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Cleopatra (1999), Season 1 — watch online on iFILM: a two-part TV miniseries built around the Egyptian queen's two defining alliances with Rome.
Part one finds Cleopatra in exile. Her brother Ptolemy and sister Arsinoe have taken Egypt while Julius Caesar (Timothy Dalton) arrives from Rome to collect a debt the country cannot pay. She negotiates her way back onto the throne; Caesar provides the military weight and stays for other reasons. She gets her crown, he gets an heir. Part two begins with the knives in the Senate. Caesar's death dismantles the arrangement that kept Egypt safe, and Rome's power vacuum needs to be read quickly. Mark Antony (Billy Zane), now co-ruler of the empire, becomes both the obvious political move and something harder to calculate.
Leonor Varela plays Cleopatra as someone who is always thinking a move ahead — and that choice makes the two-part run feel like a character study rather than a historical spectacle. Stream Cleopatra Season 1 all episodes online on iFILM.
2 episodes
S1·E1Part 1
A woman of beauty, intelligence and exotic mystery, Cleopatra sets out to claim her throne as the rightful ruler of Egypt. Burdened by Egypt's debt to Rome and the betrayal of her brother, Ptolemy, and sister, Arsinoe, Cleopatra seeks assistance from the Roman Emperor, Caesar.
S1·E2Part 2
After the death of Julius Caesar, Cleopatra needed a new political ally in Rome. With her life, her son's life, and the fate of Egypt hanging in the balance, she set her sights on the new co-ruler of the Roman Empire: Mark Antony. Their romance would become the ancient world's greatest love story and darkest tragedy. See how their relationship grew from a calculated political move to a passionate affair before devolving into a catastrophic tale of betrayal, murder, and suicide.
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