9. This is SPARTA!

The 2006 film adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel, 300, transported audiences back to ancient Greece in a way that no other film before it has ever done. It placed viewers right in the thick of the bloody battles between King Leonidas’ army of 300 Spartans and the attacking Persian empire led by their god-king, Xerxes. The film’s gritty setting and scorched-Earth texture truly captivated movie goers as it made the feel what it must be like to be at war.