Helen of Troy

Helen of Troy

Desire is war.

On USA Network

20031 season2 episodes89 min6.1 / 10

A sweeping mythological miniseries that frames the Trojan War as the catastrophic collision of desire and duty, built on a central romance that dooms thousands.

Paris of Troy goes to Sparta on a diplomatic mission and falls in love with Helen, the wife of King Menelaus. When lovers flee to Troy, the bloody seeds of a long war, sown by King Agamemnon of Mycenae, finally sprout, so an old prophecy is fulfilled.

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.