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  • The Seventh Seal on Random Pretty Accurate Movies Set In Medieval Times

    (#8) The Seventh Seal

    • Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Nils Poppe, Erik Strandmark, Gunnel Lindblom, Bengt Ekerot, Åke Fridell, Inga Gill, Inga Landgré, Gunnar Olsson, Anders Ek, Bertil Anderberg, Maud Hansson, Siv Aleros

    Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal has a plot rooted in fantasy, in which a knight, Antonius Block (Max von Sydow), coming back from the Crusades plays chess with Death for his soul.

    What It Gets Right: Bergman's story appears to have been inspired by a real-life painting from the 15th centuryAlbertus Pictor's Death Playing Chess. The movie also takes place against the backdrop of the Black Plague, which swept across Europe quickly in the Middle Ages, taking millions of lives. While Bergman wasn't trying to make a historical film, he did capture the pessimism and religious reverence of the period, which was informed by rampant disease, famine, and armed conflict. The Seventh Seal was made in 1957, but there's no hint of modernity. Its bleak, high-contrast cinematography is enough to make viewers believe they are looking through a window in time. 

    Where It Falls Short: In the chess game itself, the players do not play according to the rules that would have been the norm at the time.

     

  • Henry V on Random Pretty Accurate Movies Set In Medieval Times

    (#9) Henry V

    • Christian Bale, Emma Thompson, Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Ian Holm, Robbie Coltrane, Derek Jacobi, Paul Scofield, Brian Blessed, Richard Briers, John Sessions, Robert Stephens, Geraldine McEwan, Charles Kay, Alec McCowen, Danny Webb, Michael Maloney, Simon Shepherd, James Larkin, Edward Jewesbury, Colin Hurley, Fabian Cartwright

    Kenneth Branagh's Henry V is based on the Shakespeare play of the same name.

    What It Gets Right: Branagh was the same age as the king he was depicting when the events of the story took place. Henry V takes place during the Battle of Agincourt, which was primarily fought using bows and arrows. Because a fight of this magnitude would have been hard to stage in a theater, Shakespeare tells the tale with hand-to-hand combat instead, but Branagh was able to authentically create the skirmish using the requisite archery, horses, and armies.

    Where It Falls Short: Branagh was a little too good-looking to portray the real king. Henry V had a massive scar on his face from an arrow that impaled him in the Battle of Shrewsbury. Henry V also ordered French captives to be slain en masse after Agincourt, but there is no mention of this in the movie.

  • Robin Hood on Random Pretty Accurate Movies Set In Medieval Times

    (#5) Robin Hood

    • Cate Blanchett, Russell Crowe, Mark Strong, William Hurt, Max von Sydow, Léa Seydoux, Oscar Isaac, Luke Evans, Kevin Durand, Matthew Macfadyen, Eileen Atkins, Danny Huston, Arthur Darvill, Mark Addy, Scott Grimes, Gerard McSorley, Robert Pugh, Douglas Hodge, Simon McBurney, Ralph Ineson, Alan Doyle, Ray Donn, Bronson Webb, Mark Lewis Jones, James Fiddy, Steve Evets, Jessica Raine, Ned Dennehy, Denis Ménochet, Lee Nicholas Harris, João Costa Menezes, Roy Holder, Ruby Bentall, Jonathan Zaccaï, Lasco Atkins, Mark Ryder, Velibor Topić, Jake Curran, Neil Findlater, Giannina Facio, James Payton, Thomas Arnold, Jamie Beamish, John Atterbury, Lloyd Handley, Geoff Searle, Robert Roman Ratajczak, Lee Battle, Kas Graham, Teresa Mahoney, Andy Callaghan, James Currie, Simon Steggall, Pip Carter, Abraham Belaga, Samuel Dupuy, Matt Tyzack, James Burrows, Jack Butler, Christian Wolf-La'Moy, Richard Riddell, Sarah Jane O'Neill, Denise Gough, Lisa Millett, David Bertrand, Ryan Stuart, Nicolas Simon, Stuart Martin, Warren Harrington, Robert Harrison O'Neil, Stephen Armourae, Russell Honeywell, Joe Golby, Eric Rulliat, Jimi James, Umit Ulgen, Michael Koltes, Jason Beeston, Ciaran Flynn, Jamie Clark, Kirsty Seager, Martin Walker, Steven Hopwood, John O'Toole, Jack Steele, Alison Faith, Adam Martin, James Hamilton, Tom Blyth, John Nicholas, Chris Jared, Peter Holyoake, Jo Marriott, Jason Collins, Jane Hardcastle, Joseph Hamilton, Lothaire Gerard, Alan Charlesworth, Jack Downham, Hannah Barrie, Nicholas Crum, Danny Clarke, Michael St Omer, Mat Laroche, Zuriel De Peslouan, Nick Lucas, Lucy Lavey, Nicky Bell, Andrea Ware, Jean-Christophe Leger

    In Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe's take on the mythic eponymous figure, Robin and his band of men rise up to represent the impoverished citizenry of England against corruption.

    What It Gets Right: The production went to great lengths to get the visuals right. The 12th century as depicted here has all the proper weaponry of the day, including swords, arrows, boiling oil, and fire. Life at this time was also difficult for commoners, a fact Robin Hood accurately demonstrates. Most people lived in dirty shacks under persistent threat of disease and extreme hunger, with vermin virtually everywhere.

    Where It Falls Short: While Robin Hood himself is more steeped in legend, he coexists in a world of real-life historical figures like Richard the Lionheart, King John, and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and takes part in entanglements during the Crusades. However, as with many films about the Middle Ages, events and locations in Robin Hood are compressed, moved, and sometimes ignored outright. As an example, Richard the Lionheart was not slain in conflict as depicted here, but was punctured by an arrow while walking the perimeter of Chalus-Chabrol castle. He passed two weeks later from his injuries.

  • Outlaw King on Random Pretty Accurate Movies Set In Medieval Times

    (#3) Outlaw King

    • Chris Pine, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Florence Pugh, Billy Howle, Tony Curran, Stephen Dillane, Callan Mulvey

    While Outlaw King isn't the pinnacle of historical realism, it does succeed where Braveheart doesn't in terms of telling the story of the Wars of Scottish Independence.

    What It Gets Right: The character of Robert the Bruce (Chris Pine) was written with factual events of the real man's life in mind, including the many setbacks he experienced before becoming an esteemed warrior on the battlefield. There is some crossover with the time period covered in Braveheart, as William Wallace (portrayed in that movie by Mel Gibson) existed in the same timeframe. Wallace is seen only briefly in Outlaw King, and only part of his chest and a limb are featured. In reality, Wallace was tortured and quartered, and his remains were sent to four different regions in Scotland.

    Outlaw King also outshines Braveheart in terms of costuming, as there are no kilts to be found (they didn't exist until the 1600s). The armor seen here is what would have been worn during the Middle Ages. Also, Outlaw King gets its weaponry right; the massive trebuchet featured in the film really did exist. It was called Warwolf both in real life and on screen.

    Where It Falls Short: Chris Pine looks nothing like the real Robert the Bruce, who was short, stocky, and may have suffered from a mild case of leprosy. Edward, Prince of Wales, is portrayed as being cruel and sadistic in the movie, but was said to be quite generous with his subjects in real life.

  • The Name of the Rose on Random Pretty Accurate Movies Set In Medieval Times

    (#6) The Name of the Rose

    • Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Ron Perlman, Abraham Murphy, William Hickey, Elya Baskin, Michael Lonsdale, Leopoldo Trieste, Feodor Chaliapin, Jr., Helmut Qualtinger, Valentina Vargas, Volker Prechtel, Michael Habeck, Urs Althaus, Franco Valobra

    The Name of the Rose tells the story of a Franciscan friar, William of Baskerville (Sean Connery), who investigates a series of slayings in a 14th-century Benedictine monastery.

    What It Gets Right: Based on the book by Umberto Eco, this somber film takes the viewer on a journey through one of Catholicism's darkest eras. During this time, the Inquisition, an institution of the Catholic Church created to combat heresy and punish those it believed committed it, was at its peak, and monasteries hid books that didn't follow the doctrine of the day. The movie reflects this period accurately, as the slayings are based around a scriptorium in the abbey that William of Baskerville is visiting, and where books believed to be pagan in nature are hidden.

    Where It Falls Short: The book of the same name, while well-researched, is considered historical fiction. William of Baskerville is based on friar William of Ockham, who discovered the "Ockham's Razor" principle, in which the simplest explanation is the most likely. He is not a Sherlock Holmes-type investigator, but William of Baskerville's name is a nod to the Arthur Conan Doyle novel The Hound of the Baskervilles.

  • Kingdom of Heaven on Random Pretty Accurate Movies Set In Medieval Times

    (#2) Kingdom of Heaven

    • Eva Green, Liam Neeson, Edward Norton, Orlando Bloom, Jeremy Irons, Michael Sheen, Brendan Gleeson, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Kevin McKidd, Iain Glen, David Thewlis, Marton Csokas, Alexander Siddig, Ulrich Thomsen, Jon Finch, Bill Paterson, Philip Glenister, Nathalie Cox, Khaled El Nabawy, Robert Pugh, Bronson Webb, Eriq Ebouaney, Peter Copley, Martin Hancock, Tim Barlow, Christian Boeving, Steven Robertson, Alex O'Dogherty, Michael FitzGerald, Jouko Ahola, Velibor Topić, Angus Wright, Giannina Facio, Karim Saleh, Nasser Memarzia, Paul Brightwell, Shane Attwooll, Ghassan Massoud, Alfonso Sánchez, Matthew Rutherford, Lotfi Yahya Jedidi, Emilio Doorgasingh, Alex Revan, Michael Shaeffer, Peter Cant

    When Kingdom of Heaven was released in 2005, it flopped. Critics and viewers felt it was incomplete, in part because of the studio's cuts. However, when the movie was made available in Ridley Scott's extended version, both its drama and its historical accuracy hit a stronger note.

    What It Gets Right: This Crusades epic dramatizes the conflict between Christians and Muslims during the battle of the First Kingdom of Jerusalem, in which Christian knights attempted to reclaim Holy Land sites (located in modern-day Israel) from the Arabs, for whom the region retains significance. The movie focuses on events prior to and during the Battle of Hattin, where the crusaders were mostly slaughtered. This battle led to the Third Crusade, in which the English and French also tried to recapture the Holy Land. 

    According to historians, Kingdom of Heaven is accurate in its depicton of crusaders becoming "orientalized" over the decades, its realistic combat sequences, and its portrayal of Saladin (Ghassan Massoud). The sequence in Saladin's tent following the battle and eventual surrender of Jerusalem is said to be largely accurate.

    Where It Falls Short: The main character, Balian (Orlando Bloom), is based on a real-life crusader, Balian of Ibelin. Unlike his film persona, the real man was not a humble blacksmith who was born illegitimately and whose wife took her own life, but a nobleman whose real father was a powerful lord. Despite the differences in his portrayal, both the real and fictional Balian were instrumental in negotiating a settlement to end the skirmish.

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Medieval movies have become more and more popular. Medieval movies always reflect the time and the myths, people have a strong desire for swords, armor and horse riding. Over the years, there is no shortage of great medieval movies, some are grounded in reality, others many depends on imagination, Game of Thrones dominating TV series, and Lord of the Rings forever changing epic fantasy movies. 

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