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THE GALLIC WAR
One man united 60 tribes against the greatest army on earth. Then Rome erased him from history.
58–50 BC. Julius Caesar invades Gaul. One million Gauls will die. Another million will be enslaved. In the final year, a young Arvernian chieftain named Vercingetorix does what no one thought possible — he unites 60 warring Celtic tribes into one army and nearly destroys Caesar at Gergovia. Then comes Alesia. The greatest siege in ancient history. 80,000 Gauls trapped. 250,000 coming to relieve them. Caesar builds two walls. The history of Europe turns on a knife’s edge.
4
Seasons
32
Episodes
30
Characters
58 BC
Setting
Seasons
Eight years of war. Four seasons of truth.
SEASON 1 · THE MIGRATION
58–57 BC
8 episodes
The Helvetii attempt to migrate through Roman territory. Caesar uses it as a pretext to invade all of Gaul. We see both sides: Caesar building political capital in Rome through military victory, and the Gallic tribes realizing too late that the Romans are not passing through. The Belgae confederacy fights. The Nervii ambush Caesar at the Sabis River — the closest Caesar comes to losing before Alesia. Season ends with Caesar wintering in Gaul. He’s not leaving.
SEASON 2 · THE REBELLION
56–54 BC
8 episodes
The Veneti revolt on the Atlantic coast. Caesar builds a navy and destroys them. He crosses the Rhine on a bridge built in 10 days (real, documented by Caesar himself). He invades Britain twice — the first Roman to do so. Back in Gaul, Ambiorix of the Eburones destroys an entire Roman legion. 6,000 dead. Caesar’s myth of invincibility shatters. The tribes see blood in the water.
SEASON 3 · VERCINGETORIX
53–52 BC
8 episodes
The revolt of Vercingetorix. A young Arvernian chieftain — his father was executed for trying to become king — unites 60 tribes using a scorched-earth strategy. He burns his own capital. He defeats Caesar at Gergovia. The only pitched battle Caesar ever lost. For one moment, Gaul is free. Then Caesar adapts. Vercingetorix retreats to Alesia. Caesar builds two rings of fortification — one facing in, one facing out. The greatest siege in military history begins.
SEASON 4 · THE SIEGE
52–50 BC
8 episodes
Alesia. 80,000 Gauls inside. 250,000 in the relief army outside. Caesar’s 60,000 Romans in between. The relief army attacks. The walls hold. Vercingetorix surrenders to save his people from starvation. He throws his weapons at Caesar’s feet. He is paraded through Rome for 6 years, then strangled in the Tullianum prison. The final episodes show the mopping up: Uxellodunum, where Caesar cuts off the hands of every defender. Gaul is Rome. But Caesar has built an army loyal to him, not the Senate. The Republic is already dead. It just doesn’t know it yet.
Characters
30 named roles. Every one documented.
Vercingetorix
Arvernian chieftain · United 60 tribes
Julius Caesar
Proconsul · Conqueror · Writer
Titus Labienus
Caesar’s best general · Later betrays him
Mark Antony
Young officer · Commands cavalry at Alesia
Ambiorix
King of the Eburones · Destroyed a legion · Vanished
Commius
Atrebates · Roman ally turned rebel · Escaped to Britain
Diviciacus
Aeduan druid · Caesar’s Gallic ally · Betrayed his own brother
Dumnorix
Diviciacus’s brother · Anti-Roman · Killed fleeing
Indutiomarus
Treveri chief · Revolted · Head brought to Caesar
Vercassivellaunus
Vercingetorix’s cousin · Led the relief at Alesia
Critognatus
Proposed cannibalism at Alesia · Real speech preserved
Celtillus
Vercingetorix’s father · Executed for ambition
Pompey
In Rome · Watching Caesar grow too powerful
Cato
In Rome · Calls Caesar a war criminal
Lucterius
Cadurci · Southern revolt · Never surrendered
Gutuater
Druid · Sparked the Carnutes revolt at Cenabum
Comps
What this show looks like.
Rome (HBO)
The politics · The Senate
Gladiator
Opening battle · Scale
Braveheart
One man vs an empire
Game of Thrones
Multi-tribal politics
Barbarians (Netflix)
Germanic resistance
The Last Duel
Perspective · Medieval realism
The Pitch
“Rome erased him. We’re bringing him back.”
Caesar wrote the only surviving account of the Gallic War. He wrote it in third person to make himself look objective. It is propaganda disguised as history. Our show tells both sides. What Caesar wrote — and what actually happened in the Gallic camps, the tribal councils, the druid groves that Caesar never saw.
Vercingetorix is the most important person most people have never heard of. He united 60 tribes that had been at war with each other for centuries. He invented the scorched-earth strategy 2,000 years before Sherman. He beat Caesar in open battle. And he lost everything.
The carnyx sounds. The tribes assemble. The forge of Europe begins.
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