answer:I’ve never heard of any movies set in ancient Sumer. (1) History-based films are seldom popular (i.e. they usually don’t make money or win awards), so the movie studios shy away from them. (2) Wouldn’t any depiction of Sumer be mostly fiction and speculation? There have been plenty of films about ancient Greek and Rome, but more is know about those civilizations from contemporaneous written sources. (3) Americans prefer movies about white-pseudo-history. There were two Lincoln films released this past year, one concerned with vampire slaying. (4) What about political correctness? If a movie were set in Sumer, the “bad guys” would be swarthy and dark-skinned…Arab or Persian in appearance. Sure, the “good guys” would look the same way, but many viewers would nonetheless take offense at the depictions of evil dark people.