1) The Last Valley - Michael Cain , Omar Shariff, Brian Blessed 1970- the only serious English language treatment of
The Thiry Years War . There is no happy ending .

2) Flesh And Blood - Rutger Hauer , can't remember the girls name but you'll know her 1989-90 or so-
Little gritty amoral love story set in 1501 with a band of mercenaries . Almost the whole cast dies by the
end and the film has a odd selection of historical individuals including Sir John Hawkwood .

3) The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers - Michael York , Oliver Reed ,Charelton Heston 1973-1974-
Very funny with absolutely fabulous dueling sceens . None of this Errol Flinn stuff lots of punching with
the knucklebow , lobbing of chairs and shots to the groin .

4) Theres nothing realistic about it but who can forget EXCALIBER!

Kurosawa's Yojimbo and Sanjuro should be at top of any list for swordplay. For visual spectacle try Ran.

Watch "Excalibur".........You'll get to see the sword that raised such a ruckuss at Albion. Besides....its a cool flick.

Rob Roy is definately a must see. Two extremely good sword fighting scenes in which both the rapier and backsword are used. Not to complex move wise, but what do you expect from a movie?

My favorite medieval movie to date is the BBC miniseries Ivanhoe. It's six hours long so the story is not chopped to pieces. The acting, production values and script is superb. It also has a very authentic look to it. You can almost see the lice on the Saxons!

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For a very good historical film with a lot of realistic fighting I would recommend The Duelists. Very good movies with terrific photography. Made by Ridley Scott BTW.

/Lars

Kenneth Brannaugh's Henry V

Joan of Arc (1999) Leelee Sobieski -fantastic movie, nice armour, and a pretty girl

Knights of the Round Table (1954) Robert Taylor -seeing re-runs on TNT growing up is probably why I'm here now.

Ivanhoe (1982) Anthony Andrews, Sam Neil -if it wasn't that one, it was this one that did it! :lol: Unfortunately, this one isn't on DVD yet. A VHS copy and a DVD burner will fix that for you, though. ;)

Merlin (1998) Sam Neil -Fun movie. Not great, but fun. If you thought Dragonheart was okay, you'll enjoy this one. If you can't have fun with anything that isn't slavishly historical, this one ain't for you.

Captain Blood (1935) Errol Flyn -Best. Pirate. Movie. EVER! :p (Curse of the Black Pearl is a close second.) (only on VHS, so far. enough e-mails might fix that...)

[quote="David R. Glier"]Joan of Arc (1999) Leelee Sobieski -fantastic movie, nice armour, and a pretty girlquote]

Speaking of Jeanne d'Arc, The Messenger with Mila Jovovich.

JSA

It's hard to come up with something that hasn't been mentioned yet -

The Advocate also known as The Hour of the Pig -- Colin Firth as a medieval French lawyer, defending a pig in a murder trial.

In theatres now - The Reckoning, a medieval murder mystery about a troupe of actors in an English village in 1388. It's in limited release, and will probably hit the video stores soon.

The Name of the Rose, with Connery as a monk.

And Excalibur... is that related to the whole Albion Lindsay Sword? DISCERNER!

(one of Albion's many limited editions that I waaaaant)

There's so many films to enjoy watching being mentioned here ... but on a strictly fun side, I really love my standard favorites:

Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Destroyer, Excalibur (*grin* one of my favorite movies for more reasons than just being a good flick to watch ;) ), Dragonslayer, Hawk the Slayer, I Paladini (sometimes called Hearts and Armour), Knights of the Round Table, The Mists of Avalon, Krull, the Robin Hood The Legend series (starring Michael Praed and Jason Connery), Jason and the Argonauts, Clash of the Titans and tons of other that I see mentioned here ...

Let's definitely not forget The Sword and the Sorcerer ... I'm with you on that one, Eric ... if you ever make one of those three bladed swords, make me one too! ;)

Hawk the Slayer ?!?!?!?!?

Egads! Isn't that the flick with the Elf-of-Rapid-Fire-Arrow-Slaying? That one is worth it just to make Orlando Bloom look like he was on 'ludes shooting his Bow of the Galadrim, compared to the "three-thwacks-a-second" elf in Hawk.

Hee-hee! :lol:

Viking Saga with Ralph Moeller. Its pretty bad, but it has some fun moments, and some of the weapons are very vikingish, and according to a friend of mine, the most accurate representation of a viking forge one film. Clearly, the director has read the sagas, cause we see a lot of classic viking stuff in the fight scenes, such as chopping off legs and catching spears and throwing them back.

The Princess bride. Just gotta see it. Its a must.

Shrek. :D

Pirates of the caribbean

Sleepy Hollow

Gladiator

Speaking of Jason and the Argonauts, I must mention The Golden Voyage of Sinbad with its unforgettable duel between Sinbad and the six-armed bronze statue of Kali.

Here's a few more:

Highlander

Spartacus

Count of Monte Cristo

Also you can always watch, "Helen of Troy", if you can get past the screen writers' complete disregard for the Illiad. :mad: