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While holidaying in Rhodes, an Athenian war hero becomes involved in two plots to overthrow the tyrannical king: one from Rhodian patriots, and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.

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This wasn’t a figment of mythology, but a real engineering feat that left the ancient world in awe: the Colossus of Rhodes.

Until an earthquake in 226 BCE knocked it down, the Colossus of Rhodes, a 98-foot-high iron and bronze statue of the Greek god Helios, sat near the harbor of Rhodes, Greece, for 54 years.

Around 280 B.C., an immense statue, the Colossus of Rhodes, was erected beside the entrance to the harbor on the Greek island of Rhodes. The ancients named it one of the Seven Wonders of the ...

A powerful man posing as a gladiator in Rome's fourth century discovers a plan to put the beautiful Queen in prison, which he thwarts by exposing a sinister duke as a traitor.

However, the pirates attack Tamra to claim the god that has the power to destroy the world, and the giant Dolhareubang robot 'Colossus' to stand up to the enemy appears in the waterfall ...

Though historians know very little about what the Colossus of Rhodes looked like, where it stood or how it was built, what is indisputable is that it was magnificent. Its legacy endures.

This time, we are thinking about the 1970 movie Colossus: The Forbin Project. There were actually two computers: the titular Colossus, which was an American computer, and the Guardian, a similar ...