This documentary is about the dictators of Rome and their mistakes and successes. Their actions have caused revolutions and in the end the fall of Rome. Men like Caesar, Nero and Constantine shaped the Roman Empire and governed the empire during the most important turning points in its history. It describes how Rome destroyed Carthage, how Caesar became its dictator, how it suppressed the Jewish revolt, and converted to Christianity. The Gallic Wars, Caesars battles with senators Cato and Marcellus, the strange ways of Nero, Constantine’s conversion to Christianity and eventually the fall of Rome.