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Films of SCAdian Interest
or What To Do If You Can't Read
Recently, I overheard someone mention something about watching movies as a way to get a feel for things medieval. For the sake of those who don't know where to start, here is a list of films that may appeal to someone in the SCA. I will try to include TV broadcasts if I think they are available on videotape (its sometimes amazing what you can find at a public library).
This is a big list, so it's on sevral pages, grouped thematically. The first one includes films I have grouped into the following categories:
- Medieval
- Joan of Arc
- Vikings
- Hunchback
Click on the genre to go to the appropriate page below:
- Musketeers
- Pirates
- Renaissance
- Fantasy
- Future & Sci-Fi
- Animated
- Modern
- Post-Renaissance
- Zorro
- Egyptian
- Greek
- Roman
- Other Ancient
- Hercules
- Maciste
- Jesus
- Goliath
- Samson
- Other Biblical
In parentheses I have put any alternate titles the movie may have, the country of origin (if not the US or Great Brittain), the date, the director, some of the cast, and sometimes the studio. Eventually I will be including capsulized descriptions, lengthy reviews and essays, and scanning some images.
If you wish to add to this project, please e-mail your addition (use the link at the bottom of the page).
HOW TO USE THE MARKINGS:
! = a definite must-see for anyone with SCA related interests.
+ = good to see if you've already seen or if you can't find the must-sees.
% = either a weak movie with a SCA-related theme, or a good movie of limited SCA-related interest.
- = only for the most desparate completist.
I have reviewed a number of these movies on Amazon.com and Allwatchers.com. You can go to those individual reviews by clicking on the AMZ for Amazon and the ALW for Allwatchers.
- MEDIEVAL (see also ARTHURIAN, HUNCHBACK, JOAN OF ARC, SHAKESPEARE, VIKINGS, JAPANESE, CHINESE/MONGOLIAN, ARABIAN, FANTASY, ANIMATED)
- Adventures of Marco Polo ('38 Archie Mayo. Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, Basil Rathbone, George Barbier, Binnie Barnes, Ernest Truex, Alan Hale)
- ! Alexander Nevsky (Soviet Union,'38 Sergei Eisenstein. Nikolai Okhlopkov, Aexander Abrikossov, Dimitri Orlov)
- Alfred the Great ('69 Clive Donner. David Hemmings, Michael York, Prunella Ransome, Colin Blakely, Julian Glover)
- % The Amorous Adventures of Don Quixote ('83? Raphael Nissbaum. Corey John Fischer, Hy Pike)
- + Army of Darkness (Evil Dead 3,'93 Sam Raimi. Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davitz, Marcus Gilbert, Ian Abercrombie, Bridget Fonda) ALW
- Beckett ('64 Peter Glenville. Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit, Marita Hunt)
- The Beloved Rogue ('27 Alan Crossland. John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt, Marcelene Day, Mack Swain, Slim Summerville)
- The Black Arrow ('48 Gordon Douglas. Louis Hayward, Janet Blair, George Macready, Edgar Buchanan)
- Black Cross (Poland '60 Aleksander Ford. Urszula Modrzynska, Grazyna Staniszewska)
- ! The Black Sheild of Falworth ('54 Rudolph Mate. Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, David Farrar, Barbara Rush, Herbert Marshall)
- ! Braveheart ('95 Mel Gibson. M. G., Sophie Morceau, Patrick McGoohan, Catherine McCormack, Brendan Gleeson, James Cosmo, David O'Hara, Angus McFayden) ALW
- ! The Bruce (Bob Carruthers & David McWhinnie. Ronnie Browne, Brian Blessed, Oliver Reed, Michael Van Wijk, Hildegard Neil, Richard Brimblecombe, Michael Leighton, Jock Ferguson)
- + The Canterbury Tales (Italy-France '71 Pier Paolo Pasolini. Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, P. P. P., Hugh Griffith, Josephine Chaplin, Michael Balfour, Jenny Runacre, Tom Baker)
- % The Castillian (Spain '63 Javier Seto. Cesar Romero, Alida Valli, Frankie Avalon, Broderick Crawford, Spartaco Santoni)
- ! Charlemagne (TV series)
- Clash of Steel (France '62 Bernard Borderie. Gerard Barray, Gianna Maria Canale, Michele Grellier, Jean Topart)
- ! The Court Jester ('56 Norman Panama, Melvin Frank. Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury, Cecil Parker, John Carradine)
- ! The Crusades ('35 C.B. DeMille. Henry Wilcoxon, Loretta Young, Alan Hale, Ian Keith, C. Aubrey Smith, Katherine DeMille, Joseph Schildkraut, C. Henry Gordon, J. Carroll Naish)
- The Decameron (Italy-France '70 Pier Paolo Pasolini. Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Angela Luce, Patrizia Capparelli, Jovan Jovanovic, Silvana Mangano)
- ! Decameron Nights ('53 Hugo Fregonese. Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdain, Binnie Barnes, Joan Collins, Marjorie Rhodes)
- Don Quixote ('73 Rudolph Nureyev, Robert Helpmann. R. N., R. H., Lucette Aldous)
- ! Don Quixote (Spanish TV miniseries,'91 Gutierez Aragon. Fernando Rey)
- ! Dragonheart ('96 Rob Cohen. Dennis Quaid, Dina Meyer, Pete Poslethwaite, David Thewlis, Julie Christie, Sean Connery's voice) ALW
- ! Dragonslayer ('81 Matthew Robbins. Peter MacNicol, Caitlin Clarke, Ralph Richardson, John Hallam, Peter Eyre, Tom Savini)
- Du Guesclin (France '48 Bernard de Latour. Junie Astor, Alfred Baillou, Leon Bary, Gisele Casadesus, Louis De Funes, Fernand Gravy, Gerard Oury)
- ! El Cid ('61 Anthony Mann. Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Genevieve Page, John Fraser, Herbert Lom)ALW
- + The Flame and the Arrow ('50 Jacques Tourneur. Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas, Aline MacMahon, Nick Cravat)
- + Flesh + Blood (The Rose and the Sword,'85 Paul Verhoeven. Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Burlinson, Jack Thompson, Susan Tyrrell, Ronald Lacey, Brion James, Bruno Kirby)
- The Golden Horde ('51 George Sherman. Ann Blyth, David Farrar, George Macready, Henry Brandon, Richard Egan. Crusaders meet Mongol horde)
- + Hearts and Armor ('82 Giacomo Battiato. Tanya Roberts, Barbara De Rossi, Zeudi Araya, Rick Edwards, Leigh McCloskey, Ron Moss. Based on Orlando Furioso)
- If I Were King ('20)
- If I Were King ('38 Frank Lloyd. Ronald Colman, Frances Dee, Basil Rathbone, Ellen Drew, Henry Wilcoxon)
- + Ivan the Terrible, Part One ('43 Sergei Eisenstein. Nikolai Cherkassov, Ludmilla Tslikovskaya, Serafima Birman)
- + Ivan the Terrible, Part Two ('46 Sergei Eisenstein. Nikolai Cherkassov, Serafima Birman, Mikhail Nazvanov)
- + Jabberwocky ('77 Terry Gilliam. Monty Python)
- King Richard and the Crusaders ('54 David Butler. George Sanders, Virginia Mayo, Rex Harrison, Laurence Harvey, Robert Douglas)
- Lady Godiva ('55 Arthur Lubin. Maureen O'Hara, George Nader, Victor McLaglen, Torin Thatcher, Robert Warwick, Clint Eastwood)
- + Ladyhawke ('85 Richard Donner. Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Broderick, Leo Mckern, John Wood, Alfred Molina, Tom Savini)
- + Lionheart ('87 Franklin J. Schaffner. Eric Stoltz, Gabriel Byrne, Nicola Cowper, Dexter Fletcher, Deborah Barrymore, Nicholas Clay) AMZ ALW
- ! The Lion in Winter ('68 Anthony Harvey. Peter O'Toole, Katherine Hepburn, Jane Merrow, Nigel Terry, Timothy Dalton, Nigel Stock, John Castle)
- Lion Man (Natuch Baitan. Steve Arkin. Badly dubbed foreign film)
- The Magic Sword ('62 Bert I. Gordon. Basil Rathbone, Estelle Winwood, Gary Lockwood, Anne Helm, Liam Sullivan))
- Marco Polo (Italy,'62 Hugo Fregonese. Rory Calhoun, Yoko Tani, Robert Hundar)
- Marco the Magnificent ('65 Denys De La Patelliere. Noel Howard, Horst Bucholz, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, Elsa Martinelli, Akim Tamiroff, Orson Welles)
- Marco ('73 Seymour Robbie. Desi Arnaz Jr, Zero Mostel, Jack Weston. Musical of Marco Polo!)
- Marco Polo (TV)
- Masque of the Red Death ('64 Roger Corman. Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston, Patric Magee, Skip Martin, Nigel Green)
- Masque of the Red Death, ('89 Larry Brand. Adrian Paul, Claire Hoak, Jeff Osterhage, Patric Macnee, Tracy Reiner. Produced by Roger Corman)
- The Mighty Crusaders (Italy,'57 Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia. Francisco Rabal, Sylva Koscina, Gianna Maria Canale, Rik Battaglia)
- ! The Name of the Rose ('86 Jean-Jacques Annaud. Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Christian Slater, Elya Baskin, Feodor Chaliapin, Jr., William Hickey, Michael Lonsdale, Ron Perlman)
- + The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey ('88 Vincent Ward. Hamish McFarlane, Bruce Lyons, Chris Haywood, Marshal Napier)
- Nostradamus ('94 Roger Christian. Tcheky Karyo, F. Murray Abraham, Rutger Hauer, Amanda Plummer, Julia Ormond, Assumpta Serna, Anthony Higgins)
- On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... (The Chastity Belt, Italy,'68 Pasquale Festa Campanile. Tony Curtis, Monica Vitti, Hugh Griffith, John Richardson)
- The Pied Piper ('72 Donovan, Donald Pleasance, John Hurt)
- ! Pope Joan (The Devil's Imposter,'72 Michael Anderson. Liv UUllmann, Kier Dulea, Robert Beatty, Jeremy Kemp, Olivia de Haviland, Patrick Magee, Maximillian Schell, Trevor Howard, Franco Nero, Lesley-Anne Down)
- The Prince Who was a Theif ('51 Rudolphe Mate. Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Everett Sloane. Jeff Corey, Betty Garde)
- + Quest for the Delta Knights ('93 James Dodson. David Warner, Olivia Hussey, Sarah Douglas, Corbin Allred, Brigid Conley Walsh, David Kriegel, Richard Kind)
- The Rebel Son (The Barbarian and the Lady,'39 Alexis Granowski. Adrian Brunel, Albert de Courville, Harry Baur, Anthony Bushell, Patricia Roc, Joan Gardner. Remake of and remade as Tarass Boulba)
- + The Saracen Blade ('54 William Castle. Ricardo Montalban, Betta St. John, Rick Jason, Carolyn Jones, Whitfield Connor)
- Seventh Sword (Italy,'62 Brett Halsey, Beatrice, Albarita)
- + Star Knight (The Knight of the Dragon, Spain,'86 Fernando Colomo. Klaus Kinski, Harvey Keitel, Fernando Rey, Maria Lamor, Miguel Bose)
- The Story of Mankind ('57 Ronald Coleman, Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Heddy Lamarr, The Marx Brothers, Virginia Mayo, Agnes Moorehead, Francis X. Bushman, Charles Coburn, Marie Windsor, John Caradine, Dennis Hopper)
- The Sword of El Cid (Spain,'62 Roland Carey, Sandro Moretti)
- The Swordsman of Sienna ('61 Stewart Granger, Sylvia Koscina, Christine Kauffman)
- Tarass Boulba (France,'36)
- Taras Bulba ('62 Tony Curtis,Yul Brynner, Christine Kaufmann, Sam Wannamaker, George Macready)
- The Tartars (Italy,'61 Orson Welles, Victor Mature)
- + Time Trackers ('89 Howard R. Cohen. Ned Beatty, Wil Shriner, Kathleen Beller)
- ! The War Lord ('65 Franklin Schaffner. Charlton Heston, Rosemary Forsyth, Richard Boone, Maurice Evans, Guy Stockwell, Henry Wilcoxon, Niall MacGinnis) ALW
- The Vagabond King ('30 Rudolph Friml operetta)
- The Vagabond King ('56 Michael Curtiz. Kathryn Grayson, Oreste, Rita Moreno, Cedric Hardwicke, Walter Hampden, Leslie Nielsen, Vincent Price. Previous versions of this story include The Beloved Rogue and If I Were King)
- % Westworld ('73 Michael Crighton. Richard Benjamin, Yul Brynner, James Brolin)
- The Wonderful World of Brothers Grim('62 Henry Levin, George Pal. Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Karl Boehm, Jim Backus, Yvette Mimieux, Barbara Eden, Walter Slezak, Russ Tamblyn, Buddy Hackett, Beulah Bondi, Terry-Thomas)
- Young Rebel (France-Italy-Spain,'67 Vincent Sherman. Horst Bucholz, Gina Lollobrigida, Jose Ferrer, Louis Jourdan, Francicso Rabal)
- JOAN OF ARC
- Giovanna d'Arco al rogo (Joan at the Stake, Joan of Arc at the Stake '54 Roberto Rossellini. Ingrid Bergman, Tullio Carminati, Giacinto Prandelli, Augusto Romani, Plinio Clabassi, Saturno Meletti)
- Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc Silent '99 Georges Méliès)
- Jeanne la Pucelle 1. Les batailles (Joan the Maid 1.: The Battles France '94 Jacques Rivette. Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Marie Richier, Baptiste Roussillon, André Marcon, Jean-Louis Richard, Stéphane Boucher)
- Jeanne la Pucelle 2. Les prisons (Joan the Maid 2.: The Prisons France '94 Jacques Rivette. Sandrine Bonnaire, Tatiana Moukhine, André Marcon, Jean-Louis Richard, Marcel Bozonnet, Patrick Le Mauff)
- Joan of Arc (Silent '95 Alfred Clark)
- ! Joan of Arc ('48 Victor Fleming. Ingrid Bergman, Jose Ferrer, Francis L. Sullivan, J. Carrol Naish, Ward Bond)
- ! Joan of Arc (TV '99 Christian Duguay. Leelee Sobieski, Peter Strauss, Jacqueline Bisset, Powers Boothe. Some armor from First Knight)
- Joan the Woman (Silent '16 C. B. DeMille. Geraldine Farrar, Raymond Hatton, Hobart Bosworth, Theodore Roberts, Wallace Reid)
- ! The Messenger: The Story of Jon of Arc ('99 Luc Besson. Mila Jovovitch, Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, John Malkovich, Tchéky Karyo, Richard Ridings, Pascal Greggory, Vincent Cassel, Desmond Harrington, Timothy West)
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (France,'28 Carl Theodor Dryer. Maria Falconetti,Eugene Sylvain, Maurice Schutz)
- Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (Trial of Joan of Arc '62 Robert Bresson. Florence Carrez, Jean Darbaud, Philippe Dreux, Jean-Claude Fourneau, Jean Gillibert. Reconstruted trial from original records)
- Saint Joan ('57 Otto Preminger. Jean Seberg, Richard Widmark, Richard Todd, John Gielgud, Anton Walbrook, Felix Aylmer, Harry Andrews, Barry Jones, Finlay Curry)
- VIKINGS
- + Erik the Conqueror (Italy '61 Mario Brava. Cameron Mitchell, Alice Kessler, Ellen Kessler, Francoise Christophe) ALW
- ! Erik the Viking ('89 Terry Jones.Monty Python Alumni, Tim Robbins, Imogen Stubbs, Mickey Rooney, Eartha Kitt,Antony Sher, Gordon John Sinclair, Freddie Jones)
- Last of the Vikings (Italy, '61 Giacomo Gentilomo. Cameron Mitchell, Edmund Purdom, Isabelle Corey, Helene Remy)
- The Littlest Viking ('95 Knut W. W. Jorfald, Lars Rasmussen& Paul Trevor Bale. Kristian Tonby. Per Jansen, Terje Stromdahl, Rulle Smit)
- + The Long Ships ('64 Jack Cardiff. Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Rosanna Schiaffino, Russ Tamblyn, Oscar Homolka, Colin Blakely)
- The Magic Stone ('94 Sarah Berger. Christopher Johnson, Robert McDonough, Eva Kim, Jonah Ming Lee, Gino Montesinos, Robert Mason Ham) AMZ ALW
- % The Norseman ('78 Charles B. Pierce. Lee Majors, Cornel Wilde, Mel Ferrer, Fred Blitnekoff)
- ! The Pathfinder (Norway,'88 Nils Gaup. Mikkel Gaup, Nils Utsi, Svein Scharffenberg)
- ! Prince Valiant ('54 Henry Hathaway. Robert Wagner, James Mason, Janet Leigh, Debra Pageet, Sterling Hayden, Victor McLaglen, Donald Crisp, Brian Ahern) ALW
- + Prince Valiant ('97 Anthony Hickox. Stephen Moyer, Jodie Kidd, Katherine Heigl, Thoma Kretschmann, Edward Fox, Udo Kier, Warwick Davis, Ben Pullen, Zach Galligan, Marcus Schenckenberg, Joanna Lumley, Ron Perlman) ALW
- Shadow of the Raven (Iceland or Norway)
- ! The 13th Warrior ('99 Antonio Banderas, Sven-Ole Thorsen. Based on Michael Creighton novel "Eaters of the Dead", a retelling of "Beowulf")
- The Vikings ('58 Richard Fleischer. Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh, Frank Thring, Orson Welles)
- % Viking Massacre (Cameron Mitchell)
- The Viking Sagas ('88 Michael Chapman. Ralph Moeller)
- The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (Viking Women and the Sea Serpent,'57 Roger Corman. Abby Dalton, Susan Cabot)
- HUNCHBACK
- ! The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Silent,'23 Wallace Worsley. Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Ernest Torrence.)
- ! The Hunchback of Notre Dame ('39 William Dieterle. Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Maureen O'Hara, Edmond O'Brien)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame ('57 Jean Delannoy. Anthony Quinn, Gina Lollobrigida, Jean Danet, Alain Cuny)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Hunchback, TV '82 Michael Tuchner. Anthony Hopkins, Derek Jacobi, Lesley-Anne Down, Robert Powell, John Gielgud, David Suchet, Gerry Sundquist, Tim Pigott-Smith)
- ! The Hunchback (TV, Peter Medak. Mandy Patinkin, Richard Harris, Salma Hayek, Edward Atherton, Jim Dale)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame ('96 Disney Animated. Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise. Tom Hulce, Demi Moore, Kevin Kline, Tony Jay, Jason Alexander, Charles Kimbrough, David Ogden Stiers)
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