Violence Statistics
600
On-Screen Deaths
5.1 deaths per minute
a killing every 12 sec
a killing every 12 sec
Weapons Used
["Swords", "Spears", "Arrows"]
Violence Context
["War", "Historical"]
Film Details
Release Year
2006
2006
Runtime
117 minutes
117 minutes
Rating
R
R
Budget
Unknown
Unknown
Plot Summary
King Leonidas and a force of 300 men fight the Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.
Reality Check: 5.1 On-Screen Deaths per Minute vs. Real U.S. Wars
The real U.S. wars whose per-minute death rate comes closest to this film's — the comparison is always per minute and every war figure is U.S. casualties, never raw totals.
American Civil War
0.24/min
a death every 4 min
1861–1865 • United States
620,000 U.S. deaths
World War II
0.16/min
a death every 6 min
1941–1945 • Global
418,500 U.S. deaths
World War I
0.11/min
a death every 9 min
1917–1918 • Europe
116,516 U.S. deaths