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  • If I had a time machine, I would go back in time and save the Alexander memoirs of Ptolemy  from burning!!

  • Good for the history of the kind of loving seekers of the trying kings

    monkey tribes called here were actually trained monkeys to fight war fare , such as shooting arrows .........

    elephants were trained to charge with or without influence of alcohol,

    fighters were men n they were trained n deliviring the fights

    why do u think those cow boys r the best coz they were n maybe r good at training horses only!!!!!!!!!! never ignore the greater intellects of those times

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  • Love this film, he was greatest man by following his dreams, LONG LIVE ALEXANDER!

  • Your great dreams became my worldview...thank you Aléxandros ho Mégas

  • One and only! Eternal Alexander The Great.

  • ....who would hate this film anyway? it has Colin Farrell in it, Angelina Jolie in it, and Connor Paolo...why hate it? i love this movie!

  • @Damon931 most people hate the regular version not the final cut

  • I honestly can't see why people hate this movie so much. To me, Alexander was at least average or a mediocre film, but not terrible.

  • The ancient Greeks left a great legacy to the world i see them as the greatest people who ever lived

  • @sm0keshell

    I agree with you, I think they definitely did more (if not, on par) than what the Romans did for civilization.

    Rule Greece!

  • R.I.P. Steve. The words Ptolemy is saying are about you.

  • Alexander The Great. Son of Zeus, Son of Aquiles

    ¡¡¡THIS IS MACEDONIA!!!

  • This movie is brilliant, i watched bits of it when it was just released but was to young to apprecate it at the time. The acting by Anthony Hopkins was outstanding! Very good film, with many powerful scenes like this last one. Makes you believe anybody is capable of greatness if they have the spirit to follow their dreams to the end of the world.

  • The movie is underrated. Anthony Hopkin's role as as elderly Ptolemy was great. The movie is NOT about Alexander's battles, but his LIFE. Alexander the Great was not just some stereotypical warrior king who cut people to pieces etc - he was a man who loved, cried and showed emotions.

  • Megos Alexandros!!! Alexander had achieved what he wanted. He will be remembered as King of Asia and a Great Man. Long live memory of Alexander of Makedonia!!!! (+)

  • @ponti117 Yea and Macedonia is a kingdom of Greece :) You cant even say what Anthony Hopkins said in Greek ! Megas Alexandros = Μέγας Αλέξανδρος in Alexanders languange .

  • @Irukandji78 Da idi ti na hui pidar.

  • @ponti117Hmm i tried to google translate and says russian...i guess you are fyromian so άντε γαμίσου και εσύ

  • @Irukandji78 love you too, sweetheart.

  • I am so proud of having the name Alexander i've decided to get a tattoo with my name on the back. And indeed the greatest Alexander of them all, We all look up to you!! R.I.P brother

  • Anthony Hopkins is simply brilliant. You can actually feel his connection to Alexander when he speaks of him, talented actor :-)

  • long is the way and hard , that out of darkness leads up to light.

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  • @muststaystrong1 Now you've said it...GO DO IT!! Actually... SO many people have said the same thing at your age and have failed miserably at their word. I've traveled to far off lands and can tell you it beats a collage education. (for me at least)

  • @my235 you don't know how to spell college lol

  • @UseryHee :(

  • Alexander-Julius Caesar-King Arthur

  • This movie soundtrack is another great music creation from Vangelis. This soundtrack by Vangelis is in collaboration British Music talents Nic Raine and Vanessae Mae in 2003, the result is this one wonderful track.

    Pity about the disastrously directed and put together movie by Oliver Stone. Crap film doesn't do justice to the superb soundtrack forget the movie go out and buy the superb soundtrack its an absolute classic. Musicianship at its best!

  • Thank you for posting this, wonderful tune :) Epic!

  • His name will live forever, Megas Alexandros, Alexander The Great... I love you.. I love History.. I love this video.. I love this song.. I love all about Ancient Greece!

  • great music, love this vid.

  • Alexander The Great, Caesar, Achilles, Napoleon Bonaparte. Sometimes they all had so much in common, perhaps they were all the same person :)

  • Bellissimo !!

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  • This ending, soundtrack and titles make sense for the whole movie

  • how i love this movie<3

  • Alexander- The greatest military commander ever lived

  • love the queen of persia...and she talked to alexander too...ahah

  • Return to me Aléxandros...

    

  • ALEKSANDAR MAKEDONSKI

  • @VitalMusic217 Heaven fuck no.

  • @VitalMusic217

    If he was the "lost son of Alexander", then boy oh boy was he lost.

  • Long live my dear Macedonian working class!

    - KGB -

  • megas alexandros,,,fucker why did you died bitch,,,if ur life were like in the movie you were very happy i might say....what i like the most of the movie were 3 things...1--when he was at hindu kush..2 when he was nice with the princess of babylon 3- when he was talking to begoas saying goodbye to him very sad but true

  • I think he's Achillies. Julius Caesar. Spartacus. Hector. put together :D

  • @ryanhammond5 ο μέγιστος Αλέξανδρος...possibly the greatest military commander of all time''....Achillies was great fighter ..perhaps one of thee greatest!! Caesar a soldier turned politician and his greatness was put out before we saw it!! Spartacus Great warrior and fighter..destroyed by ambition, and Hector great within his own right...just outclassed by Achillies

  • @ryanhammond5 still Khengis Khan had an even greater empire than him, making Khengis Khan a greater general.

    tho alexander was only 18 when he conquered persia so that'll make them even.

  • @Kyoulicious Alexander was the greater that Khengis, because Khengis only conquered lands, doing nothing to bring together the various cultures together. As Alexander, he did that, and he was loved, precisely because his fondness for cultures, he always wanted to bring cultures together... And he didnt lose single battle...

  • @Aleks2350 Did you even research how Khengis Khan held his immense vast empire under control? By pleasing and merging cultures. So did Alexander, tho Khengis Khan's empire was much bigger.

  • @Kyoulicious but the problem seemed to be though with Alexander is that the Greeks/Macedonians were not very open to merging cultures. They didnt want to merge with Persian culture. They wanted to persians to merge with greek culture only. They also didnt like the fact that Alexander chose a persian as his queen. Then he died unexpectedly without any real visible heir and that split up the Empire into about 6 or 7 pieces each controlled by his generals. Not long after that the Romans took over.

  • @Kyoulicious seriously guys lol you can't go and compare people like those...

  • @ryanhammond5 Hes a descendant of Achilles

  • @ryanhammond5 He is an actual descendant from Achilles

  • "I've lived long life, Cadmus, but the glory and the memory of men will always belong to the ones who follow their great visions"

    Love this line. 

  • @stonehengesunset one of the best lines ever said in a movie..in one of the best movies ever...oauuuu thats all ia have to say...amazing magnific..dreams do come true

  • @stonehengesunset I wish Herman Cain quoted from this movie instead of Pokemon.

  • this has got to be the most epic end scene ever!

  • So epic... and...

    :(

    the end... :(

  • Prophecy of Alexander the Great is clearly written in Daniel 8: 19-26.

  • Vangelis you truly are a legend

  • Vangelis you truly are a l

  • The soundtrack to this film is amazing IMO, very stirring and memorable. It is one of the few saving graces of an otherwise sub-par movie.

  • End theme's sooo EPIC and Heroic!

  • Imagine if Alexander's heir had survived to pick up where his dad left off, history would've been very different!

  • Awesome movie

  • RIP Alexander the Great

  • As Ptolemy said in this movie: I've seen many great men in my life, but there's only one greatest of them, Megas Alexandros. He is my hero,my ideal, and the person whom I want to be. He is the person we still memorize even though he was dead more than 2000 yeas ago.

  • Good Movie

    Alexandros = Ellinas (Greek)

    Makedonia = Greece

    f u kolo skopians get a life and accept the facts that you are slavs and dont have a history, thank you. Try to make a history instead of stealing ours..

  • This is what I call epic workout music!

  • That statue of Alexander at the end is the spitting image of my dad when he was young. And he's from the Peloponnese! =)

  • Can't you fuckheads just enjoy the film?

  • For the freedom and GLORRRRRRRYYYYYYYYY of GREECE...

    M EG A S ALEXANDROS

  • He actually says "The greatest Alexander of all". But they cut out that part

  • @tjohn1986 This is from the Revisited Cut, so it's a little different.

  • I love this score.

  • What made Alexander great wasnt that he was a great general. He was a great general but he was great because he didnt really look at himself as a king and all others were his subjects to rule. He looked at his subjects(especially his soldiers) as brothers. He led them personally in battle. Not many kings personally lead troops in battle. He was proad to lead them and die with them if neccisary. Thats probably how he would have like to have died but unfortunitly he never got that chance

  • God, I really love this piece of music...

  • I dont understand why they decided to have Ptolemy(Hopkins) say that He and the others killed Alexander? That is only speculation. There is no proof. He could have died from malaria or west Nile Virus or a number of things. They said that it took Alexander at least a week to die. There wasnt really any poisons available back then that could have taken that long. But who really knows? Why would they kill him in the first place? He took his army home like they asked. What more did they want?

  • @Destoryer86 Well he was planning a campaign in Arabia before he died, and he did kill Cleitus and Philotas for reasons that were very questionable. Alexander was still a great man though, and nothing can be argued against that.

  • @Alexandros1294. Good point. while I dont think they really cared about Philotas. He was pompus and arrogant and got into conflict with Alexander and the other generals at times.Cleitus however, who was popular among the generals and was one of Alexanders closest friends was killed in a drunken fight. Alexander would later regret killing his friend in a drunken fight. The other generals probably started to see that alexander is uncontrollable and one of them could be next when hes drunk.

  • @Destoryer86 People weren't too happy about the death of Parmenion either. However, they understood it was necessary with the death of Philotas. How can you kill someone's son and let the father live? Parmenion had complete control of the supply lines.

  • @Alexandros1294 True, But Im sure they understood that it was neccesary to kill Parmenion. No way would he stay loyal after hearing his son was killed. He had control of a large army and was in control of the suply lines. It was too dangerous to allow him to live

  • @Destoryer86 I think he might mean it in that... they 'let' him die through their actions/inactions so it was their fault? Because they didn't really believe in his vision etc. etc. They wanted the power, they felt threatened, they didn't stop him from his self-destructive actions... In that sense they killed him, because they were responsible for his 'safety' but they never really tried enough...

  • Megas Alèxandros,the greatest of them all.....

  • This is the kind of biopic Hitler would have loved for himself.

  • @AdArmand Except for the fact that Alexander actually deserves one like this.

  • and if his attempt to reconcile Greeks and barbarians ended in failure? Oh .. What a beautiful bust! The failure of it surpassed the successes of other men. All will be in the shadow world beyond and his name will live forever in history as the brightest light of youth, strong forever and ever inspiring ... Alexander the Great!

  • type in alexander speaks to his men, unlreleased soundtrack, and it will have a bust of him and black in the background

  • always remembered for wat he was, king of makedonia, aleksandar makedonski!!! ALEKSANDAR VELIKI, not megas alexandros

  • @makedonserb Macedonia is Greek. Ancient Macedonian Coins call him "Basileus Alexandros" which means King Alexander in Greek. Did I mention they were printed during his reign? It is Megas Alexandros, or more correctly ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ. Fucking Fyromian dumbass.

  • @Aleksandar1294 actually retard, his father was vasileus, that was his first name, and in macedonian that means vo sil , which means with power, and ilios an ancient god of the sun, alexander was called philhellene, which means friend of greeks, which means he is not greek because he cant be greek and friend of greek, he is barbarian friend of greek, barbarian meaning not greek. philip conquered greece, alexander united it to fight and conquer persia. U r from gaylada not makedonia.

  • @makedonserb No, dumbass. His father was Philip, or Philippos, and Alexander the Great was not called Philhellene, and that was Alexander I who was called Philhellene. He wasn't called "Friend of Greeks" because he wasn't Greek, it was because he deserted the Persian side and went over to the Athenian Side.

  • @makedonserb Alexander called himself Greek all the time. Read the letter he sent to Darius replying to Darius' peace offer. Read Quintus Curtius Rufus in the aftermath of Chaeronea, Alexander didn't even take joy in his father's victory because he said that they should be united since they are of the same blood, speak the same language, and have the same heritage.

  • @makedonserb Philip united Greece by force. Civil Wars were common in Greek history. Just because Philip fought them, doesn't mean he wasn't a Greek. Sparta fought Athens during the Peloponnesian War, does that make Sparta a 'non-Greek' state?

  • @makedonserb Macedonia was considered barbarian because the kingdom had mixed blood, it was made up of Greeks, Thracians, and Illyrians.

  • @Alexandros1294 barbarian meant one who does not speak greek. and mixed blood? my freind we are mixed blood right now, why are we denied our name? true macedonia is pirin from bulgaria, vardar from the republic, and egej from greece, each one is a section of the ethnic macedonia, each are descendants of the ancient macedonians, weather mixed with slav or not, there is not such thing as pure blood, we deserve the macedonian name along with the other two sections, it is macedonia region.

  • @makedonserb Barbarian was also an insult to Greeks. Macedonians spoke a very archaic form of Greek. You don't deserve the Macedonian name. You're Slavs. What right does a Slav, who came into the Balkans in the 6th Century AD have to the Macedonian name? Just because you hold a small corner of Upper Macedonia does not mean you're suddenly a Macedonian. You're no more Macedonian than an Albanian would be Illyrian.

  • @makedonserb and like I said, Alexander I and the rest of the Macedonian Kings after him were able to participate in the Olympic Games, which was a right only for Greeks. The Greeks also elected Philip to defend Delphi in one of the Sacred Wars, which shows that the Greeks thought of Philip as 'one of them.' Plus, on Ancient Macedonian coins, the name Basileus Alexandros was always on them during Alexander the Great's reign. Basileus is Greek for 'King'

  • @Alexandros1294 u uneducated retard, avoiding my claims. show me one coin that says vasilios alexadros, show me. and so what, have u read any ancient works??? paeonians fought in the battle of troy so did dardanians. dardanians were definately not greek yet they participated in the fight. does that make them greek now? in regard to the olympics, macedonian royals were allowed, along with thraki royals and persian royals as wel!!! get ur facts str8t. u dont know ur own history

  • @makedonserb In the Iliad, Dardanian refers to the Trojans. Paeonians were also not part of the Greek coalition led by Agamemnon. Persians and Thracians were not allowed in the Olympics without special honors. They weren't Greek. In Herodotus, Alexander I gives a huge speech proving his Greek ethnicity. I'm not a Greek. I'll find a coin that says Basileus Alexandros and show it to you.

  • @Alexandros1294 reaaad the iliad for me pleease, ihave read it many times, and it clearly shows the difference between dardanians and trojans, dardania is the old name for kosovo, completely different geographic region, and yes with SPECIAL honours, which the macedonian kings got as well. and paeonians? they werent? read the iliad my friend, they fought against agamemnon for the trojans. paeonians are also in the works " The Republic" the paeonian is with socrates when he talks about the state

  • @makedonserb The Macedonians were considered Greek by Alexander I's time. That's why they were allowed to pariticipate ever since. Individual Persians and Thracians had to gain honors. Most historians will agree that Dardanians, in the Iliad, refers to Trojans, just like Achaeans refers to Greeks. Paeonians are also not in the Iliad. It's been a while since I have read it, so I could be wrong though.

  • @Alexandros1294 paeonians were in the iliad, dardanians were from dardania , trojans were from ilium, two different ppl, thracians were not even greek yet greece has a region called thraki, and macedonians were also not greek yet greece has a region called macedonia

  • @makedonserb Thrace influenced Greek civilization, and ever since the reign of Lysimachus, they were considered Greek. They were Hellenistic. Macedonia was also Greek. Even the Macedonians themselves considered themselves to be Greek. Like I said, Philip was elected by the Greeks to head the Pythian Games and defend Delphi during the Sacred War. This spot was usually reserved for the Spartans. They were Greeks.

  • @makedonserb Makedonia is derived from the Greek word "Makednos" which means tall man. Even Macedonian names were Greek. Alexandros is derived from the words Alexein, and Andros, which means "Protector of Man," and Philip is derived from Philippos which is made up from Philos, and Hippos, which means "Friend of Horses."

  • The megas Alexandro the greatest of the world

  • one of best Film & Soundtrack in this Time !! i love it !!

  • he was my ancestor on my mother side

  • @99davinci How? His entire bloodline was wiped out.

  • the philosophers said he would become a God

  • he was my great great great great ancestor

  • Not Aleksandros but Aleksandar.

    This -os is how the Greek authors were calling him, everything we know about the Ancient Macedonians is from the Greek authors so they were calling them by their names.

    Today's view is based on the ancient Greek sources so if there were ancient English authors they would describe him as "Alexander", I hope you got the point, long life Aleksandar's pride!

  • @forevermkd we call him Sikander-e-Azam means Alexander the great

  • @forevermkd Alexander the Great was a Greek... All of the ancient sources on Alexander weren't Greek, they were Romans. You know nothing of history you dipshit. The name Alexander is a latinized form of Alexandros, which is Greek.

  • BEST MOVIE EVERRRRRRRRRRRR

  • The only thing good about this movie is this ending

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  • THese days its impossible to do what Alexander did, because of the UN and the International communities. So long to a glorious age of conquests, exploration and glory

  • @PhoenicanSailor Alexander only born Once and lived like king above all of them

  • I wonder if this world will ever see the likes of Alexander again....

  • the best ending with music of all times

  • I actually find it sad that all those memoirs etc. were destroyed with the great library of Alexandria... how much more would we know about Alexander The Great and others had the memoirs survived to this day...

  • whats music on early begining? like 0:00 - 1:10?

  • never again would one man conquer so much. long live ALEXANDER THE GREAT!!!

  • We will remember him as "Μegas Alexandros"

  • i love this movie no matter haw much i see this movie it never gets old for me and god bless greece and alexander to me he is the greatest i wish i went back in time to save alexander and save greece thats haw much i love greece

  • Too bad this movie sucked.

  • This film is so wrongly criticized. Granted, I've only seen the Final Cut, but what a masterpiece.

  • Megas Alexandros of Macedon. The greatest king of them all

  • great alexander!The greatest GREEK!!!!!!

  • I love this film!!! and i love Vangelis Titans!!! my favourite song...it Glorifies to you Alexander The Great!!!

  • Never before or after in history has a conquerer been welcomed by his enemies as a liberator...that's why he is Great....

  • Μέγας Ἀλέξανδρος, The man who conquered the world, the unification, pacifying the people, uniting under the Macedonian banner. The man who conquered lands, cities, and people's hearts. Alexander, Alexander the Great.

  • Fantastic movie....excellent music....what else?

  • could baylonianman or someone please tell me where i can find the song from the beginning of the clip to about one minute in? cuz i dont think its on the original soundtrack. :( can someone please help?

  • @BatMak23 The music that is heard during the first minute of the clip was never released. This is rather common with Vangelis's soundtracks. Hopefully it will be released in an anniversary issue of the soundtrack (the some thing happened with Blade Runner).

  • jajaja , the song that you aren looking is nothing , you can listen "unreleased " ,music of vangelis ..............................­.196?-2010....................­....its tipical of vangelis that you listen in a album , cd, soundtrack...only some music that vangelis composed........

    wellcome to the unreleasedland of vangelis

    .....i think like you..........the one minute.......is fantastic, only vangelis can.....etc, etc,etc

  • @BatMak23 you can find it here on youtube, search for  Megos Alexandros, and it should be the first hit you get

  • @BatMak23 try looking in DearAleksander's channel and search for telos

  • The Skops call Alexander the Great as:

    "Sache Velikiot" !!!!!!!

    Does that sound greek to you?

    Better! In what language has it been written in and what does it ressemple anythinng ancient macedonian?????

  • @lekos28 Your point is moot. He was indeed a great, Macedonia, Albania whoever the hell else who have identity issues look at someone else's history to steal to call your own.

  • @lekos28 Your point is moot. He was indeed a Greek, Macedonia, Albania whoever the hell else who have identity issues look at someone else's history to steal to call your own.

  • @lekos28 Your point is moot. He was indeed a Greek, Macedonia, Albania whoever the hell else who have identity issues look at someone else's history to steal to call your own. The Sooner Macedonia realizes it has more in Common with the Greeks then the Slavs the better IMO

  • Alexandros o Megas, the Greatest Greek of all times, the first who managed to unite all Greek states under his command!

  • The name of the ancient Macedonians is derived from Macedon, who

    was the grandchild of Deukalion, the father of all Greeks. This we may

    infer from Hesiods genealogy. It may be proven that Macedonians spoke

    Greek since Macedon, the ancestor of Macedonians, was a brother of

    Magnes, the ancestor of Thessalians, who spoke Greek.

    -----Nicholas Hammond-----

  • Exactly. Not only were Macedonia and Athens enemies at the time, but Macedonia had just conquered Amphipolis, an Athenian founded city, that Athens was very fond of. It was also a very rich city. When Philip captured Amphipolis, he gained 1,000 talents yearly from it, that's as much as the Athenian Empire made during the Peloponnesian War! It's no wonder Demosthenes was pissed at Macedonia!

  • @Alexandros1294 A thousand talents :0 Damn I didn't know that Phillip had access to such huge treasure. Damn thats 26 thousand kilos of Gold :O In comparison Solomon of Jerusalem, the man with the mine and unbelievable riches ;), was said to have gained 666 talents a year...

  • it really hocks me off that the first peice of music isn't in the soundtrack that was released

  • Watched this movie, after the intro by Hopkins fell asleep, only to awake at the very end with the credits and music. Without Vangelis, this movie wouldn't even score a mention on Youtube.

  • Alexander Magnus

  • MEGAS ALEXANDROS

  • thx man :)

  • @machisekkk vangelis - titans

  • What is the soundtrack befor "titans" at 1:05? from 0 - 1:05

  • i dont know, but i want it too, please, someone help us :(

  • megos alexandros

  • @the10ne1 what is this megos alexandros ????? what the fuck of gayrekk are you ???

  • @VardarPirinEgej Megas Alexandros is Alexander the Great's real name... You're the dumbass here, not the Greeks. Go suck a dick.

  • first of all, i would just like to say i agree with your recent comment, crazyryryryan. hats to everyone of you for recognizing the achievements of world history's greatest leader... "alexander" is probably one of the best epic films of all time. i have the final director's cut on dvd, and i have watched it over and over again since i got it. truly an amazing film and an underrated work of art. the ending scene and closing credits proves that.

  • at least there is someone to admires alexander the great as much as i do!!!! i too have alexander director's cut!!! i hope you like it as much as i do

  • Alexander Revisited is an improvement over Director's Cut.

  • never again would one man conquer so much.

    long live ALEXANDER THE GREAT!!!!

  • *cough* Ghengis Khan *cough*

  • @Alexandros1294 *cough* Adolf Hitler *cough*

  • @don1schon Alexander and Adolf Hitler are NOTHING alike.

  • 2:11 very nice :DDDD

  • helps if your a greek fudge packer!!! England till io die!!!

  • In The Matrix universe, both Alexander and Caesar would probably have been One's.

  • The glory and the memory of men will always belong to the ones who follows their great visions !

    That makes me shiver. I need to put a note on my fridge with those words. Just a reminder that life is short, follow your dreams before it is to late.

  • He used to pray to the Goddess of fear to pay him a visit, most likely cause he rarely felt it! fully believing he was infact the Son Of Zues!

    In my opinion he is quite possibly thee greatest Human being ever to have walked on this Earth.

  • Magnificent... ethernal Evangelos Odissey Paphatannasiou.