
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
"Facist Italy's 1937 Spectacular Epic"
Synopsis
A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.
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