A Knight’s Tale (2001)
A Knight's Tale is what happens when a writer-director decides to make a medieval film while refusing to take medieval films seriously. Brian Helgeland wrote and directed.
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1940sSergeant York (1941)
Sergeant York is a propaganda film that happens to also be a great film. The film came out in July 1941, five months before Pearl Harbor, and it pushed America toward war.
2010sBlack Death (2010)
Black Death is a small British medieval horror film that wants to be a serious meditation on faith and plague and mostly succeeds. Sean Bean plays Ulric, a knight commissioned by the church to investigate a village in the marshes…
1920sThe General (1926)
Buster Keaton directed it with Clyde Bruckman. Keaton stars as Johnnie Gray, a Western and Atlantic.
1950sThe Horse Soldiers (1959)
The Horse Soldiers is John Ford's only Civil War film and one of his weaker collaborations with John Wayne. Wayne plays Colonel John Marlowe, a Union.
1980sGlory (1989)
Matthew Broderick plays Colonel. Denzel Washington won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar playing Private Trip, a runaway slave with no patience for white officers.
2000sThe Patriot (2000)
The Patriot is a Roland Emmerich film about the American Revolutionary War starring Mel Gibson. He fights a guerrilla war against the British.
1990sRide with the Devil (1999)
Ride with the Devil is Ang Lee's overlooked Civil War film. Tobey Maguire plays Jake Roedel, the son of a German immigrant in western Missouri who joins a Confederate guerrilla band more out of loyalty to his friends than out…
1990sMerlin (1998)
Merlin is the NBC miniseries that retold the Arthurian legend from the wizard's perspective. Miranda Richardson plays Mab, the old goddess fighting against Christianity's spread through Britain.
1990sDragonheart (1996)
Dennis Quaid plays Bowen, a former knight of the old code who hunts dragons for a living after his pupil grew up to be a tyrant. The film made approximately one hundred and fifteen million dollars worldwide on a fifty-seven…
1990sIronclads (1991)
Reed Edward Diamond plays a Union officer. The actual battle changed naval warfare overnight.
AdaptationGame of Thrones (2011-2019)
Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels. Sean Bean as Ned Stark in the first season.