300 Spartans - 2006

About film
In 479 B.C., one year after the Battle of Thermopylae, Dilios, a hoplite in the Spartan army, begins his story by depicting the life of Leonidas I from childhood to kingship via Spartan doctrine. Dilios's story continues and a Persian herald arrives at the gates of Sparta demanding "earth and water" as a token of submission to King Xerxes—the Spartans reply by throwing the envoy and his escort into a deep well. Leonidas then visits the Ephors, proposing a strategy to drive back the numerically superior Persians through the Hot Gates. His plan involves building a wall in order to funnel the Persians into a narrow pass between the rocks and the sea: negating the Persian advantage in numbers, and giving the Greeks' heavy infantry the advantage over the vast waves of Persian light infantry.

Cast
Gerard Butler - Leonidas
David Wenham - Dilios
Lena Headey - Queen Gorgo
Dominic West - Theron
Vincent Regan - Captain Artemis
Rodrigo Santoro - King Xerxes
Michael Fassbender - Stelios
Andrew Tiernan - Ephialtes
Andrew Pleavin - Daxos
Tom Wisdom - Astinos
Kelly Craig - Pythia
Tyler Neitzel - young Leonidas
Robert Maillet - Über Immortal (giant)
Tyrone Benskin - the whip-wielding Persian Emissary.
Peter Mensah - Persian messenger who gets kicked into the well by Leonidas.