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His country torn asunder by civil war, Zhao, a common man heeds
and from the humblest of roots rises through the ranks on wings of
courage and cunning to command an army charged with liberating the land
from an evil warlord. Inspiring by action, honor and a dream of
unifying his divided nation, Zhao's heroism becomes legend, but as the
years pass and the throne changes hands the war still rages on.
About movies: Based on
graphic novel, "300" concerns the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where
the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians; the
battle is said to have inspired all of Greece to band together against
the Persians, and helped
in the world's first democracyIn 480 BC, the Persian king Xerxes sends
his massive army to conquer Greece. The Greek city of Sparta houses its
finest warriors, and 300 of these soldiers are chosen to meet the
Persians at Thermopylae, engaging the soldiers in a narrow canyon where
they cannot take full advantage of their numbers. The battle is a
suicide mission, meant to buy time for the rest of the Greek forces to
prepare for the invasion. However, that doesn't stop the Spartans from
throwing their hearts into the fray, determined to take as many
Persians as possible with them