Although the show is too grandiose, Varus and many Roman officers did kill themselves in battle.
After the victory of the battle, Arminius offered the head of his adoptive father Varus, hoping to form an alliance with Maroboduus, the chief of the Marcomanni tribe, but was rejected. Maroboduus sends Varus' head to Rome for burial (probably the last scene).
After the death of Augustus, the Roman emperor Tiberius made his nephew Germanicus acting governor of the Germanic province, the third year after the Battle of Teutonicburg. Germanicus crossed the Rhine, achieved a considerable military victory, retaliated by slaughtering a large number of Germans, and defeated Arminius, but did not achieve stable rule east of the Rhine.
The nasty heroine's father, Segestes, is indeed a real person. Like the show, Segestes in history is also a pro-Roman faction, who once warned Varus of a potential rebellion and didn't want to marry his daughter to Arminius.
During Germanicus's military campaign, Segestes was besieged by his own countrymen and wrote to the Romans for help. Germanicus rescued the Segestes. He was finally granted residency and lived west of the Rhine (presumably in Gaul).
Germanicus also captured the pregnant female protagonist Thusnelda at the same time. She was sent to Rome, where her son Thumelicus, who was born in Rome, was trained as a gladiator and died in battle before the age of twenty. Thusnelda never returned to Germania after that.
In AD 21, Arminius died of the betrayal of his father-in-law Segestes and members of his family.
Arminius was indeed abandoned by his gods.
And the great thing about Rome is that the people she ran under the wheel hated her, but when these peoples got stronger, they couldn't wait to inherit her name and want to be her.
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