It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnom to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles, and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer's "The Iliad."

The impending war in Iraq forced the production to move from Morocco to Baja California Sur, Mexico in February 2003.

Agamemnon:
I see you're not hiding behind your high walls. Valiant of you. Ill-advised, but valiant.


Hector:
You come here uninvited. Go back to your ships and go home.


Agamemnon:
We've come too far, Prince Hector.


Menelaus:
Prince? What prince? What son of a king would accept a man's hospitality, eat his food, drink his wine, embrace him in friendship, and then steal his wife in the middle of the night?


Paris:
The sun was shining when your wife left you.


Menelaus:
She's up there, watching, isn't she? Good. I want her to watch you die.


Agamemnon:
Not yet, brother. Look around you, Hector. I brought all the warriors of Greece to your shores.


Nestor:
You can still save Troy, young prince.


Agamemnon:
I have two wishes. If you grant them, no more of your people need die. First, you must give Helen back to my brother. Second, Troy must submit to my command, to fight for me whenever I call.


Hector:
You want me to look upon your army and tremble? Well I see them. I see 50,000 men brought here to fight for one man's greed.


Agamemnon:
Careful boy, my mercy has limits.


Hector:
And I've seen the limits of your mercy and I tell you now, no son of Troy will ever submit to a foreign ruler.


Agamemnon:
Then every son of Troy shall die.

Continuity: When going into formation on the Trojan Beach, Achilles has a flaming arrow stuck to his shield. In the shot from Achilles' point of view, the arrow is nowhere to be seen. It is then directly in the line of Achilles' sight again as Achilles and his army move out of formation to attack.

Music by James Horner
Lyric by Cynthia Weil
Produced by David Foster
Performed by Josh Groban with Tanja Tzarovska
Josh Groban appears courtesy of 143 Records/Reprise Records