but just research Brennus, Cannae, Carrhae, Varus, Battle of Adrianople and so on. The strength of the Roman Empire wasn't the ability to win every battle, it was the literal persistency of its armies - just look at the 2nd Punic War, nearly 200000 soldiers died, but they sent army after army and forced Hannibal to return to Carthago where only one real victory decided the war
oldenough13 1 year ago
@Yomamma1338 I think this movie portrays the engagement by Rom. Emp. Trajan in "Dacia" 102/106 - Dacia became Roman province 106-275.
I never watched this movie but the depiction of a roman vanguard skirmish and the penalty for this dishonored regiment seems pretty accurate for a Sword-and-sandal movie.
Btw is arguing over the superiority of ancient nations grounding on today's ancestry quite dumb- French arent Gauls, today's greeks arent the same etc. Nations will rise and also be destroyed
oldenough13 1 year ago
@Yomamma1338 Yeah, I wonder why did Cassius Dio wrote that the Dacian war was the greatest war that the Romans carried out. It it the first Battle of Tapae when the Thracian Dacian tribe won against the Romans!
AlexanderSSI 1 year ago
I like the numbers at the end...decimation punishment for defeat,though I'm not quite sure if Trajan used it.
sumadinac92 1 year ago
You have to love those stirrups...not invented in the Roman era LOL
jwhitedirector 1 year ago 27
@jwhitedirector oops
jfpOne23 1 year ago
@jwhitedirector
they were gallic
danteandcratosman89 1 year ago
@danteandcratosman89 Thats why the movie is called Dacii and not Gallii right?
3dwardcullen69 8 months ago
@jwhitedirector Most riders today couldn't gallop without stirrups. They'd be falling off all the time. So when making a movie it is a lot cheaper to toss on stirrups than spend a couple of weeks training 2000 extras a different style of riding.
goodtimebob 1 year ago 2
There are some theories saying that they were made of robe, and that's why we haven't found any remain of them. But stil, there's no evidence in iconography...
Ennio444 1 year ago
@jwhitedirector and they did not speak Italian, either.....
MrSunlander 10 months ago
@MrSunlander Hey, it's the closest you can get to Latin these days, I guess. I mean, it's certainly better than having them all speak English with British accents as is so often the case in these older films.
turb05 10 months ago 3
@jwhitedirector if they were...knights wouldve come VERY early
funnyguyagency 9 months ago
interesante oscura y distante lengua latina
pauletfromcallao 1 year ago
@pauletfromcallao it's romanian language
MrMarkuss73 1 year ago
Yea, A falling tree is a deadly weapon: Dumb Roman dude: "hey what are those guys doing with that axe over there? Ahh Ill just take a stroll in the shade ...ohhh crap" DEAD..
rencro123 1 year ago
But in the end it's clear who won the war,just listen to romanian language today and you'll see Romans won(heck even the nation is named after them)...I studied Latin on first year of my high school and to me Romanian is closser to Latin than even Italian because of cases and some other shit.
sumadinac92 1 year ago
Where can i find these movies
uiopytrre 1 year ago
Stirrups were not invented in roman times!!!
jockie0706 1 year ago
Those two guys sure are good with an axes!
lgop2nopz 1 year ago
Did I see that correctly? Romans with blue underwear?
SmallieM 1 year ago
they cant kill real animals in movies
DAmaster441 1 year ago
@DAmaster441 They could in Romania back in 1966 apparently.
Alexandros1294 1 year ago
DONT Mess with a Man in a Dress and with a feathered hat!
generalzod4life 1 year ago
why is ti they never hit the horses with the arrows??? i dont think anyone can be that accurate with arrows to hit the soldiers...and how about those rocks? can you be accurate with rocks also?
cirosuperiore 1 year ago
@cirosuperiore Maybe because horses are expensive and it'd be stupid to kill them for a movie? i also never heard of animation technology in the 60s ;)
babyschaf1 1 year ago
@babyschaf1 So horses are too expensive to be hit as opposed to PEOPLE?!
initvesa 1 year ago
Do all these old movies have the exact same soundtrack....
pleasuremuffin 1 year ago
The tree huggers would have a heart attack over this movie.
UtahMike41 1 year ago
that horse sure looked real...
romaSPQR22 1 year ago
@romaSPQR22 it was real..
JonJonAdamson 1 year ago
the horse who fell down that cliff,that was edited right?
darsus19 1 year ago
Mereu Mandru ca sunt urmas al dacilor!
bobopharm 1 year ago
3:19 reminds me of the movie 300 :D
bogdanush82 1 year ago
I cant believe they had no armor covering their thighs.
HunterHornet 1 year ago
Romans are shown using stirups.. but not the other side ?
Boruta46 1 year ago
andate a vedere la colonna traiana
59newlife 1 year ago
It was o.k. back then , there were no animal right activists ,
the horse was a very ill one , it was going to die soon anyway !
Stepeni 1 year ago
Pas mal de mots proches du français : courage, bravoure, légionnaire, général, barbare, l'attaque, observer, défilé, terrain (?), cavalier, etc.
LePatrickandries 1 year ago
ahah still got this movie in my colection..its awesome :D
ArtInTrance 1 year ago
Who were the romans fighting?
Titanlord10000 1 year ago
the dacians
apocalypse00023 1 year ago
everybody, even each other
godscuttingyoudown 1 year ago
@Titanlord10000 they were fighting the dacians,the so called wolfes of carpathians,whichare the ancestors of today"s romanians.
imigrante80 1 year ago
@Titanlord10000 they were fighting the dacians,the so called wolfes of carpathians,whichare the ancestors of today"s romanians.
imigrante80 1 year ago
5 stars !
ArseneLupin2009 1 year ago
roman cavalry sucked. they had to hire mercenaries always. Caesar used German horsemen in his campaign against the Gauls.
asep5 1 year ago
Roman cavalry didn't suck, in fact they had some pretty good cavalry units. But compared to the Roman legions, the Roman cavalry sucked pretty bad. Btw the German horsemen were nothing compared to the Sarmatian horsemen. Decebal was allied with them, and the Roxolani cataphracts were a pain in the ass for Romans.
LaurentziusRo88 1 year ago 11