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Plumbing the Accuracy of 'Alexander'

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November 23, 2004

Director Oliver Stone's upcoming film Alexander stars Colin Farrell as the great conqueror. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Daniel Mendelsohn, lecturer in the classics at Princeton University, about the film's accuracy and the man's life.

 
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