Apr 03, 2001
119 min
Full-HD

Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood (2001)

Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox's 1963 film "Cleopatra," then the most expensive film of all time.

Keith Baxter

Self

Stephen Boyd

Self (archive footage)

Jack Brodsky

Self

David Brown

Self

Richard Burton

Self (archive footage)

Joan Collins

Self (archive footage)

Hume Cronyn

Self

Robert Culp

Narrator

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