Oct 12, 2005
116 min
Full-HD

Helen of Troy (2005)

British historian Bettany Hughes tours the eastern Mediterranean in search of facts behind the legends of "the face that launched a thousand ships," exploring the ways Greeks made love and war circa 1300 B.C.

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