Caesar against Pompey - Great Roman Civil War DOCUMENTARY

Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series on the history of Rome continues with a feature length episode on the Great Roman Civil War. In this initial episode we will talk about the war between Caesar and Pompey, and the battles of Ilerda, Massilia, Utica, Bagradas, Dyrrhachium, Pharsalus and others.

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Script: Peter Voller
Illustration: Yağız Bozan, Nargiz Isaeva, Oğuz Tunç
Machinima: MalayArcher using Total War: Rome II engine.

00:00 Intro
04:06 First Triumvirate
15:46 Alea Iacta Est!
24:55 A Narrow Escape
33:01 Battles of Ilerda and Massilia
1:06:15 Battle of Utica
1:27:20 Battle of Dyrrachium
1:53:37 Battle of Pharsalus
2:11:36 He was a consul of Rome!

#Documentary #Caesar #RomanHistory

[KingsandGenerals]

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[petervoller]

Hey all, I was the scriptwriter and historian for this series, if you have any questions, please do leave them below and I'll do my best to get around to them!

[blackaron]

As an Amazon driver, it’s dope to find a long documentary to listen to while making my trips. Thanks for the hard work!!! Really helps me get through my shifts 😭

Edit: Holy crap so many likes!! I hope you all are doing well! Please take care of yourselves.

[clarencecorbeil]

I was looking forward for the massive video of this epic period of the Antiquity. Thank you, K&G.
Here are the timestamps for this one.
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:10 Establishment of the First Triumvirate
00:08:00 Triumvirate fractured
00:11:22 Caesar, enemy of Rome
00:18:28 Rubicon is crossed - Campaign in Italy
00:24:55 Pompey’s plan - Battle of Brundisium
00:27:53 Caesar’s plan - Conquest of Sardinia and Sicily
00:30:25 Siege of Massilia - Beginning
00:33:01 Campaign in Hispania - Battle of Ilerda
00:43:13 Siege of Massilia - Continuing
00:45:22 Battle of Ilerda - Ending
00:54:16 Campaign in Hispania - Ending
00:56:02 Siege of Massilia - Naval battle
01:01:09 Siege of Massilia - Ending
01:06:15 First African campaign
01:09:34 Battle of Utica - Beginning
01:12:21 Battle of Utica - 1st engagement
01:17:16 Battle of Utica - 2nd engagement
01:21:55 Battle of the River Bagradas
01:27:20 Campaign in Greece - Preparations
01:31:08 Campaign in Greece - Beginning
01:39:27 Battle of Dyrrachium - 1st engagement
01:45:36 Battle of Dyrrachium - 2nd engagement
01:53:37 After Dyrrachium
01:59:13 Battle of Pharsalus
02:11:36 Conclusion - Pompey’s assassination

[scottlothian]

I work as a prison officer and I'm currently on nightshift, but fancy myself a bit of roman politician/tactician after listening to these wonderful documentaries all night. Great work! 👍

[pintipandaYT]

This is by far the best historic content on YT.
great job guys

[SuperCatdick]

As a history teacher who has been watching this channel through my college years, it feels nice to have a long doc on the day after my 24th birthday as I lay in bed. I also show some of your videos for my lessons, the animations are very captivating for the kids who find history "boring" :) dont ever stop!

[Icebassh]

I was hoping for the speech of Crastinus a Centurion of the X Legion before the battle of Pharsalus, for those who are interested in individual brilliance in the civil war he was the one who made this epic speech:

"Follow me you who were formerly in my company and give your General the service you have promised. Only this one battle remains following which he will recover his position and we our freedom." Then looking at Caesar, he declared: "General, today I shall earn your gratitude either dead or alive." After the battle was over and Caesar victorious, he searched for Crastinus and was discovered killed by a sword thrusted into his mouth and coming out of his back which proved that he did indeed die a glorious death at which point Caesar declared him a hero and raised a mound in his honor next to the mound Pompey had erected years earlier in celebration of his defeat of Mithridates VI.

[restitutororbis]

Hi, Kings and Generals. As always, awesome video. It's amazing to see how an event from this civil war (crossing the Rubicon) is still in our minds every time that a situation passes a no return point. I don't think Caeasar could have thought that act would still be so well known and studied 2000 years in the future.

[mich]

This is honestly one of the best historical documentaries that I have ever seen! Congrats to everyone that worked on this video.

[haizedrazon]

I don't understand how people find history boring, all the most interesting/cool shit in the world happened years and years and years ago

[dalegreer]

It's amazing to look at the differences between Curio and Varus compared to Caesar and Pompey. Curio and Varus seem to make simple, transparent moves, and are concerned about losing face by retreating. Meanwhile Caesar and Pompey make complicated, clever, often opaque moves, and will retreat quickly when necessary. They also maintain much greater situational awareness.
If you want to read about the inevitable fall of the Roman Republic, I recommend Collen McCullough's _Masters of Rome_ series. It's 6 books of about 1, 200 pages each. She later added a 7th book to cover Antonius and Cleopatra. The first six books cover the last 70 years of the Republic, starting with Gaius Marius.

[bilal]

The narrator, his words, the semantics of this video, the quality of production, everything about this is pitch perfect and has an indelible power of infatuating the viewer. Thank you, Kings and Generals.

[adolphbismark]

It is a shame how a great general such as Pompey meet his end in such way.

Being killed, beheaded and his naked body thrown into the sea.

Cesar always respected Pompey, always asked for peace with him and was sad and very angered that Pompey was killed in such a manner in Egypt.

Indeed Plutarch was right, what an astonishing alliance would be if they both would have lead a united Roman army in campaigns against Germanics and Parthians.

[josesanpedor]

Documentaries as these will never go unappreciated, the hard work is admirable.

[marc-antoinemarcoux]

I watched this video almost 15 times and I can't get over it. We need a TV show focused on Cesar

[HistoryOfRevolutions]

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult"

- Seneca the Younger

[paulstephensia]

Julius Caesar’s life is always one of the best events in history, and Kings and Generals makes videos that are always masterfully done and gives us the best insights in history that aren’t fully documented on history classes or sometimes only half told in some history books, this channel does its best to give us more light in this otherwise murky spot in history.

[DhcTrixtor]

This could be nominated as the best video ever uploaded on youtube. Amazing.

[FirstnameLastname-sxwg]

I love how Ahenobarbus was a constant thorn in Caesar's side throughout the Civil War. Historia Civilis has engraved that humor into me and after watching this truly well done documentary, I had Historia's knowledge prior and was happy to see it done in a more artistic* manner.