I, Caesar S01E02 - Augustus - First of the Emperors

In 44BC, a little-known teenage relative of the assassinated Julius Caesar stepped into the vortex of Roman politics. He was to triumph over Mark Antony and Cleopatra in a brutal civil war and become Rome's first Emperor. A vivid portrait of Augustus, one of history's great political leaders, studies the methods he used to steer the empire towards the zenith of its power.