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Conquering 90% of the known world by the age of 25, Alexander the Great
(Farrell) led his armies through 22,000 miles of sieges and conquests in just
eight years. Coming out of tiny Macedonia, Alexander led his armies against
the mighty Persian Empire, drove west to Egypt, and finally made his way
east to India. This film will concentrate on those eight years of battles, as
well as his relationship with his boyhood friend and battle mate,
Hephaestion. Alexander died young, of illness, at 33. Alexander's conquests
paved the way for the spread of Greek culture (facilitating the spread of
Christianity centuries later), and removed many of the obstacles that might
have prevented the expansion of the Roman Empire. In other words, the
world we know today might never have been if not for Alexander's bloody,
yet unifying, conquest.