Colosseum - Roman Death Trap FULL SPECIAL (2015) | American Experience | PBS America
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- The Colosseum is a monument to Roman imperial power and cruelty. Now, with access to one of the world’s most protected world heritage sites, archaeologists and engineers team up to re-create ancient Roman techniques to build a 25-foot lifting machine and trap-door system capable of releasing a wolf into the Colosseum’s arena for the first time in 1,500 years.
First Broadcast Date: March 03, 2015
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Gotta give it up to PBS. These docs that challenge the settled history are mind blowing. Feed us more. 2AM with a blunt.😂😂😂
I don't see anything new here. Maybe new to you but certainly not challenging anything.
It's hardly mind blowing Just reharshed information.
Look how much exaggeration this 4 eyes puts in to what is common knowledge 14:32
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@@whatwhatyepmainstream Roman archaeologist who control the narrative tend to refute the water battles. Like Michael Shermer. So seeing these other people challenge the answers is cool to me.
@@marztarl don't know man. Just the technology used at that time is cool. We had brilliant minds back them. Seeing these guys use computer rendering systems to actually test and try the machine but those guys had to just doit. Its quite remarkable for me l guess.
A fascinating and mind-blowing documentary. Thank you, PBS America, for uploading!
I enjoyed watching this immensely. I am about to watch it once again!
Perfect!
An impressive and compelling presentation.
Roman engineering set a standard requiring modern tools, software and equipment to replicate. Remarkable.
Back then there was no Health and Safety at Work Act to worry about. 😁
Not really. A lot of antiquity craft has gone in favour of power tools. We are way more advanced these days
@@williamwalsh9615 Missed the point entirely… No modern tool for that.
Ha ! Cant believe it, i realised, after stumbling upon this PBS video,, that the lift system was installed in 2015 , i was touring the Colosseum the 1st wk of November that year and part of the tour was a viewing of the lift system , it was remarkable, and when you are actually down there amongst the stone corridor walls that was its quite an experience tstl ., well worth going to see, .
Thanks very much to the PBS America team for their hard work 👍🏻
I have a more favorable response to the ancient Roman's.
Their ingenuity and creativeness in mechanical engineering is absolutely fascinating!
I realize now that they weren't only cruel, ruthless and bloody.
I am so grateful to this video.😅❤
It was the nature of ppl & their lives with the environment also.
This is one of the reasons why their army's were so effective. They we're the equivalent of modern day royal engineers.
Yeah but cruel, ruthless and bloody is all we should never forget!
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Gladiators actually rarely fought to the death, they were an expensive investment. As for exotic animals being unleashed on unsuspecting victims I'd have thought they'd have known that something was afoot standing in the middle of the arena surrounded by a baying mob.
I enjoy PBS so much now our TV is controlled thank you from the UK xxx
A visit in person is a must... truly awesome..
"Let's fell a tree using ancient methods, but also use a forklift & electric screwdrivers/drills to make it" 😂 Great work by everyone involved though 👏👏👏
Solid point bjh7924. 👍🏻
I saw ,that drill . 😮
And to think because we live in the 21st century we're more advanced than our predecessors over 2000 yrs ago. An amazing and humbling video. Thank you to all concerned
A testament to how one man had a complete understanding about how to be an actual leader and serve the will of his people.
A leader? Savage cruelty and excess.
@@Peace-tk3grSeems things haven't changed much have they?
Lots of comments here complaining that ancient tools were not used to build the apparatus. Simple common sense... this documentary needed to be completed in just a few weeks, not several years like the ancient Romans would have taken to build the apparatus.
Have to remember the Romans were using this tech day in day out, wed probably confuse them with a pc, if you don't use the tech then your knackered
Good analogy with tech ! 😅
Italy, so modern then and still so now! Great country!
Extraordinary. Very well made.
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Excellent program. The Amphitheater is indeed a brilliant creation. That said, it is also a monument to the death and brutality of the human and animal victims. Perhaps there should be a plaque or side monument at the Amphitheater in honor and in remembrance of those victims.
'... orgy of outrageous spectacle."
Reminded me of the vivid graphics in the movie, "Gladiator."
Fascinating, just subbed. What goes around comes around I can genuinely believe this horror will happen again at some point in the future
What if today's cable media moguls in America think of themselves as evangelical Caesars? They control the media narrative that creates threats and promotes the fear inherent in those threats. The public streets are the new stages for the American Colosseum, but the Christians of today have AR-15s and love the lyin' that Murdoch broadcasts.
MMA, American football? Boxing in Las Vegas?
If haunted houses were a real thing, the colosseum should be one big haunted monument.
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It's fascinating
Excellent enjoyable educational experience thanks for sharing! 😊
Fascinating stuff.👌
Awesome. LOVE IT..
I have been there in the Colosseum it’s an incredible structure and a very sad place, so many met their terrible end at the hands of the romans and it has a very haunted feeling about it. We owe a lot to the Roman engineers not least of which is concrete.
21:00 To fell the tree, they use traditional ancient Roman tools, axe, wedge, saw. Just like the ancient Romans would have done. Then they use a modern fork lift, lathe and power tools.
Oglądając ten film zrozumiałam, dlaczego zle czułam się będąc we wnętrzu Coloseum.odbieralam negatywną energię, która została w tych murach po śmierci tylu ludzi i zwierząt.Wowczas jeszcze nie pomyslalam, że mogę ja odbierać,lecz obecnie w okresie mordowania niewinnych ludzi, czuję także ich ból i strach.
Excellent
Wondering how they stop the sand on the floor of the colosseum from falling down when the trap doors opened and covering all Below
I guess a bit of sand would fall. But not so much. Maybe the guys opening the trap doors would wear little hats and know when to not look up? And I expect any excess would be sweeped away down below.
A far more popular place to go for the Romans than the Colosseum was the Circus Maximus the venue for chariot racing which could hold 100 thousand more spectators than the Colosseum. By the way, the Colosseum didn't cost the Roman treasury anything. It was paid for by the loot captured after the Roman army crushed the Jewish revolt.
Great doc thovThank you PBS
Beautiful wolf
Man, that was interesting!!
Outstanding. Why were counterweights not considered for the lift and ramp? I am sure Roman engineering was capable of such knowledge. Truely enjoyable thank you.
My thought too. That seemed the obvious solution. I am only a dumb electrician.
From death trap to tourist trap.
You consider The Colosseum a "tourist trap"? That's pretty sad.
Poor Wolf it must have been terrified its life in the hands of Italians .
WTF??
Wow all modern tools used. How impressive
That was a fantastic trip
I wish that somebody would tell the guy with the moustache that his shirt is hanging out
the romans knew how to put on a good show!
Fantastic! 😊
Terrific experiment, now they just have to try it with a fully grown 500lb male lion.
The Greeks had ampitheaters a thousand years before the romans
True but they were drama theatres
Sea battles? In the colloseum?
they could have removed the sand and covered the wood floor with ceramic tiles of the type of clay they transported wine in? At 6 feet deep and smaller boats it could be possible to sink one more or less....@@user-fo6tk1dw2l
EXCELLENT VIDEO
Today the scammers outside conning public/tourists is more vicious than the fights.
Lifting a wolf in this manner would definitely not be equivalent to lifting lions or tigers or bears…..oh my. I imagine that the elephants and rhinos came in through the front gate with the emperor.
If some of the Roman Emperor’s came to life they would be horrified how the Colosseum looks like today..they would immediately demand to rebuild it.
@ 5:11 ... i just about laughed my head off upon envisioning what this must have looked like, and i couldn't help but laugh again when i realized how many ancient roman's would have laughed at the same thing. *humour that translates over 3000 years later*
Wickedness, of Canaanite origins no doubt.
It is unbelievable they lifted that trap door thing over random people visiting the place starting at 34:58.. Especially if it was overweight.. You would think they would block off the area that is under where it was being lifted.. That was insane..
the place must be haunted
They were beyond evil and barbaric , all those poor animals being tortured and killed they must of been so scared. 😊
Imagine, they fed starved lions with skinny malnourished humans with very little edible flesh on them. How could they? They would never get away with that today.
@@10_rds_Fire_For_Effect it is all terrible but not the lions fault obviously. I feel terribly sad for the humans also who were tortured.
naval battles was not a thing in the colisseum, they had both the rome harbor and the fucino lake for that
bear in mind that the arena surface would allow for maybe 2 small row boats, no trirremes or larger ships would fit
Why did they use the same tools the Romans used to fell the tree but modern tools to make the apparatus?
Job security for the laborers
Humanity is the pits.
cool
I don't know why everyone even historians call this the colosseum.....It is the Flavian ampheatre named after the ruler who planned its construction. In modern times I suppose you can call it what you want...
33:02 Giovanni Cirillo, la parte più bella di questo progetto!
The morning sea battles were a great idea, but how did they get the boats there ? .... Once destroyed and sunk, they needed to remove them - ready for the afternoon entertainment !!
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since it very much looks like the Romans could fill and drain the water to hold mock sea battles I cannot see lifting animals up from under the floor would be too difficult for them
Many hands make work.
Anyone else notice they lifted structure over people walking below?
How did it take him two years to figure out you could see all the indentations and patterns of the wood before it said 2 years most of us figured that out 😂😂😂
Still is.
In Roman days the Colosseum is brand new so they built pieces "in situ" No need for a high lift crane because they didn't want to damage it. as "New" was not heritage to them. Besides, lots of grunt slaves to fix it by chiseling it out again & we in the modern day accept it as is. This is our guess relying on all past records are TRUE & not dreamt up. When it was full of water and sea battles took place, did the sunken ships go down the drain too? Pulley idea came from a Greek fisherman? Archimedes Screw was also a Greek invention. The invention of rope belongs to another civilization(and no it was not "hemp" rope.) the invention of the pulley dates to Sumerians of Mesopotamia in 1500 BCE.
. The only things I am aware the Romans of inventing is iron tools and concrete.>"Location. location, location" matters< They also found Lead and made that into sheets to line their aqueducts with so they did not leak so much at the joints. Which later led to lead poisoning of the entire population. We know that today and yet there are many pipes that carry drinking water that are lead lined pipes.
. And you thought asbestos was bad? Well something has got to kill us, so it won't be by the preferred method of smoking hemp; but lead poisoning. That is what we have learned from our great science. How we died. In this case " Better late then NEVER.? Tell that to the stiff."
How do roman ever lift an elephant or hippo into the arena.? Elephant weight half a ton or higher .heavier than a lion.
Fork Lift. Same way they transported the tree trunks to build the stadium supports etc.
What was the point of cutting down the tree with old roman style tools axe and saw only to assemble the whole lift with modern electric tools 😂.
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Excellent documentary. However, I think the dubbing doesn't have to be done by trying to imitate the accent of the person speaking. It's a bit ridiculous to listen to dubbers trying to sound "Italian".
Since when did they have referees in a gladiator fight!
Right after they formed the Roman Gladiatorial Referees Association.
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Great reply!
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do you need a reason to justify the killing in the arena, i doubt it, mans never stopped even to this second, or most likely never will. but was brilliant to watch them recreate this feat.
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😂 booty from where
So is it reasonable to assume once neros dodgy private pool buildings were flattened that they left all the water works to be later incorporated into the coliseum ? To allow for water to enter for sea battles ? If so then that nutter Nero should get some credit ?
The deaths of Gladiators has been somewhat exaggerated in this presentation. Gladiators were controlled by what we would call referees who often stopped fights before a fatal stab. This way allowed continual entertainment and a citizen following of their heroes like athletes and rock stars today.
Colosseum floor make by wood... How the hell they flood it?
Ok what you show but i m not convinced as they did it with 2000 years tools.
old news, pullys and lifts.😮
every 3 minuts a commercial, you got to be kidding, go away
Is that a wolf ? ,
Looks more
Like a wolf /dog hybrid.
The naval re-enactments is bollocks... they did it once in the Colosseum. They generally went to another arena or lakes to do re-enactments
OK, I understand how they did put animals on the arena. but still what I don't know is how they put the lions back into cage?
They lured them back in with meat?
They killed them near extinction he recons
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The Romans did not use men power to lift the cages they used elephants
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How did fire break out in the colosseum
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And let FAUCI and Bill Gates fight Hillary and big Mike
What about the toilets?
fascination with rome as a civilized society for our modern time is nonsensical, the barbarism of those people never become a thing to be interesting for us now
Not civilised same as Italy now NOT civilised 😢 FFS
... this form of entertainment is now called CGI(Colosseum Goes Internet)... and you read it here 1st brah...
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Yes... Before "preferred pronouns" there were Gladiators!
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