This epic drama follows the eighteen tumultuous years that led to the founding of the Roman Empire. Cleopatra meets Julius Caesar and plans to lure Caesar to her boudoir in order to forge an alliance with Rome so that she may hold on to her Egyptian empire. When Caesar is stabbed to death in the Roman Senate, Cleopatra is left without an ally, and Egypt is up for grabs. When Roman general Mark Antony comes along, she seduces him in hopes of making him into her new protector. But, under the charms of Cleopatra, Mark Antony is reduced from a an awesome and dominating general to a sniveling, drunken wimp. At the Battle of Actium, Mark Antony is defeated and Cleopatra withdraws her troops, dooming Mark Antony and his army. With Egypt in peril, Antony and Cleopatra, the doomed lovers, meet each other for the last time, as the enemy forces close in.
Biography / Classic / Drama / Epic-Historical / Romance
192 mins.
Andrew Keir, Cesare Danova, Elizabeth Taylor, George Cole, Hume Cronyn, Kenneth Haigh, Martin Landau, Pamela Brown, Rex Harrison, Richard Burton, Robert Stephens, Roddy McDowall
Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio, English Dolby Digital 4.0, Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital, French 5.1 DTS
Language: Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen: 2.20:1
Disc 1: Cleopatra (Part 1) Blu-ray
**Commentary with Chris Mankiewicz, Tom Mankiewicz, Martin Landau and Jack Brodsky
**Cleopatra Through The Ages: A Cultural History
**Cleopatra's Missing Footage
**Fox Movie Channel presents Fox Legacy with Tom Rothman
**The Cleopatra Papers: A Private Correspondence Disc 2: Cleopatra (Part 2) Blu-ray
**Continued Film Commentary
**Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
**The Fourth Star of Cleopatra
**Fox Movietone News: Archival Footage of the New York Premiere and Archival Footage of the Hollywood Premiere
Audio: English 5.1 Dolby Surround, English Dolby Surround, French Dolby Surround
Language: Subtitles: English, Spanish
Theatrical Aspect Ratio: Widescreen: 2.35:1
**Two-Disc Set Includes Audio Commentary by Chris Mankiewicz, Tom Mankiewicz, Martin Landau and Jack Brodsky.