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 ...

In the end, King Leonidas and all of his Spartans were killed by the Persians. 300 is a movie brimming with action and is highly stylized, though possessing many historical inaccuracies.

300 is a successful underdog story based on the Battle of Thermopylae with impressive box office and DVD sales. Unfortunately, Netflix will remove 300 by December 31, so fans have a limited time ...

Persian King Xerxes led a Army of well over 100,000 (Persian king Xerxes before war has about 170,000 army) men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians, and 400 Thebans.