Alexander the Great

:For other Alexanders, see Alexander (disambiguation).

Alexander in popular media

• A 1956 movie starring Richard Burton titled Alexander the Great was produced by MGM.
• A 1941 Hindi Movie 'Sikandar' directed by Sohrab Modi depicts Alexander the Great's Indian conquest.
• Bond's 2000 album Born includes a song titled Alexander the Great.
• Oliver Stone's film Alexander, starring Colin Farrell, was released on November 24, 2004.
• Baz Luhrmann had been planning to make a very different film about Alexander, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, but the release of Stone's film eventually persuaded him to abandon the project. http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2004-11-01#2
• Numerous television series about Alexander have been created.
• The British heavy metal band Iron Maiden had a song entitled "Alexander the Great" on their album Somewhere in Time (1986). The song describes Alexander's life, but contains one inaccuracy: in the song it is stated that Alexander's army would not follow him into India.
• Brazilian musician Caetano Veloso's 1998 album Livro includes an epic song about Alexander called "Alexandre."
• From 1969 to 1981, Mary Renault wrote a historical fiction trilogy, speculating on the life of Alexander: Fire from Heaven (about his early life), The Persian Boy (about his conquest of Persia, his expedition to India, and his death, seen from the viewpoint of a Persian eunuch), and Funeral Games (about the events following his death). Alexander also appears briefly in Renault's novel The Mask of Apollo. In addition to the fiction, Renault also wrote a non-fiction biography, The Nature of Alexander.
• A 1965 Hindi movie 'Sikandar-E-Azam' directed by Kedar Kapoor starring Dara Singh as Alexandar depicts Alexandar's Indian conquest with Porus.
• A further trilogy of novels about Alexander was written in Italian by Valerio Massimo Manfredi and subsequently published in an English translation, entitled The Son of the Dream, The Sands of Ammon and The Ends Of The Earth.
• David Gemmel's "Dark Prince" features Alexander as the chosen vessel for a world-destroying demon king. ISBN 0345379101.
• Steven Pressfield's 2004 book The Virtues of War is told from the first-person perspective of Alexander.
• An epic science fiction animated retelling of the story called ' by Peter Chung of Aeon Flux fame debuted on the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block variety show in 2003.