Furious Spartacus star Kirk Douglas attacked his director, Stanley Kubrick, on set with a chair and later blasted the Hollywood legend. The shoot was rife with feuds; Kubrick disowned the film, the ...

formed in Germany in 1916, which unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow the government in 1919. Stanley Kubrick directed Kirk Douglas in the film Spartacus, released in 1960.

Even though it’s at least 1,500 years since the last Roman gladiators fought, thanks to TV and movies such as Spartacus (1960) and Gladiator (2000), audiences remain fascinated with them and the ...