Alexander the Great: The Man Who Would Be a God, Part 2 of 2

In the autumn of 331 BC Alexander met Darius for the last time, on the plain of Gaugamela beyond the Tigris. This second part follows him from there: Babylon and Susa, the Persian Gates, the burning of Persepolis, the death of Darius, the crossing of the Hindu Kush, Sogdiana, the killing of Cleitus, the rock and Roxana, India and Porus with his elephants at the Hydaspes, the army that would go no further, the march through the Gedrosian desert, the weddings at Susa, the mutiny at Opis, the death of Hephaestion, the last days in Babylon, the lost tomb, the Successors and the legend. This is part 2 of 2. Part 1:    • Alexander the Great: The Man Who Would Be ...   0:00 The road to Gaugamela 3:19 Gaugamela 5:33 Babylon and Susa 6:56 The Persian Gates 7:51 Persepolis burns 9:39 The death of Darius 11:21 The Persian king 12:40 Over the Hindu Kush 14:07 Sogdiana 15:29 The killing of Cleitus 16:45 The rock and Roxana 18:01 The bow 19:05 Into India 20:37 Porus and the elephants 23:52 The army says no 25:31 Down the rivers 27:16 The ocean 27:46 The Gedrosian desert 29:22 Nearchus returns 29:55 The weddings at Susa 30:34 The mutiny at Opis 32:02 Hephaestion 33:12 A god among men 33:38 Back to Babylon 35:02 The last days 37:03 Eleven years 37:22 The lost tomb 39:05 The Successors 40:27 What he left 41:39 The legend Photographs from Wikimedia Commons. Those under Creative Commons licences, by author and licence, with the time each first appears: Furqanlw, CC BY-SA 4.0: 20:25, 27:46, 29:05 A.Davey, CC BY 2.0: 8:18, 18:01 A.Davey (Flickr), CC BY 2.0: 18:42 Aa2-2004, CC BY-SA 4.0: 4:56 Akbar Asif22, CC BY-SA 4.0: 12:59 Akhemen, CC BY-SA 4.0: 14:07 Ali Zeshan Iqbal, CC BY-SA 3.0: 19:24 Alireza Javaheri, CC BY 3.0: 9:10 Allan Gluck, CC BY 4.0: 39:23 ArchaiOptix, CC BY-SA 4.0: 42:46 Ashwin Kumar (from Bangalore, India), CC BY-SA 2.0: 24:13 author unknown, Public domain (PD-old / author unknown, 17th century): 10:44 Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0: 8:35 Darafsh, CC BY-SA 3.0: 6:09 Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0: 9:23 Dorieo, CC BY-SA 4.0: 26:30 Elliott Brown, CC BY 2.0: 6:52 Emad Victor Shenouda, Attribution (free reuse, redistribution, derivative and commercial use permitted with attribution, per the file's own licensing statement): 40:26 Evilemperorzorg, CC BY-SA 3.0: 40:07 Jialiang Gao (peace-on-earth.org), CC BY-SA 4.0: 13:17 Jim Gordon, CC BY 2.0: 34:00 MohammadHuzam, CC BY-SA 4.0: 33:00 My cardio, CC BY-SA 4.0: 13:30 Nic McPhee, CC BY-SA 2.0: 33:12 ninara, CC BY-SA 2.0: 29:22 Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0: 5:03 Pierre Markuse, CC BY 2.0: 27:16 Radomir Vrbovsky, CC BY-SA 4.0: 5:54 Saad Bin Haseeb, CC BY-SA 4.0: 28:17 Sandstein, CC BY 3.0: 42:33 Skot, CC BY-SA 4.0: 8:11 Stephen Hamilton, CC BY-SA 3.0: 41:39 World Imaging, CC BY-SA 3.0: 41:29 Zunkir, CC BY-SA 4.0: 1:43 The rest of the photographs are in the public domain or under CC0, from Andre Castaigne, Charles Le Brun, (Karl von Piloty (engraved reproduction, artist of the print unrecorded)), (Master of the Jardin de vertueuse consolation and assistant (Flemish, active 3rd quarter of 15th century) (1450 - 1475) – illuminator (Flemish) Details on Google Art Project), (Weston, W H; Plutarch; Rainey, W), Andre Castaigne (1860-1930), Bernhard Rode, Daderot, Daniël de Blieck (1610-1673), Ferdowsi, G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection (Library of Congress), Giuseppe Cades, Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois, Il Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi); photo by DIMSFIKAS, Jastrow, Marie-Lan Nguyen, Mukunda, Myasinilyas, O. Von Corven, PHGCOM (photographed at the British Museum), Prashant Uppal, Rijksmuseum, Sebastien Bourdon (composition); engraved by Fragonard, Shavkat Kholmatov, U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Scott Taylor, World Imaging, فارسی: منسوب به بهزاد در حاشیهٔ میانِ ابیات English: Ascribed to Bihzād in margin between verses and photographers whose names are not known. Maps drawn for this film from Natural Earth (public domain) and Terrain Tiles elevation and sea depth (SRTM, GMTED, ETOPO1). Music, our own piano recordings from public-domain scores: Giuseppe Verdi, La traviata, No. 7, Scena e duetto (Act II), piano reduction; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Andante, String Quartet No. 6 in B-flat major, K. 159, first movement; Johannes Brahms, Marias Lob, Marienlieder, Op. 22 No. 7; Augusta Holmès, Les Sept Ivresses: 5 Le Rêve; Johannes Brahms, 7 Lieder, Op. 48: 7 Herbstgefühl; Franz Schubert, Die Liebe, D. 210; Roger Quilter, Come Away, Death, Op.6 No.1. Made with AI: the narration is a synthetic voice, and the paintings in the film and the channel's opening and closing pictures were made with AI. The photographs and maps were not. #AlexanderTheGreat #history #documentary