The series was co-produced by BBC, ZDF and the Discovery Channel.īBC History commissioned the online-game CDX to tie-in with the series.

In his opinion, the camera delivered better footage than a Digital Betacam camera, and provided rich, filmic feel, which was well-suited to capturing the gritty reality of the Roman Empire. According to Mark Hedgecoe, a standard-definition format was chosen largely because it was more forgiving to focusing errors and required less light than high definition, thus speeding up the shooting. The series was filmed with the Panasonic SDX 900 DVCPRO50 professional camcorder in widescreen progressive scan mode at 25 frames/s. Series Producer Mark Hedgecoe has stated that he made the series in response to previous films that 'have tended to ignore the real history and chosen to fictionalise the story.' This docudrama focuses on the Latin western half of the Roman Empire.

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire is a 2006 BBC One docudrama series, with each episode looking at a different key turning point in the history of the Roman Republic and Empire.

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