He compares the unique military formations portrayed in "Spartacus," starring Kirk Douglas; "The Eagle," starring Channing Tatum, Donald Sutherland, and Jamie Bell; and HBO's "Rome," starring ...

MacDonald created Rome for HBO and the BBC, a large-scale British ... Season 1 focused on the Roman civil war waged by Julius Caesar in 49 B.C., the ruler's ambitious rise and tragic fall, the ...