Ridley Scott's "Gladiator II" starring Paul Mescal has a scene in which a naval battle occurs in the Colosseum. Here's how accurate the event is.

It turns into a battle with gladiators and the Emperors’ guards falling into shark-infested water. To set it up, Mathieson explains the sequence was actually shot twice.

Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator 2’ has been accused of peddling ‘total Hollywood bulls***’, but many aspects of the film are backed up by historical record ...

It turns into a battle with gladiators and the Emperors’ guards falling into shark-infested water. To set it up, Mathieson explains the sequence was actually shot twice.

"Gladiator II" shows the Roman Colosseum as it likely never was: filled with water and sharks in order to host bloody sea-battle re-enactments.

When it comes to the Colosseum sea battle in “Gladiator II,” Scott is surprisingly not deviating too far from history. A form of ancient Roman theater was called “naumachia,” in which sea ...

Ridley Scott's epic sequel starring Paul Mescal and Denzel Washington has been widely criticised for its historical inaccuracies.

That battle between the Corcyreans and Corinthians precipitated the Peloponnesian War, in 434 BCE, so would have taken place a little over 500 years before it was recreated in the Colosseum. Meanwhile ...

When Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2 arrives in cinemas this week, some viewers may assume that the spectacular scenes of the Colosseum in Rome being flooded in order to host naval battles are merely ...