Medieval Movies

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

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

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..."

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.

Elizabeth

Elizabeth Rex

TV

Eric the Viking

Tim Robbins

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."

LadyHawke

Lady Jane (IMDB)

Cary Elwes and Helen Bonham Carter as Gilford Dudley and Lady Jane Grey.

Tragic Queen of England for nine days.

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!"

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.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (IMDB)

Name of the Rose

Sean Connery

Orlando

Kaye Ballard

Robin Hood

The Errol Flynn version

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

Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves

Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Allan Rickman

Rome

TV

Shakespeare in Love

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.

Tristan and Isolde

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

• Internet Movie Database (IMDB), keyword: Medieval
• Eras of Elegance movies by era
• http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/medfilms.html