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'''1492'''
'''1492'''
'''Adventures of Robin Hood'''
: with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Haviland)


'''Advocate, The''' (aka The Hour of the Pig) ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107146/ IMDB])
'''Advocate, The''' (aka The Hour of the Pig) ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107146/ IMDB])
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'''Cadfael'''
'''Cadfael'''
: TV series from BBC
: TV series from BBC
'''Camelot'''
: the classic with Vanessa Redgrave
'''Conan the Barbarian'''
: the second must have SCA movie back when rocks were molten
'''Count of Monte Cristo'''
:


'''Court Jester, The''' ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049096/ IMDB])
'''Court Jester, The''' ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049096/ IMDB])
: Danny Kaye
: Danny Kaye
: "The pistol with the poison is in the flagon with the dragon, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true..."
: "The pistol with the poison is in the flagon with the dragon, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true..."
: (The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true), Danny Kaye


'''Dangerous Beauty'''
'''Dangerous Beauty'''
: Set in Venice during the era of the couretsans (1600's I believe).  It is well written, well acted, and has a great monologue while the main character faces the Spanish Inquisition.
: Set in Venice during the era of the couretsans (1600's I believe).  It is well written, well acted, and has a great monologue while the main character faces the Spanish Inquisition.
'''Don Quixote'''
: best song ever about whats important in life
'''Dragon Heart'''
:
'''Dragon Heart: A New Beginning'''
:
'''El Bagaude'''
: local chieftain fights Romans and Goths in the Fifth century.
'''El Cid'''
:


'''Elizabeth'''
'''Elizabeth'''
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: TV
: TV


'''Eric the Viking'''
'''El valle de las espadas / The Castillianz'''
:  about Conde Fernan Gonzalez with Frankie Avalon.  Frankie is not the star. Surprisingly good.
 
'''Erik the Viking'''
: it's fun and most of the clothes are period Norse.
: Tim Robbins
: Tim Robbins
'''Ever After'''
:
'''Excalibur'''
: the must have SCA movie back when rocks were molten
'''First Knight'''
:
'''Flesh and Blood'''
: The castle siege in it was, while dark and nasty, fascinating in it's own weird way.
'''Gladiator'''
:
'''Henry V'''
: Kenneth Branaugh's. Outstanding great, imho one of the very best films ever.  Definatly the best screen adaptation of any Shakespeare play, bar none. Not even Laurence Olivier's Henry V can touch this one.
'''In Service to the Dream'''
:
'''Ivanhoe'''
:
'''Ivanhoe'''
: BBC version is far superior to the Robert Taylor film.
'''Ivanhoe'''
: the BBC television version is especially good. Anne likes the one with Elizabeth Taylor.
'''Kagamusha'''
:
'''King Arthur'''
: (new, 2004) has some nice periodicity as well. Clive Owen, Ioan Gruffudd, Mads Mikkelsen
'''Kingdom of Heaven The Directors Cut'''
:


'''Knight's Tale''' ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183790/ IMDB])
'''Knight's Tale''' ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183790/ IMDB])
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: Forget the music and the clothes. It's all about "a silly boy with a horse and a stick."
: Forget the music and the clothes. It's all about "a silly boy with a horse and a stick."
: "Watching it makes you feel like a you have been at a really good SCA event."
: "Watching it makes you feel like a you have been at a really good SCA event."
'''Labyrinth'''
:


'''LadyHawke'''
'''LadyHawke'''
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: Cary Elwes and Helen Bonham Carter as Gilford Dudley and Lady Jane Grey.
: Cary Elwes and Helen Bonham Carter as Gilford Dudley and Lady Jane Grey.
: Tragic Queen of England for nine days.
: Tragic Queen of England for nine days.
'''Last Unicorn'''
: animated but very medieval
'''Last Valley'''
:
'''Le Moine et la Sorciere / Sorceress'''
: not flamboyant, but an excellent movie made by Suzanne Schiffman and Pamela Berger an associate of Truffaut and and an art history prof.
'''Legend'''
:
'''Les Couloirs du Temps
: Les Visiteurs 2'''
: haven't seen it yet, but its supposed to be funnier.
'''Les Visiteurs / Just Visiting'''
: the ORIGINAL french version (with subtitles) is far funnier.  Jean Reno and Christian Clavier. Just Visiting - With Christina Applegate, Jean Reno and Christian Clavier


'''Lion in Winter, The''' ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063227/ IMDB])
'''Lion in Winter, The''' ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063227/ IMDB])
: Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn
: Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn
: "Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians!"
: "Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians!"
'''Lion in Winter'''
: Patrick Stewart/Glenn Close
'''Long Ships'''
:
'''Mad Love / Juana la Loca'''
: It is the story of Joan the Mad; daughter of Isabelle & Ferdinand and mother of Charles V.  Great costuming and an intense story. sub-titles.


'''Man For All Seasons, A'''
'''Man For All Seasons, A'''
: The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage, with Orson Welles as Cardinal Wolsey.  It features the best Tudor garb I've ever seen in a movie.
: The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage, with Orson Welles as Cardinal Wolsey.  It features the best Tudor garb I've ever seen in a movie.
'''Man in the Iron Mask'''
:
'''Messenger - Joan of Arc'''
: the new one - the battle scenes are just... WOW!)
'''Mists of Avalon'''
:


'''Monty Python and the Holy Grail''' ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/ IMDB])
'''Monty Python and the Holy Grail''' ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/ IMDB])
'''Much Ado About Nothing'''
: with Kenneth Branaugh, Michael Keaton, Robert Sean Leonard, Keanu Reeves (yes really), Emma Thompson and Denzel Washington.
'''Musketeer, The'''
:


'''Name of the Rose'''
'''Name of the Rose'''
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'''Orlando'''
'''Orlando'''
: Kaye Ballard
: Kaye Ballard
'''Norseman, The'''
:
'''Prince of Foxes'''
: With Orson Welles, about Cesare Borgia.
'''Prince of Jutland'''
: (also known in the US as Royal Deceit - the original Hamlet)
'''Prince Valiant'''
: starring Robert Wagner, and Janet Leigh? It was horrible! Vikings were supposed the bad guys. Every last one of them was wearing a helmet decorated with cow horns. The crowd scenes looked ridiculous.
'''Prince Valiant'''
:
'''Prince who was a Teef, The"
: with its immortal line "Yonda lies the palace of my fodda, da Caliph." Bernie Schwartz's greatest role
'''Princess Bride, The'''
:
'''Ran'''
:
'''Reckoning, The'''
:2004. 14th century England, Willem Dafoe and Paul Bettany.
'''Reign of Fire'''
:
'''Retour de Martin Guerre (The Return of Martin Guerre)'''
: Set in an authentic-looking medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claimed identity when he claims he is returning from some time in the army. Re-done in the American Civil War period as "Sommersby" with Jody Foster and Richard Gere.
'''Rob Roy'''
: way too late period but very good indeed.
'''Robin and Marian'''
: Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn


'''Robin Hood'''
'''Robin Hood'''
: The Errol Flynn version
: The Errol Flynn version
'''Robin Hood'''
: Also the Disney version ("The best movie ever made about the SCA.")
: Also the Disney version ("The best movie ever made about the SCA.")
'''Robin Hood'''
: (1991, TV Movie) starring Patrick Bergin and Uma Thurman
'''Robin Hood'''
: TV Series with Michael Praede(?) as Robin of Locksley and Jason Connery as Robert of Huntington


'''Robin Hood: Men in Tights'''
'''Robin Hood: Men in Tights'''
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'''Rome'''
'''Rome'''
: TV
: TV
'''Scipio Africanus'''
: Unintended hilarity with papier mache elephants, power lines in the background, and crowds of Romans wearing wristwatches under their togas.  A messterpiece of Fascist filmmaking.
'''Seven Samuari'''
:


'''Shakespeare in Love'''
'''Shakespeare in Love'''
'''Six Wives of Henry the VIII, The'''
:
'''Sleeping Beauty'''
:
'''Stealing Heaven'''
: very good
'''Sword in the Stone, The'''
: with the magic duel
'''Talisman, The'''
: with Rex Harrison as a sympathetic and cultured Saladin opposite George Saunders boorish Richard. Laurance Harvey and Virginia Mayo are the lovers. Very contrived but the diction is splendid.
'''Taming of the Shrew'''
: with Elizabeth Taylor
'''Thirteenth Warrior'''
: Filmed in Lions Gate (Vancouver) and much of the surplus props and fabric made their way into the local SCA community


'''Three Musketeers'''
'''Three Musketeers'''
: with Gene Kelly.  It's not actually period being set in the time period it is but it'll get ya in a good SCA mood.
: with Gene Kelly.  It's not actually period being set in the time period it is but it'll get ya in a good SCA mood.
'''Three Worlds of Gulliver, The'''
:
'''Timeline'''
:


'''Tristan and Isolde'''
'''Tristan and Isolde'''
: (Possibly the welsh version of the Arthurian legend)
'''Viking Queen, The'''
:Poorly named but rather well done movie about Boudicea.
'''Vikings, The'''
:Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Kirk Douglas and Janet Leigh
'''Warlord'''
:


'''Warlord, The'''
:a look at what happened when Christianity met paganism in the fens
And if that wasn't enough for you, here are some meta-pages
And if that wasn't enough for you, here are some meta-pages
* Internet Movie Database (IMDB), [http://www.imdb.com/keyword/medieval/ keyword: Medieval]
* Internet Movie Database (IMDB), [http://www.imdb.com/keyword/medieval/ keyword: Medieval]

Revision as of 14:47, 11 May 2007

We can't help it. We love medieval movies. Even bad medieval movies. Even medieval-oid movies. Even bad medievaloid movies. Here is a list of our favourites.

13th Warrior, The (IMDB)

Antonio Banderas as an Arab amongst the Norseman
Lots of SCA people were involved and it was one heck of a garage sale afterwards!

1492

Adventures of Robin Hood

with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Haviland)

Advocate, The (aka The Hour of the Pig) (IMDB)

Colin Firth plays a 15th C. trial lawyer.
'Law and Order' for the Middle Ages...
"A lovely tale of medieval justice where a pig is put on trial for murder."

Agony and The Ecstacy, The (IMDB)

Starring Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison
Michaelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel

Alexsadr Nevskiy (IMDB)

They used real medieval armour from the Kremlin

Attila the Hun

Becket

Black Adder (Seasons 1-3)

BBC TV

Black Shield of Fallworth

Braveheart (IMDB)

What a Scotsman really wears under his kilt.
Mel Gibson in a kilt and woad saying "I'm gonna pick a fight"

Cadfael

TV series from BBC

Camelot

the classic with Vanessa Redgrave

Conan the Barbarian

the second must have SCA movie back when rocks were molten

Count of Monte Cristo

Court Jester, The (IMDB)

Danny Kaye
"The pistol with the poison is in the flagon with the dragon, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true..."
(The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true), Danny Kaye

Dangerous Beauty

Set in Venice during the era of the couretsans (1600's I believe). It is well written, well acted, and has a great monologue while the main character faces the Spanish Inquisition.

Don Quixote

best song ever about whats important in life

Dragon Heart

Dragon Heart: A New Beginning

El Bagaude

local chieftain fights Romans and Goths in the Fifth century.

El Cid

Elizabeth

Elizabeth Rex

TV

El valle de las espadas / The Castillianz

about Conde Fernan Gonzalez with Frankie Avalon. Frankie is not the star. Surprisingly good.

Erik the Viking

it's fun and most of the clothes are period Norse.
Tim Robbins

Ever After

Excalibur

the must have SCA movie back when rocks were molten

First Knight

Flesh and Blood

The castle siege in it was, while dark and nasty, fascinating in it's own weird way.

Gladiator

Henry V

Kenneth Branaugh's. Outstanding great, imho one of the very best films ever. Definatly the best screen adaptation of any Shakespeare play, bar none. Not even Laurence Olivier's Henry V can touch this one.

In Service to the Dream

Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe

BBC version is far superior to the Robert Taylor film.

Ivanhoe

the BBC television version is especially good. Anne likes the one with Elizabeth Taylor.

Kagamusha

King Arthur

(new, 2004) has some nice periodicity as well. Clive Owen, Ioan Gruffudd, Mads Mikkelsen

Kingdom of Heaven The Directors Cut

Knight's Tale (IMDB)

Heath Ledger
Forget the music and the clothes. It's all about "a silly boy with a horse and a stick."
"Watching it makes you feel like a you have been at a really good SCA event."

Labyrinth

LadyHawke

Lady Jane (IMDB)

Cary Elwes and Helen Bonham Carter as Gilford Dudley and Lady Jane Grey.
Tragic Queen of England for nine days.

Last Unicorn

animated but very medieval

Last Valley

Le Moine et la Sorciere / Sorceress

not flamboyant, but an excellent movie made by Suzanne Schiffman and Pamela Berger an associate of Truffaut and and an art history prof.

Legend

Les Couloirs du Temps

Les Visiteurs 2
haven't seen it yet, but its supposed to be funnier.

Les Visiteurs / Just Visiting

the ORIGINAL french version (with subtitles) is far funnier. Jean Reno and Christian Clavier. Just Visiting - With Christina Applegate, Jean Reno and Christian Clavier

Lion in Winter, The (IMDB)

Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn
"Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians!"

Lion in Winter

Patrick Stewart/Glenn Close

Long Ships

Mad Love / Juana la Loca

It is the story of Joan the Mad; daughter of Isabelle & Ferdinand and mother of Charles V. Great costuming and an intense story. sub-titles.

Man For All Seasons, A

The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage, with Orson Welles as Cardinal Wolsey. It features the best Tudor garb I've ever seen in a movie.

Man in the Iron Mask

Messenger - Joan of Arc

the new one - the battle scenes are just... WOW!)

Mists of Avalon

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (IMDB)

Much Ado About Nothing

with Kenneth Branaugh, Michael Keaton, Robert Sean Leonard, Keanu Reeves (yes really), Emma Thompson and Denzel Washington.

Musketeer, The

Name of the Rose

Sean Connery

Orlando

Kaye Ballard

Norseman, The

Prince of Foxes

With Orson Welles, about Cesare Borgia.

Prince of Jutland

(also known in the US as Royal Deceit - the original Hamlet)

Prince Valiant

starring Robert Wagner, and Janet Leigh? It was horrible! Vikings were supposed the bad guys. Every last one of them was wearing a helmet decorated with cow horns. The crowd scenes looked ridiculous.

Prince Valiant

Prince who was a Teef, The"

with its immortal line "Yonda lies the palace of my fodda, da Caliph." Bernie Schwartz's greatest role

Princess Bride, The

Ran

Reckoning, The

2004. 14th century England, Willem Dafoe and Paul Bettany.

Reign of Fire

Retour de Martin Guerre (The Return of Martin Guerre)

Set in an authentic-looking medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claimed identity when he claims he is returning from some time in the army. Re-done in the American Civil War period as "Sommersby" with Jody Foster and Richard Gere.

Rob Roy

way too late period but very good indeed.

Robin and Marian

Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn

Robin Hood

The Errol Flynn version

Robin Hood

Also the Disney version ("The best movie ever made about the SCA.")

Robin Hood

(1991, TV Movie) starring Patrick Bergin and Uma Thurman

Robin Hood

TV Series with Michael Praede(?) as Robin of Locksley and Jason Connery as Robert of Huntington

Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves

Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Allan Rickman

Rome

TV

Scipio Africanus

Unintended hilarity with papier mache elephants, power lines in the background, and crowds of Romans wearing wristwatches under their togas. A messterpiece of Fascist filmmaking.

Seven Samuari

Shakespeare in Love

Six Wives of Henry the VIII, The

Sleeping Beauty

Stealing Heaven

very good

Sword in the Stone, The

with the magic duel

Talisman, The

with Rex Harrison as a sympathetic and cultured Saladin opposite George Saunders boorish Richard. Laurance Harvey and Virginia Mayo are the lovers. Very contrived but the diction is splendid.

Taming of the Shrew

with Elizabeth Taylor

Thirteenth Warrior

Filmed in Lions Gate (Vancouver) and much of the surplus props and fabric made their way into the local SCA community

Three Musketeers

with Gene Kelly. It's not actually period being set in the time period it is but it'll get ya in a good SCA mood.

Three Worlds of Gulliver, The

Timeline

Tristan and Isolde

(Possibly the welsh version of the Arthurian legend)

Viking Queen, The

Poorly named but rather well done movie about Boudicea.

Vikings, The

Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Kirk Douglas and Janet Leigh

Warlord

Warlord, The

a look at what happened when Christianity met paganism in the fens

And if that wasn't enough for you, here are some meta-pages

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