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Medieval & Renaissance Theme Wedding FAQ: List of Movies
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Medieval & Renaissance Theme Wedding FAQ: List of Movies
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8.1: How about including a list of well-costumed, atmospheric
movies that people could rent to see what a particular
period might be like? If a picture is worth a thousand words,
a moving picture is worth ten thousand!
Done. Following is a list of movies, separated into the following
time periods: Early Medieval (500 to at 1050 AD), Middle Ages (1050 to
at 1450 AD), and Renaissance (1450 to 1600 AD). An exclamation point
(!) indicates that the movie contains a wedding scene.
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BORDERLINE ANCIENT/MEDIEVAL (mid- to late-400's)
Sign of the Pagan (about Atilla, ruler of the Huns at 433-453)
SET DURING THE EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD (500 to at 1050)
The Knights of the Round Table
Sword of Lancelot
!First Knight
!Excalibur
!Camelot
Prince Valiant
Sword of the Valiant
!The Sword in the Stone (Disney animation)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (932 AD)
The Green Knight
Prince of Jutland
Merlin and the Sword
Merlin of the Crystal Cave
Flight of the Dragons (animated)
The Sword and the Sorcerer (Disney)
Dragonslayer
Tristan et Iseuldt
The Vikings
The Littlest Viking
The Longships
Eric the Viking
The Norseman
The Black Arrow
Charlemagne (late 700s France)
Alfred the Great (late 800s England)
SET DURING THE MIDDLE AGES (1050 to 1450 AD)
MacBeth (set mid-1000s Scotland; 2 versions: 1) w/Orson Wells,
2) w/Jon Fitch)
Hearts and Armor (mid-1000s Spain)
!El Cid (late-1000s Spain)
Hildegard (11th C Germany)
The Crusades (about Richard the Lion-hearted)
The Seventh Seal (set during the Crusades)
Ivanhoe (late 1100s; 2 versions: 1) w/Robert Taylor,
2) w/Anthony Andrews & Olivia Hussey)
Robin Hood (many versions: !1) w/Errol Flynn, 2) w/Patrick
Bergin), 3) w/Michael Praed/Jason Connery, 4) Disney)
!Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves
Robin and Marion
Robin Hood-Men in Tights
Men of Sherwood Forest
The Court Jester (12th C England)
Lionhart
The Flame and the Arrow (set in Italy)
Ladyhawke (based on 12th C French legend)
The Lion in Winter (about Eleanor of Aquitane and Henry II,
ruler of England 1154-1189)
Beckett (archbishop of Canterbury during reign of Henry II)
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (St Francis of Assisi, 1182-1226)
The Navigator (from 11th-12th C Cumbria to 20th C New Zealand)
The Conqueror (about Genghis Khan, early 1200s Asia)
Alexander Nevesky (mid-1200s Russia)
The Dragon and the Sword (Russian)
The Magic Sword (13thC)
!Braveheart (late 1200's Scotland)
The Black Rose (time of Edward I & Kublai Khan, late 1200s)
Edward II (early 14th C)
The Name of the Rose (set in 1312 monastery)
The Sorceress (13-14th C France)
The Virgin Spring (based on 14th C legend)
Decameron Nights (about Italian poet Boccaccio, mid-1300s)
Hamlet (set 1300/1400? 2 versions 1) w/Mel Gibson,
2) w/Laurence Olivier)
Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Hamlet comedy)
Richard II (late 1300s England)
Richard III (late 1400s England)
The Black Knight of Falworth (in the reign of Henry IV, early 1400s)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1400's France)
A Walk with Love and Death (1400s Italy)
Joan of Arc: A Portrait of a Legend (1428 France)
Henry V (early 1400s England; 2 versions 1) w/Kenneth Branagh,
2) w/Laurence Olivier)
The Advocate
Brother Cadafel
!The Warlord
!The Princess Bride
Jabberwocky (Monty Python)
Stealing Heaven (about Abelard & Heloise, early 1100s France)
Black Adder I (British comedy)
King Lear
Snow White (Disney)
Sleeping Beauty (Disney)
Willow
Dr. Faustus
SET DURING THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD (1450 to 1600)
Captain from Castille
!Much Ado about Nothing
!The Taming of the Shrew
Romeo and Juliet (2 versions: 1) w/Norma Shearer 1936 and
2) w/Olivia Hussey
Elizabeth R
If I Were King (life of Francois Villon, mid-15C French poet)
Christopher Columbus (late 1400s)
1492: Conquest of Paradise (about Christopher Columbus)
Flesh & Blood/renamed The Rose and the Sword (1501)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (about Michaelangelo in 1500s Italy)
Martin Luther (early 1500s Germany)
Nostradamus (lived 1503-1566)
!Prince of Foxes (Italy 1500s)
Diane (de Poitiers, mid-1500s France)
!The Return of Martin Guerre (1540s France)
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (ruler of England 1509-1547)
The Private Life of Henry VIII
!Anne of the Thousand Days (Boleyn, 2nd wife of Henry VIII)
!Lady Jane (Grey, grandniece of Henry VIII)
Nine Days a Queen (about Lady Jane Grey, mid-1550s England)
The Blood on Satan's Claw (16C horror)
Cry of the Banshee (16C horror)
The Sword and the Rose (Disney; about Princess Margaret,
sister to Henry VIII)
A Man for All Seasons (set during the reign of Henry VIII;
2 versions, 1) w/Charlton Heston & Vanessa Redgrave,
2) w/Orson Wells)
Mary, Queen of Scots (mid-1500s)
Mary of Scotland
Aguirre, Wrath of God (1560s South America)
Ivan the Terrible (mid to late 1500's Russia)
Young Bess (the early years of Elizabeth I)
The Virgin Queen (Elizabeth I, late 1500s England)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Seven Seas to Calais (Sir Francis Drake, late 1500s)
Orlando (begins during the reign of Elizabeth I)
Black Adder II (British comedy, Elizabethan)
Queen Margot (late 1500s France)
The Mission (late 1500s South America)
Othello (contemporary with Shakespeare; 2 versions,
1) w/Orson Wells 1952, 2) w/Sir Laurence Olivier)
BORDERLINE RENAISSANCE/MODERN (early 1600s)
The Three Musketeers (early 1600s France)
The Four Musketeers
At Sword's Point (about the four Musketeers)
The Three Musketeers 20 Years Later
Cyrano de Bergerac (lived 1619-1655)
The Last Valley (set in 1641)
Taras Bulba (17th C)
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