The depiction of battle tactics and technology, battlefields and characters serve to give credibility to the film as a depiction of the battle as they primarily correspond to the accounts of Herodotus and Diodorus, along with many other sources. Even if there were things in the film that were not found in the documents, this does not take away from the fact that it represents the reality of the battle. The film shows that the fighters were people too, not mere pawns in a war. They had feelings, families and fought for something they believed in. Although the defenders of Thermopylae were ultimately defeated, it was their courage and belief in self-sacrifice rather than brawn and metal that saved all of Greece. This depiction of the Battle of Thermopylae creates an action-packed film, but it also tells a story of real people who resisted the annihilation of their way of life to show the true realities of