Secrets of the Dead: The Real Trojan Horse

2015 · 55 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · DIR. Tom Fowlie

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Overview

The Trojan Horse… It was the ultimate sneak attack, bringing a city that would withstood nine years of battle to its knees. But was it simply a work of fiction? Or did the Greeks really trick the Trojans into defeat with a giant wooden horse that concealed enough soldiers to reduce the powerful city to rubble? Are the city of Troy and the familiar story of the Trojan War as recounted in Homer’s ancient Greek epic poem, the Iliad, fact or fiction?

DocumentaryHistory2010s

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00:00:01 Announcer: Coming up on "Secrets of the Dead,"
00:02:21 Narrator: A battering ram?
00:04:58 I want to find out whether there was
00:07:32 A millionaire showman named Heinrich Schliemann
00:09:56 Homer describes a large, fabulously wealthy city,
00:12:20 is to build a mental picture
00:15:07 to bring Queen Helen back home.
00:17:17 and their chariots actually within the city walls,
00:19:50 that are oriented on a diagonal.
00:22:06 The ancient city sits on the edge
00:24:18 big houses of the previous city.
00:26:46 but it would've been double this height.
00:29:14 Narrator: And while few bodies have been recovered from this time,
00:31:42 how would a battering ram have worked?
00:33:57 would swing on ropes
00:36:21 that the Trojans have an equal number of men
00:38:53 But Homer also tells us,
00:41:20 You can imagine the chaos that would have been
00:43:34 Mark Schwartz has serious doubts
00:45:50 and throw open the city gates.
00:48:14 30 of them would require,
00:50:23 I frankly would be surprised
00:52:42 I think it took quite a while to capture.
00:55:06 Thank you.

Cast & Characters

Jay O. Sanders Narrator (voice)
Anthony Call Homer (voice)

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,049
Dialogue density19.1 lines / min
First line00:00:01
Final line00:55:06

Production Record

DirectorTom Fowlie
LanguageEnglish

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