How historically accurate was the movie Gladiator

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I know Marcus Aurelius, and Commodus existed.

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Wikipedia, bless it, has an exhaustive article on the subject.

The upshot of it is effectively that the two things you mention - the existence of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus - is pretty much the sum total of the things it actually gets right.

So, yeah. Not much more to say on that?