Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of them his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army now ...

Butler plays Leonidas, the King of Sparta, who leads 300 Spartans into battle against the much, much larger Persian army. The cast of the historical epic also includes Dominic West, Lena Headey ...

more Most of the focus during 300 is spent on dramatizing events immediately leading up to and during the Spartans’ loss at the Battle of Thermopylae. The latter was one of the most famous ...