Miniseries · Channel 4
Roman Empire by Train with Alice Roberts
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Roman Empire by Train with Alice Roberts actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Roman Empire by Train with Alice Roberts reads strongest on Bingeability, Character Depth and Serialized.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The story
What it's about
Alice embarks on her most ambitious journey to date, in search of the Roman Empire, travelling 1300 miles through Italy, France and Spain to discover the origins and secrets of Rome’s success.
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Latest Episodes
S01E06
New Carthage
S01E05
The Rome of France
S01E04
The Streets of Turin
S01E03
What Have the Etruscans Ever Done for Us?
S01E02
I'm Spartacus
S01E01
Pompeii: A City Alive
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Steve HaversExecutive Producer
Direction
- Paul CromptonDirector
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