Feast on these cinematic battles set in Ancient Rome and beyond Viola Davis in "The Woman King," Kirk Douglas in "Spartacus," Gerard Butler in "300" (CREDIT: Sony, Universal, Warner Bros.) If your thirst for non-stop action isn’t sated by the bloodletting in “Gladiator II,” take a gander at previous epics like “Spartacus” and “Ben-Hur,” which both heavily influenced the original “Gladiator.” We’ve also thrown in some cinematic suggestions that go beyond Ancient Rome, with sprawling battles in