Tonight on Planète+ and the CANAL+ platform: “Alexander the Great, a Legendary Conqueror,” narrated by Fred Testot.*

In less than ten years, Alexander of Macedon built a vast empire stretching from Greece to the gates of India.
King at 20, proclaimed Pharaoh of Egypt at 24, he established himself after Gaugamela as the heir to the Persian kings, before dying at just 32.

A docu-fiction filmed on the archaeological sites of his epic journey — from Greece to Egypt, through Turkey, Mesopotamia and the Persian Near East — interwoven with costume drama scenes shot in the studios of Marrakech and on location in Morocco.