Cleopatra

By the time she was 20 she was ruler of 1st century B.C. Egypt, and she used her beauty and cunning to win the hearts of two of Rome's mightiest rulers, Julius Caesar and Marc Antony. Leonor Varela stars as once-exiled Cleopatra, who returns to her homeland to reclaim her throne and oversees her country’s war with the armies of Roman emperor Octavius. Timothy Dalton, Billy Zane, and Rupert Graves co-star in this sweeping historical miniseries based on a novel by Margaret George. 177 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English.