 This is the German version of "The Fall of Rome", the sixth and last episode of the internationally co-produced docu-drama "Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire" (see there for a full historical summary), using the dramatized scenes in full but some alternative off-screen text and interviews, about the Visigoth king Alaric s various moves to get his people, forced to migrate West by eastern nomads, a new home inside the Roman empire, ultimately leading to the take-over in phases of the Western empire, which had already transferred its imperial seat to Ravenna and lost its military might but still proved a hard nut to crack due to emperor Honorius and his court s lies and treachery.