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The Movie '300'
The sword and sandal epic 300 was released in 2006. The movie made nearly half a billion dollars worldwide. Not surprisingly, there’s a sequel coming out this weekend. It’s called: 300: Rise of an Empire .
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readThe sword and sandal epic 300 was released in 2006. The movie made nearly half a billion dollars worldwide. Not surprisingly, there’s a sequel coming out this weekend. It’s called: 300: Rise of an Empire. 300 is the story of a small army of Greeks -- 300 Spartans actually, or so the myth goes -- who attempted to stop an invading army of Persians back in 480 BC. Of course, the movie isn’t historically accurate. But our producer Matt Holzman wanted to know: what did they get right in the movie, and does it matter?
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The full episode
6 of 6Vaping, Chevron in Ecuador & Crowdsourcing Science- 0:00E-Cigarettes
- 9:11The Mad Brand Vapes with The Joel Stein
- 17:11Chevron and the Amazon
- 26:35Crowdsourcing Citizen Science
- 33:39Kickstarter Reaches $1 Billion
- 41:52The Movie '300'You’re reading this