The silent cinema had already created colossal movies based on ancient civilizations, but it is in the 1950s when peplums reach their apogee in Hollywood. Then, peplums take root at Cinecittà studios, in Rome, where cheap cinema is produced with bodybuilders as heroes. The genre decays in the late 1960s, but rises again decades later, when a modern classic is released in 2000.
Julien Bocher
Hervé Lacroix
Romain Debord
Douglas Wick
David Franzoni
Laurent Aknin
Pierre Baron
Claude Aziza
Floren Fourcart
Lou Ferrigno
John Milius
Oliver Stone
Ridley Scott
Charlton Heston
Cecil B. DeMille
Henri Chrétien
William Wyler
Steve Reeves
Elizabeth Taylor
Michael Douglas
Russell Crowe
Arnold Schwarzenegger