• Spartan is a 2004 American action thriller film written and directed by David Mamet and starring Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, Tia Texada, Ed O'Neill, William...
    14 KB (1,693 words) - 15:29, 27 February 2024
  • the Spartans is a 2008 American parody film written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. The film is mainly a parody of the 2006 film 300...
    17 KB (1,850 words) - 02:29, 24 July 2024
  • American firm Spartan 8W Zeus Spartan 12W Executive Spartan C2 Spartan C3 Spartan C4 Spartan C5 Spartan NP Spartan Executive Spartan Aircraft Ltd, British...
    4 KB (477 words) - 00:26, 9 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for The 300 Spartans
    The 300 Spartans is a 1962 CinemaScope epic film depicting the Battle of Thermopylae. It was directed by Rudolph Maté and stars Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson...
    16 KB (1,794 words) - 15:59, 19 December 2023
  • Media. Retrieved March 22, 2020. Longshot. Spartan Home Entertainment (VHS). San Jose, California: Spartan Film Studios. March 26, 2002. ASIN B00005YUSH...
    12 KB (1,228 words) - 23:35, 6 May 2024
  • for her husband. The story is framed by a voice-over narrative by the Spartan soldier Dilios (David Wenham). Through this narrative technique, various...
    110 KB (10,038 words) - 10:57, 11 August 2024
  • Wheels on Meals (redirect from Spartan X)
    The film was shot in Barcelona, Spain. The film was a box office hit in East Asia, including Japan where the film was released as Spartan X. The film was...
    27 KB (2,937 words) - 16:36, 6 May 2024
  • Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, and Nigel Hawthorne. Stallone is John Spartan, a risk-taking police officer who has a reputation for causing destruction...
    65 KB (6,242 words) - 15:12, 8 August 2024
  • 300 (comics) (category Dark Horse Comics adapted into films)
    particularly inspired by the 1962 film The 300 Spartans, a film Miller watched as a young boy. The work was adapted in 2006 to a film of the same name. In 2018...
    15 KB (1,755 words) - 18:37, 15 July 2024
  • Go Tell the Spartans is a 1978 American war film directed by Ted Post and starring Burt Lancaster. The film is based on Daniel Ford's 1967 novel Incident...
    16 KB (2,005 words) - 03:28, 11 August 2024
  • Kong martial arts films. It is a loose adaptation of the Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao film Wheels on Meals (1984), called Spartan X in Japan, with...
    55 KB (5,788 words) - 01:04, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Laconophilia
    the Spartan culture or constitution. The term derives from Laconia, the part of the Peloponnesus where the Spartans lived. Admirers of the Spartans typically...
    21 KB (2,613 words) - 02:33, 1 August 2024
  • has gotten various freelance jobs with a private security company called Spartan. Riley is assigned a new partner, Detective Will Ganz, a stable family...
    6 KB (644 words) - 11:32, 8 August 2024
  • Gorgo, Queen of Sparta (category Spartan princesses)
    Gorgo (/ˈɡɔːrɡoʊ/; Greek: Γοργώ [ɡorɡɔ͜ɔ́]; fl. 480 BC) was a Spartan woman and wife to King Leonidas I (r. 489–480 BC). She was the daughter and the...
    13 KB (1,513 words) - 20:33, 19 March 2024
  • Nintendo in 1985. In turn, Spartan X was originally a tie-in to the 1984 Jackie Chan film Wheels on Meals (released as Spartan X in Japan). It was originally...
    5 KB (468 words) - 15:11, 20 December 2023
  • Kate Kennedy (actress) (category British film directors)
    skit was adapted to a short film in 2020.[citation needed] Kennedy was first cast for the Halo series in 2019 as the Spartan super soldier Kai-125, portrayed...
    6 KB (428 words) - 21:02, 6 August 2024
  • Ἀριστόδημος, died 479 BC) was a Spartan warrior, one of the 300 sent to the Battle of Thermopylae. Aristodemus was the only Spartan survivor, as he was not present...
    6 KB (836 words) - 16:07, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Agoge
    Agoge (category Spartan military training)
    names and symbols; the program emphasizes Spartan discipline against Athenian Democracy. In the American action film 300 (2007), Leonidas is depicted attending...
    30 KB (3,842 words) - 19:28, 21 July 2024
  • 4 Spartan Ops and the Halo: Escalation comic series. In Halo 5: Guardians, Lasky reluctantly sends Spartan Fireteam Osiris after the rogue Spartan Blue...
    110 KB (15,259 words) - 15:52, 17 July 2024
  • Laconic phrase (redirect from Spartan wit)
    been featured in modern depictions of that battle, including the films The 300 Spartans and 300. The first is a boast from one of the Persians that when...
    17 KB (1,874 words) - 21:31, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nabila Khashoggi
    2013, Spartan and the Green Egg - Book 1: A Trip to the Rainforest 2014, Spartan and the Green Egg - Book 2: The Reefs of Mindoro Island 2016, Spartan and...
    10 KB (726 words) - 08:02, 13 July 2024
  • dozen Spartans, including the King of Sparta, Leonidas, the Spartan Captain Polynikes, a young Spartan warrior named Alexandros, and the Spartan officer...
    9 KB (905 words) - 11:08, 19 June 2024
  • and spartan" film technique. Filmmaker and surrealist Luis Buñuel named Underworld as his all time favorite film. Paramount, overjoyed at the film's "critical...
    16 KB (1,767 words) - 01:21, 26 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Crypteia
    Crypteia (category Spartan military training)
    kruptós, "hidden, secret"; members were κρύπται kryptai), was an ancient Spartan state institution. The kryptai either principally sought out and killed...
    29 KB (3,366 words) - 09:49, 9 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Thermopylae
    by Sparta to block off Thermopylae. After three days of fighting, the Spartan king Leonidas I was killed and the rest of the Greeks were outflanked and...
    110 KB (11,544 words) - 17:31, 10 August 2024
  • Julius Carry (category American male film actors)
    attended Hales Franciscan High School, where, at age 15, he joined the Spartan Players, an acting group. He discovered a love of acting with the group...
    11 KB (580 words) - 21:17, 7 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Leonidas I
    Leonidas I (category 5th-century BC Spartans)
    son of king Anaxandridas II and the 17th king of the Agiad dynasty, a Spartan royal house which claimed descent from the mythical demigod Heracles. Leonidas...
    19 KB (2,235 words) - 14:26, 7 August 2024
  • 2006 film adaptation of the same name, and the 2014 sequel, portray Ephialtes (played in the films by Andrew Tiernan) as a severely deformed Spartan exile...
    6 KB (687 words) - 02:57, 24 July 2024
  • ephors were a council of five Spartan men elected annually who swore an oath monthly on the behalf of the state. The Spartan kings, however, would swear...
    29 KB (3,900 words) - 03:07, 22 June 2024
  • Halo 4 (redirect from Halo 4: Spartan Ops)
    component, titled "Infinity", players assume the role of a customizable Spartan-IV super-soldier. Players can progress through ranks by earning experience...
    172 KB (13,443 words) - 21:27, 9 August 2024