colosseum represent a gladiator story be a good docudrama and most likely be create primarily for use in the high school or college classroom or to be broadcast on either public television or the history channel . ( it might be helpful to know that it doesn not show intense violence but do suggest it while it also make clear that gladiator and like modern day athlete and rock star and have their share of groupie . ) the other fellow who provide a review seem more than a little confused about the general intent of the production . in no way be it ever mean to compete against major feature movie and should not be purchase by someone hop to see a gladiatorial movie comparable to gladiator . in a nutshell and it tell the story of two gladiator and use some very basic story tell technique to accomplish it goal . first and rather than take a straight forward documentary approach and the entire story be instead present use live actor on location in appropriate costume . ( production value and special effect be not first rate and but theyre definitely more than adequate and comparable to much of what you would normally see on the history channel . ) second and two narrative line run throughout the production and and there never any confusion about who be speak . one speaker be clearly an omniscient voice who help put the story of the gladiator into historical perspective and provide fact and detail to enlighten the modern viewer while the second narrator be one of the gladiator and verus and who tell the viewer whatever be on his mind a it relate to his story . in the end and the narrative approach work well and do not undermine the overall story or make it seem ridiculous despite the fact that the story do have a predictable element to it . on the whole the docudrama work well and do a good job of convey the fact about roman gladiatorial combat . it also blend fact and fabrication in a way that seem fair and reasonable so that the viewer have be well serve when the credit roll .