- Title: The Eagle of the Ninth
- Original Title: The Eagle of the Ninth
- Number of Episodes: 6
- Number of Seasons: 1
- First air date: 04/09/1977
- Last air date: 09/10/1977
- Duration:30 Min / 00:30
- Genre:DramaWar & Politics
About Film
In Britannia in 130, a young Roman officer named Marcus Flavius Aquila and his freed slave Esca search for the Ninth Legion's gold eagle standard, which vanished with the legion 13 years earlier.
Movie Rating: 7.3
Total Votes: 3
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Geronimo1967
7/10
This was made back in the day when the BBC would produce a Sunday evening serialisation of a well known story. This time it's Rosemary Sutcliff's tale of the search by "Aquila" (Anthony Higgins) and his recently spared slave "Esca" (Christian Rodska) for the lost eagle of the ninth Roman legion. His father was one of it's, now rather disgraced,...
