Which 1960 film starred Kirk Douglas as a slave revolt leader?

The 1960 film starring Kirk Douglas as a slave revolt leader was Spartacus. Douglas plays the Thracian gladiator who leads a major uprising against the Roman Republic in the first century BCE.

Directed by Stanley Kubrick, the film was adapted from Howard Fast's 1951 historical novel, with a screenplay by Dalton Trumbo. Its story dramatizes the Third Servile War, fought from 73 to 71 BCE, when enslaved gladiators and other escaped slaves challenged Rome. Although the historical Spartacus is known to have led the revolt, many details of his life and the film's personal relationships are fictionalized.

The movie is often confused with Gladiator because both feature Roman arenas, enslaved fighters, and rebellion. Gladiator, however, was released in 2000 and follows the fictional Roman general Maximus. The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur are also biblical or Roman-era epics, but neither centers on Spartacus or the Third Servile War.