The 2009 movie Agora, starring Rachel Weisz, tells the story of the last days of the philosopher and mathematician Hypatia [350-415 CE]. She was the head of the Platonist school in Alexandria, and was killed by a mob. She now has a journal of feminist philosophy named after her.
Below are some short films selected to cover the Ancient Library of Alexandria, and the life and times of Hypatia, along with a few selected clips from Agora.
We start with a short history of the Library of Alexandria:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvWncVbXfJ0
Below are a few clips from Agora. (A cautionary note: while she was a talented and remarkable woman, there is no evidence that Hypatia discovered what we now call ‘Galilean relativity’, nor the fact that planets moved on ellipses, as depicted in the movie.) The wider context of the story is the overturning of pagan civilization by the rise of Christian civilization in late Roman times. The film gives some sense of what it might have been like to be alive near the end of the Hellenic period, and the imagining of the city of Alexandria of the period is beautifully done.
From Agora: Ptolemaic theory, explained by a slave
Also from Agora: Aristarchus remembered, if only briefly (NB By this point, Aristarchus had been dead for over six hundred years.)
From Agora: The Library sacked by a Christian mob