# Alexander: The Making of a God (2024)

> A documentary drama that combines expert interviews with gripping reenactments to trace the life of Alexander the Great and his drive to conquer the world.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/155509

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 6
- Episode runtime: 38 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: documentary, drama, history
- Created by: Tony Mitchell
- Network: Netflix
- Cast: Mido Hamada, Buck Braithwaite, Agni Scott, Souad Faress, Dino Kelly, Kosha Engler, Salima Ikram, Waleed Elgadi
- TMDB rating: 5.6/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27494999/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: sober, immersive, grand, tense, reflective

## What critics say

Audiences find the mix of expert interviews and dramatized reenactments engaging but the result uneven, with a middling audience rating.

## Synopsis

Alexander: The Making of a God (2024) is a British documentary drama miniseries created by Tony Mitchell and distributed on Netflix. Across six episodes of roughly 38 minutes each, expert historians and scholars speak directly to camera while dramatized reenactments bring the ancient world to life. The engine of the series is the ambition of Alexander the Great, a young Macedonian king whose burning desire to conquer the known world drives every campaign and every rivalry the program traces. Reenactments feature Buck Braithwaite as Alexander, Mido Hamada as King Darius, Agni Scott as Stateira, and Dino Kelly as Ptolemy, with Salima Ikram appearing as a commentator, while the court intrigue, battlefield clashes, and family pressures of the Macedonian and Persian courts take shape in gritty, cinematic staging. Each episode moves through a stretch of his life, pairing scholarly interpretation with dramatic scenes so the viewer sees both the evidence and the imagined moments that fill its gaps. The tone is sober and immersive, with a sense of grandeur and danger that suits fans of Rome and other ancient-world docudramas. Because the episodes are built around a single arc, the series rewards watching in order. Viewers who enjoy history told through reenactment and expert testimony will find this a dense, vivid portrait of an empire builder.

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