The Stolen Eagle

"The Stolen Eagle" adalah episode pertama dari serial Televisi yang berjudul Rome. Diciptakan oleh Bruno Heller, William J. MacDonald, John Milius, di sutradai oleh Michael Apted. Pertama kali ditayangkan di Amerika Serikat pada tanggal 28 Agustus 2005 dan pada tanggal 2 November 2005 di Britania Raya.

, the episode first aired in the United States on Home Box Office (HBO) on August 28, 2005, and on the BBC in the United Kingdom and Ireland on November 2. Rome was given a budget of $100 million, making it the largest amount both networks had ever spent on a series. Heller centered the series' narrative on the perspectives of two common soldiers, similar to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern from Shakespeare's Hamlet. Apted shot the episode at Cinecittà, the Roman studio where the epic films Ben-Hur and Cleopatra were filmed. On the set, realism and authenticity were emphasized more than grandiosity, with depictions of a cosmopolitan city of all social classes.