Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal

Facist Italy's 1937 Spectacular Epic

A grand historical epic centered on military strategy and national glory, told with the spectacle and propagandistic fervor characteristic of 1930s fascist cinema.

A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.