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356 avant Jésus-Christ. Alors que le roi Philippe de Macédoine entreprend la conquête de la Grèce, Olympias, sa femme, donne naissance à un garçon, Alexandre. Le prophète Nectanebus leur annonce que l'enfant est d'origine divine et qu'il gouvernera le monde. Le destin du petit Alexandre est tout tracé. Poussé par sa mère, qui veut faire de lui un grand homme, éduqué par le grand philosophe Aristote, Alexandre ne tarde pas à prendre part aux combats que livre son père. Ses qualités de soldat et de stratège éclatent pour la première fois au grand jour lors de la bataille de Chéronée, en 338 avant Jésus-Christ, qui marque la suprématie des Macédoniens. Succédant à son père assassiné, il entreprend bientôt la conquête de l'Orient et de l'Empire perse...
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00:00Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
00:30Here is the world and the time that Alexander made great.
00:43Alexander, conqueror of conquerors, whose ambition knew no bounds.
00:48Here are the loves, the glories, the legend of the man who thought he was a god.
00:55Richard Burton as Alexander the Great.
00:58Frederick March, Philip of Macedonia.
01:01Claire Bloom as Barsine.
01:03You fear that I leave you for another woman?
01:06No other woman is my rival except your mother and your frenzied desire to outdo your father.
01:12Daniel Darrier as Olympias, whose evil genius inspired hatred and murder.
01:19These others also knew Alexander.
01:21Roxanne, daughter of Darius.
01:25Eurydice, his father's queen.
01:28You're very young and very beautiful.
01:31You look at a woman like your father does.
01:33Perhaps I'm jealous.
01:35I am of his love for you.
01:40In ten short years, he has conquered the world.
01:54He has fought his way 2,000 miles to Babylon.
01:57Miletus, Sidon, Tyre.
02:02All these great cities have fallen before him.
02:05He has entered Egypt.
02:07He has crossed the Euphrates, Babylon, Persepolis, Susa.
02:11All are his treasure houses.
02:14He has conquered and done away with Darius.
02:17And made himself king of kings over all his domain.
02:20Master of two worlds.
02:22He has achieved what no man has ever achieved in history.
02:26And now he has crossed into the lands of India.
02:30He has gone further than any man or god before him.
02:34He has conquered man.
02:36He has outdone the gods.
02:38He has conquered man.
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