"Ranking the Best Medieval Movies of all time" Topic

"The last two centuries are not the first to create content and images of life during the medieval times. It's been 5 centuries since the Middle Ages have passed us, and in each of those centuries, people imagined, portrayed and depicted this Medieval period through paintings, architecture, poetry, music, and novels. But the film industry in the 20th century defined Medieval history more than any other medium, book, painting, etc.. Even though the conclusions of academic research, and findings of archeology have given us advanced knowledge and information of the Middle Ages, nothing has a bigger influence on us than the images created by a movie. Just as most people's perceptions of the American Wild West were drawn from cinema, versus source material or academic research. But after all, movies are made for entertainment and with all that said we can still relax with a good movie that is set in the Medieval Ages…."
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Imho many of them are really bad!

Amicalement
Armand

I would add one of my quiet favorites to the list. It has a nice medieval feel to it

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Hunlion

It basically list some of the worst movies made, some are pure fantasy with no connection to history at all.
I'm surprised it didn't mention star wars(it has swords and that appears to be the only criteria for a movie to be on the lists)

That list is… well, interesting. It tells more of the author then of the state of medieval movies.

The Lion in Winter and Henry V, okay.

the rest are mostly popular movies with a sword in them.

Cannot think of any true historical movies, but I always have liked "The Warlord" and "Kingdom of Heaven". "The Lion in Winter" and "Henry V", depending on the version, play well also.

Dan

(smile)

Amicalement
Amrand

All very Hollywoodcentric, although no El Cid. Have to agree with the aforementioned The War Lord, The Lion in Winter & Henry V. I also enjoy Excalibur & The Court Jester but I feel that they are more fantasy? How about The Adventures of Robin Hood or the Flame & the Arrow?

A few non-Hollywood movies that should be up for the running:-
The Seventh Seal
Marketa Lazarova
Proud Heritage
The Virgin Spring
Andrei Rublev
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Chimes at Midnight
MacBeth

I'm trying to remember a French film about a pig being put on trial, but I just cannot recollect the title – can anyone help me?

The Advocate / The Hour of the Pig….?

Chalfant

A Great film too.

The name of the rose and Warlord

Thank you Chalfant, The Hour of the Pig was the film that I was trying to recollect, although it was over 20 years ago that I last saw it. Time to add to the DVD collection

Holy Grail – by far the best medieval movie ever made.

Agreed, uglyfatbloke!

I would also add Holy Grail's oft forgotten 1977 Medieval first cousin made by the same director, Terry Gilliam, and featuring some of the same cast…

JABBERWOCKY

The Sergei Eisenstein 1939 classic featuring the Ice Slaughter on frozen Lake Peipus…

ALEXANDER NEVSKY

The 1964 Spanish/Italian Spaghetti Iberian…

100 HORSEMEN

The 1985 late Medieval/early Renaissance Rutger Hauer/Jennifer Jason Leigh action pic with a great soundtrack by Basil Poledouris…

FLESH AND BLOOD

The 1987 French Medieval drama…

BEATRICE

The recent (2017) & IMHO somewhat hilarious Decameron adaptation…

THE LITTLE HOURS

And most important of all, the too often overlooked 1976 Sean Connery, Nichol Williamson, Robert Shaw, and Audrey Hepburn classic directed by Richard Lester from a screenplay by James Goldman (who also wrote "The Lion In Winter") with another memorable soundtrack by John Barry…

ROBIN AND MARIAN

Yup, have to agree with Gunfreak, a lot of those have nothing to do with the Medieval/Middle Ages.

13th Warrior
Henry V
The Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)
Ivanhoe
The Vikings
El Cid (Didn't even make the list)

Are some good movies for that time period.