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✔️ The Medieval Period (500–1485) films and TV shows
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After the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century, the Medieval Period (also known as the Middle Ages) marked massive social change, natural disasters, dynastic wars, climate change, rebellion, resistance and renaissance. It was a time of turmoil, crisis and the creation of a state, from Magna Carta to the horrors of the Black Death.


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Movie: Camelot ( 1982 )
Part of the cable series "HBO Theatre", this is a videotaped presentation of the 1980 Broadway revival of the musical.
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Movie: Dragons of Camelot ( 2014 )
Camelot is plunged into darkness after King Arthur dies. Now the reign of his cruel sorceress sister, Morgana, begins. Commanding three deadly dragons, she hunts the remaining Knights of the Round Table.
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Movie: Arthur & Merlin: Knights of Camelot ( 2020 )
A much older King Arthur returns home after fighting the Roman Empire. His illegitimate son has corrupted the throne of Camelot. Now King Arthur must reunite with the wizard Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table and fight to get back his crown.
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Movie: Kingdom of Heaven ( 2005 )
Balian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the Crusades of the 12th century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people.
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Movie: Robin Hood ( 1922 )
A nobleman becomes the vigilante Robin Hood who protects the oppressed English people from the tyrannical Prince John.
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Movie: Robin Hood ( 2018 )
A war-hardened Crusader and his Moorish commander mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown.
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Movie: Robin Hood ( 2010 )
In 12th century England, Robin and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance of world power.
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Movie: Robin Hood: Men in Tights ( 1993 )
A spoof of Robin Hood in general, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) in particular.
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Movie: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves ( 1991 )
When Robin and his Moorish companion come to England and the tyranny of the Sheriff of Nottingham, he decides to fight back as an outlaw.
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Movie: Robin Hood: The Rebellion ( 2018 )
With his true love captured by the villainous Sheriff of Nottingham, the legendary Robin Hood and his crew of outlaws execute a daring rescue to save her.
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Movie: Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage ( 2014 )
When the Sultan's daughter, Princess Parisa is taken by an evil sorcerer, Sinbad is tasked with travelling to a desert of magic and creatures to save her.
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Movie: Sinbad and the War of the Furies ( 2016 )
Sinbad (John Hennigan) wanted to be an archaeological professor. But his work was stolen by his lover's ( Jax) father. So he became a thief and steal things with archaeological value. After finding a emerald which was suspected to be the heart of the Medusa his life falls in danger. He opened the curse and released three angry souls who want to kill him and all men. On the other hand A Russian dealer also seeks it to convert it to a deadly weapon. Now Sinbad has to save himself from the villains from both spirit world and the real world.
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Movie: The 7th Voyage of Sinbad ( 1958 )
When a princess is shrunken by an evil wizard, Sinbad must undertake a quest to an island of monsters to cure her and prevent a war.
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Movie: Snow White and the Huntsman ( 2012 )
In a twist to the fairy tale, the Huntsman ordered to take Snow White into the woods to be killed winds up becoming her protector and mentor in a quest to vanquish the Evil Queen.
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Movie: Snow White: The Fairest of Them All ( 2001 )
Snow White's mother dies during childbirth, leaving baby Snow and father John for dead on an icy field, who then receives a visit from one of Satan's representatives, granting him three wishes.
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Movie: Snow White: A Tale of Terror ( 1997 )
In this dark take on the fairy tale, the growing hatred of a noblewoman, secretly a practitioner of the dark arts, for her stepdaughter, and the witch's horrifying attempts to kill her.
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Movie: Titus ( 2000 )
Titus returns victorious from war, only to plant the seeds of future turmoil for himself and his family.
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Movie: The 13th Warrior ( 1999 )
A man, having fallen in love with the wrong woman, is sent by the sultan himself on a diplomatic mission to a distant land as an ambassador. Stopping at a Viking village port to restock on supplies, he finds himself unwittingly embroiled in a quest to banish a mysterious threat in a distant Viking land.
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Movie: Willow ( 1988 )
A reluctant dwarf must play a critical role in protecting a special baby from an evil queen.
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Movie: First Knight ( 1995 )
Lancelot falls in love with Guinevere, who is due to be married to King Arthur. Meanwhile, a violent warlord tries to seize power from Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
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Movie: King Arthur: Excalibur Rising ( 2017 )
A re-imagining of the Arthurian legend centered around Arthur's illegitimate son Owain who must learn to take up his father's mantle as king.
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Movie: Excalibur ( 1981 )
Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the Round Table of Camelot, even as dark forces conspire to tear it apart.
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Movie: Ivanhoe ( 1953 )
In the center of this Walter Scott classic fiction inspired movie the chivalrousness and the daring stand. Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe (Robert Taylor), the disowned knight join to the bravehearted and high-minded Robin of Locksley (Harold Warrender), the valiant of Sherwood Forest. They want King Richard (Norman Wooland) to rule the kingdom instead of evil Prince John (Guy Rolfe).
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Movie: Ivanhoe ( 1982 )
Wilfred of Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars. He finds England under the reign of Prince John and his henchmen and finds himself being involved in the power-struggle for the throne of England. Will justice prevail and will all fair ladies in distress be rescued?
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Movie: The Message ( 1977 )
In the 7th century, Mohammed, Peace Be Upon Him, is visited by Angel Gabriel who urges him to lead the people of Mecca and worship God. But they're exiled in Medina before returning to Mecca to take up arms against their oppressors and liberate their city in the name of God (Allah).
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Movie: DragonHeart ( 1996 )
The last dragon and a disillusioned dragonslaying Knight must cooperate to stop an evil King, who was given partial immortality.
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Movie: Dragonheart: A New Beginning ( 2000 )
An orphaned stable boy befriends with a young dragon named Drake and with the help of others help him learn how to fly and fight and protect himself from a ruthless knight.
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Movie: Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse ( 2015 )
A young knight and a dragon named Drago, whose lives there now share with one heart, joins forces to protect a nest filled with dragon eggs from an evil sorcerer and undo a curse placed on Drago as well.
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Movie: Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire ( 2017 )
A dragon known as Drago tries to end the rivalry between a brother and sister, both having dragon-like powers, who are after the throne of their grandfather, while a new threat steals Drago's source of power.
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Movie: Dragonheart Vengeance ( 2020 )
Lukas, a young farmer whose family is killed by savage raiders in the countryside, sets out on an epic quest for revenge, forming an unlikely trio with a majestic dragon and a swashbuckling, sword-fighting mercenary, Darius.
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Movie: Princess of Thieves ( 2001 )
Story of Robin Hood's daughter Gwyn who takes up his role after he is captured by Prince John. King Richard is dead and his son Philip is the rightful heir, but he is in France and too afraid to face John. Can Gwyn find Philip and convince him to fight John and free her father?
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Movie: The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc ( 1999 )
A young girl receives a vision that drives her to rid France of its oppressors.
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Movie: Joan of Arc ( 1949 )
The abbreviated life of the 15th Century French heroine.
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Movie: Ladyhawke ( 1985 )
The thief Gaston escapes dungeon of medieval Aquila thru the latrine. Soldiers are about to kill him when Navarre saves him. Navarre, traveling with his spirited hawk, plans to kill the bishop of Aquila with help from Gaston.
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Movie: Hildegard of Bingen and the Living Light ( 2012 )
In this one-woman film, international mezzo soprano Linn Maxwell embodies the extraordinary life of 12th century German prophetess, healer and composer, Hildegard of Bingen, who was canonized in 2012 and named a Doctor of the Church. Far ahead of her time and in a male-dominated world, Hildegard challenged the established authority of the Church, both philosophically and musically. Accompanying herself on authentic medieval instruments, Linn performs six of Hildegard's original songs and through the mystic's actual letters and writings transports us to the turbulent times of the Crusades of Western Europe. Hildegard's timeless message of spiritual truth, holistic healing and caring for the earth is more urgent today than ever.
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Movie: Hildegard of Bingen ( 1994 )
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Movie: Merlin ( 1998 )
The young wizard Merlin must rescue the helpless people from the evil King Vidus and his ruthless high counselor.
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Movie: Arthur & Merlin ( 2015 )
A young Celtic warrior and a hermit wizard must unite to defeat an evil druid.
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Movie: Merlin's Magic ( 2013 )
Assisted by his mother(Cate Allen) who teaches him the secret of the magic, young Merlin (Oaken Whittaker) sets out to prove to his older brother Glavis (Trey Foote) and to himself that he is a true wizard. Over-zealously, Merlin performs a spell which sends him on a journey into the future. Now Merlin has no more eggs and is unable to get home.. As he wanders around in this strange world, he rescues Gwen (Demetria Cline). Together, the two embark in the search of legendary magic eggs. That quest takes them deep into the domain of the powerful and dreaded Dark Wizard (Ðàvé D L Walker).
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Movie: Tristan and Isolde ( 1982 )
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Movie: Timeline ( 2003 )
A group of archaeologists become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve a friend. The group must survive in 14th century France before they can escape back to the 21st Century.
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Movie: Time Bandits ( 1981 )
A young boy accidentally joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.
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Movie: The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1984 )
In this made-for-TV spoof, Robin Hood (George Segal) and his merry men must attempt to gather together the necessary ransom money to free King Richard from a nasty Duke.
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Movie: The Sword in the Stone ( 1963 )
A poor boy named Arthur learns the power of love, kindness, knowledge and bravery with the help of a wizard called Merlin in the path to become one of the most beloved kings in English history.
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Movie: Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers - The Sword in the Stone ( 2001 )
Short Documentary on the Sherman Brothers: Theses two brothers discuss the songs and lyrics for The Sword In the Stone, Mary Poppins, Jungle Book and Winnie the Pooh.
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Movie: The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey ( 1988 )
Men seeking relief from the Black Death, guided by a boy's vision, dig a tunnel from 14th century England to 20th century New Zealand.
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Movie: The Princess Bride ( 1987 )
A bedridden boy's grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love.
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Movie: Brother Sun, Sister Moon ( 1972 )
This is a dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare.
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Movie: Stealing Heaven ( 1989 )
Abelard, a respected philosopher and teacher in 12th-century Paris, is hired to tutor the intelligent and beautiful Heloise. They soon fall in love, but must hide their affection because Abelard is sworn to celibacy.
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Movie: A Knight's Tale ( 2001 )
Inspired by "The Canterbury Tales," as well as the early life of William Marshall (later First Earl of Pembroke), this is the story of William, a young squire with a gift for jousting. After his master dies suddenly, the squire hits the road with his cohorts Roland and Wat. On the journey, they stumble across an unknown writer, Chaucer. William, lacking a proper pedigree, convinces Chaucer to forge genealogy documents that will pass him off as a knight. With his newly-minted history in hand, the young man sets out to prove himself a worthy knight at the country's jousting competition, and finds romance along the way.
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Movie: George and the Dragon ( 2004 )
A knight returning from the Crusades takes on a dragon and becomes a legend.
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Movie: The Name of the Rose ( 1986 )
An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
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Movie: Becket ( 1964 )
King Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the King's.
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Movie: A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ( 1995 )
Hank is a shy high school student in Connecticut who plays in a band with his friends. While trying to fix an amplifier for the band, he gets a shock and awakes in the land of a peasant. He is imprisoned by Alisande, who is the fiancée of Sir Galahad, and brought to the Court of King Arthur. Hank lures King Arthur and Merlin using his knowledge of an eclipse and succeeds to get a workshop to try to return to the future and Alisandre falls in love with him. Meanwhile, the evil Morgan Le Fay conspire with the knight Ulrich to overthrow King Arthur.
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Movie: A Knight in Camelot ( 1998 )
A computer malfunction causes a science researcher to be sent back in time with her laptop, which she uses to amaze the court.
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Movie: A Kid in King Arthur's Court ( 1995 )
A Little League player is sent back into medieval times where he is given the task of saving Camelot.
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Movie: Prince Charming ( 2001 )
After an extramarital indiscretion, a fairy-tale prince and his sidekick are turned into frogs for all eternity or until the prince can convince a maiden to kiss and then marry him.
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Movie: Notre-Dame de Paris ( 1999 )
A musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel "Notre Dame de Paris" which follows the gypsy dancer Esmeralda and the three men who vie for her love: the kind hunchback Quadimodo, the twisted priest Frollo, and the unfaithful soldier Phoebus.
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Movie: The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1956 )
The timeless tale of the seductive gypsy Esmeralda and the tortured hunchback Quasimodo.
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Movie: Viking: The Berserkers ( 2014 )
In Dark Ages Britain, a group of young Saxons are captured by a clan of fearsome Viking warriors and used as prey in a ritualistic manhunt.
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Movie: Viking Siege ( 2017 )
During a wild night of debauchery, a gang of vengeful women plot to massacre a monastery full of corrupt monks who sold their loved ones as slaves. Their plan comes unstuck when a gang of marauding Vikings arrive with an army of vicious, tree-like demons on their tail..
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Movie: The Vikings ( 1999 )
A major presentation of the life and deeds of the Vikings - seafaring Scandinavians that raided and traded from today's Iran, along the Russian rivers, all over Europe and over the oceans to Greenland and America, five hundred years before Columbus. Here scientists from around the Viking world explains how modern international archaeology works, and illustrates the amazing discoveries about who the Vikings were and what they actually achieved, founding cities like Dublin and countries like Russia.
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Movie: Northmen - A Viking Saga ( 2014 )
A band of Vikings cross enemy lines and a panicked race begins. The losers will pay with their lives.
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Movie: A Viking Saga: The Darkest Day ( 2013 )
Hereward, a novice monk, must deliver the Holy Gospel of Lindisfarne to the safety of the Iona monastery, while being pursued by a Viking death squad hell-bent on its capture.
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Movie: A Viking Saga: Son of Thor ( 2008 )
Drama set in the viking age, Helgi witnesses the destruction of his village and narrowly escapes to his uncle Rurik who raises him like his son. Many years later he meets the people responsible for his parents death and someone he never expected to see again.
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Movie: The Adventures of Quentin Durward ( 1956 )
A Scottish knight in France to facilitate a marriage between a rich and beautiful countess and his aging uncle becomes involved in court intrigue.
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Movie: Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 )
King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.
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Movie: Outlaw King ( 2018 )
After being declared "Outlaw" by the occupying English Empire, Robert the Bruce (Chris Pine) raises an army of Scottish fighters in rebellion. Twists and turns all across the Scottish countryside lead this film on an epic, "true to historical events", journey that captures heroism at its core!
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Movie: Last Knights ( 2015 )
A fallen warrior rises against a corrupt and sadistic ruler to avenge his dishonored master.
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Movie: The Last Witch Hunter ( 2015 )
The last witch hunter is all that stands between humanity and the combined forces of the most horrifying witches in history.
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Movie: Maleficent ( 2014 )
A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. Maleficent rises to be the land's fiercest protector, but she ultimately suffers a ruthless betrayal - an act that begins to turn her pure heart to stone. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces a battle with the invading king's successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom - and perhaps to Maleficent's true happiness as well.
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Movie: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil ( 2019 )
Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies, and dark new forces at play.
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Movie: Ironclad ( 2011 )
It is the year 1215 and the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal to the Magna Carta, a noble, seminal document that upheld the rights of free men. Yet within months of pledging himself to the great charter, the King reneged on his word and assembled a mercenary army on the south coast of England with the intention of bringing the barons and the country back under his tyrannical rule. Barring his way stood the mighty Rochester castle, a place that would become the symbol of the rebels' momentous struggle for justice and freedom.
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Movie: Ironclad: Battle for Blood ( 2014 )
A survivor of the Great Siege of Rochester Castle fights to save his clan from Celtic raiders. A sequel to the 2011 film, "Ironclad."
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Movie: The Physician ( 2013 )
In Persia in the 11th Century, a surgeon's apprentice disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians.
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Movie: Seven Samurai ( 1954 )
A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.
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Movie: Braveheart ( 1995 )
Scottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.
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Movie: The Return of Martin Guerre ( 1983 )
During the middle of the 16th century, Martin Guerre returns to his village in southwestern France, after being away in the war for almost a decade. The villagers who knew him as a young man suspect he is not Martin, but he seems to know all about his friends, his family and his wife, even the most unusual things. Is this man really Martin Guerre?
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Movie: Kagemusha ( 1980 )
A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.
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Movie: Andrei Rublev ( 1971 )
The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
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Movie: The Seventh Seal ( 1958 )
A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
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Movie: Black Death ( 2010 )
Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is given the task of learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village.
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Movie: Valhalla Rising ( 2010 )
Forced for some time to be a fighting slave, a pagan warrior escapes his captors with a boy and joins a group of Crusaders on their quest to the Holy Land.
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Movie: The Lion in Winter ( 1968 )
1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.
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Movie: The Lion in Winter ( 2003 )
King Henry II meets with Eleanor of Aquitaine at Christmastide 1183 to choose one of his sons as his successor.
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Movie: Pathfinder ( 2007 )
A Viking boy is left behind after his clan battles a Native American tribe. Raised within the tribe, he ultimately becomes their savior in a fight against the Norsemen.
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Movie: Knights of the Round Table ( 1954 )
King Arthur establishes the greatest reign England has ever seen, and along for the ride are his indispensable Knights of the Round Table, particularly Sir Lancelot. Then, Arthur finds himself a bride, the beautiful Guenivere. While she loves Arthur, she also loves Lancelot and though Lancelot repeatedly fights it, he loves her, too. Treachery is brewing as the evil Morgan le Fay and her knight Sir Modred work to trap them. So begins the decline and eventual fall of Arthur and Camelot.
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Movie: Alexander Nevsky ( 1939 )
It is the 13th century, and Russia is overrun by foreign invaders. A Russian knyaz', or prince, Alexander Nevsky, rallies the people to form a ragtag army to drive back an invasion by the Teutonic knights. This is a true story based on the actual battle at a lake near Novgorod.
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Movie: Lancelot of the Lake ( 1974 )
King Arthur learns that his wife, Queen Guinevere, has been having an affair with Lancelot, who at the same time remains loyal to the king, particularly after Arthur's traitorous nephew Mordred commits an attempt on his life.
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Movie: The Black Shield of Falworth ( 1954 )
Peasant Myles Falworth is trained for knighthood and is groomed by various nobles to defeat the evil Earl of Alban who's plotting to usurp King Henry IV's throne.
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Movie: Flesh+Blood ( 1985 )
In medieval Europe, a young girl from a noble family is obsessed with her captors-commoners.
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Movie: Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan ( 2007 )
The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206.
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Movie: Arn: The Knight Templar ( 2007 )
Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.
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Movie: Arn: The Kingdom at the End of the Road ( 2008 )
The Knight Arn is sent on a last mission against Saladin. He has to win this battle, before he can go home to Sweden, and finally marry his Cecilia and start a family. But the peace back home is threatened by the Danes.
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Movie: Robin and Marian ( 1976 )
Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.
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Movie: Hamlet ( 1991 )
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.
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Movie: The Passion of Joan of Arc ( 1928 )
In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.
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Movie: Richard III ( 1995 )
The classic Shakespearean play about the murderously scheming 15th-century king is reimagined in an alternative setting of 1930s England as clouds of fascism gather.
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Movie: Conquest 1453 ( 2012 )
After the death of his father Murat II, Mehmet II ascends to the Ottoman throne. After braving internal and external enemies, he decides to complete what he was destined to do - conquer Constantinople.
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Movie: Baahubali: The Beginning ( 2015 )
In ancient India, an adventurous and daring man becomes involved in a decades old feud between two warring people.