Medieval Movies

"Last Stand of the 300" is a 2007 special that tells the tale of when in 480 BCE, a small number of Greeks stood against the might of the Persian empire at Thermopylae.

The Hundred Years' War is raging in Europe. The English and French are fighting for the throne. War and famine are taking their toll on the population. Can you stand up to the swirl of treachery, betrayal, intrigue, battles, ambushes and sieges? To be heralded as winner, you will have to survive 27 enthralling missions, including among-st others: the upkeep of troops and servants, building castles and their fortresses, assaulting enemy strongholds, smoking out bandit camps, fighting glorious battles, and last but not least, rescuing beautiful maidens from the brutal hands of dangerous barbarians.

Medieval Lords: Build, Defend, Expand challenges aspiring city governors to build and manage thriving cities, protect against invasions from neighboring kingdoms, and expand into new territories - all in the city building genre's first 3D environment that lets the player zoom right into the action and build anywhere on the map. Medieval Lords brings city builders inside the walls of richly detailed cities during the Middle Ages. Through the course of ten scenarios, players must manage finances, population, and food resources to evolve towns into thriving kingdoms. Build docks for fishing local waters, harvest fields to grow food and raise livestock, keep citizens healthy and entertained, and recruit soldiers and cavalry for a well-defended city.

Explores disease, treatment, and the state of medicine in colonial America.

A knight finds his village destroyed and abandoned. He tries to track the attackers down and avenge his family, but almost drowns. A maiden, prisoner of Black Knight, saves him, so he vows to free her, even though she warns him not to.

21 parts serie, This classic series looks at history's major warring civilizations and documents how they lived,fought, trained, died and changed the World. Citation from Magellan serie page

PBS documentary explores Jared Diamond's theory on technology disparity caused by guns, steel, and germs' impact.

A false accusation leads the philosopher Socrates to trial and condemnation in 4th century BC Athens.

In Puritan Massachusetts, a woman's husband vanishes. Years later, she has a child from an affair. The town makes her wear a shameful scarlet letter. Her husband returns unexpectedly.

Hosted by the erudite, energetic Dr. David Starkey (The Six Wives of Henry VIII), this series tells the epic and bloody stories of Britain's kings and queens from the Saxon era (Alfred the Great) to the early 20th century (Victoria).

One of history's greatest military leaders, at age nine Hannibal accompanied his father Hamilcar Barca on the Carthaginian expedition to conquer Spain. Before embarking, the boy vowed eternal hatred for Rome, his people's bitter rival. Twenty years later, in 218 BC, he left New Carthage (now Cartagena, Spain) to wage war on "The Eternal City" with an army of about 40,000, including cavalry and elephants. After crossing the Pyrenees and Rhone River, he traversed the Alps while beset by snowstorms, landslides, and hostile mountain tribes. This 2-hour special brings to life the story of the Carthaginian general who struck fear in all Roman hearts and wreaked havoc with his masterful military tactics, bringing the mighty Roman Republic to the brink of ruin. Archaeologists, historians, and military experts guide us through ancient Carthage and give insight into his military strategy up to defeat at Zama in 203 BC.

No shortlist of the greatest generals in history would be complete with out the name of Hannibal. This film shows why he was both feared and respected by his enemies. Hannibal's tactical genius is illustrated with the latest three-dimensional graphics technology and exciting dramatic reconstructions of his victories. This is the story of the General who took on the might of Rome.

Tracing the Medici family's rise from a modest Florentine community to European rulers through charm, patronage and ruthlessness that ignited the Renaissance while sowing seeds of their eventual downfall.

Michael Wood explores four of the world's most famous myths: Shangri-La, the Golden Fleece, the Queen of Sheba and King Arthur.

This documentary tells the story of the Spanish expeditions in the early sixteenth century that conquests America. This 4-part series Michael Wood (historian) travels in the footsteps of the Spanish expeditions of Hernán Cortés whose conquests was one of the most cataclysmic events in Modern American history.

Egyptology findings through realistic reenactments. It contrasts the glorified image of pharaohs and deities from official sources with the mundane reality of vices and misery revealed by archaeological evidence.

Terry Jones challenges the received Roman and Roman Catholic notion of the 'barbarian'.

Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and noted authors, this documentary series brings to life the captivating true stories behind Britain's bloody civil wars.

Terry Jones presents the history of the medieval religious wars in the middle-east known as the Crusades.

An overview of the rise and fall of the Knights Templar. A medieval military/religious order with allegiance to no country but only the Pope.

The film follows Renaissance towering figure through conspiracy of palaces, blasphemy accusations, and whispers of betrayal and romance.

The Old and New World in 1491, and the biological conquest after their collision.

A child has only an 8 day life-span to complete a mysterious journey from the dim cave-dwelling society where he is born to a final gateway, the object of folklore. The abstract learning-games taught to the child bear an eerie resemblance to mammoth tasks and obstacles that hinder him in his journey. Can he complete the quest before his 8 days are up, and what lies at the end of this arcane sunless world? The gray, stagnating civilization place all their hope in a future they cannot comprehend and learned tasks whose meaning they no longer understand.

This film is one in a series of programs that takes a look at some of the most decisive military battles in the history of the world.