70,000 Romans Died in a Single Afternoon — Here’s How

Why did Rome fall when it survived 70,000 dead at Cannae and ruled 5 million square km? This documentary traces Rome from thatched huts on the Palatine Hill in 753 BC to Romulus Augustulus on September 4, AD 476. It reveals how the Cloaca Maxima, the Twelve Tables, citizenship after 338 BC and manipular legions let Rome turn enemies into Romans, survive Hannibal and Actium, and why tax collapse and failed recruitment ended the West while Constantinople endured until 1453.