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    Vamos a empezar con un artículo ya publicado, pero esperamos que en breve os podamos ofrecer nuevos artículos originales. Algunos de ellos, debido a su costo científico, puede que estén encuadrados en la sección de artículos restringidos/de investigación (ya sabéis lo que tenéis que hacer para acceder a ellos). En fin, esperamos que sean de vuestro interés. Mandadnos sugerencias para nuevos artículos. Un saludo

 Ana y José Manuel
 
 

1. LA ESGRIMA EN EL CINE ( Angel Fernández Santos.art. publicado en la rev. Cinemanía)
2.   Las Cruzadas y el Cine (José Manuel Rodríguez García)
3. Los reyes Católicos en el cine (José Manuel Rodríguez García)
4. La Edad Media y el Cine. por Norberto Aguirre. Publicado originalmente, en dos partes, en Asterion XXI. Revista cultural (Argentina. SItio web con fotos), nº 5(Nov.2002) y 6.
5. Bibliografía para el estudio del cine medieval. José Manuel Rodríguez García)
6. "La Edad Media peninsular en el cine y el cine español de temática medieval", José Manuel Rodríguez García en Historia 16 Mayo (2004)

    

Basado en la versión 3.3 de Paul Halsall, (1997, halsall@hmurray.fordham.edu) y desarrollado independientemente desde entonces.
Para mayor información acudir al Medieval Source Book
o a la pagina principal de ORB The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

Ver también

1. www.aflam.ws aflam Website  (Your Online Historical films  Encyclopedia)
2. cinemateca.html (Kairos)
3. Cinema e medievo. Un importantísimo sitio en italiano
4. Cultura Cine Base de datos de Películas Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte
5. www.imdb.com

Para bandas sonoras se puede empezar por:

http://www.bsospirit.com/

y http://www.mundobso.com/

Lo que sigue es una lista de películas sobre temas medievales compilada con la ayuda de Microsoft's Cinemania, The Internet Movie Database , y la base de datos cinematográfica del Ministerios de Cultura.

El concepto o termino "medieval" ha sido entendido de forma generosa. abarcando desde el 350 al 1525 dC, basándonos en el auge del cristianismo. En el caso de Japón llegamos hasta el 1601.

Se proprociona la siguiente información de cada película (siempre que se pueda)

[Título] [Año] [Titulo alternativo/español]
[Pais de origen] [Genero] [Duración en minutos] [Clasificación MPAA] [Color?] [Leng]
[Director] [Intérpretes(s)]
-[Comentarioss]

*[En algunos casos se proporciona referencias o enlaces bibliográficos.]

INDICE

• El mundo Antiguo pagano
• El mundo cristiano antiguo
• Los bárbaros y el Impacto germánico
• Bizancio
• El mundo Bizantino - Rusia
• Islam
• El mundo Celta
• Vikingos
• Feudalismo/Caballería
• Leyes
• Cruzadas
• La literatura medieval Europea en el cine
• Inglaterra
• La Inglaterra Artúrica
• Inglaterra y Robin Hood
• Escocia
• Francia
• Francia - Juana de Arco
• España y Portugal 
• Italia
• Escolásticos y Escolasticismo
• Herejia y Mendicantes
• Vida Urbana y rural
• Espiritualidad Cristiana
• La mujer Medieval
• El Renacimiento
• Reforma y Contrarreforma
• Expansión Ultramarina
• Mongoles
• La China, India y el Japón medievales
• Fantasía Medieval
• Tiempos modernos/ Temas Medievales
• Listas

A: Peores películas medievales
B:
• Mejores películas medievales (rigor histórica)

C: Mejores películas

El Mundo Antiguo Pagano

Fall of the Roman Empire, The (1964)
US, Historical, 153, No rating, Color
Director: Anthony Mann; Cast includes: Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness (Marcus Aurelius), James Mason, Christopher Plummer (Commodus), Anthony Quayle
-By no means as bad as it might have been.

Last Roman, The (1968) [Alt: Kampf um Rom]
Germany-Romania, Historical, 92, No rating B&W
Director: Robert Siomak: Cast includes: Orson Welles
-Based on Felix Dann's German bestseller Kampf um Rom about the decline of the Roman Empire.

Gladiator (2000) Ridley Scott

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Sebastiane (1976)
UK, religious, 82, Color, In Latin
Director: Derek Jarman
-[PBH Comment] Story of the early Christian martyr St. Sebastian set as a homoerotic fantasy around 303 CE.. Mostly filmed with all characters naked, and the dialogue is all in Latin. Jarman explicitly exploits the image of Sebastian as a gay icon, and although set in late antiquity is not a historical film in any useful way. It is interesting to see Latin used as a daily language, and for gay classicists the movie will have an especial appeal. It would be difficult in most institutions to show this to any other class than a history of sexuality class.

Fabiola (1917)
Italy
Director: Enrico Guzzanoi

Fabiola (1949) [Alt: Fabiola And The Fighting Gladiator / Fabulous Fabiola]
France-Italy, Historical, 96, No rating B&W
Director: Alessandro Blasetti
-About 4th-century persecution against Christians in Rome. The English-dubbed version, adapted by Marc Connelly and Fred Pressbburger features a different story line from the original! Both Fabiola movies are adaptations of the famous novel by Cardinal Wiseman about the persecutions of the Christians at Rome just before her conquest by Constantine.

Constantino Il Grande (1961)[Alt: Constantine The Great \Constantine And The Cross]
Italy, Drama, 120, No Rating, Color
Director: Lionello de Felice; Star; Cornel Wilde,Belinda Lee.
-The story of the founder of Byzantium in the center of which is the scene of the flaming cross which the Emperor sees in the sky just before the big battle. The movie gives a conventionally pious view of Constantine. Leonard Maltin rates it as "intelligent".

Il Crolo Di Roma (1963) [Alt: Rome In Flames]
Italy
Director: Antonio Margherriti
-About the time after the death of Constantine when sporadic persecution was still being carried out.

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Attila Flagello Di Dio (1918)
Italy
Director: Febo Mari

Attila, Flagello Di Dio (1954) [Alt: Attila, Attila the Hun]
France-Italy, Historical, 83, No rating, Black & White/Colorized
Director: Pietro Francioso; Cast includes: Anthony Quinn, Sophia Loren, Irene Pappas
-Attila prepares to attack Rome.

Attila (1980) [Alt: Attila, il flagello di Dio, Wild trieben es die alten Hunnen]
Italy
Director: Franco Castellano

Sign of the Pagan (1954)
US, Historical, 92, No rating, Color
Director: Douglas Sirk: Cast includes: Jeff Chandler, Jack Palance (Attila the Hun)
-Attila at the gates of Rome.

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Simón del desierto (1965) [Alt: Simon of the Desert]
Mexico, historical religious, 44 1965 Black and White, In Spanish
Director: Luis Buñuel; Cast includes: Claudio Brook (Simon), Silvia Pinal
- Buñuel's version of the story of St. Simon Stylites, who stood on a pillar for forty years.

Theodora ,Imperatice Di Bizantico (1909) [Alt: Theodora Empress Of Byzantium]
Italy
Director: Ernesto Mario Pasquali

Theodora (1912)
France
Director: Henrey Pouctal

Teodora (1913)
Italy
Director: Ambrosio

Theodora (1919) [Alt: Theodora, the Slave Princess]
Italy
Director: Giovanni Vitrotti, Leopoldo Carlucci

Teodora (1921)
Italy ( no other details available)

Teodora Imperatice Di Bisanzio (1954) [Alt: Theodora Slave Empress\ Theodora Queen Of Byzantium \Theodora]
Italy/France, Adventure, Black & White, In Italian
Director: Riccardo Freda (as Robert Hampron); Cast includes: Gianna Maria Canal, George Marchal, Irene Pappas
- The most important movie about Theodora (though that really is not saying much)

Kampf Um Rome (1968-69) [Alt: Battle For Rome/The Last Roman]
West Germany-Italy
Director: Robert Siodmak; Cast includes: Orson Welles (Justinian), Syliva Coscina (Theodora), Lang Jeffries (Belisarius)
-Probably the most ambitious Byzantine movie ever which in its original German version was released in 2 part of some 4 hours. (everywhere else the movie was shown in only half its length). Based on a 19th century novel by Felix Dahn it presents the struggle of the daughters of the Gothic king Theodoric for power after his death. and then the conquest of their kingdom in Italy by the Byzantine general Belisarius . the movie won a very bad critical views but it is very grandiose and detailed.

Warrior and the Slave Girl, The (1958)
Italy, Historical, 84, No rating, Color
Director: Vittorio Cottafavi
-Set in ancient Armenia

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Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Russia, War/Historical, 107, No rating B&W
Director: Sergei Eisenstein, D.I. Vassillev; Cast includes: Nikolai Cherkassov
-The repelling of a German invasion in the 13th century. Score by Prokofiev. One of the great movies.

Andrei Rublev (1966)
Russia, Historical, 185, No rating, Color, B&W
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
-about the 15th-century icon painter.

Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1943)
Russia, Historical/Drama, 96, No rating B&W
Director: Sergei Eisenstein, D.I. Vassillev; Cast includes: Nikolai Cherkassov
-Music by Prokofiev

Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (1946)
Russia, Historical/Drama, 88, No rating B&W
Director: Sergei Eisenstein, D.I. Vassillev; Cast includes: Nikolai Cherkassov
-Music by Prokofiev. This was banned in Russia until 1958 because Stalin object to the portrayal of Ivan's secret police.

Prisoner of the Volga (1960)
Yugoslavia, Historical, 102, No rating, Color
Director: W. Tourjansky
-About a solider who seeks revenge when a general impregnates his wife.

El 13º Guerrero (1998. También conocida como Eaters of the dead)
USA. Color
de Antonio Banderas
- Ambientada en el s. IX. Entre árabes, bizantinos y rusos. Básicamente de aventuras y espadas aunque se basa en un viaje real.
 

A sangre y Fuego (1998)
Polonia. sobr el "imperio polaco del siglo XVII". A los Ucranianos no les hizo ninguna gracia esta película. Por otro lado es bastante entretenida, aunque uno a veces se pierda entre los nombres. Basada en un bestseller polaco del s. XIX (nacionalismos...)

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Mohammad, Messenger of God/The Message (1977)
Lebanon-UK, Religious, 180, Rated PG, Color
Director: Moustapha Akkad; Cast includes: Anthony Quinn, Irene Pappas
-In accordance with Islamic law, Muhammad is not actually shown on screen, and neither he, nor most of his relatives are allowed to speak. This left Muhammad's uncle as the central character.

Arabian Nights (1942)
US, Adventure, 86, No rating, Color
Director: John Rawlins; cast includes: Maria Montez, Sabu
-"Camp"

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944)
US, Adventure, 87, No rating, Color
Director: Arthur Lubin; cast includes: Maria Montez, Jon Hall
-A follow-up to Arabian Nights.

The Golden Blade
US, Adventure, 81 min, No rating, Color
Director: Nathan Juran; Cast includes: Rock Hudson (Harun), Piper Laurie (Princess Khairuzan), Anita Ekberg, Bill Radovich (Eunuch)
-Arabian nights type adventure

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
UK, Fantasy/Adventure, 104 min, Rated G, Color
Director: Gordon Hessler; Cast includes: John Phillip Law, Caroline Munro, Tom Baker

Arabian Nights (1974)
France-Italy, Fantasy, 128, No rating, Color
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
-Several 1001 Nights stories, framed by the story of slave-girl Pellegrina, who becomes "king" of a great city. [Part of Pasolini's Medieval trilogy of Arabian Nights, Decameron, and Canterbury Tales]

Omar Khayyam (1957)
US, Adventure, 101, No rating, Color
Director: William Dieterle; Cast includes: Cornel Wilde
-Set in medieval Persia.

al-Risâlah (1976)
Lebanon, Religious, 170, Color
Director. Moustapha Akkad
-Story of Islam.

El Naser Salah el Dine [Alt: Saladin] (1963)
Egypt, Historical/Drama (Technicolor), 175 mins. Director Youssef Chahine.
An Arab movie about Saladin. It is not clear in the movie that Saladin was a Kurd, not an Arab, and he is presented as a prototype of Nasser in calling for Arab unity in order to expel the western intruders.

Destiny [Alt: Al-Massir] (1997)
Egypt, Historical/Drama (Technicolor), 135 mins. Director Youssef Chahine.
 Sobre la vida de Averroes en la Córdoba de fines del s. XII (toda filmada en Egipto y Siria. NO hay una sola toma de al-Andalus).. AL principio de la película hay unos errores cronológicos muy gruesos. Pero luego se corrige y se deja ver (a excepción de las danzas flamencas/sirias...=. Un alegato contra el integrismo. En árabe...

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Fighting Prince of Donegal, The (1966)
US, Historical/Children's, 112, No rating, Color
Director: Michael Herlihy; Cast includes: Peter McEnery, Susan Hampshire
-Disney movie for children. Swashbuckler.
 

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See ORB: Scandinavia and Northern Seas Page
Barbara (1997)
Denmark
Director: Nils Malmros, With Anneke von der Lippe
[Bruce Gilchrist] A young priest falls in love (and marries) a liberated woman,  but she cannot remain chaste while he is away.  Filmed entirely in the Faroe islands,   set in 1640,  and spoken in Old Faroese. Coproduction with Denmark,  this is an A-film with impressive cinematography,  superb period detail and excellent acting.Should be of great interest to medieval scholars.   Excellent!

Erik the Viking (1989)
UK, Historical, 104, Color
Director: Terry Jones; Cast includes: Tim Robbins, Mickey Rooney, Eartha Kitt

Erik el Vikingo (1965)
Italiana...una de peplum...Dir. Mario Caiano. COn Gordon Mitchell y Giuliano Gemma

El último Vikingo (L´Ultimo Vichinghi, Giacomo Gentilomo, It. 1961. Con Cameron Mitchell)

La furia de los Vikingos (Alt. Erik the Conqueror, Alt. The Invaders. Alt.Gli Invasori, Mario Brava, It. 1962. Con Cameron Mitchell) 81 min. 10th century Vikings.

Los cuchillos del vengador (I coltelli del vendicatore, Mario Brava, It. 1966. Con Cameron Mitchell)

Den rode kappe (Gabriel Axel, Nor. 1967)

The Viking Sagas (Michael Chapman, Nor. 1995)

Hrafninn flýgur (1984) [Alt: Korpen flyger, When the Raven Flies]
Iceland/Sweden, 109, Color, [In Icelandic]
Director: Hrafn Gunnlaugsson

Hvite Viking, Den (1991)
Norway/Denmark/Sweden, Adventure, 131, Color
Director: Hrafn Gunnlaugsson
-10th century Norway
No sé si ésta será la misma de: La venganza de los Vikingos (Suecia, 1990)

The Juniper Tree   (1987)
 Iceland, Drama.
Director: Nietzcha Keene, With Bjork.
[Bruce Gilchrist] Icelandic ancient faery-tale film.  Notably starring Bjork Guthmunsdottir--Iceland's popular music diva

The Long Ships (1964)
UK-Yugoslavia, Adventure, 125 min, No rating, Color
Director: Jack Cardiff; Cast includes: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier.

Norseman, The (1978)
US, Adventure, 90, Rated PG, Color
Director: Charles B. Pierce: Cast includes: Lee Majors, Cornel Wilde
-About an 11th-century Viking prince sailing to America in search of his father, abducted by Indians.

The pathfinder (1988)
Finlandia
Una muy buena película basada en una leyenda o romance lapón-finlandes (algo escandinavo, en cualquier caso), sobre el ataque vikingo a una aldea, ...

Viking Queen, The (1967)
UK, Historical/Adventure, 91, No rating, Color
Director: Don Chaffey
-Leonard Maltin summarizes it as "Empty-headed costumer of early England under Roman rule, with plenty of gore as anarchists incite a violent uprising among the people." "England"! Rome!, Viking Queens! Ouch.

Viking Women and the Sea Serpent (1957) (las mujeres vikingas y las serpientes del mar)
US, Fantasy/Adventure, 66, No rating B&W
Director: Roger Corman
-original title - The Saga of The Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of The Great Sea Serpent.

Viking, The (1928)
USA, 9 reels, adventure 1928 Color
Director: Roy William Neill; Cast includes: Donald Crisp (Leif Ericsson), Pauline Starke
-Amazing, but true, an all color silent Viking movies from 1928.

Vikings, The (1958)
US, Historical/Adventure, 114, No rating, Color
Director: Richard Fleischer: Cast includes: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh

Eaters of the Dead (1998) [Alt: Vikings, The].The 13 Warrior (1999)
US, Action/Horror, 102 mins
Director: John McTiernan; Cast includes: Antonio Banderas, Omar Sharif
-[PBH Comment] Based on Michael Crichton's novel the Eaters of the Dead, which combined the genuine account of his encounters with the Rus (Vikings on the Volga) of the Arab traveler Ibn Fahdlan (here played by Banderas) with themes take from Beowulf and -- apparently -- H.G. Well's Time Machine. For all the pans the movie received from film critics, it was treated much more kindly by medievalists, and some were delighted with it. "Accuracy" is not the issue, but it was very interesting to see the "civilized" point of view presented as that of a cultured Muslim from Baghdad. Note that Ibn Fadlan's text is online at
                   http://www.realtime.net/~gunnora/RisalaFm.htm.

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War Lord, The (1965)
US, War/Historical/Drama, 123, No rating, Color
Director: Franklin Schaffner; Cast includes: Charlton Heston
-Based on Leslie Stevens' The Lovers. Heston is a knight invoking the "right" to sleep with another man's bride on their wedding night. (See Braveheart for the same myth)
-[PBH Comments] The War Lord is a complex story, but a modern one. It is set in a slightly hazy eleventh-century primarily to use the myth of the "first night" as a springboard for the story. Apart from that detail it could have been a western. As a film it is moderately interesting. For teaching purposes, fairly extensive discussion of inaccuracies would be required.
 

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The Advocate [Alt: The Hour of the Pig]
US (1994): Historical/Drama/Crime
Director: Peter Thompson: Cast includes: Colin Firth
-A 15th-century French lawyer defends a pig put on trial for murder.

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See ORB: Crusades Bibliography

Las cruzadas (It. 1911)

Jerusalén liberada (Alt. La Gerusalemme liberata, Enrico Guazzoni, It. 1912)

La espada del sarraceno (The Saracen blade, William Castle, USA 1954)

I Cavalieri que fecero l´impremese (Alt. Knights of the Quest). It. Pupi Avati, 2001. Sobre la última cruzada de San Luis (1270) y las reliquias de Jesús Cristo, como la sábana santa.

Crusades, The (1935)
US, Historical/Drama, 123, No rating B&W
Director: Cecil B. DeMille; Cast includes: Loretta Young (Berengaria), Henry Wilcoxon (Richard), Ian Keith (Saladin)

King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)
US, Historical, 114, No rating, Color
Director: David Butler; Cast includes: Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Virginia Mayo
-Not well regarded. Based on Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman.

Kingdom of Heaven (2004) USA-UK. Ridlet Scott. Sobre la batalla de Hattin (1187), pero muy inventado.

Soldier of God (Can, 2005) David Hogan

Lionheart (1987)
US, Adventure, 104 min, Rated PG, Color
Director: Frankilin J. Schaffner; Cast includes: Eric Stoltz
-Stoltz leads a "childrens crusade in search of King Richard I in the 12th century.

Mighty Crusaders, The (1957)
Italy, Religious/Historical/Action, 87, No rating, Color
Director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
-A version of Tasso's poem

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
UK, Historical/Comedy, 90, Rated PG, Color
Director: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones; Star; Graham Chapman
-Meant to be humorous. It is, in parts.

Seventh Seal, The (1957)
Sweden, Drama, 96, No rating B&W
Director: Ingmar Bergman: Cast includes: Max Von Sydow
-Set in 14th-century Sweden, about a knight returning from a crusade playing a chess game with death. The film made Bergman famous.

Black Cross (1960)
Poland, Historical/Adventure, 175, No rating, Color
Director: Aleksander Ford
-About the Teutonic knights. Not up to Eisenstein.

Saladino
- nos referimos a una de las versiones hechas en Egipto. Fue emitida en la noche temática de la 2

The Last Crusade (1972)
- A pesar del título, se trata de las luchas por la "unificación" de Rumanía, durante la última década del s. XVI. Algo que empezó o que tuvo momentos de estar amparada por la cruzada contra los Turcos. Realizada a mayor gloria del pueblo rumano (recordemos que fue realizada durante la dictadura comunista). Es curioso ver la manipulación de los temas históricos y personajes...

The Crusades (1996)
Serie para la TV de la BBC en coproducción con USA (si no me equivoco)

Les Croisades (1992)
4*60´. Dir.: Jim Goddard Reparto: Fernando Rey, Valeria Cavalli, Jean Yves Berteloot
Serie para la TV/Documental. Versión novelada sobre la epopeya de "Las Cruzadas", predicadas en el año 1185 por el Papa Urbano II y relatada por un niño de corta edad... cop Francoespañola.
 

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See #IMDb: Shakespeare Movies

778, La chandon de Roland (2011). Dir. Oliver van der Zee

Beowulf (1998)
USA. Fantasía. color Graham Baker.
-Otra americanada con Cristopher Lambert a la cabeza.

Beowulf y Grendel (2005). Sturla Gunnarson. Isl.

Beowulf (2007)USA. Robert Zemeckis.

Pelicula animada en 3D.

Canterbury Tales, The (1971)
France-Italy, Drama, 109, No rating, Color
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
-Four stories. Graphic and sadistic footage will appeal to some.
-[From a correspondent] Canterbury Tales has Ninetto Davoli in a Chaplinesque version of "The Cook's Tale" [he had a good eye, Pier Paolo].
[Part of Pasolini's Medieval trilogy of Arabian Nights, Decameron, and Canterbury Tales]

Dante's Inferno (1935)
US, Drama, 88, No rating, Black & White
Director: Harry Lachman; Cast includes; Spencer Tracy, (and in a minor role Rita Hayworth)
-Not about Dante, but a modern circus owner. The film does contain an Inferno Devil's Paradise sequence.

Decameron Nights (1953)
UK, Drama, 87, No rating, Color
Director: Hugo Fregonese; Cast includes: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan as Boccaccio.

Decameron, The (1970)
France-Italy-West Germany, Drama, 111, Rated X, Color
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
-Eight tales from Boccacio. Pasolini plays Giotto.
[Part of Pasolini's Medieval trilogy of Arabian Nights, Decameron, and Canterbury Tales]

El Cid (1961)
US, War/Biography, 184, No rating, Color
Director: Anthony Mann; Cast includes: Sophia Loren (Jimena, por cierto el tiempo no pasa para ella en toda la película, "literalmente"), Charlton Heston (Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar El Cid), John Fraser (rey Alfonso VI).

Mighty Crusaders, The (1957)
Italy, Religious/Historical/Action, 87, No rating, Color
Director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
-A version of Tasso's poem. A love story between a Christian and a Saracen forms the basic story.

Eternal Return, The (1943) [Alt: L'Eternel Retour]
France, Drama, 100, No rating B&W In French
Director: Jean Delannoy: Cast includes: Jean Marais, Madeleine Sologne
-Based on Jean Cocteau's modern-dress adaptation of the Tristan and Isolde legend.

Perceval le gallois(1978)
US, Drama, time?, No rating, Color
Director: Eric Rohmer
-Based on the 12th century French romance and Chretien de Troyes, translated by Rohmer. Unfortunately Roger Ebert calls it "relentlessly turgid", pero otros la encuentran muy interesante.

Grendel, Grendel, Grendel (1980)
Australia, Animated, 90, No rating, Color
Director: Alexander Stitt; Star; (voices) Peter Ustinov, Keith Mitchell
-Beowulf's opponent.

Die Nibelungen (1924) [Two Parts: Kriemhild's Revenge, Siegfried]
Germany, Fantasy, 186 min, No rating, Black & White
-Extraordinary silent film.

El Libro del Buen Amor ()
España

Tristan e Isolda (USA, 2004)

Jorge y el dragón (USA, 2004)

Tirante el Blanco (Esp, 2005)

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Alfred the Great (1969)
UK, Historical, 122, Rated PG, Color. Vikingss
Director: Clive Donner; Cast includes: David Hemmings, Michael York

Lady Godiva (1955)
US, Drama, 89, No rating, Color
Director: Arthur Lubin; Cast includes: Maureen O'Hara
-About the woman who rode naked through Coventry. It would be filmed differently today!

Black Arrow (1985)
US 93, No rating, Color
Director: John Hough: Cast includes: Oliver Reed
-Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's hero.

Black Shield of Falworth, The (1954)
US, Adventure, 99, No rating, Color
Director: Rudolph Mate; Cast includes: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh
-Knighthood in medieval England. Based on Howard Pyle's Men of Iron

Becket (1964)
US, Historical/Drama, 148, No rating, Color
Director: Peter Glenville; Cast includes: Peter O'Toole, Richard Burton
-Based on Jean Anouilh's play about Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas à Becket and his English King, Henry II. Although there is no historical data to support the suggestion, Anouilh sees a homosexual relationship. Superb film.
- See ORB: Becket Bibliography

Lion in Winter, The (1968)
UK, Historical/Drama, 135, No rating, Color
Director: Anthony Harvey: Cast includes: Katherine Hepburn (Eleanor), Peter O'Toole (Henry II), Anthony Hopkins (Richard the Lionheart)
-[PBH Comment] Probably the greatest of all "medieval movies" for sheer enjoyment. The intra-familial disputes of the Plantagenets are quite accurately depicted. What does not come across is that by the late 12th century dynasticism, although it still had legs, was supplemented by increasingly elaborate state structures. And then there is Hepburn. Magnificent as ever, it must be remembered that she never played anyone but herself. Recommended for teaching simply as a way to excite student interest.

*See ORB: Eleanor Bibliography

King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)
US, Historical, 114, No rating, Color
Director: David Butler; Cast includes: Rex Harrison, Virgina Mayo
-Not well regarded

Ivanhoe (1952)
US, Romance/Adventure, 106, No rating, Color
Director: Richard Thorpe; Cast includes: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine
-based on Sir Walter Scott's romantic novel. Saxons support Richard, Normans support John, and Elizabeth Taylor at her most beautiful as Rebecca (one of the few movie representations of any Medieval Jewish character).

Ironclad (2011)(US). Director: J. English. Cast includes: Paul Giamatti, James Purefoy Jason Flemyng, Brian Cox, : 

Edward II (1970)
Cast includes: Ian McKellen
-Made for TV version of Marlowe's play

Edward II (1991)
UK, Drama, , 91 min, No rating, Color
Director: Derek Jarman; Cast includes: Steven Waddington, Tilda Swinton
based on the 1592 play by Christopher Marlowe about the homosexual Edward II.

Warriors, The (1955) [Alt: The Dark Avenger]
UK, Historical, 85, No rating, Color
Director: Henry Levin; Cast includes: Errol Flynn (Prince Edward), Michael Hordern (King Edward III)
-Early hundred year's war

Henry V (1945)
UK, War/Drama, 137, No rating, Color
Director: Laurence Olivier; Cast includes: Laurence Olivier
-Shakespeare's play, played for wartime nationalism.

Henry V (1989)
UK, Historical/Drama, 137, No rating, Color
Director: Kenneth Branagh; Cast includes: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Brian Blessed
-Brilliant, but much darker version of Shakespeare than Olivier's.

Richard III (1955)
UK, War/Historical, 155, No rating, Color
Director: Laurence Olivier; Cast includes: Laurence Olivier (King Richard III), Ralph Richardson (Buckingham), Claire Bloom (Lady Anne), John Gielgud (Clarence)
-Shakespeare's play.

Tower of London (1939)
US, Historical, 92, No rating B&W
Director: Rowland V. Lee; Cast includes: Basil Rathbone (Richard III), Boris Karloff (Mord, the Executioner)
-Princes in the Tower story

Tower of London (1962)
US, Historical, 79, No rating B&W
Director: Roger Corman; Cast includes: Vincent Price
-remake of 1939 film

Private Life of Henry VIII, The (1933)
UK, Biography, 97, No rating B&W
Director: Alexander Korda; Cast includes: Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Elsa Lanchester, Merle Oberon.

Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1973)
UK, Biography, 125, Rated PG, Color
Director: Waris Hussein; Cast includes: Keith Michell, Donald Pleasence, Charlotte Rampling
-Condensed from the British TV series.

Man for All Seasons, A (1966)
UK, Drama, 120, No rating, Color
Director: Fred Zinnemann: Cast includes: Paul Scofield
-The story of St. Thomas More as a man of conscience. Won six Oscars.

Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
US, Historical, 145, Rated PG, Color
Director: Charles Jarrott; Cast includes: Richard Burton (King Henry VIII), Geneviève Bujold (Anne Boleyn), Irene Papas (Queen Katherine), Anthony Quayle (Wolsey)
-About Anne Boleyn. Quite inaccurate!

Lady Jane (1985)
UK, Biography, 142, Rated PG-13, Color
Director: Trevor Nunn; Cast includes: Helena Bonham Carter

Tudor Rose (1936)
(No other information)
-The story of Lady Jane Grey.

Sword and the Rose, The (1953)
US, Romance/Historical, 93, No rating, Color
Director: Ken Annakin; Cast includes: Richard Todd, Glynis Johns (Princess Mary Tudor), James Robertson Justice (King Henry VIII)
-Disney movie set in England of Mary Tudor. A color re-filming of When Knighthood was in Flower.

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See Robbins Library: Arthurian Bibliographies

Camelot (1967)
USA, musical, Color
Director: Joshua Logan; Cast includes: Richard Harris, David Hemmings, Lionel Jeffries, Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave

Excalibur (1981)
UK, Fantasy/Action, 140, Rated PG, Color
Director: John Boorman; Cast includes: Nigel Terry (Arthur), Paul Geoffrey (Perceval), Cherie Lunghi (Guenevere), Helen Mirren (Morgana), Nicholas Clay (Lancelot)

El rey Arturo (USA, 2004)

First Knight (1995)
US, Romance/Adventure, 132, Rated PG-13, Color
Director: Jerry Zucker; Cast includes: Sean Connery (Arthur), Richard Gere (Lancelot), Julia Ormond (Guinevere)

Knights of the Round Table (1953)
US, Historical, 115, No rating, Color
Director: Richard Thorpe; Cast includes: Robert Taylor (Sir Lancelot of the Lake), Ava Gardner (Queen Guinevere), Mel Ferrer (King Arthur)
-MGM's first widescreen film

Perceval (1978)
US, Drama, time?, No rating, Color
Director: Eric Rohmer
-Based on the 12th century French romance, translated by Rohmer. Unfortunately Roger Ebert calls it "relentlessly turgid".

Siege of the Saxons (1963)
UK, Historical/Adventure, 85, No rating, Color
Director: Nathan Juran
-About king Arthur's daughter.

Prince Valiant (1954)
US, Adventure, 100, No rating, Color
Director: Henry Hathaway; Cast includes: James Mason, Janet Leigh,
-A cartoon character in the middle ages, with Arthurian characters.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1973)
UK, Adventure, 101, Rated PG, Color
Director: Philip Breen; Cast includes: Murray Head
 

Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Gawain and the Green Knight. (1982)
UK, Adventure, 101, Rated PG, Color
Director: Stephan Weeks; Cast includes: Miles O'Keeffe (Gawain), Sean Connery (Green Knight), Trevor Howard (Arthur), Peter Cushing

Lancelot du Lac (1974) [Alt: Le Graal, The Grail, Lancelot of the Lake]
France/Italy, Drama, 84, Color
Director: Robert Bresson; Cast includes: Luc Simon, Dominique Sanda
-What happens after the knights have failed to find the Grail.

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See Robbins Library: Robin Hood Sources Bibliography
See Robbins Library: Robin Hood Filmography

Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)
US, Adventure, 102, No rating, Color
Director: Michael Curtiz, Willim Keighley ; Cast includes: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains

Bandit of Sherwood Forest, The (1946)
US, Adventure, 86, No rating, Color
Director: George Sherman, Henry Levin; Cast includes: Cornel Wilde
-Robin Hood's son carrying on the old tradition.

Men of Sherwood Forest (1954)
UK, Adventure, 77, No rating, Color
Director: Val Guest; Cast includes: Don Taylor

Prince of Thieves, The (1948)
US, Adventure, 72, No rating, Color
Director: Howard Bretherton; Cast includes: Jon Hall

Robin and Marian (1976)
UK, Romance/Adventure, 112, Rated PG, Color
Director: Richard Lester; Cast includes: Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn
-Middle aged Robin and Marion in a "revisionist" story.

Robin Hood (1973)
US, Children's/Animated/Action, 83, Rated G, Color
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
-Animals play the human roles. Not a Disney great.

Robin Hood (1991)
US, 150, No rating, Color
Director: John Irvin; Cast includes: Patrick Bergin, Uma Thurman.

Robin Hood (2010)
US, 150, No rating, Color
Director: Ridley Scott; Cast includes: Russel Crowe, Cate Blanchet, .

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
US, Historical/Adventure/Action, 138, Rated PG-13, Color
Director: Kevin Reynolds; Cast includes: Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Alan Rickman
-Quite good in fact, although very 1990's. Stay for the last shot!

Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950)
US, Historical/Adventure, 80, No rating, Color
Director: Gordon Douglas ; Cast includes: John Derek
-Robin's son fights to get Magna Carta signed.

Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men, The (1952)
US, Children's/Adventure, 83, No rating, Color
Director: Ken Annakin; Cast includes: Richard Tood, Joan Rice, Peter Finch
-Reasonable Disney version.

Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)
UK, Adventure, 80, No rating, Color
Director: Terence Fisher ; Cast includes: Richard Greene, Peter Cushing

Time Bandits (1981)
UK, Fantasy/Comedy, 110, Rated PG, Color
Director: Terry Gilliam; Cast includes: John Cleese (Robin Hood)
-Time travel fantasy.

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Braveheart (1995)
US, Romance/Historical/Action, 177, Rated R, Color
Director: Mel Gibson; Cast includes: Mel Gibson
-[PBH Comments] Won a lot of Oscars! This is a massively inaccurate portrayal of the life of the 13th-century Scots hero William Wallace. Gibson plays a woaded Wallace with a Glaswegian accent. The history is twisted in so many ways - the myth of ius primae nocte, the supposed liaison between Wallace and Isabella - that they would need a web site to unravel. On the other hand the battle scenes are very well done - violent bloody, and altogether impressive and the story is well told, in a conventional way. I was not, however, entirely convinced by Gibson as a suffering saviour. For class use, many students will enjoy this film, and, as ever, might be inspired to read up on the subject.

Mary of Scotland (1936)
US, Historical/Biography, 123, No rating B&W
Director: John Ford; Cast includes: Katharine Hepburn, Frederic March
-Flopped at the box office

Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
US, Historical/Biography, 128, Rated PG, Color
Director: Charles Jarrott; Cast includes: Vanessa Redgrave (Mary, Queen of Scots), Glenda Jackson (Queen Elizabeth), Patrick McGoohan (James Stuart), Timothy Dalton (Henry, Lord Darnley), Nigel Davenport, Trevor Howard, Daniel Massey, Robert Dudley,Ian Holm
-Incredible cast, but inaccurate. The homosexual relationship between Darnleyl and Riccio is portrayed.

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Rashi: A Light after the Dark Ages
Dir. Ashley Lazarus: Writer. Jesse Cogan: With Leonard Nimoy (as Rashi), Armand Assante, and Paul Scofield. Destiny Films. (1-800-499-9346.http://www.rashi.net]
>The movie is a feature length animated account of the life of Rashi, the Jewish community of Troyes, and the rise of violent intolerance in the late 11th century.

The Advocate [Alt: The Hour of the Pig]
US (1994): Historical/Drama/Crime
Director: David Thompson: Cast includes: Colin Firth
-A 15th-century lawyer defends a pig put on trial for murder.

Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (1923)
US, Drama, 93, No rating B&W
Director: Wallace Worsely; Cast includes: Lon Chaney

Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (1939)
US, Horror, 115, No rating B&W
Director: William Dieterle; Cast includes: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara
-The classic version of Victor Hugo's novel.

Beatrice (1988)
France, Historical, 128, Rated R, Color
Director: Bertrand Tavernier: Cast includes: Julie Delpy
-Violent family story set during the Hundred Years War. A father bullies his son and engages in incest with his daughter.

Les Visiteurs du soir, (1942) [Alt: The Devil's Envoys]
France, Romance/Fantasy, 110, No rating B&W
Director: Marcel Carné
A fantasy romance set in the 15th century and based on a French legend:

Ladyhawke (1985)
US, Fantasy/Adventure, 124, Rated PG-13, Color
Director: Richard Donner; Cast includes: Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Broderick
-rightly called a fantasy, but set in Medieval France.

Vagabond King, The (1956)
US, Musical/Historical, 86, No rating, Color
Director: Michael Curtiz; Cast includes: Kathryn Grayson, Oreste, Rita Moreno
-About François Villon, a version of Rudolf Frimal's operetta. Filmed before in 1930. Story without music as The Beloved Rogue (1927), and If I Were King (1928)

Diane (1956)
US, Historical, 110, No rating, Color
Director: David Miller: Cast includes: Lana Turner
-Set in the court of Francis I of France.

Queen Margot (1954)
France, Historical/Drama/Biography,
Cast includes: Jeanner Moreau
-About the St. Bartholemew's day massacre.

Queen Margot (1994)
France-Germany-Italy, Historical/Drama/Biography, 143, Rated R, Color
Director: Patrice Chéreau; Cast includes: Isabelle Adjani
-Adjani as Marguerite de Valois and the events surrounding the St. Bartholemew's day massacre of 1572. Good critical reception. Based on Alexander Dumas' novel. The French language version runs 166.

Intolerance (1916)
US, Drama, 178, No rating B&W
Director: D.W Griffiths: Cast includes: Lillian Gish
-Griffiths wrote "The purpose of the production is to trace a universal theme through various periods of the race's history. Ancient, sacred, medieval, and modern times are considered. Events are not set forth in their historical sequence, or according to the accepted forms of dramatic construction, but as they might flash across a mind seeking to parallel the life of the different ages." It has a section on the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of the French Huguenots in 1572.
IMDb: Intolerance (1916)

Carnival in Flanders (1935) [Alt: La Kermesse Héroïque]
France, Historical/Comedy, 95, No rating B&W In French
Director: Jacques Feyder
-Pauline Kael wrote: "It is a day in 1616; a Spanish regiment comes to a town in occupied Flanders. The cowardly burghers hide, but their charming ladies meet the challenge, and in the morning the Spaniards depart, poorer in worldly goods, richer in experience."
-Altamente recomedable. Fue la pelicula elegida en aquel memorable  programa de "La Clave", para ilustrar el debate sobre el Imperio Español y los Paises Bajos.

Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
France, Romance/Drama, 138, Rated PG, Color
Director: Jean Paul Rappeneau; Cast includes: Gerard Depardieu -Based on a late 19th century play about a long-nosed early 17th century Frenchman.

Return of Martin Guerre, The (1982) [Alt: La Retour de Martin Guerre]
France, Historical, 111, No rating, Color
Director: Daniel Vigne, Jean Claude Carrierè: Cast includes: Gerard Depardieu
-Based on trial records about an impostor in 16th century Southern France. An excellent movie, with solid historical advice given by Natalie Zemon Davis to the film makers. Try to see subtitled version, not the dubbed one.

Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
US, Historical/Biography, 83, No rating B&W
Director: Rowland V. Lee; Cast includes: George Arliss

Le Moine et la sorcière, [ alt The Sorceress
France (1987): Historical/Drama, 97 minutes.
Director: Suzanne Schiffman; Cast includes Tchéky Karyo and
Christine Boisson

The Sorcesess was written by a professional Medieval scholar -
Pamela Berger of Boston College - and was shot in both French and
English. It is based on a genuine medieval text by the
13th-century Dominican, Etienne de Bourbon, about the cult of s
St. Guinefort near Lyons in France.  The story, which is slow
but involving, focuses accurately on early 13th century
historical issues: the survival of "folk" culture; the role of
women; the beginnings of the Dominican order; the use of
profit-based farming techniques (in this case carp ponds) by
local nobilities.

The big boo-boo is that the film is yet another case of jus
primae nocte beging used as part of the story line!

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See ORB: Joan of Arc Bibliography

Joan of Arc (1999) [TV MiniSeries]
 US, Drama/Biography,
  Director: Christian Duguay; Cast includes: Leelee Sobieski, Jacqueline Bisset, Olympia Dukakis, Shirley MacLaine, Peter O'Toole.

Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc  (1999)
France, Drama/Biography
Director: Luc Besson. Cast includes: Milla Jovovich,  John Malkovich, Faye Dunaway, Dustin Hoffman

Jeanne la Pucelle 1. Les Batailles (1993) [Alt: Joan the Maid 1.: The Battles]
France, drama, 160 Color , In French (1993)
Director: Jacques Rivette; Cast includes: Olivier Cruveiller, André Marcon, Sandrine Bonnaire (Jeanne d'Arc)

Jeanne la Pucelle 2. Les Prisons (1993) [Alt: Joan the Maid 1.: The Prisons]
France, drama, 176 Color , In French (1993)
Director: Jacques Rivette; Cast includes: Sandrine Bonnaire (Jeanne d'Arc)

Joan of Arc (1948)
US, Religious/Biography, 100, No rating, Color
Director: Victor Flemming; Cast includes: Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer
-Originally 145 minutes.

Passion of Joan of Arc, The (1928) [Alt: La Passion de Jeanne D'Arc]
France, Historical, 77, No rating B&W, silent
Director: Carl Dreyer; Cast includes: Renée Maria Falconetti
-The original negatives were destroyed, but a reconstruction of the film was successfully undertaken, with Dreyer's blessing by Lo Duca in 1952 using a serendipitously found negative and lip-readers to determine the text [by Joseph Delteil, author of Jeanne D'Arc, (Paris 1925)]. Lo Duca added a score of works by Albinoni [Adagio], Vivaldi, Scarletti, Bach and Palestrina. Dreyer himself had used plainchaint. [Cf. Maria Warner, Joan of Arc, (London: 1981) p.275n64]. The video version currently available has a piano score.
-held by Pauline Kael to be the greatest performance ever captured on film. The film was so powerful that it was initially banned in England. Based on actual trial transcripts.
-[PBH Comment] The film provides no context, no laughable dauphin, dramatic visions. It is a simple rendition of the trial records from 1431 presented as a series of direct parallels with the passion of Christ as seen in 15th century art. Falconetti's intensely innocent face is the focus of the action, such as it is. Kael is correct in her assessment of the film. For teaching, it might be hard to persuade a class to watch a silent movie, but I can guarantee a strong emotional reaction.

Saint Joan (1957)
US, Religious/Historical/Biography, 110, No rating B&W
Director: Otto Preminger; Cast includes: Jean Seberg, Richard Widmark
-based on G.B. Shaw's play. Screenplay by Graham Greene.

Trial of Joan of Arc, The (1962) [Alt: Procès De Jeanne D'arc]
France, Drama/Biography, 65, No rating B&W
Director: Robert Bresson
-An hour-long précis of the trial based on the historical records.

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Magnificat (1993)
Italy, In Italian
Director: Pupi Avati
-[From a correspondent] Hierarchical relations in the earlier middle ages: a young girl becomes a monastic oblate, a young man who succeeds his father as lord of the territory calls for divine signs, there is a very civilized exercise of jus primae noctis.

L´Armata Brancaleone (1965) o El increible ejército de Brancaleone

Dir.: Mario Monicelli. Com: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Gian Maria Volonté, Enrico Maria Salerno.
O roubo de um título de propriedade faz cavaleiro trapalhão e seu pequeno grupo viajarem pela Europa da Idade Média em busca de um feudo. Confessadamente inspirado no Dom Quixote de Cervantes, está crônica implacável arrasa com o mito do herói medieval.

Barbarrosa (2009) It. 139 min, DIr. Renzo Martinelli

Bride of Vengeance (1949)
US, Drama, 91, No rating B&W
Director: Mitchell Leisen: Cast includes: Paulette Goddard
-Story of Borgia intrigue in Italy.

Prince of Foxes (1949)
US, Historical/Adventure, 107, No rating B&W
Director: Henry King; Cast includes: Tyrone Power, Orson Welles (as Borgia)
-About Cesare Borgia. Extremely lavish production.

Flame and the Arrow, The (1950, ALT. EL halcón y la flecha)
US, Adventure, 88, No rating, Color
Director: Jacques Tourneur; Cast includes: Virgina Mayo, Burt Lancaster
-rebel leaders romping through medieval Italy. Una película de los más entretenido con Burt Lancaster y su compañia de guerreros saltimbanquis, en medio de un enfrentamiento entre el imperio Hesse y la lombardía en un "hipotético" siglo XII... con fallos evidentes. POr ejemplo, el vestuario de Virginia Mayo es para echar de comer aparte (esos modelitos vamp, esos vaqueros para montar a caballo, etc).A nivel arquitectónico se mezclan decorados románicos inspirados en "lombardía", con el palacio-castillo del duque que presenta elementros claramente barrocos y neoclásicos (obsérvense las puertas de entrada). El marqués de Gianezzia hace referencia a su participación en "las cruzadas", como si tal cosa; uso extensivo de la heráldica en una época en que no estaba tan extendida, etc. Aún así muy entretenida.

King's Whore, The (1990) [Alt: The King's Mistress]
Austria-France-Italy-UK, Historical/Drama, 115, Rated R, Color
Director: Axel Corti; Star; Timothy Dalton
-Set in court of Piedmont [time period?]

Die Pest in Florenz (1919)
Germany, horror, 96, Black & White
Director: Otto Rippert; Screenwriter: Fritz Lang
-[From IMD] An evil seductress causes Cesare, the city's ruler, and his son to both fall madly in love with her. The son, killing his father before an order to torture the woman can be carried out, then turns the city's churches into dens of sexual debauchery. Acts of evil and corruption continue unabated until the arrival of Death, who brings with her a horrible plague which she is about to loose upon the city. [Period?]

Il miracolo (1948) [Alt: The Miracle]
Italy, 41, Black & White, In Italian.
Director: Roberto Rossellini

L'Amore (1948) [Alt: Ways of Love, Woman]
Italy, Drama, 69, In Italian
Director: Roberto Rossellini; Cast includes: Anna Magnani
-Magnani believes she has believes she has been divinely impregnated. The 1/2 of the Fellini's 8 1/2. [Period?]

Romeo and Juliet (1936)
US, Romance/Historical, 126, No rating B&W
Director: George Cukor: Cast includes: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore
-Shakespeare's play, but simplified.

Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Italy-UK, Romance/Historical, 138, Rated PG, Color
Director: Franco Zeffirelli; Cast includes: Olivia Hussey, Leonard Whiting, Michael York
-Shakespeare's play, played by two age-appropriate actors. Only about half the play is used. Famous musical score by Nino Roto

El oficio de la guerra (2001).Italiana, Dir.: . Sobre la vida de Jean de Medicis y la situación bélica y política de la península italiana durante las dos primeras décadas del siglo XVI. POr lo visto demasiado artificiosa para sacar nada en claro, aunque toque temas tan interesantes como el saco de Roma por las tropas imperiales de Carlos V (1522) y la concepcipon de la guerra y la caballería en su época. 

Condottieri (It. Luis Trenker, 1937). Sobre las andanzas del mercenario Jean Drapeau Noir.

Galileo

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Stealing Heaven (1988)
Yugoslavia, Romance/historical, Rated R, Color
Director: Cliver Donner;
-Sexually explicit account of Abelard and Heloise.

Name of the Rose, The (1986)
France-Germany-Italy, Mystery/Historical, 130, Rated R, Color
Director: Cast includes: Sean Connery
-Based on the novel by Umberto Eco.

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Black death (UK. 2010, dir. Ch. Smith). Sean Bean...

Francesco, giullare di Dio (1950) [Alt: Flowers of St. Francis, Francis: God's Jester]
Italy, religious, 75, Black & White, In Italian.
Director: Roberto Rossellini: Cast includes: Brother Nazario Gerardi (Francis)
-Written by Fellini

Francis of Assisi (1961)
US, Religious/Biography, 111, No rating, Color
Director: Michael Curtiz: Cast includes: Bradford Dillman (Francis Bemardone), Dolores Hart (Clare Scefi)

Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1973)
Italy-UK, Historical, 121, Rated PG, Color
Director: Franco Zeffirelli; Cast includes: Graham Faulkner (Francesco), Judi Bowker (Clare), Alec Guinness (Pope Innocent III)
-Zeffirelli's hippy St. Francis. Music by Donovan.

Francesco (1989)
Germany-Italy, Historical/Drama, 105, Rated PG-13, Color
Director: Liliana Cavani; Cast includes: Mickey Rourke (St. Francis), Helena Bonham Carter
-Odd casting, to say the least

Uccelacci e uccellini (1966) [Alt: Hawks and Sparrows].
Italy., history/religion, 88, Black & White, In Italian
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini;
-Toto and Ninetto Davoli as two friars on the road.

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Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey, The (1988)
New Zealand, Fantasy/Adventure, 92, Rated PG, Color, B&W
Director: Vincent Ward; Cast includes: Bruce Lyons, Chris Hayward
-An odd story, but a good film. About an English boy who leads a group of villagers into a tunnel to escape the plague, and emerges in a modern city (Auckland?)

Return of Martin Guerre, The (1982) [Alt: La Retour de Martin Guerre]
France, Historical, 111, No rating, Color
Director: Daniel Vigne, Jean Claude Carrierè: Cast includes: Gerard Depardieu
-[PBH Comment] Based on trial records about an impostor in 16th century Southern France. An excellent movie, with solid historical advice given by Natalie Zemon Davis to the film makers. Make sure to see the subtitled version, not the dubbed. Return raises issues about the nature of family life, geographical isolation, class and education boundaries, religious conflict and social control - all in a way that makes real sense to viewers. Moreover, it addresses real issues of the use of historical evidence as well. This is among the best possible movies to show to a class, perhaps with NZD's book on the subject, or the American Historical Review set of articles devoted to the movie.

Pied Piper, The (1972)
UK, Drama, 90, Rated G, Color
Director: Jacques Demy; Cast includes: Jack Wild, Donald Pleasance, Donovan (The Piper)
-Not exactly a children's story in this version of plague-ridden (in this case rats) villagers.

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Simón del desierto (1965) [Alt: Simon of the Desert]
Mexico, historical religious, 44 1965 Black and White, In Spanish
Director: Luis Buñuel; Cast includes: Claudio Brook (Simon), Silvia Pinal
- Buñuel's version of the story of St. Simon Stylites, who stood on a pillar for forty years.

Anchoress (1993)
US, Religious/Drama, 108, No rating, Color
Director: Chris Newby; Cast includes: Natalie Morse.
-Set in the Middle Ages, about a young woman who chooses to be walled up for the rest of her life.

Magnificat (1993)
Italy, In Italian
Director: Pupi Avati
-[From a correspondent] Hierarchical relations in the earlier middle ages: a young girl becomes a monastic oblate, a young man who succeeds his father as lord of the territory calls for divine signs, there is a very civilized exercise of jus primae noctis.

Nostradamus (1994)
US, Drama/Biography, 118, Rated R, Color
Director: Roger Christian; Cast includes: Tcheky Karo, F. Murray Abraham,

Virgin Spring, The (1959) [Alt: Jungfrukällan; alt-. La dama de la fuente]
Sweden, Drama, 88, No rating B&W
Director: Ingmar Bergman: Cast includes: Max Von Sydow
Story of religious medieval Swedish family whose daughter is raped by vagrants. Oscar for best foreign movie. Basada en una leyenda popular nórdica del siglo XIV. Bergman vuelve a tratar sus temas de la religión y la muerte en un contexto medieval.

Vision (Hildegard von Bingen) (2009) Alem. Dir. M. von Trutta

Io non ho la testa (1998) It. Dir. Michele Lanubile.

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Anchoress (1993)
US, Religious/Drama, 108, No rating, Color
Director: Chris Newby; Cast includes: Natalie Morse.
-Set in the early Middle Ages, about a young woman who chooses to be walled up for the rest of her life.

Magnificat (1993)
Italy, In Italian
Director: Pupi Avati
-[From a correspondent] Hierarchical relations in the earlier middle ages: a young girl becomes a monastic oblate, a young man who succeeds his father as lord of the territory calls for divine signs, there is a very civilized exercise of jus primae noctis.

Genoveva de Brabante (1965). España. Sobre santa Genoveva...

Pope Joan (1972)
UK, Religious, 132, Rated PG, Color
Director: Michael Anderson; Cast includes: Liv Ullman
-About the Pope Joan myth.

Kristin Lavransdatter (1995). [Alt: Kransen, Kristin Lavransdotter] Norway/German/Sweden, 180, In Norwegian
Director: Liv Ullmann;
From the novel by Sigrid Undset. A young woman, daughter of a medieval Norwegian landowner, tries to find her own path.

Stealing Heaven. (1988)
Yugoslavia, Romance/historical, Rated R, Color
Director: Cliver Donner;
-Sexually explicit account of Abelard and Heloise. A recent version of the story of Heloise and Abelard, the most famous real lovers of the 12th century. I have heard people dismiss this as soft porn. This strikes me as misplaced criticism, since the wild affair was central to the real story. What I objected to was the rather lame depiction of Abelard: Derek de Lint is very unconvincing as the most brilliant intellectual rebel of the time. Also, the evocation of 12th-century Paris is rather thin. Read Sharan Newman's mystery novels about the same period for a better take on the same milieu. (comentario de Steve Muhlberger)

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Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovski, 1967). Paso de la Edad Media al Renacimiento, incluso en Rusia (pintor de Iconos)

Prince of Foxes (1949)
US, Historical/Adventure, 107, No rating B&W
Director: Henry King; Cast includes: Tyrone Power, Orson Welles (as Borgia)
-About Cesare Borgia. Extremely lavish production. POr supuesto hay más películas acerca de los Borgia...

El Greco (1966)
France-Italy, Biography, 95, No rating, Color
Director: Luciano Salce; Cast includes: Mel Ferrer

Agony and the Ecstasy, The (1965) (Tormento y éxtasis)
US, Biography, 140, No rating, Color
Director: Carol Reed; Cast includes: Charlton Heston (Michelangelo), Rex Harrison (Pope Julius II)
-Based on Irving Stone's story of Michelangelo. Omits to mention M's homosexuality.

Titan--Story of Michelangelo, The (1950)
US, Documentary/Biography, 68, No rating B&W
Director: Robert Snyder
Originally a Swiss film made in 1940, it was reedited for U.S. release by Robert Snyder, and won an Oscar as Best Documentary.

Caravaggio (1986)
UK, religious, 97, No rating, Color
Director: Derek Jarman; Cast includes: Nigel Terry, Tilda Swinton
-Story of Michelangelo Caravaggio (1571-1610)in which Jarman develops his belief that Caravaggio was homosexual. The actor use modern British slang.

El magnífico aventurero (Il magnifico avventuriero, Ricardo Freda, It. 1963). Acerca de  la vida de Benvenuto Cellini

El burlador de Florencia (The affairs of Cellini, Gregory La Cava, 1934)

Rembrandt (1936)
UK, Biography, 84, No rating B&W
Director: Alexander Korda; Cast includes: Charles Laughton (Rembrandt van Rijn), Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester

Los Borgia (Esp. 2005)

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Lutero (USA-GER, 2002)

Martin Luther (1953)
US, 105, Black & White
Director: Irving Pichel; Cast includes: Niall MacGinnis (Martin Luther)

Luther (1974)
UK, Biography, 112, No rating, Color
Director: Guy Green: Cast includes: Stacey Keach
-based on John Osborne's play.

Man for All Seasons, A (1966)
UK, Drama, 120, No rating, Color
Director: Fred Zinnemann: Cast includes: Paul Scofield
-The story of St. Thomas More as a man of conscience. Won six Oscars.

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La Araucana.(1970).ESP. Dir.: Julian Coll. Int.: Venantino Venantini,...Basada en el poema épico del siglo XVI

Alba de América (196?). España. COlón y la conquista del nuevo mundo

Cabeza de Vaca (1990). ESP. Dir. Nicolás Echevarria. Intr.: Juan Diego,... El explorador español Cabeza de Vaca y sus recorridos por América del Norte en el siglo XVI.

El Dorado (1988??) España. Dir.Carlos Saura. El film más caro de la historia de España en su momento... 

Norseman, The (1978)
US, Adventure, 90, Rated PG, Color
Director: Charles B. Pierce: Cast includes: Lee Majors, Cornel Wilde
-About a, 11th-century Viking prince sailing to America in search of his father, abducted by Indians.

Cristobal Colón (1965) Esp-It. Dir.: Vitorio Cotafavi

Cristóbal Colón (1989?) España

Christopher Columbus (1949)
UK, Historical/Biography, 104, No rating, Color
Director: David MacDonald; Cast includes: Frederic March

1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)
France-Spain-UK-US, Historical/Drama/Adventure, 145, Rated PG-13, Color
Director: Ridley Scott; Cast includes: Gerard Depardieu (Columbus), Sigourney Weaver (Queen Isabella)
-Somewhat lumbering. Stirring music by Vangelis.

Christopher Columbus--the Discovery (1992)
Spain-US, Historical/Adventure, 120, Rated PG-13, Color
Director: John Glen; Cast includes: Marlon Brando (Torquemada), Tom Selleck {Ferdinand), Rachel Ward (Isabella), George Corraface (Columbus)
-Not well reviewed

Captain From Castile (1947)
US, Historical/Adventure, 140, No rating, Color
Director: Henry King: Cast includes: Tyrone Power, Ceasar Romero
Cortez' conquest of Mexico and the Spanish Inquisition all involved in on story. With a famous score by Alfred Newman.

Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
UK, Historical/Drama/Adventure, 118, Rated G, Color
Director: Irving Lerner ; Star; Christopher Plummer (Inca King Atahualpa), Robert Shaw (Pizzaro)
-About Pizzaro and the conquest of Peru
-According to Pauline Kael, Plummer camps it up, while Shaw plays Pizzaro straight.

Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972) [Alt: Aguirre: The Wrath of God]
US/West Germany, drama/historical, 90, 1972 Color
Director: Werner Herzog: Cast includes: Alejandro Repulles, Gonzalo Pizarro, Cecilia Rivera, Helena Rojo, Edward Roland
-16th century ruthless conquerors pursue wealth in South America.

La leyenda del Dorado (2000) US. creo que de Walt Disney... de dibujos animados... aventura de un par de pícaros españoles...

Retorno a Aztlan (1991) [Alt: Necuepaliztli in Aztlan, In, Return to Aztlan]
Mexico, Drama/historical Color, In Nahuatl
Directors: Juan Mora Catlett
Ancient Mexico before the Spanish conquest.

The Mission (1986)
UK, Drama, 125, Rated PG, Color
Director: Roland Joffe; Cast includes: Robert DeNiro, Jeremy Irons, Liam Neeson
-The story of the Jesuit mission in Paraguay, s. XVII. Screenwriter Robert Bolt.

Black Robe (1991)
Australia-Canada, Historical/Drama/Adventure, 101, Rated R, Color
Director: Bruce Beresford; Cast includes: Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young
-Based on a splendid novel by Brian Moore. Looks at French Jesuits among "Canadian" Indians and issues of two-way acculturation.

Moctezuma (USA, 2005/6) Mel Gibson

Hernan Cortes (Esp, vvaa, 2006) Antonio Banderas

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Mongol (2007). MOngolia. Dir.: Sergey Bodrov

Conqueror, The (1956)
US, War/Historical/Adventure, 111, No rating, Color
Director: Dick Powell: Cast includes: John Wayne
-Mongols vs. Tartars, and John Wayne as Genghis Khan. Shot in Utah downwind of a nuclear facility, a high percentage of stars and crew, including Wayne, later developed cancer.

Genghis Khan (1965)
US, Biography/Adventure, 124, No rating, Color
Director: Henry Levin: Cast includes: Omar Sharif, Stephen Boyd, James Mason, Telly Savalas.

Tartari, I (1962) [Alt: The Tartars]
It. Color
Director: Ferdinando Baldi, Richard Thorpe (I); Cast includes: Victor Mature, Orson Welles

Mongols, The (1961)
Italy, Historical/Adventure, 102, No rating, Color
Director: André de Toth, Leopolda Savona; Cast includes: Jack Palance, Anita Ekberg
-Palance as the son of Genghis Khan on the rampage in 13th century Europe.

The Golden Horde (George Sherman, 1951) ¿U cruzadas?

The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)
US, Adventure, 100 min, No rating, Black & White
Director: Archie Mayo; Cast inlcudes; Gary Cooper (Marco Polo), Sigrid Gurie, Basil Rathbone, Lana Turner

Marco Polo (1962)
Italy, Biography/Adventure, 90, No rating, Color
Director: Hugo Fregonese, Piero Pierotti; Cast includes: Rory Calhoun
-Epic about journey to China

Marco the Magnificent (1965)
US, Biography/Adventure, 100, No rating, Color
Director: Denys de la Patelliere, et al; Cast includes: Horst Bucholtz (Marco), Anthony Quinn (Kublai Khan)

Marco (1973)
US, Musical/Biography/Adventure, 109, Rated G, Color
Director: Seymour Robie: Cast includes: Desi Arnaz (Marco Polo), Zero Mostel (Kublai Khan)

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Ran (1985)
France-Japan, War/Historical, 161, Rated R, Color
Director: Akira Kurosawa:
-Set in 16th century Japan, this is a version of King Lear.

Gate of Hell (1953) [Alt: Jigokuman]
Japan, Historical/Drama, 89, No rating, Color
Director: Teinsuke Kinugasa
-12th century samauri falls in love with and shames a married woman. Oscar for best foreign film and costume design.

Lightning Swords of Death (1974)
Japan, Action, 83, Rated R, Color
Director: Kenji Misumi
-Violent story of an outlaw samauri wandering medieval japan

Kagemusha, la sombra del guerrero
Director: Akira Kurosawa

Kagetora. El guerrero  (1992) [alt: Heaven and Hearth)
Japón. Belica/Histórica. 96, Color
Director: Haruki adokawa
- Fines del S. XVI. Asistimos a la confrontacion decisiva entre los señores Kagetora y Takeda, antes de la unificacion del país.

Rikiu (1982)
Japon, Historica, Color
- Una version muy subjetiva e incluso "ascetica" de la corte del Shogunato japones durante la etapa final de la reunificacion de las islas (ca. 1600), vista desde la perspectiva del maestro de te de Nobunaga e Hideyoshi.

The Silk Road (1992)
China-Japan: Drama, 126 min, , Rated PG-13, Color
Director: Junya Sato
-Epic set in 11th-century China.

Los 7 Samurais (....)
Japón. Aventuras. B/N
Director: Akira Kurosawa
- La mejor películas de Samurais

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The Black Knight (USA 2002)

Otra fantasmada USA, enésima versión libre de una americano en la corte del rey Arturo pero con famoso humorista de color como protagonista. En fín,,,

Conan (1982)

Versión cinematográfica de un famoso héroe literario moderno y posteriormente del cómic que creo casi un nuevo género (espada y brujería)

Dark Crystal (El cristal obscuro)
US, Adventure/Fantasy

Dragonslayer (El dragón del lago de Fuego)(1980?)
US, Adventure/Fantasy, 108 min, Rated PG-13, Color
Director
Sobre el aprendiz de un mago que se tiene que cargar al dragón de un lago...

Dragonheart (1996)
US, Adventure/Fantasy, 108 min, Rated PG-13, Color
Director: Rob Cohen; Cast inlcudes: Dennis Quaid, Sean Connery
-Roger Ebert called this "sublimely silly". About the last of the Dragonslayers. (2nd part in 1999)

George and the Dragon (2004). USA

High Crusade, The (1994)
Germany, Sci-Fi / aliens / knights / comedy, 100, 1994 Color
Director: Klaus Knoesel, Holger Neuhäuser; Cast includes: John Rhys-Davies, Rick Overton

A Knight´s tale (2001). USA. Otra sobre un caballero novel medieval con música moderna. Complétamente anacrónica. A algunos les podrá divertir el espectáculo y observar cómo la gente normal "anglosajona" cree que  es la Edad Media. Otros podremos salir completamente deprimidos y cabreados...

Ladyhawke (1985)
US, Fantasy/Adventure, 124, Rated PG-13, Color
Director: Richard Donner; Cast includes: Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Broderick
-rightly called a fantasy, but set in Medieval France.

Lair of the White Worm, The (1988)
UK, Horror, 94, Rated R, Color
Director: Ken Russell; Cast includes: Hugh Grant, Amanda Donahue
-"campy"

Leonor (1975)
France-Italy-Spain, Drama, 90, Rated PG, Color
Director: Juan Bunel; Cast includes: Liv Ullman
-woman rises from the dead

Mannequin Two: On the Move (1991)
US, Comedy, 95, Rated PG, Color
Director: Stewart Rafill; Cast includes: Kristy Swanson
-Medieval peasant's spirit trapped for a 1000 years in a dummy is released in the modern world..

Masque of the Red Death (1989)
US, Horror, 83, Rated R, Color
Director: Larry Brand; Cast includes: Adrian Paul, Patrick McNee

Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey, The (1988)
New Zealand, Fantasy/Adventure, 92, Rated PG, Color, B&W
Director: Vincent Ward; Cast includes: Bruce Lyons, Chris Hayward
-An odd story, but a good film. About an English boy who leads a group of villagers into a tunnel to escape the plague, and emerges in a modern city (Auckland?)

Prince Valiant (1954)
US, Adventure, 100, No rating, Color
Director: Henry Hathaway; Cast includes: James Mason, Janet Leigh,
-A cartoon character in the middle ages, with Arthurian characters.

The new adventures of the Prince Valiant (1997) US

Timeline (2003). USA. Basada en la novela homónima de Michael Chrichton. Arqueólogos de vbuelta a la Franica de 1355

Princess Bride, The (1987) (La princesa prometida)
US, Comedy/Children's/Adventure, 98, Rated PG, Color
Director: Rob Reiner: Cast includes: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin

El Señor de los Anillos (2001). En tres partes. La última, el Retorno del Rey (2003). Nueva Zelanda-USA

Shrek (2001) UK. Dibujos 3D. Una sátira sobre los cuentos de hadas desde un irónico e inteligente cuento de hadas utilizando animación 3d. Una peli de dibus de lo más divertida. Segunda parte para las navidades del 2004.

The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
US, Fantasy, 100 min, Rated R, Color
Director: Albert Pyun
-Warlocks and sword fighters.

El caballero del Dragon... (España)-Aquella ¿inolvidable? pelicula en la que Miguel Bose hace de extraterrestre bajado del cielo en un castillo español durante el Medievo,... incalificable...

Los Paladines (1983)
Italia-Usa, Fantasia. Dir.
Aventuras épicas entre Caballeros Cristianos y Musulmanes en una fantastica Sicilia Medieval con toques lejanos del cantar de Roldan.

El ojo del Halcón
Danesa, 1995. (escenarios en Escocia)
Aventura juvenil de joven príncipe que tiene que avisar a su padre, el rey danés, de un complot contra él.

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Paseo Por la Vida y la Muerte
USA, John Houston
El testamento fílmico de est3e gran director

Tempest (1959)
Italy, Historical, 125, No rating, Color
Director: Alberto Lattuada
-A peasant uprising in Catherine the Great's Russia

Green Glove, The (1952)
Director: Rudolph Mate; Cast includes: Glenn Ford
US, Crime, 88, No rating B&W
-Post WWII France, ex-solider returns to find a medieval jewelled religious item.

Knightriders (1981)
US, Drama, 145, Rated R, Color
Director: George Romero; Cast includes: Ed Harris
-About a traveling band which stages "medieval fairs" at which they joust in full medieval gear, from motorcyles.

Agnes of God (1985)
US, Mystery, 98, Rated PG-13, Color
Director: Norman Jewison: Cast includes: Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft, Meg Tilly
-A pregnant Quebecker nun.

Mazes and Monsters (1982)
Canada 100, No rating, Color
Director: Steven H. Stern; Cast includes: Tom Hanks
-Four teenagers caught up in Medieval role playing games.

The Milky Way (1970) [Alt: La Voie Lactée].
France, Religious, 102 min, Rated PG, Color
Director: Luis Buñuel
-About two pilgrim-tramps and their encounters with the Devil, the Virgin Mary, people who are arguing about Catholic doctrine, and assorted religious zealots.

Month in the Country, A (1987)
UK, Drama, 96, Rated PG, Color
Director: Pat O'Connor; Cast includes: Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh
-A modern story, but with a medieval painting as a focus as a man recovers from WWI shell shock by restoring the painting in a Yorkshire curch.

Rapture, The (1991)
US, Drama, 102, Rated R, Color
Director: Michael Tolkin; Cast includes: Mimi Rogers, David Duchovny
-Modern millenialism. The movie represents, quite literally, the coming of the Apocalypse.

Romero (1989)
US, Political/Biography, 102, Rated PG-13, Color
Director: John Duigan; Cast includes: Raul Julia

El rey pescador [alt. The Fisher KIng)... Robert Williams logra contagiar su locura medieval a un descreido y hundido j. Bridges...

La Muerte
Director: I. Bergman
Una excepcional película en todos los sentidos

Beowulf
UK, 1998. Con Christophert Lambert (rodada en Rumania)
Una versión muy modernizada (medio futurista) y extremadamente libre de la clásica épica medieval Beowulf. Música muy cañera.

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LISTAS

A. Peores Peliculas Medievales .La lista hecha por Hallsall y los miembros de the Mediev-l list incluia las siguientes peliculas:

• Silver Chalice, The (1954)

US, Religious, 144, No rating, Color
 
• The Long Ships (1964)

UK-Yugoslavia, Adventure, 125 min, No rating, Color
 
• Vikings, The (1958)

US, Historical/Adventure, 114, No rating, Color
 
• Norseman, The (1978)

US, Adventure, 90, Rated PG, Color
 
• Crusades, The (1935)

US, Historical/Drama, 123, No rating B&W
 
• King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)

US, Historical, 114, No rating, Color
 
• Black Shield of Falworth, The (1954)

 
• Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Gawain and the Green Knight. (1982)

 
• Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

US, Historical/Adventure/Action, 138, Rated PG-13, Color
 
• Braveheart (1995)

US, Romance/Historical/Action, 177, Rated R, Color
 
• Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1973)

Italy-UK, Historical, 121, Rated PG, Color
 
• Conqueror, The (1956)

US, War/Historical/Adventure, 111, No rating, Color
 
• The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)

US, Adventure, 100 min, No rating, Black & White

Nosotros queremos realiza nuestra propia lista de las peores peliculas, viendolas desde una perspectiva mas latina, mediterranea o europea, como se prefiera. Para ello necesitamos vuestra colaboracion. Escribid.

Por mi parte quiero incluir en esa lista la pelicula
Sohogun Mayeda (1982)
US-Japon-Yugoslavia. Historia/Aventura(con Chritopher lee como rey Felipe de España)
EL argumento se basa en el hecho real de la embajada japonesa a la corte española a fines del S. XVI. De tan interesante episodio, y que ha dado lugar a una buena novela de Sushaki Endo, "El Samurai", la película no hace más que una sucesión de disparates de toda índole en pro de una pretendida busqueda de la aventura y el romanticismo. Es totalmente intragable...

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• Mohammad, Messenger of God/The Message (1977)

Lebanon-UK, Religious, 180, Rated PG, Color
 
• Becket (1964)

US, Historical/Drama, 148, No rating, Color
 
• Lion in Winter, The (1968)

UK, Historical/Drama, 135, No rating, Color
 
• Man for All Seasons, A (1966)

UK, Drama, 120, No rating, Color
 
• Braveheart (1995)

US, Romance/Historical/Action, 177, Rated R, Color
 
• Return of Martin Guerre, The (1982) [Alt: La Retour de Martin Guerre]

France, Historical, 111, No rating, Color
 
• Passion of Joan of Arc, The (1928) [Alt: La Passion de Jeanne D'Arc]

France, Historical, 77, No rating B&W
 
• The Mission (1986)

UK, Drama, 125, Rated PG, Color

Nosotros queremos realiza nuestra propia lista de las mejores peliculas -desde un punto de vista histórico-, viendolas desde una perspectiva mas latina, mediterranea o europea, como se prefiera. Para ello necesitamos vuestra colaboracion. Escribid.

Últimamente ha tenido gran aceptación entre los medievalistas :
+ El guerrero número 13 (1998)
^Por la forma de aproximarse a nórdicos y árabes, basándose en una crónica real (aunque después se inventa todo lo que quiera y más...). Una película de la que se puede sacar un buen debate en clase.

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Nosotros queremos realiza nuestra propia lista de las mejores peliculas, -por sus cualidades cinematográficas- viendolas desde una perspectiva mas latina, mediterranea o europea, como se prefiera. Para ello necesitamos vuestra colaboracion. Escribid.

 

También podeis consultar otros dos sitios sobre películas:
Motion Picture Database
Art Historian´s Guide to the  Movies

 Se ha recortado y modificado el documento base. Fundamentalmente se han traducido textos, eliminado comentarios y añadido peliculas (especialmente en la sección sobre la Península Ibérica). Son bienvenidas nuevas aportaciones.

© Paul Halsall July 1997
® Jose Manuel Rodriguez García, Mayo 1998-2002

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