MOVIES (HISTORICAL FILMS)

IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

(UNDER CONSTRUCTION -- I'm watching and writing about these movies as fast as I can, but it is going to take awhile.)

Used a lot of Wikipedia, IMDb and amazon.com

email: plc47@optonline.net

Patrick Louis Cooney, Ph. D. , sociologist, historian, botanist

Copyright © 2006 by Patrick Louis Cooney. All rights reserved.

HISTORICAL MOVIES BY NATION

What do the X's mean? The X's just indicate the ones I either have not watched or I have watched but have no review or a puny review. It's just a way to keep me from buying two copies of the same movie. I buy a bunch at a time and then watch them all. Then I buy another batch, etc. It's hard to remember what I have done and what I have not done, hence the X's. Patrick Louis Cooney

P.S. I try to avoid documentaries, but have used some docu-dramas. I concentrate on movies with actors.

Table of Contents

I. ANCIENT MAN (hominids and man some 4 million years old; dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago).

II. EARLY CIVILIZATIONS.

II.1 Egypt (Nile River Valley)

II.2. China (Yellow River Valley)

II.3. India (Indus River Valley)

II.4. Iraq (Tigris-Euphrates River Valley)

III. LATER CIVILIZATIONS.

III.1. Greek Civilization.

III.2. Roman Civilization.

III.2.1. Foundation of the Roman Republic .

III.2.2. Foundation of the Roman Empire.

III.2.3. Rise of Christianity.

III.2.4. Fall of the Roman Empire.

III.3. Byzantine Empire (476-1453).

III.4. Islam. (and Spain)

IV. MEDIEVAL AGES (5th c. to early 16th c.).

IV.1. Europe.

IV.1.1. England, Scotland, Ireland.

IV.1.2. France.

IV.1.3. Italy

IV.1.4. Russia, Poland, Turkey, Bulgaria.

IV.2. China and Mongolia.

IV.3. India.

IV.4. Japan

V. RENAISSANCE, REFORMATION, CATHOLIC COUNTER-REVOLUTION.

V.1. Renaissance - Italy.

V.2. Reformation and Religious Conflict.

V.3. Catholic Counter-Revolution.

V.4. England to the American Revolution.

V.5. France & Holland to the French Revolution.

V.6. Spain & Portugal.

V.7. Germany.

V.8. Poland.

V.9. Russia & Turkey to the French Revolution & Beyond.

V.10. India.

V.11. Japan.

VI. AGE OF DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT.

VI.1. Early Exploration.

VI.2. Settlement of Mexico.

VI.3. United States of America & Canada to American Revolution.

VI.4. Latin and South America.

VI.5. Australia.

VII. REVOLUTION AND AFTERMATH.

VII.1. American Revolutionary War, 1775-1782.

VII.2. French Revolution, 1789.

VII.3. Age of Napoleon.

VII.4. Early Years of the United States of America.

VII.5. Victorian England to WWI.

VII.6. France.

VII.7. Crimean War.

VII.8. Italy (1789-1867)

VII.9. American Civil War.

VII.10. Siam (Thailand) & Burma (Myanmar)

VII.11. USA: Post-Civil War Period.

VII.12. Mexico under Juarez (president 1858-1872)

VII.13. France.

VII.14. Russia and Turkey.

VII.15. Workers' Struggle.

VII.16. Race to the Poles (North and South).

VIII. AGE OF IMPERIALISM.

VIII.1. Spanish-American War.

VIII.2. Africa.

VIII.3. India.

VIII.4. China & French Indo-China.

VIII.5. Japan

IX. PRE-WORLD WAR I PERIOD.

IX.1. Italy.

IX.2. USA.

IX.3. Mexican Revolution/Civil War.

IX.4. Germany and Austria.

X. WORLD WAR I AND AFTERMATH.

X.1. World War I.

X.2. Russian Revolution, Civil War & the Soviet Union.

X.3. Independence for Ireland.

XI. INTERIM PERIOD BETWEEN WORLD WARS.

XI.1. USA: 1920s.

XI.2. Great Depression: USA.

XI.3. Great Britain & Australia.

XI.4. Black Experience in USA.

XI.5. Hitler's Rise.

XI.6. Rise of Mussolini.

XI.7. Fascism in Another Corner -- Argentina.

XI.8. Pre-War Japan.

XI.9. Pre-War Greece & Macedonia.

XI.10. Spanish Civil War.

XII. WORLD WAR II.

XII.1. The Fight against Germany and Italy.

XII.1.1. Germany.

XII.1.2. Naval Warfare.

XII.1.3. Germans Kicked out of Africa.

XII.1.4. Allied Invasion of Italy.

XII.1.5. Russian Front.

XII.1.6. Allied Invasion of France.

XII.1.7. German Counter-Attack (Battle of the Bulge) and Beyond

XII.1.8. Air War.

XII.1.9. Others.

XII.1.10. Hitler's Last Days.

XII.1.11 Italy's Last Days of Fascism.

XII.1.12. Holocaust.

XII.2. THE FIGHT AGAINST JAPAN.

XII.2.1. The War in China and Burma.

XII.2.2. The USA Finally Gets into the War.

XIII. POST-WAR PERIOD.

XIII.1. POST-WAR JAPAN.

XIII.2. POST-WAR CHINA.

XIII.3. POST-WAR PHILIPPINES.

XIII.4. POST-WAR ENGLAND.

XIII.5. POST-WAR GERMANY.

XIII.6. POST-WAR ITALY.

XIII.7. POST-WAR FRANCE.

XIII.8. POST-WAR GREECE & MACEDONIA.

XIII.9. POST-WAR SPAIN & PORTUGAL.

XIII.10. POST-WAR SOVIET UNION.

XIII.11. POST-WAR INDIA: INDEPENDENCE

XIII.12. POST-WAR ALGERIA: INDEPENDENCE.

XIV. FIGHT AGAINST COMMUNISM I.

XIV.1. USA -- LOSS OF CHINA, KOREAN WAR & MCCARTHYISM DURING COLD WAR

XIV.2. TEEN REBELLION & ROCK AND ROLL

XV. THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS.

XV.1. CIVIL RIGHTS -- USA

XV.2. CIVIL RIGHTS -- NORTHERN IRELAND

XV.3. CIVIL RIGHTS -- GREAT BRITAIN

XV.4. CIVIL RIGHTS -- SOUTH AFRICA

XV.5. CIVIL RIGHTS -- CANADA

XV.6. CIVIL RIGHTS -- AUSTRALIA

XV.7. CIVIL RIGHTS - SPAIN

XV.8. GAY RIGHTS

XVI. THE FIGHT AGAINST COMMUNISM II.

XVI. 1. AMERICAN STRUGGLE TO STOP ALL LEFTISTS IN LATIN & SOUTH AMERICA

XVI.2. VIETNAM WAR

XVI.3. HIPPIE ERA

XVII. THE TRIUMPH OF THE REACTIONARIES IN THE U.S.A. (1968-2016)

XVII.1. BACKLASH: NIXON & THE 70's (Nixon, the last Keynesian conservative for a long while)

XVII.2. POST-WAR VIETNAM

XVII.3. RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENCY, 1979-1987: MORE BACKLASH (and Thatcher in Great Britain)

XVII.4. GEORGE BUSH I PRESIDENCY, 1989-1993

XVII.5. BILL CLINTON PRESIDENCY, 1993-2000: a brief respite from reactionary conservatism

XVII.6. GEORGE BUSH II, 2001-2009: MORE INEQUALITY, BACKLASH, SEMI-FASCISM, TWO MORE

EXPENSIVE WARS AND ECONOMIC COLLAPSE

XVIII. STIRRINGS OF REVOLT AND FREEDOM IN THE SOVIET BLOC

XIX. BOSNIA-KOSOVO-SERBIA WAR

XX. TROUBLES IN AFRICA.

XXI. AMERICANISM VERSUS RADICAL ISLAM

XXII. REJECTION OF THE SECOND AGE OF THE ROBBER BARONS IN THE USA

I. ANCIENT MAN

One Million Years B.C. (1966) -- with Raquel Welch

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) -- with Victoria Vetri

Clan of the Cave Bear (1986) -- with Daryl Hannah

Quest for Fire (1981) -- the best of the ancient man series because it's closest to the truth as we know it scientifically

II. EARLY CIVILIZATIONS

II.1. EGYPT

Predynastic:

X La donna dei faraoni (The Pharaoh's Woman) (1960) -- Giorgio Rivalti, Italy; 31st century BC love story just after the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt

Dynasty 0: Predynastic Rulers (c. 3150 BC):

First Dynasty (c. 3150 - c. 2900 BC):

Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior (2008) -- real Scorpion King was of the Early Dynastic: Upper Egypt era from around 3150 BC shortly before the founding of the First Dynasty ( 3150 to 2890 BC); he may be Narmer who unified Upper and Lower Egypt and was first ruler of Egypt's First Dynasty

Fourth Dynasty (2613-2498) :

Land of the Pharaohs (1955) -- building of the Pharaoh Khufu's Great Pyramid of Giza, 2560 B.C. in the 4th Dynasty

? X Sudan (1945) -- following the murder of her father, Queen Naila of Khemis is enslaved

Eighteenth Dynasty (c. 1550 - 1292):

The Egyptian (1954) -- story of physician Sinuhe in Akhenaten's reign, 1352-1334 B.C. of the 18th Dynasty

Nefertiti, regina del Nilo (Queen of the Nile) (1961) -- Queen Nefertiti, wife of Akhenaaten1 (reigned 1352- 1334 BC) of the 18th Dynasty

Tut (2015) -- Tutankhamun, aka The Boy King, (ruled 1333-1324), and was only 17 years old when he died

Twenty-first Dynasty (1077 -0943) :

X Faraon (Pharaoh) (1966) – Polish film set in Egypt in 1069 BC of the 21st Dynasty; Smendes I (reigned 1077-1051 BC)

Mamluk Sultanate (1250 AD–1517):

Princess of the Nile (1954) -- c. 1249 AD, an Egyptian princess tries to drive out the Bedouin conquerors; Bedouins were a predominantly desert-dwelling Arabian ethnic group

X El Mamalik (Revolt of the Mamalukes) (1965) -- royal bodyguard in the 13th century; in 1250 a Mameluke, Qutuz, came to the Egyptian throne; Mameluke sultans ruled Egypt; conquered by the Ottomans in 1517

II.2. CHINA (UNIFICATION OF CHINA).

western Zhou Dynasty (1046-771 BC)

eastern Zhou Dynasty (770-256 BC) -- characterized by a breakup of Zhou territory into states that were largely independent; capital moved eastward in 770 BC from Haojing to Chengzhou

Kong Fuzi (Confucius) (1940) --

Confucius (2010) -- Chinese philosopher Confucius (551-479 BC) developed an ethical and philosophical system that in the Han Dynasty developed metaphysical and cosmological elements

Zhao shi gu er ( Sacrifice) (2010) -- to save the only child of the Zhao Family, whose entire clan was massacred, a doctor sacrifices his own son and later seeks vengeance; set in the Jin State

Warring States period (475-221 BC) -- most of this period coincides with the second half of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty , although the Chinese sovereign (king of Zhou) was merely a figurehead .

Muk gong (A Battle of Wits/ A Battle of Warriors) (2006) -- film set amid the Warring States period

Jiang shan mei ren ( An Empress and the Warriors) (2008) -- the leader of the very war-liking Yan, one of the Ten Kingdoms, dies and is replaced by his daughter, while facing lots of resistance against her

Qin Dynasty (221- 207 BC)

Jing ke ci qin wang (The Emperor and the Assassin) (1998) - 221 B.C. unification of China

The Emperor's Shadow (Qin Song) (1996) - unification of China

Hero (2004) -- four assassins plot to assassinate the King of Qin (who has the potential to unify the warring states into a nation)

Qin yong (A Terracotta Warrior) (1990) – in the Qin Dynasty the emperor builds an army of terra-cotta warriors

White Vengeance (2011) -- in an interregnum period between the Qin and Han Dynasties, t wo generals, sworn brothers, contend for supremacy in the Chu–Han Contention (206-202 BC)

Last Supper (2012) -- story of two warring generals (Liu Bang and Xiang Yu) fighting for control of China at the end of the Qin Dynasty

Han Dynasty (206 BC - 8 AD)

Xi chu bawang (The Great Conqueror's Concubine) (1994) -- Xian Yu and Liu Pang depose Qin Dynasty

Xin Dynasty (9-25 AD)

Han Dynasty continuation/Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220)

Chi bi (aka Red Cliff; Battle of Red Cliff) (2009) -- Prime Minister Cao Cao plans to usurp the Han dynasty throne after he defeats any possible allies of the Han Emperor, but that will prove a difficult task (winter of 208/209)

Guan yun chang ( The Lost Bladesman) (2011) -- legendary Guan Yu slays six generals in the civil war that led to the collapse of Han Dynasty & the establishment of Shu Han of the 3 Kingdoms period, making Liu Bei its first emperor, 219

Mongolia:

The Rise of King Modu (2013) --

II.3. INDIA.

Magadhan Kings (c. 1700 BC - 550 AD)

Amrapali (1966) -- Bimbisara (544–491 BC), founder of the first Magadhan empire, fights for the beautiful Amrapali, royal courtesan of the republic of Vaishali

Shakya Dynasty (c. 650-500 BC)

Nanda Dynasty (424-321 BC)

Sikander (Alexander the Great) (1941) -- Alexander the Great's conquests in North-Western India. (in Urdu language with English subtitles)

Mauryan Empire: 321-185 B.C.

X Samrat Chandragupta (1958) -- Indian emperor befriends, but then defeats Alexander the Great, establishing the Maurya Empire (321 - 185 BC)

X Samrat Chandragupta (1945) -- ancient, pre-Islamic India; ruler from 320-298 BC

X Chandragupta (1934) -- founder of Mauryan Empire, originating from Magadha kingdom in modern Bihar, eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bengal in e. India

Asoka (2001) -- India after the age of Alexander the Great, Emperor Asoka (273-232 B.C.)

Shunga Dynasty (185-73 BC)

Kanva Dynasty (73-26)

Western Kshatrapas

Gupta Dynasty (c. 240-550 AD)

X Mayura (1975) -- King Mayurasharma (345–365 C.E.), a Brahmin scholar & founder of the Kadamba Kingdom of Banavasi , the earliest native kingdom to rule over what is today the modern state of Karnataka

II.4. IRAQ.

BABYLON

Io Semiramide ( I am Semiramis; or Slave Queen of Babylon) (1963) -- woman fights for power in Assyrian empire and begins re-building the city of Babylon; Ninth Dynasty of Babylon, around 811 BC

Cortigiana di Babilonia (Queen of Babylon) (1956) -- Babylon rebels against the Assyrian empire, 626 B.C.

Giuditta e Oloferne (aka Head of a Tyrant) (1959) -- girl gives herself to cruel Assyrian tyrant who has conquered her city in order to overthrow him

Le sette folgori di Assur (War Gods of Babylon) ( 1962 ) -- in the later years of the Assyrian Empire , there is conflict between King Ashurbanipal (reign 668 – c. 627 BC) and his brother Shamash-shum-ukin (English & Italian languages)

Cortigiana di Babilonia (Queen of Babylon) (1956) -- Babylonia rebels against the Assyrian empire, 626 B.C.

L'eroe di Babilonia (1963) --last Mesopotamian king of Babylon, Nabonidus (reign 556-539), left rule to his son Belshazzar, and Babylon is overthrown by Cyrus the Great of Persia (Italian and Spanish languages; no subtitles)

Intolerance (1916) -- first of four stories deals with intolerance in Babylon that leads to its fall to the Persians, 539 B.C.

THE BIBLE - OLD TESTAMENT

X Genesis: The Creation and The Flood (1994, Ermanno Olmi) TV

In the Beginning (2000) -- from creation to Moses

X The Bible: In the Beginning (1966) -- first 22 Books of Genesis (Adam & Eve, Noah, Tower of Babel, Abraham, Sarah and Isaac)

X The Bible (1966) Italian

Abraham (1994) -- Abraham, the founding patriarch of the Israelites, through his son Isaac (some time between 2000 and 1700 B.C.)

X Abraham Our Patriarch (The Wandering Jew) (1933) --

X Noah's Ark (1928) -- The story starts as a World War I drama. Someone draws a comparison between the terrible situation in WWI with the troubles of Noah. So two stories are told.

X Noah's Ark (1999) -- Biblical story of the Great Flood and Noah

X Sodom und Gomorrah (Sodom and Gomorrah) (1965) -- made for TV movie

X Sodom and Gomorrah (1962) --

X Sodom und Gomorrah (Sodom and Gomorrah) (1922) --

Jacob (1994) TV -- the third patriarch of the Hebrew people with whom God made a covenant and ancestor of the tribes of Israel, which were named after his descendants

X Giacobbe, l'uomo che lottò con Dio (Jacob, the Man Who Fought With God) (1963)

X Giacobbe ed Esau (Jacob and Esau) (1963) –

X The Story of Jacob and Joseph (1974) TV -- Abraham to Isaac to Jacob to Joseph

Joseph (1995) --

X Joseph and His Brethren (1960) --

X Joseph in the Land of Egypt (1932) --

X Ten Commandments (1956) -- Charlton Heston as Moses leading the Jews out of Egypt, around 1275 B.C.

X The Ten Commandments (1923) -- directed by Cecil B. DeMille

X Moses the Law Giver (1975) --

Moses (1995) --

X Prince of Egypt (1998) -- animated version of the story of Moses

Samson and Delilah (1949) -- Cecile B. DeMille with Victor Mature, Hedy Lamarr, somewhere between 1200 and 1000 B.C.

Samson and Delilah (1984) TV -- Delilah betrayed by evil Sidka, governor of Gaza

Samson and Delilah (1996) TV --

The Story of Ruth (1960) -- grandmother of King David

David and Goliath (1960) -- David kills the giant Philistine

X King David (1985) -- King of Israel (ruler from 1000 -960 B.C.)

David (1997) -- David survives King Saul, adultery and internal divisions in his family to bring his son Solomon to be king after him

X Koning David (1965) – Dutch film about King David

X Saul e David (Saul and David) (1964) -- David's life with King Saul, the first king of the united Kingdom of Israel

X David and Bathsheba (1951) -- King David steals himself a wife

X The Story of David (1976) -- King David

X Solomon and Sheba (1959) -- supposed relationship between King Solomon (960-928) & the Queen of Sheba

X Solomon and Sheba (1995) -- Halle Berry as the Queen of Sheba

La Regina di Saba (Queen of Sheba) (1952) -- Italian black & white that should have been called Rehoboam and Sheba

X Solomon (1997) -- a king of Israel (970 to 931 BC) and the son of David; the third king of the United Monarchy and the final king before the northern Kingdom of Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judah split

X Sins of Jezebel (1953) -- Jezebel was a princess, the daughter of Ethbaal, King of Tyre, and the wife of Ahab, king of north Israel; her paganism angers Prophet Elijah

Jeremiah (1998) TV -- the prophet beginning 628 B.C.

Esther and the King (1960) -- Esther saves the Jews of 4th c. B.C. Persia (Joan Collins as Esther)

X Esther (1999) -- remake of Esther and the King (Louise Lombard as Esther)

X Esther (1986) -- (Simone Benyamini as Esther)

X One Night With the King (2006) -- Esther saves the Jewish nation ( Tiffany Dupont as Esther)

X The Thirteenth Day: The Story of Esther (1979) -- ABC one-hour special ( Olivia Hussey as Esther)

X Liken: Esther and the King (2006) – mother tells her daughter about the great Esther ( Summer Naomi Smart as Esther)

III. LATER CIVILIZATIONS.

III.1. GREEK CIVILIZATION.

Mycenaean Period (1600 BC to about 1100 BC) Mycenae when Mycenae dominated much of southern Greece

Crete:

X Teseo contro il minotauro ( Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete) (1960) – Italian film legendary exploits of supposed Athens founder Theseus in Minoan Crete. c. 1,500 BC.

Fight against Troy:

X Troy (2004) -- Troy VII (1275-1240 B.C.) with Diane Kruger and Brad Pitt

Helen of Troy (2003) -- Troy falls to the Greeks (with Sienna Guillory)

Helen of Troy (1956) -- with Rossana Podesta

X Iphigenia ( 1977 ) -- the Greek army is about to set sail but King Agamemnon slays a sacred deer and the gods punish him with the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia (Greek language)

X La guerra di Troia (The Trojan Horse (1961) -- stars Steve Reeves and Edy Vessel

X The Trojan Women (2004) -- with Shelley Delayne

The Trojan Women (1971) -- grieving women after fall of Troy (with Irene Papas)

X The Odyssey (1997) TV miniseries -- based on the return voyage of the Greeks from Troy

Ulysses (1954) -- his long voyage home from Troy

X La leggenda di Enea (The Avenger) ( 1962 ) -- Aeneas leads escapees from the Trojan war to new land in Italy; starring Steve Reeves

Persian-Greek Wars:

First Persian Invasion of Greece (492-490):

Giant of Marathon (1959) – actor Steve Reeves as Phillipides in the Battle of Marathon (490 BC)

Second Persian Invasion of Greece (480-479):

300 (2006) -- Spartan King Leonidas and a force of 300 Spartans fight the Persians (under King Xerxes) at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.

The 300 Spartans (1962) -- Greeks stand against the Persians at Thermopylae

300: Rise of an Empire (2014) -- Greek battles of Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis

Golden Age of Greece (Age of Pericles) (448 to 429 BC):

X Socrates (1970) TV -- last days of Socrates, a philosopher who was a social gadfly in Athens

X Barefoot in Athens (1966) TV -- Socrates

Battles between Athens, Sparta and Thebes:

Seven from Thebes (1964) -- a group of Thebans fight to rid Thebes from the control of Sparta,, 382-379 BC

Alexander the Great (336 to 323 BC):

Alexander the Great (1968) -- the great Macedonian empire builder (with William Shatner); made for TV

Alexander the Great (1956) -- with Richard Burton

Alexander the Great (2004) -- with Colin Farrell

Sikander (Alexander the Great) (1941) -- Alexander the Great's conquests in North-Western India. (in Urdu language with English subtitles)

Il colosso di Rodi (The Colossus of Rhodes) (1961) – 280 BC a Greek military hero joins a group of rebels to overthrow the tyrannical King Serse on Rhodes

III. 2. ROMAN CIVILIZATION.

III.2.1. FOUNDATION OF A ROMAN REPUBLIC

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (2006) -- a docu-drama starts with the foundation of the Roman Empire and goes to its collapse

Orazi e Curiazi (Duel of the Champions) (1961) -- Roman leader ( 673-642 BC ) challenges forces of Alba Longa

Hero of Rome (1964) – the exile Tarquin, the last tyrant of Rome, 509 BC, tries to get back in power

X Coriolano: eroe senza patria ( Coriolanus: Hero without a Country) (1964) – Coriolanus, Roman general at siege of the Volscian city of Corioli, 493 BC

X Coriolanus (2011) -- the revered and feared General Coriolanus' revenge on the city of Rome following his banishment

X Brenno il nemico di Roma (Brennus, Enemy of Rome) (1963) -- the Gallic sack of Rome, 387 BC

Hannibal (1959) -- the great Carthaginian general in the Second Punic War (Carthage vs. Rome), 218-201 BC

Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare (2006) -- Hannibal marched 40,000 soldiers and 37 elephants 1,500 miles to fight the Romans in today's Italy

Cabiria (1914) -- a young girl's odyssey at the time of Hannibal in the Second Punic War (218-201 BC) -- focus on n. African front

X L'assedio di Siracusa ( Siege of Syracuse) (1960) – Roman siege (214-212 BC) in Second Punic War

X Roma Sub Rosa: The Secret Under the Rose (The Secret Under the Rose) (2006) -- 26 minutes film; Lt. General Cornelius Scipio leads a group to assassinate the politicians who glorify the war against Hannibal and slowly seize control of the Meridian Army for themselves

X The Barbarians (Revak the Rebel) (1960) -- Iberian Prince Revak from the small island of Penda that the Carthaginian fleet enslaved the surviving men; he becomes an elephant driver in Carthage; all he wants now is revenge and he joins the Romans in the attack on Carthage (amazon instant video)

Scipione l'africano (Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal) (1937) -- fascist I taly's epic film about the Roman general defeating Hannibal

X Scipione detto anche l'africano (Scipio the African) (1971) -- ancient Roman warrior Scipio Africanus (currently unavailable)

Cartagine in fiamme (Carthage in Flames) (1960) -- Rome vs. Carthage during Third Punic War, 149-146 B.C.

The Centurion (Conqueror of Corinth) (1961) – Battle of Corinth (146 BC)

Spartacus and the Slave Revolt:

Spartacus (1960) -- slave revolt in 71 B.C.; with Kirk Douglas

Spartacus (2004) -- TV mini-series

Spartaco (or Sins of Rome) (1953) -- Italian version of Spartacus

Gli invincibili dieci gladiatori (Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators) (1964) – story of Spartacus

III.2.2. FOUNDATION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

Julius Caesar:

Julius Caesar (2002) -- solid telling in this mini-series of the Caesar tale; Jeremy Sisto as Julius Caesar & Samuela Sardo as Cleopatra

X Julius Caesar (1984) -- Janet Baker as Caesar; Valerie Masterson as Cleopatra; made for TV

X Julius Caesar (1970) -- Charlton Heston as Caesar; no Cleopatra

X Julius Caesar (1953) -- Shakespeare's play with Marlon Brando as Julius Caesar (48-44 B.C.); no Cleopatra

Giulio Cesare, il conquistatore delle Gallie (Caesar the Conqueror) (1962) -- Caesar conquers Gaul; with Cameron Mitchell as Caesar

Vercingétorix (Druids) (2001) -- story of the battle of the Gauls against the tyranny of Rome; Klaus Maria Brandauer as Caesar

X Die Verschwörung (1969) – Caesar and assassination; made for German TV

X Rome (2005) -- Julius Caesar & Company; Ciarán Hinds as Caesar & Lyndsey Marshal as Cleopatra

Cleopatra:

Cleopatra (1999) -- with Leonor Varela

Cleopatra (1963) -- the blockbuster with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton

Cleopatra (1934) -- love affairs with Caesar (to 44 BC) and Mark Antony (second triumvirate, 43-27 BC) (with Claudette Colbert)

Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) -- British film with Vivian Leigh as Cleopatra

X Antony and Cleopatra (1974) -- Janet Suzman as Cleopatra

X Antony and Cleopatra (1972) -- with Hildegard Neil

X Antony and Cleopatra (1983) -- Shakespeare version ; Lynn Redgrave as Cleopatra

X The Cleopatras (1983) – miniseries of the Ptolemaic dynasty (305-30 BC) in Egypt

Il sepolcro dei re (Cleopatra's Daughter) (1960) – total fiction

Rome after Caesar:

Imperium: Augustus (2003) -- the great emperor of Rome, 27 B.C. to 14 A.D.

Empire (2005) -- rise of Octavius (the future Emperor Augustus of the Roman Empire)

X Hermann der Cherusker - Die Schlacht im Teutoburger Wald (Massacre in the Black Forest) (1967) – Germanic Cheruski ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions in 9 AD

Orbis Romanus (2008) -- the backstory of the Teutenburg Ambush, a massacre of the Romans by Germanic tribesmen; only 22 minutes long

X Caligula (1979) -- 37 to 42 A.D., very wicked emperor of Rome after Tiberius, 14-37 AD

I, Claudius (1976) -- handicapped emperor of Rome after Caligula, 42 to 54 AD

Messalina Venere imperatrice (Messalina Imperial Beauty) (1960) -- incredibly ambitious wife of Claudius who will do anything to get power for herself

Centurion (2010) -- devastation of the 9th Legion of Rome by the Picts in modern Scotland

Imperium: Nerone (Nero) (2004) -- 54-68 A.D., emperor of Rome after Caligula

Titus (1999) – Shakespeare story of "extraordinary human violence" after Roman general Titus Andronicus returns from his war on the northern Goths (note this is not the Roman Emperor Titus who ruled 79 to 81 A..D. )

X Dacii (1967) – King Decebalus of Dacia fought three wars without being eliminated against Rome under two emperors, but Rome in 105 seeks revenge

III.2.3. RISE OF CHRISTIANITY

Erode il grande (Herod the Great) (1959) -- governor of ancient Judea , 37-04 BC

Salome (1953) -- the dancer and John the Baptist, executed 33 AD

X The Passion of the Christ (2004)

X Jesus of Nazareth (1977) -- crucified 30 AD

X El redentor (The Redeemer) (1959) – life of Jesus

X Jesus (1999) --

X Jesus (1979) --

X Jesús, el nino Dios (1971) --

X Jesús, María y José (Jesus, Mary and Joseph) (1972) --

X Karunamayudu (Ocean of Mercy) (1978) – Indian cast in Indian movie about the life of Jesus

X King of Kings (1961) -- Jesus

X Mary Mother of Christ (2014) -- Mary's youth to her struggles as a young mother caring for her child, Jesus, up to the age of 12

X Mary and Joseph (1979)

X Per amore, solo per amore (For Love, Only for Love) (1993) – Mary and the nativity from Joseph’s point of view

X The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

X Le schiave di Cartagine ( The Sword and the Cross) (1956) -- story of persecution of the Christians

X Mary Magdalene (1993) -- story of the woman disciple known as Mary Magdalene

One Who Was There -- Mary Magdalene traveling from Jerusalem to Galilee in AD 64

X Judas (2004) -- the story of the man who betrayed Jesus of Nazareth

X The Revolutionary II (1996) -- Jesus of Nazareth

X Il vangelo secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew) (1964) – Jesus as a Marxist

X Barabbas (1961)

X The Robe (1953)

X Peter and Paul (1981) -- Peter may have been the rock, but it was Paul that spread Christianity to the non-Jewish world

X Life of St. Paul (1938) -- popularizer of Christianity

X Life of St. Paul Series (1949) – ditto

The Da Vinci Code (2006) -- the Catholic church fights and murders to prevent the world from knowing that Jesus was mortal and had actually married Mary Magdalene

X Gli amici di Ges - Maria Maddalena (Mary Magdalene) (2000) –John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene

Quo Vadis (1951) -- Christian persecution under Emperor Nero

Sign of the Cross (1932) -- Christians in Rome under Emperor Nero (Charles Laughton) are blamed and persecuted for the Great Fire of 64 A.D.

Ben-Hur (1959) -- a proud Jew named Ben-Hur and his boyhood Roman friend Messala become in adulthood bitter enemies

X Gladiator (2000)

Fabiola (1949) -- love story between a Roman woman and a gladiator and persecution of the Christians

Masada (1981) -- 70 A.D. Jewish Revolt against Roman rule

X San Giovanni - L'apocalisse (The Apocalypse) (2002) -- the apostle St. John tries to save Christianity from Roman Emperor Domitian, 90 AD

Pompeii:

X Last Days of Pompeii (1984) -- Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. and covered (thereby preserving) the Roman village of Pompeii

X Ultimi giorni di Pompei, Gli (Last Days of Pompeii) (1960) -- volcanic eruption (under emperors Vespasian 69-79 & Titus, 79-81 AD)

X The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) -- Mt. Vesuvius erupted 79A.D.

X Anno 79: La distruzione di Ercolano (79 A.D.; The Destruction of Herculaneum) (1962) – intrigues in the court of Roman Emperor Titus Flavius

III.2.4. FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (180-476)



X La rivolta dei pretoriani ( Revolt of the Praetorians) (1964) -- Centurion Valerius Rufus goes up against the unpopular Emperor Domitian (reigned 81 to 96); both Rufus and his fiancée, Lucilla are sentenced to be immersed in a cauldron of molten lead; Valerius's friends come to his aid

X Dacii (1967) -- Dacia (today's Romania) and Domitian's Dacian War; border defense against raids of Moesia from Dacia in 86–87

X Columna (The Column) (1968) -- Roman Emperor Trajan (reigned 98-117) has just murdered all the local men of Dacia and holds a military stronghold in what will later become Romania (Romanian language)

Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)-- Sophia Loren; troubles under Emperor Commodus (who ruled from 180 to 192)

X Sheba and the Gladiator ( 1959 ) -- c. 260-273, Septimia 47 obia , wife of the assassinated Septimius Odaenathus , a Prince of Palmyra and governor of province of Syria, takes over, rebels against Rome and establishes short-lived Palmyrene Empire

X Il magnifico gladiatore ( The Magnificent Gladiator) (1964) -- Roman soldiers capture Attalus (a.k.a. Hercules) and he become a great gladiator; he falls in love with Velida, the daughter of Emperor Gallienus (reigned 260-268), but a nobleman wants her for himself

X Nel Segno di Roma (Sheba and the Gladiator; Sign of the Gladiator) (1959) -- Queen of Palmyra, Zenobia, revolts against Rome & is captured (under Emperor Aurelian, 270-275) (only option: Italian audio)

Constantine and the Cross (1962) -- early 4th c. A.D. emperor battling Romans

Fabiola (1949) -- Rome early in the reign of Constantine I, c. 312

La vendetta dei barbari ( Revenge of the Barbarians) (1960) -- the Visigoth's sack of Rome, 410

Ágora (2009)-- Davus, a slave of the philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria, falls in love with her; she was killed in 415 by a Christian mob involved in anti-Jewish antics

X Agostino d'Ippona (Augustine of Hippo) (1972) Italian -- story of St. Augustine (354-430)

X Sant' Agostino ( Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire) (2010) -- made for TV movie; 430, Augustine tells his own story and that of Rome's too (English language)

Attila (2001) -- the famous barbarian (died 453)

Attila (1954) -- with Sophia Loren

Sign of the Pagan (1954) -- Attila the Hun threatens Constantinople and Rome

X In the Realm of the Knights Templar -- Attila must go into battle; will he go into the dark times of the Middle Ages? (in English)

III.3. BYZANTINE EMPIRE (476-1453).

Sign of the Pagan (1954) -- Attila the Hun threatens Constantinople and Rome

X Teodora Imparatrice Di Bisanzio (Theodora Queen of Byzantium; Theodora, Slave Empress) (1954) Italian -- Teodora (500-548), wife of Emperor Justinian I (483-565)

X Kampf um Rom I (Last Roman) (1968) -- Gothic kingdom falls to famous Byzantine General Belisarius (under Emperor Justinian, 527-565) (English language) (currently unavailable)

X Kampf um Rom II - Der Verrat (Last Roman) ( 1969 ) --

X Rytsarskiy roman (2000) -- crusaders need the help of the treacherous Emperor Alexius I Comnenus (reigned 1081-1118) to get to Jerusalem 1096-1099 in the First Crusade

Fetih 1453 (Conquest 1453) (2012) -- 1453, siege of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks ending the Byzantine Empire

III.4. RISE OF ISLAM.

The Message (Mohammad, Messenger of God) (1977) -- Mohammed (570-633), founder of the Islamic faith

X Fajr al islam (Dawn of Islam) (1971) – Hassam, son of a powerful sheik, meets the prophet Mohammed and converts to the new religion, but runs afoul of his father

Rashidun (rightly guided) Caliphs -- first four Caliphs (632-661):

Ummayad Empire -- a series of Caliphates (662-750): Arabs move into southern Spain ( 711); Umayyad Caliphate in Spain collapsed (1031) followed by age of petty kingdoms

Abbasid (750-1260) -- al-Mansur (754-775); Abd ar-Rahman I establishes an independent caliphate in Spain (756); Harun al-Rashid (786-809); al-Ma'mun (809-813); Aghlabid Caliph deposed by Shiite Fatimid dynasty (909)

X Abu Zayd al-Hilali (1947) --- 10th century Islamic Egyptian hero leader Abu Zayd al-Hilali; he and his wife break away from his father's tribe; later the two tribes engage in battle and son and father have to fight it out (in Arabic)

El valle de las espadas (The Castilian) (1963) -- Spanish film of the first independent Count of Castile, 931-970, who opposed the Moors

Seljuq Turks (a Muslim Turkish clan moved into Persia) take power, 1055):

El Cid (1961) -- 1094, takes Valencia from the Moors

X La Spada del Cid (Sword of El Cid) (1962) -- based on the homonymous poem and other documents from the époque

X I cento cavalieri (Son of El Cid; Hundred Horsemen) (1964) -- El Cid's son Diego Rodríguez killed fighting invading Muslim Almoravids from North Africa at Battle of Consuegra, 1097

al Massir (aka Le Destin; Destiny) (1997) -- the story of Islamic philosopher Averroes (1126-1198) in Spanish province of Andalusia

Ottoman Empire (1250-1517) -- Mongol Empire brought down the Abbasid period in 1250:

X King Conqueror (2009) -- James I of Aragon (reign 1213-1287) part of the Reconquista (c. 718 and lasting around 800 years)

X La conquista de Albania (1984) – second marriage of Louis of Navarre (1341-1376) gives him the rights to Durazzo and the Kingdom of Albania and Louis strives for their recovery

IV. MEDIEVAL AGES (5th Century to Early 16th Century)

IV.1. EUROPE.

IV.1.1. Medieval England, Scotland, Ireland.

King Arthur

Boudica (2003) -- Boudica (died 60 or 61 AD) unites the tribes of Briton against the Roman invaders

The Viking Queen (1967) -- Druids battle occupying Romans in ancient Britain/ (Boudica-like character)

The Eagle (2011) -- accompanied by his slave, a Roman journeys to Scotland to retrieve his father's long-lost emblem, the golden Eagle of the Ninth Legion

X Camelot (2011) -- multi-DVD set; a French television series with a more "realistic" approach to the Arthurian legend

X Camelot (1967) -- King Arthur and Court (legend)

King Arthur (2004) -- the legend; Battle of Mount Badon ( Britons versus an Anglo-Saxon war band in the late 5th or early 6th century)

Arthur of the Britons (1972-73) -- TV series shows Arthur as the chief of a small Celt tribe in Dark-Ages Britain uniting Celts, Jutes, etc and others into a force to counteract the Saxons

X Arthur the King (1985)

Merlin (1998) -- Merlin fights Queen Mab who tries to destroy Arthur to save the old ways before the coming of Christianity

X First Knight (1995) -- life at Camelot

Excalibur (1981) -- King Arthur and Court (legend)

Lancelot du Lac (Lancelot of the Lake) (1974) -- French film about Lancelot

X Siege of the Saxons (1963) – Arthur repelling an invasion of the Saxons

X Sword of Lancelot (1963)

X Knights of the Round Table (1953)

House of Wessex, 802-1013:

The Last Kingdom (2015) -- TV series set in the time of Alfred fighting the Vikings of what became Denmark

X Alfred the Great (aka A King is Born) (1969) 9th century uniter of most of what became England (880s-899)

X The Saxon Chronicles (2006) -- Alfred has to flee from the Vikings

I normanni (Conquest of the Normans; Attack of the Normans) (1962) -- Viking settlers in England fight against an English Duke trying to take the place of the English King at beginning of the 9th century

X Gli invasori ( Erik the Conqueror) (1961) -- Viking, raised in England, fights his brother, raised in the land of the Norsemen, in 9th century England

House of Denmark, 1013-1014: Sweyn Forkbeard

House of Wessex (first restoration), 1014-1016: Æthelred the Unready and Edmund Ironside

House of Denmark (restored), 1016-1042: Cnut, Harold Harefoot, Hartha Cnut

House of Wessex (restored), 1042-1066: Edward the Confessor , Harold Godwinson , Edgar the Ætheling

Lady Godiva of Coventry (1955) -- during reign of Edward the Confessor (1042-1066); Norman conquest of England 1066; mother of Hereward the Wake

1066 The Battle for Middle Earth (2009) -- Norman conquest of England in 1066 along with some Viking trouble

X Hereward the Wake (1965) -- the son of Lady Godiva (?) fought a long time in local resistance against the Normans, but to no avail

House of Normandy, 1066-1135: William I, William II, Henry I First Crusade (1096-1099) & Second Crusade (1145-1149)

The Battle for Middle Earth (2009)

The War Lord (1965) -- a Norman knight in the 11th century sent to build a defensive castle falls in love with a local maiden which leads to big problems

X Wilhelm Cuceritorul (William the Conqueror) (1982) -- Norman Conqueror of England, 1066

House of Blois,1135-1154: Stephen of Blois

The Pillars of the Earth (2010) -- TV mini-series set in the reigns of Stephen of Blois, Matilde and Henry II; prequel to World Without End (2012)

House of Plantagenet, 1154-1399: divided into three houses: the Angevins , the House of Lancaster and the House of York

Angevins: 1154-1399 Crusades: Third (1189-1192) Fourth (1202-1204) Fifth (1213-1221) Sixth (1228-1229) Seventh (1248 to 1254) Eighth (1270) Ninth (1271-1272)

Henry II, 1154-1189:

The Lion in Winter (1968) -- 1154-1189 Henry II and his estranged wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine

The Lion in Winter (2003) TV -- ditto

Becket (1964) -- under Henry II, 1154-1189; Becket eliminated because he was in the way of the King

Soldier of God (2005) – a Knight Templar must re-examine his life after a disastrous defeat by the Saracens in 1187

Richard I, the Lionheart, 1189–1199

X Lionheart: The Crusade (2003) – Richard the Lion Hearted, son of Henry II, who ruled 1189-1199

Lionheart (1987) -- A young knight (Eric Stoltz) forms a Children's Crusade against the "Infidels" from all the homeless children following in the wake of Richard the Lionheart on his way to fight in the Crusades

X Richard Ivinoye serdtse (Richard the Lion-Hearted) (1992) -- Russian film

X Rytsar Kennet (Knight Kenneth) (1993) -- Richard the Lion-hearted

Kingdom of Heaven (2005) -- the Third Crusade, involving Richard the Lion Hearted, among others

X El Naser Salah el Dine (Saladin) (1963) -- movie about the great Kurdish leader of the Arabs, Saladin

Arn – Tempelriddaren (Arn – The Knight Templar) (2007) – part of a trilogy

X Arn – Riket vid vägens slut (Arn – The Kingdom at Road's End) (2008)– part of a trilogy

X Arn (2010) -- TV mini-series about the crusader Arn

King Richard and the Crusaders (1954) -- Christian Richard I of England faces off with Moslem Saladin

The Crusades (1935) -- historical drama from Cecil B. DeMille

Crusaders (2005) -- two young men swept up in the Crusades

King John, 1199–1216:

Ironclad (2011) -- King John tries to recapture total power after the Magna carta; a brave knight of the Knights Templar does what he can to stop him

X Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) -- with Errol Flynn

X Prince of Thieves (1948) -- Robin Hood against King John (1199-1216)

X Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952)

X Robin and Marian (1976) -- Robin Hood

X Robin Hood (1991) -- starring Patrick Bergin and Uma Thurman

Henry III ( Henry of Winchester), 1216–1272: disastrous invasions of France in 1230 & 1242; considered pious, but unpopular

Edward I ( Longshanks), 1272–1307:

Brave Heart (1995) -- story of William Wallace, 1297, Scottish independence leader; during the Second Interregnum (1296–1306)

Edward II , 1307–1327

Edward II (1991) -- 1307-1327 -- anti-gay bias ruins his rule; directed by Derek Jarman

Edward II (1970) -- English King Edward II deposed and murdered because of his going overboard for his homosexual lover Piers Gaveston; brutalized Scotland

World Without End (2012) -- miniseries set in England's 100 year war with France (1337-1453); sequel to The Pillars of the Earth (2010)

Edward III , 1327–1377

X Black Death (2010) – bubonic plague enters England, 1348

World Without End (2012) -- TV mini-series set at the start of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) and the Black Death; sequel to The Pillars of the Earth (2010)

Richard II , 1377–1399

X Richard of Bordeaux (1955) -- Richard II (ruled 1377-1399) who took the throne at age 10 and overthrown by future King Henry IV

John Wycliffe: The Morning Star (1984) -- Wycliffe (mid-1320s to 1384) -- early English dissident from Roman Catholic Church; founder of Lollard Movement, predecessor to Luther

Scotland

House of Alpin: 848-1034

House of Dunkeld: 1034-1286, Duncan I (1034-1040) succeeded to throne as maternal grandson of Malcolm, so House of Dunkeld a continuation of House of Alpine

X Macbeth (1948) -- with Orson Welles; Duncan killed in battle by Macbeth; Duncan's son Malcolm III defeated and killed Macbeth and claimed the throne

Macbeth (1979) -- with Ian McKellan

X Macbeth (1971) -- 1040, Shakespeare, with Jon Finch

Brave Heart (1995) -- story of William Wallace, 1297, Scottish independence leader; during the Second Interregnum (1296–1306)

House of Bruce: (1306-1371)

The Bruce (1996) -- story of Robert the Bruce of Scotland (1274-1329) who was King of the Scots from 1306 to 1329

Edward II (1991) -- 1307-1327 -- anti-gay bias ruins his rule; directed by Derek Jarman

Edward II (1970) -- English King Edward II deposed and murdered because of his going overboard for his homosexual lover Piers Gaveston; brutalized Scotland

X Auld Lang Syne (1937) -- story of Scottish poet Robert Burns

Ireland

St. Patrick: The Irish Legend (2000) (TV) -- English slave who became the founder of Christianity in Ireland, 5th century

House of Lancaster (1399-1471) Henry IV, V and VI

Henry IV, 1399–1413:

X König Heinrich IV (King Henry IV) (1975) – William Shakespeare adaptation

The Black Shield of Falworth (1954) -- during the reign of King Henry IV of England (1399-1413), a talented and ambitious peasant tries to work his way up the ladder to knighthood and get the hand of the fair lady of MacWorth castle

Henry V, 1413-1422:

X The Chronicle History of King Henrys the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France (1944) -- Henry V (1413-1422), with Laurence Olivier

X Henry V (1953) -- made for TV movie, with John Clements

X Henry V (1966) -- made for TV movie, with Douglas Rain

X Henry V (1979) -- made for TV movie with David Gwillim

X Henry V (1989) -- Henry V (1413-1422) with Kenneth Branagh

X Henry V (2003) --

X Henry V (2007) -- with Peter Babakitis

Henry VI (1422-1461) and (1470-1471) - includes War of the Roses, 1455 and 1485, between house of Lancaster and York

Henry VI, part one -- by Shakespeare

Henry VI, part two -- by Shakespeare

Henry VI, part three -- by Shakespeare

War of the Roses (1965) -- TV mini-series

War of the Roses (1989) -- TV mini-series

House of York (1471-1485) Edward IV & V and Richard III

Edward IV: 1461-1470 and 1471-1483 -- includes War of the Roses, 1455 and 1485, between house of Lancaster and York

X The White Queen (2013) -- romance between Lancastrian commoner Elizabeth Yorkville and Yorkist King Edward IV (1461-1470 and 1471-1483); they married 1464

Henry VI (Lancastrian), second reign, 1470-1471-- includes War of the Roses, 1455 and 1485, between house of Lancaster and York

Edward IV, 1471-1483 -- includes War of the Roses, 1455 and 1485, between house of Lancaster and York

Edward V: 1483 -- includes War of the Roses, 1455 and 1485, between house of Lancaster and York

Richard III, 1483-1485 -- includes War of the Roses, 1455 and 1485, between house of Lancaster and York

X Richard III (1955) -- Shakespeare version of King Richard III, 1483-1485; "My horse! My horse! My kingdom for a horse!"

Richard III (1995) -- Shakespeare version set in 1930s England

X Looking for Richard (1996) -- Richard III, that is

X Tower of London (1939) -- questionable story of Richard III with Boris Karloff and Vincent Price

X Tower of London (1962) - remake of the 1939 film

Scandinavia:

X Hamlet ( 1964) -- based on 6th century, legend of Amleth, Prince of Denmark from the Danish Gesta Danorum

X Hamlet (1964) -- Shakespeare with Richard Burton

X Hamlet at Elsinore (1964) -- Shakespeare with Christopher Plummer

X Hamlet (1964) -- Shakespeare with Alfred Ryder

X Hamlet (1969) -- Shakespeare with Nicol Williamson

X Hamlet (1990) -- Shakespeare with Mel Gibson

X Hamlet (1996) -- Shakespeare with Kenneth Branagh

X Hamlet (2009) -- Shakespeare with David Tennant

X Hamlet (2013) -- Shakespeare

X Prince of Jutland (Royal Deceit) (1994) -- based on original sources, a young prince, after discovering that his father has been murdered, vows to avenge his death and regain the crown

X The Vikings (1958) -- the scourge of Ireland and England/Scotland as well as elsewhere

Gil Invasori (d'annunzio or The Invaders) (1961) -- 8th-9th century Vikings attack Britain

A Viking Saga: The Darkest Day (2013) --- fictional story of Hereward the Wake of England trying to stop the Saxons from getting a copy of the Christian Bible; the real Hereward the Wake fought the Norman invasion of England

Í skugga hrafnsins ( Revenge of the Barbarians; Shadow of the Raven) ( 1984 ) -- Irishman sees vengeance against Norway Vikings in Iceland in the Viking Age, c. 900

Sweden's House of Munsö (970-1060)

Thirteenth Warrior (1999) -- 10th century Arab shocked by Viking behavior in Russia

Valhalla Rising (2009) -- year 1000 A.D., discovery of the new world

Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America (2007) -- in 1007 Vikings mistakenly leave two men behind and the men have to struggle with nature, Irish monks, Abenaki natives and their own natures to try to get back to the Viking settlement

The Norseman (1978) -- 11th century Viking prince sailed all the way to North America in search of his lost father

The Viking Sagas (1995) -- battles for the chieftainship in Viking Iceland

X A Viking Saga (2008) -- Viking story

X White Viking (1991) -- continuation of the Icelandic Sagas around 1,000 AD and the reign of King Olaf, who holds the wife of Askur hostage (currently unavailable)

The Long Ships (1964) -- Vikings against the Moors in search of a huge, all-gold bell

L’ Ultimo dei Vikinghi (The Last Viking ) (1961) -- Norwegian Vikings try to overthrow the tyrant Sveno

Den sidste Viking (The Last Viking) (1997) -- Danish movie from boy Harald's perspective about a mad king out to confiscate all the ships of his village

X Utlaginn (The Outlaw: the Saga of Gisli) (1981) – an Icelandic film about and accurately depicting the peoples involved in a Viking blood feud (based on the Icelanders' Sagas called the Gísla saga)

X Den r  de kappe ( Hagbard and Signe ) (1967) – Icelandic Viking saga

Sweden's House of Stenkil (1060-1126) -- end of Viking Age 1066

Houses of Sverker and Eric (1130-1250)

House of Bjälbo (1250-1364)

House of Mecklenburg (1364-1389)

Monarchs during the Kalmar Union period and Regents (1389-1521)

In 1388, at the request of the Swedes themselves, Albert was driven out by Margaret I of Denmark and at a convention of the representatives of the three Scandinavian kingdoms (held at Kalmar in 1397), Margaret's great-nephew, Eric of Pomerania , was elected the common king. In 1434 the Swedes broke away and Eric XIII deposed. The period replaced by House of Vasa.

IV.1.2. Medieval France to Age of Discovery

Charlemagne, Charles the Prince (1995) -- early unifier of Frankish kingdoms,. ruled 768 to 814

X Charlemagne le prince a cheval (Charlemagne) (1993) -- (TV mini-series) Frankish King Charlemagne (French language)

X Orlando e i Paladini di Francia ( Roland the Mighty) (1956) -- 778, Roland, a knight of Charlemagne's court is killed at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass against a Muslim army in the Pyrennes

Carolingian Dynasty (843 to 987)

Capetian Dynasty, Direct Capetians (987 to 1328)

X Yaroslavna, koroleva Frantsii (Yaroslavna, Queen of France) (1978) – Anna Yaroslavna, a Princess of Kiev, was the queen consort of France as the wife of Henry I (1027-1060) & regent for her son Philip I

X La Gerusalemme liberata (The Mighty Crusaders) (1958) -- Godfrey of Bouillon was one of the leaders of the Crusades (1096-1100) with a successful siege of Jerusalem in 1099 (currently unavailable)

X Gates to Paradise (1968) -- 1212, launching of the Children's Crusade; set in France

X Les rois maudits (The Cursed Kings) (2005) -- King Philippe IV (ruled 1285-1314) tries to plunder the Knights Templar and other organizations (French language only)

X Les rois maudits (1972 Mini-Series) -- French only

Capetian Dynasty, House of Valois (1328-1589)

House of Lancaster (1422-1453)

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) -- 1428; under Charles VII (ruled 1422-1461); Hundred Year's War with England (1337-1453); with Milla Jovovich

Joan of Arc (1999) -- with Leelee Sobieski

X Joan of Arc (1948) -- with Ingrid Bergman

Saint Joan (1957) -- by George Bernard Shaw; with Jean Seberg

X Le passion de Jeanne d'arc (Passion of Joan of Arc) (1928) -- French film

X Das Mädchen Johanna (Joan of Arc) (1935) – German movie about Joan of Arc

X Ciocârlia (The Lark) (2002) – Romanian film about Joan of Arc

X Wired Angel (1999) -- very "different" approach to telling the Joan of Arc story

X Jeanne la Pucelle I - Les batailles (1994) -- Joan of Arc

X Jeanne la Pucelle II - Les prisons (Joan the Maid 2: The Prisons) (1994) – Joan of Arc (in French only, no subtitles)

Proces de Jeanne d'Arc (The Trial of Joan of Arc) (1962) -- life and death of a more sophisticated Joan of Arc focusing on the psychological and physical torture used to break her

Beatrice (1988) -- set during the Hundred Year's War (1337-1453), a revisionist view of the noble Knights

Le Retour de Martin Guerre (The Return of Martin Guerre) (1982) -- fascinating film about Medieval France

X Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) -- 1483 Louis XI ­ Notre Dame de Paris; a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice

Quentin Durward (The Adventures of Quentin Durward) (1955) – in 1465 Quentin Durward travels to France for an arranged marriage to suit King Louis XI (reigned from 1461 to 1483)

IV.1.3. Medieval Italy and Germany

Il terrore dei barbari ( Goliath and the Barbarians) (1959) -- Lombard invasion of Italy; the Lombards were a Germanic tribe who ruled a Kingdom in Italy from 568 to 774

Kings of the East Franks, 843–911

Kings of Germany, 911–1806

Hohenstaufen dynasty,1138-1254

Frederick I Barbarossa. 1152-1155

The Flame and the Arrow (1950) -- 12 c. Lombardy under German overlord

Sword of War (Barbarossa) (2009) -- 1176, Frederick I Barbossa (Holy Roman Emperor) is heavily defeated at the Battle of Legnano near Milan on his fifth offensive against Italy

Der Name der Rose (The Name of the Rose) (1986) -- 1327, not a true story, but a good depiction of monastery life of the time; set in Italy

X 12 Paces Without a Head (2009) -- 1401, pirate captain in the Baltic Sea who walked 12 paces after being decapitated by officials of the Hanseatic League

Habsburg dynasty, 1438–1806

Maximilian, 1486-1519

X Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen (Iron Hand) (1979) – Germany in the Middle Ages; 1498, he fought in the armies of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I

IV.1.4. Medieval Russia, Poland, Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria

Russia:

X Legenda o knyagine Olge (The Legend of Princess Olga) (1983) – one of the founders of Christianity in Russia

X Rus iznachalnaya (Primary Russia) (1986) -- VI century Russian tribes unite to repel the Khazar invaders & the Byzantine empire collaborators (amazon.com doesn't have it)

Grand Princes of Kiev (842 or 862 to 1169):

Thirteenth Warrior (1999) -- 10th century Arab shocked by Viking behavior in Russia

X Knyaz Vladimir. Film pervyy ( Prince Vladimir) (2006) -- Vladimir I, a a prince of Novgorod who became the grand prince of Kiev , ruler of Kievan Rus' in (980–1015) (Russian language only)

Y aroslav. Tysyachu let nazad ( The Warlord; Iron Lord) (2010)-- warlord Yaroslav rules the kingdoms to the North of Kiev with an iron fist, conquering new lands to gather taxes for his father, Grand Prince Vladimir

X Yaroslav Mudry (Yaroslav the Wise) (1982) -- reigned 1016-1018 and1019-1054 and was thrice Grand Prince of Novgorod and Kiev

X Didgori: Land of Sacrificed Knights (2009) – short film (35 minutes); 1121 AD, 56,000 Georgian warriors under King Davit IV battle 500,000 Seljuk Turks on the Didgori battlefield

Grand Princes of Vladimir (1157-1340):

X I Tartari (The Tartars) (1961) -- after the death of his brother Togrul in a battle with the Slavs, Burundai becomes the Tartar leader of Volga River are, c 1260; Vikings capture Togrul's daughter

X Michel Strogoff (1956) -- French film of a hero who fought the Tartars

Aleksandr Nevskiy (Alexander Nevskey) (1938) -- 13th century attack of the Teutonic Knights on Russia (Sergei M. Eisenstein director)

X Aleksandr. Nevskaya bitva (aka Alexander: The Neva Battle) (2008) -- Battle of Neva, 1240; Swedes invade Novgorod controlled territory

Grand Princes of Moscow, Rurik Dynasty (1283-1584):

Orda (The Horde) (2012) -- Metropolitan Archbishop Aleksii cures the blindness of Taidula, the mother of Jani Beg (Khan of the Golden Horde from 1342 to 1357), thereby preventing a Tatar raid on Moscow (the crown prince of Moscow was Ivan II the Handsome, 1353-1359)

Andrei Rublev (1969) -- 15th century Russian icon painter (1360?-1430?)

Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1943) -- 1533-1584; Ottoman Empire troubles, among others; by Sergei Eisenstein

Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1946) -- Sergei Eisenstein

X Tsar Ivan Grozny (Tsar Ivan the Terrible) (1993) -- Ivan the Terrible

Tsar (2009) -- Ivan the Terrible

House of Rurikovich: Ivan the Terrible (1547-1584); his son Feodor I (1584-1598)



Poland:

Piast Dynasty (9th century - 1305):

Stara basn. Kiedy slonce bylo bogiem (An Ancient Tale: When the Sun Was a God) (2003) -- 9th century in what became Poland; inhabited by numerous Slavic tribes

Gniazdo (The Cradle) (1974) -- Mieszko I and the Battle of Cedynia, 972 A.D.

Boleslaw Smialy (aka King Boleslaus the Bold) (1972) -- 1079, struggle between the king of Poland, Boleslaus the Bold (reign 1076-1079), and the Bishop of Cracow; the Polish Becket

X I lancieri neri (Charge of the Black Lancers) (1962) -- set after the Mongol-Tartar invasion of Poland and the Battle of Legnica (1241), lost by High Duke of Poland, Henry II (1238-1241) (amazon.com doesn't have it)

Kazimierz Wielki (Casimir the Great) (1976) -- a Piast king of Poland (1333-1370) who doubled his country in size (mostly through addition of lands in the Ukraine)

Jagiellon Dynasty (1386-1572)

Krzyzacy (Black Cross; Knights of the Teutonic Order) (1960) -- under Ladislas II (1386-1434), defeat of the Order of Teutonic Knights of Prussia by the Polish and Lithuanians at Battle of Grunwald (1410)

X Barbara Radziwillówna (Love or a Kingdom) (1936) – Sigismund II, Augustus I, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (reign 1530-1572) (amazon.com doesn't have it)

X Epitafium dla Barbary Radziwillówny (An Epitaph for Barbara Radziwill) (1983) – Barbara in 1547 married Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland Sigismund II August (amazon.com doesn't have it)

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1574-1795):

Zelazna reka (The Iron Hand) (1989) -- story of right-hand warrior to Stefan Batory, ruler 1576-1586, of the noble Hungarian Báthory family; one of the greatest elected Kings of Poland

Romania:

Mircea (Proud Heritage; Kreuzritter 7) (1989) -- 1393, Ottoman Empire had to go through Romania; King Mircea of the Old Romanian Principate of Valahia decides to fight

Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (2000)-- 1456-1476 Vlad Dracula of Transylvania fights Ottoman Turks; Ottoman Empire (1299-1922)

X Vlad Tepes (1979) -- Vlad the Impaler of Wallachia

X Intoarcerea lui voda lapusneanu (The Return of Prince Lapusneanu) (1980) -- 1564, Moldavia, the Prince seeks revenge for his Turkish exile

Mihai Viteazul (aka Michael the Brave) (1970) -- the king who united three provinces into Romania in the 17th century despite opposition from the Ottoman and Austrian Empires

X Nemuritorii (The Immortals) (1974) -- warriors of Romanian lord Mihai (1611) attacked by Turks while bringing the lord's battle flag back from Austria

X Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

X Stefan cel Mare (Stephen the Great) (1974) – Stephen the Great or the 'Saint' ruled Moldavia, 1457-1504; fought the Ottoman Empire and Hungary

X Alexandru Lapusneanu (????) – Alexandru Lăapuşsneanu was Prince of Moldavia 1552-1561 and 1564-1568

X Neamul Soimarestilor (The Hawk; The Soimaresti Family) (1965) – war in 1600s Romania (Moldova)

X Horea (Castles Aflame in Transylvania) (1984) -- Revolt of Horea, Cloşsca and Crişsan (November 1784 - February 1785) against feudal serfdom in Transylvania, Romania

Bulgaria:

X 681 Величието на хана (681 AD: The Glory of Khan) (1984) -- 681 foundation of Bulgarian medieval state by Khan Asparuh

X Aszparuh (aka Khan Asparoukh) (1981) -- first Bulgarian ruler Khan Asparuh

X Boris I (1985) -- 852-889, St Boris I Michael of Bulgaria imposes Christianity in 864 (Bulgarian language)

Serbia (& others):

X Boj na Kosovu (translation Battle of Kosovo) (1989) – a Serbian film that depicts the historical Battle of Kosovo between Medieval Serbia and the Ottoman Empire, 1389

X Banovic Strahinja (1981) – late 14th century. medieval Serbia. attacked by Ottoman invaders; nobleman Banovic Strahinja searches for his kidnapped wife

X Seljacka buna 1573 (1975) -- peasant revolt of 1573 in Croatia and Slovenia (being heavily taxed to fight off the Turks)

X Konjanik (The Horseman) (2003) – Croatian film about a Muslim girl and a Christian guy fall in love despite it being forbidden; set in 18th c. on the border of Bosnia and Dalmatia, Ottoman Empire and Venetian Republic

X Timocka buna (1983) -- set at the time of the Timok Rebellion, 1883, in Serbia; nationalist peasant anarchism

Turkey:

X Didgori: Land of Sacrificed Knights (2009) -- 1121, Battle of Didgori where Georgian king David IV defeats Great Seljuq Empire , a medieval Turko-Persian Sunni Muslim empire

X Gültekin amazon kizlara karsi (1969) – 1400s Turkey Medieval period

X Istanbul'un fethi (The Conquest of Constantinople) (1954) – Turks attack and take Constantinople of the Byzantine Empire, 1453

Fetih 1453 (Conquest 1453) (2012) -- 1453, siege of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks ending the Byzantine Empire

X Suleiman the Conqueror (1961) -- Suleiman the Magnificent, leader of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century

Hungary:

c. 858-895 -- High Prince Álmos (first Hungarian leader)

c. 895-907 -- Árpád (led the Magyars into Central Europe)

X Honfoglalás (The Conquest) (1996) – 896 AD, Magyar chief Arpad (Nero) and his seven tribes comes out of the steppes and into the Carpathian basin

997-1038 -- Stefan 1 (last Grand Prince and first King of Hungary)

X Szent Gellért legendája (1994) – 11th century Hungary

X Árpád népe (2006) – 11th century Hungary

X István király (1992) – first king of Hungary, King Stephen (1001-1038)

X István, a király (1984) -- King Stephen of Hungary

1047-1061 -- Andrew I, Árpád dynasty restored; lasted to 1301

X Bánk bán (1987) – 13th century Hungary

1310-1342 -- Charles I, establishes the Angevin dynasty in Hungary; lasts until 1386

1446-1453 -- John Hunyadi serves as regent of Hungary

X Ítélet (1970) – 1500s Peasant Revolution in Hungary

1608-1619 -- Matthias II

Bathory (2008) – Countess Elizabeth Báthory (1560-1614) of Hungary, accused serial killer, but rather a modern Renaissance woman

X The Countess (2009) -- Elizabeth Báthory

X Csínom Palkó (1973) –1700s Hungarian history

1848-1916 -- Francis Joseph

Szirmok, virágok, koszorúk (Flowers of Reverie) (1984) -- after Russians beat down the 1848-1849 Hungarian revolution, Hungarian soldier wrestles with his accepting a forced enrollment into the Austrian army

X Szegénylegények (The Hopeless Ones; The Poor Outlaws; The Round-Up) (1966) -- after the Kossuth Rebellion, the Hungarian police round up peasants and subjected them to psychological torture

Les sans espoir (1966) -- Hungarian soldiers and rebels are trained to be Austrian soldiers while held in prison

Meg ker a nep (Red Psalm; The People Still Ask) (1972) -- 1890s peasant uprising on estate in Hungary; the wealthy are helped by local authorities and then by the army (English subtitles)

Other:

Helden sterben anders (Heroes Die Differently) (2007) -- in the Battle of Sempach, 1386, young Arnold Winkelried turns the battle for the Swiss against Leopold III, Duke of Austria, by throwing himself on the spears of the enemy

Marketa Lazarová (1967) – Czech film account of the shift from Paganism to Christianity

X Mestari Patelin (1985) -- Medieval Finland

IV.2. CHINA & MONGOLIA.

Three Kingdoms Period (220-280) -- a tripartite between the states of Wei , Shu and Wu

X Mitsuteru yokoyama's sangokushi (Romance of the Three Kingdoms) (1991) (TV Series)

X Xue cheng (The Last Day of Hsianyang or the Last Days of Hsian Yang) (1968) -- China's 3 Kingdom's Period, the town falls to invaders and the prince of Hsian Yang escapes from the burning city

X The Romance of Three Kingdoms (1995) (TV Series)

The Rise of King Modu (2013) -- Modu Chanyu, the founder of the unified Mongolian Xiongnu Empire, 220 BC

Saam gwok dzi gin lung se gap (Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon) (2008) -- story of a fantastic warrior of the Shu Kingdom and his less accomplished friend who keep on fighting only to find themselves going around in circles

Jin Dynasty (265-420)

Sixteen Kingdoms Period, 304-439 -- collection of numerous short-lived sovereign states in China and its neighboring areas

Northern Wei Dynasty, 386-534 (not one of the Sixteen Kingdoms)

X Mulan Joins the Army (1939) – during the Northern Wei dynasty, a young woman disguises herself as a man in order to take her father's place in the army

Mulan (1998) -- the Disney version of the Mulan story

X Hua Mulan (Mulan: Rise of a Warrior) (2009)

Tang Dynasty (618-665)

X Shao Lin Si (Shaolin Temple) (1982) -- Tang emperor betrayed by one of his generals, who sets himself up as emperor in the East Capital; son of a slave worker learns kung fu at Shaolin Temple, goes to and sets out to kill the traitor, 1619-1621

Zhou Dynasty (665-705)

Empress Wu Zetian (1939) -- Chinese biopic of the empress who interrupted the Tang Dynasty (618-907) with her behind her husband and sons in the First Zhou Dynasty (665-690) and in her own right in the Second Zhou Dynasty (690–705)

Tian di ying xiong (Warriors of Heaven and Earth) (2003) -- an imperial agent has to escort a caravan carrying an extremely valuable item to the capital, while fighting off the Turks and their allies; action drama;year 700 in the Göktürk Empire which controlled the lucrative Silk Road trade

Tang Dynasty continuation (710-907)

Warriors of Heaven and Earth (2003) -- an imperial agent has to escort a caravan carrying an extremely valuable item to the capital, while fighting off the Turks and their allies

Yôkihi (Princess Yang Kwei-fei) (1955) – a poor young woman is used by General An Lushan in his rebellion plans against Emperor Xuanzong (ruled 712-756)

Five Dynasties and Six Kingdoms Period -- an era of political upheaval in China from 907–960/979 AD, between the fall of the Tang Dynasty and the founding of the Song Dynasty

Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia ( Curse of the Golden Flower) (2006) -- the Empress and Crown Prince Wan, her stepson, have an illicit liaison; 928

Song Dynasty (960-1279) -- succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period and followed by Yuan Dynasty ; first known use of gun powder ( 960-1127 Northern Song; 947-1125 Liao Dynasty; 1127-1279 Southern Song )

X Tonkô (The Silk Road) (1988) -- in western China in 1026, students are shanghaied by crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who wants to control the Silk Road

Shi si nu ying hao (The Fourteen Amazons) (1972) – the women of the Yang family lead the defense of the Song dynasty against invading Western Xia in 11th century, 960-1127

X Legendary Amazons (2011) -- the Yang Family Generals ' women, 960-1127

X S aving General Yang (2013) -- Yang Family Generals, 960-1127

Shi er jin pai (Twelve Gold Medallions) (1970) -- a man loyal to the emperor, tries to stop a message on 12 gold medallions to be delivered by traitors (Emperor ruled 1131-1162) 1125-1234 Jin Dynasty 1234-1279 Transitional Period of Growing Mongolian Control 1279-1368 Yuan Dynasty ( Mongolian Control )

X Po veleniyu Chingiskhana (By the Will of Genghis Khan) (2009) –

Aoki Ôkami: chi hate umi tsukiru (aka Genghis Khan: To the Ends of Earth and Sea; The Blue Wolf: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea) (2007) – a Japanese-Mongolian depiction of the life of Genghis Khan

The Mongol (2007) – Genghis Khan's slow rise to power

X The Fall of Otrar (1991) – Genghis Khan

X Gibel Otrara (The Fall of Otrar) (1991) – the incident in Otrar that unleashed Genghis Khan and his hordes

Genghis Khan (1965) -- 1206-1227; with Omar Sharif

I Mongoli (The Mongols) (1961) -- Jack Palance plays the role of the son of Genghis Khan with Anita Ekberg as his mistress

Conqueror (1956) -- Mongols under Genghis Khan vs. Tartars and others

Marco Polo (2007) -- the adventures, including love ones, of Marco Polo

Marco Polo (1998) -- 1295 with Kublai Khan, opening up the east to trade with the west.

X Marco Polo: Haperek Ha'aharon (Marco Polo: The Missing Chapter) (1996) – Polo returns to Venice in 1295 to find Venice and Genoa at war; he is soon imprisoned by the Genoans and used as a political pawn

X Marco Polo (1982) -- TV mini-series about Marco Polo

X Marco Polo (1962) -- Marco Polo rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan

The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) -- 1275, in China

Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)

IV.3. INDIA (Medieval Period: 711-1526)

Chola Emperors (848–1279 AD)

X Ambikapathy (1937) – 1083, story of the poet Kambar in the time of Kulothunga Chola (1070-1120) of the s. Indian Chola Empire (300s BC-1279)

Tomar's or Tuar's of Sthaneshwar and Indraprastha (736–1192 AD)

X Prithviraj-Samyukta (1946) – Prithviraj Chauhan (1168-1192), second-to-last Hindu to rule Delhi & unifier of Rajputs against Muslim invasions, & his wife Samyukta (heir of Tomar Kingdom in 1170)

Islamic Sultanates (1206-1596)

IV.4. Japan (Early Medieval Period: 711-1526)

The Asuka period (538-710)

X Shotoku taishi (Prince Shotoku) (2001) – established a centralized government; aka Prince Umayado; his existence is disputed

Heian period, 794-1185 :

Shin heike monogatari ( The Taira Clan Saga) (1955) -- an unpaid special forces commander under Emperor Toba who ruled Japan from 1107-1123

Kamakura period, 1185-1333 and Kemmu restoration, 1333-1336:

Zen (2009) -- 'Zen' Buddhist teacher Dogen Zenji

Muromachi period, 1336-1573:

X Kikuchi sembon-yari: Shidonî tokubetsu kôgeki-tai (Thousand Spears of Kikuchi: Sydney Special Attack Unit) (1944) -- Nanbokucho wars in Nanboku-cho period, 1336-1392, with Northern Imperial Court founded by Ashikaga Takauji in Kyoto & Southern Imperial Court established by Emperor Go-Daigo in Yoshino

Furin kazan (Under the Banner of Samurai; Samurai Banners) (1969) -- Yamamoto Kansuke (1501-1561), Japanese samurai and General who planned the victory at the fourth Battle of Kawanakajima against Uesugi Kenshin

V. RENAISSANCE, REFORMATION & CATHOLIC COUNTER-REVOLUTION

V.1. RENAISSANCE, ITALY.

House of Habsburg (1437-1657)

Maximilian I (1483-1519)

Borgias:

Lucrezia Borgia (1935) -- good story of the many political marriages of Lucrezia Borgia used by her family as a political pawn

Prince of Foxes (1949) -- Cesare Borgia (1475-1507) plays politics with who his sister will marry

X Bride of Vengeance (1949) -- Cesare Borgia

Lucrezia Borgia (1953) – Lucrezia Borgia (1480-1519) born near Rome

X Il Duca Nero (The Black Duke) (1963) -- Cesare Borgia starring Cameron Mitchell

X The Borgias (1981) -- BBC miniseries

X Las noches secretas de Lucrezia Borgia (Secret Nights) (1982) -- don't bother; it's more about sex than anything else

X Le notti di Lucrezia Borgia (The Nights of Lucretia Borgia) (1959) -- ditto

Los Borgia (The Borgias) (2006) -- Spanish film with English subtitles about the Borgia family

X The Borgias (2011) -- Showtime miniseries

Others:

Flesh and Blood (1985) -- 1501 story of Landsknechts (mostly German mercenaries including pikemen & supporting foot soldiers, late 15th to late 16th century)

Charles V, Holy Roman Empire (1530-1556)

X Il Diavolo nero (The Black Devil) (1957) -- as Carlos I of Spain (1516-1556) and as Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire (1519-1556) the monarch tries to occupy all of Italy with the help of traitors

The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) -- Michelangelo (1475-1564) fights with Pope Julius II; based on Irving Stone novel

X Da Vinci's Demons (2013) -- fictional TV-series about Leonardo Da Vinci's early life as an artist, inventor, idealist and a genius intellectual

X Il mestiere delle armi (The Profession of Arms) (2001) – first victim of modern artillery Captain Giovanni De' Medici, who fought in the war of Charles V against the Pope, first half of 1500s -- (not available)

Rudolph II (1575-1612)

Caravaggio (2007) -- Italian Renaissance painter 1593-1610; proto-Baroque style

X Caravaggio (1986) -- gay Derek Jarman's fictionalized version of the life of Caravaggio

Artemisia (1997) -- Artemisia Gentileschi was one of the most accomplished early Baroque painters in the generation; influenced by Caravaggio

Dangerous Beauty (1998) -- a courtesan (Catherine McCormack) becomes the most desired woman in 16th century Venice, but faces criticism, humiliation and the Holy Inquisition

X Galilée ou L'amour de Dieu (2005) – Galilée and the Inquisition

Galileo (1975) -- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

Galileo Galilei (1969) -- Italian film

Love and freedom - tragic events of Masaniello, which took place in Naples in July 1647 (amazon instant video)

X Pietro Micca (1938) -- soldier becomes national hero in the defense of Turin (1706) against French troops during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714)

X Casanova (2005) -- yes, even Casanova got dumped; 18th century

X Fellini's Casanova (1976) -- not for historians; erotic adventure

V.2. REFORMATION AND RELIGIOUS CONFLICT

John Hus (1977) -- Czech burned at the stake in 1415; had influence on Martin Luther; part of the Hussite Trilogy; only in Czech

X Jan Žižka (1955) -- G eneral Jan Zizka of Hussite Wars; part of Hussite Trilogy; only in Czech; fought in the Battle of Grunwal d (July 15, 1410), where he defended Radzyń against the Teutonic Order , and in the civil wars of Bohemia.

X Proti všem (Against All) (1958) -- Hussite Wars; part of Hussite Trilogy; only in Czech

Luther (2003) -- of the Reformation

X Luther (1974) -- of the Reformation, 1520

X Der Reformator (1968) – German film about Martin Luther

X Martin Luther (1953) -- of the Reformation

The Radicals (1990) -- the story of the radical Anabaptists

Scandinavia:

Sweden's House of Vasa (1521-1654)

Fru Inger til strt ( Lady Inger of Ostrat ) (1975) -- 1528, Norwegian noble woman seeking independence for the nation in the time of the Kalmar Union (1396-1537) involving Sweden, Denmark and Norway. Modern Sweden begins 1523

Karin M a nsdotter (1954) – 1550–1612, started as mistress and ended as Swedish Queen to Eric XIV (reign 1560-1568)

X Queen Christina (1933) -- 1632-1654 reign of Queen Christina of Sweden; Greta Garbo

The Abdication (1974) – Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates; what happened to Queen Christina when she converted to Catholicism

X Korkein oikeus (1998) – the "Cudget War" was a peasant rebellion in the late 16th century Finland

Sweden's House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken (1654-1720)

Snapphanar (Scanian Guerilla) (2006) – Scanian War, 1676-1679, between Sweden and Denmark when Sweden's king was Charles XI

X Karl XII (1925) -- Charles XII of Sweden (reigned 1697-1718); Great Northern War (1700-1721)

X Epitaph für einen König (1969) – Epitaph for a King; King Karl XII of Sweden (1697-1718)

House of Hess (1720-1751) -- Frederick was the only King

House of Holstein-Gottorp (1751-1818) -- Adolph Frederick, Gustav III, Gustav IV, Charles XIII

En kongelig affære ( A Royal Affair) (2012) -- Danish King Christian VII (ruled 1766-1808) suffers from mental illness and is pushed around by radical thinker Johann Friedrich Struensee , his personal physician, who made progressive reforms which did not last long

X Kustaa III (1964) – Finnish film, Strindberg play adaptation; Gustav III, King of Sweden (1771-1792) when Finland was part of Sweden

X Gustav III (1974) – assassination of Sweden’s King Gustav III (ruled 1771-1792)

X Lockfogeln (The Decoy) (1971) – on his death-bed, a father asks his son to kill King Gustav III

Gustav III's äktenskap (The Marriage of Gustav III) (2001) – Gustav III of Sweden, nine years into his marriage

Union of Sweden and Norway: 1814-1905

House of Bernadotte (1905-present) -- Charles XIV John, Oscar I, Charles XV, Oscar II, Gustaf V, Gustaf VI Adolf, Carl XVI Gustaf

Desiree (1954) -- a French seamstress loves Napoleon, but his marriage to aristocrat Josephine spoils her dream; she becomes wife of Bernadotte, future King Charles XIV John (1818-1844)

X Utvandrarna ( The Emigrants) (1971) -- Swedish immigrants to Minnesota, USA

Kautokeino-opprøret ( The Kautokeino Rebellion) (2008) -- Sami revolt in Guovdageaidnu, Norway 1852

X Behöriga äga ej tillträde (1988) – 1890s Sweden when the country became modernized

X General von Döbeln (1942) -- Swedish general who fought in the Russian War, Finnish War and Second War Against Napoleon

V.3. CATHOLIC COUNTER REFORMATION

X Il Mestiere delle Armi (Profession of Arms) (2000) -- Giovanni de Medici, captain in Charles V's war against the pope & fought the Protestant Reformation

X The Cardinal (1936) -- Cardinal de Medici

X Catherine de Médicis (1989) -- French movie about Catherine (1519-1589) who was queen consort of King Henry II of France from 1547 to 1559

X Il Diavolo nero (The Black Devil) (1957) -- As Carlos I of Spain (1516-1556) and as Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire (1519-1556) the monarch tries to occupy all of Italy with the help of traitors

X That Lady (1955) -- story of Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, and Prince Philip (who became Philip II of Spain, 1556-1598)

X La conjura de El Escorial (The El Escorial Conspiracy) (2008) - deceit and betrayal in the court of King Philip II of Spain

X Seville, 1640 (2004) --

The Last Valley (1971) -- set in the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)

V.4 ENGLAND TO AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Renaissance, Reformation and Religious Conflict

House of Tudors: 1485-1603

Henry VII, 1485-1509

Princes in the Tower (2005) -- story of Perkin Warbeck who claimed to be the heir to the British throne during the reign of King Henry VII (ruled, 1485-1509), first monarch of the Tudor dynasty

The Shadow of the Tower (1972) -- founding of the Tudor Dynasty by Henry VII

Henry VIII, 1509-1547

X The Tudors (2007)-- mini-series with Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Henry VIII

X Henry VIII (2003) -- 250 minutes

X Henry VIII (1991) -- 200 minutes

X Henry VIII and his Six Wives (1973)

Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970) mini-series

Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) -- of England, 1509-1547

The Sword and the Rose (1953) -- Henry VIII uses his sister Mary Tudor's marriage prospects as a pawn in international politics

The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) -- struggle between the two Boleyn women to marry King Henry VIII

Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) -- Anne Boleyn, 2nd wife of Henry VIII & mother of Queen Elizabeth

X Anna Boleyn (1920) -- silent film of t ragic story of King Henry's second wife with Emil Jannings as Henry

A Man for All Seasons (1966) -- Sir Thomas More won't compromise; with Paul Scofield

X A Man for All Seasons (1988) -- Sir Thomas More (1509-1547) gets in deep trouble with Henry VIII ; with Charleston Heston

The Pearl of York (2007) -- first woman to die for her religious beliefs following the start of the Reformation

Edward VI, 1547-1553 -- son of Henry VIII

Jane, 9 days a Queen in 1553

Nine Days a Queen (aka Tudor Rose) (1936) -- Lady Jane Grey's short life

Lady Jane (1986) -- tragedy of Lady Jane Grey, immediate predecessor of Mary, Queen of England

Mary I, 1553-1558

The Twisted Tale of Bloody Mary (2008) -- Mary Tudor as tragic figure

Elizabeth I1, 1558-1603

X Elizabeth (1998) -- Elizabeth I, 1558-1603,daughter of Anne Boleyn and half-sister of Mary, Queen of England

Elizabeth I -- HBO drama focusing on the private life of the "Virgin" Queen

Young Bess (1953) -- Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger

The Virgin Queen (1955) -- the Queen and Sir Walter Ra leigh; (with Bette Davis)

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

Elizabeth R (1971) -- miniseries about Queen Elizabeth I starring Glenda Jackson

Elizabeth: the Golden Age (2007) -- Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh and the Spanish Armada; starring Cate Blanchett

X Elizabeth I - The Virgin Queen (2005) -- TV mini-series

X Drake the Pirate (Drake of England or Elizabeth of England) (1935) -- privateer Sir Francis Drake brings lots of money into England

Sir Francis Drake (1961) -- 3 DVD-set (26 episodes of a TV series) about the famous privateer

Seven Seas to Calais (1962) -- Sir Francis Drake

X Drake's Venture (1980) -- Sir Francis Drake

The Sea Hawk (1940) -- Spanish Armada (with Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh)

Fire Over England (1937) -- British-Spanish conflict of 1500s

Mary of Scotland (1936) -- with Katherine Hepburn

Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) -- executed by Elizabeth for plotting against her

Gunpowder, Treason and Plot (2004) -- Mary, Queen of Scots, her son James and Guy Fawkes

Shakespeare in Love

The Stuarts (1603-1649) and English Civil War (1642-1651)

James I, 1603-1625

Charles I, 1625-1649

To Kill a King (2003) -- Cromwell, General Fairfax, Mrs. Fairfax and Charles I (1625-1649) struggle over the future of England

By the Sword Divided (1983) -- in the English Civil War the Lacey family supports King Charles I and the related-by-marriage Fletcher family supports Oliver Cromwell (BBC series)

The Devil's Whore (2008) -- TV mini-series; an aristocratic lady goes through trials and tribulations because of problems associated with the English Civil War

Witchfinder General (aka Conqueror Worm) (1968) -- Matthew Hopkins tours the land searching for and finding witches

The Moonraker (1958) -- the Moonraker, the Earl of Dawlish, travels to the Windwhistle Inn on the south coast to prepare the escape of the future Charles II

Winstanley (1975) -- Gerard Winstanley leads the religious sect the Diggers to reclaim land for the poor, around 1649

The First Churchills (1969) -- John Churchill and his wife Sarah Jennings, ancestors of Winston Churchill

Libertine (2004) -- 17th century British poet who leads a life of debauchery

Black Swan (1942) -- pirate Captain Morgan in Jamaica

Commonwealth 1653-1659

Oliver Cromwell, 1653–1658

Cromwell (1970) -- English Puritan leader, ruled England 1653-1658

The Scarlet Blade (The Crimson Blade) (1963) -- love affair in the time of Cromwell's struggle

Richard Cromwell, 1658-1659

House of Stuart (restored), 1660-1707

Charles II (restored), 1660-1685

X Charles II: The Power and the Passion (2003) -- the restoration of the absolute monarchy for a brief time following the reign of Cromwell

X The Exile (1947) -- story of the restoration of Charles II to the English throne -- ( discontinued by the manufacturer)

Restoration (1995) -- in the reign of Charles II of England 1660-1685

Forever Amber (1947) -- one of the many mistresses of Charles II

Nell Gwyn (1934) -- one of Charles II's mistresses who enjoyed her great liveliness

Stage Beauty (2004) -- first woman to play the role of a woman on the stage in England under Charles II

New Worlds (2015) -- England and Hadley, Massachusetts fight for liberation from Charles II

James II, 1685-1688

Glorious Revolution, 1688

William III and Mary II, 1689-1702

Captain Blood (1935)-- set in the transition between James II and the reign of William and Mary

Anne, 1702-1714

early years of House of Hanover (name to be changed to Windsor in World War I): 1714-1901

George I (1714–1727):

Sarabande for Dead Lovers (1948) -- Sophie Dorothea seeks out Swedish Count Philip Konigsmark when her husband, the future King George I of Great Britain, wants nothing to do with her

Blackbeard (2006) -- Lt. Robert Maynard of the Royal navy is sent to Jamaica to end Blackbeard's reign of terror

Blackbeard the Pirate (1952) -- Edward Teach (Blackbeard) captured in November 1718

George II (1727–1760):

X The Massacre of Glencoe (1971) -- massacre of the Macdonald Clan by the Campbell Clan, 1692

Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948) -- British film about Prince Charles of 18th century Scotland

The Battle of Culloden (1964) -- Bonnie Prince Charlie defeated at this 1746 battle; terrible massacre

The Master of Ballantrae (1953) -- battle of Culloden

X Kidnapped (1960) -- a young man cheated out of his inheritance joins forces with Alan Breck, just escaping from the defeat at Culloden, to get the inheritance back; Disney movie

Chasing the Deer (1994) -- last Jacobite uprising; death of the Highland clans at Culloden Moor, 1746

Rob Roy (1995) -- 18th century Scotland

X Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue (1954)

George III (1760–1820):

The Madness of King George III (1994) -- of American Revolutionary War fame

Young Mr. Pitt (1942) -- William Pitt the Younger is prime minister from 1783-1801 and 1804-1806 where he came up against Napoleon

The Duchess (2008) -- terrible situation for women in Britain as illustrated by the marital problems of the Duchess of Devonshire (married 1774)

Amazing Grace (2006) -- 1807, William Wilberforce is the main force behind the passage of the bill eliminating the slave trade in the British Empire

John Wesley (1954) -- John Wesley (1703-1791), founder of Methodism

Morgan the Pirate (1960) -- an English slave working for the Spaniards leads a revolt onboard ship; he and his men become pirates and make Spain suffer for their cruelty

Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) -- 1787 mutiny on trip to get the breadfruit plant (with Charles Loughton and Clark Gable)

X Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) -- the fictionalized story

X The Bounty (1984) -- the truer story with Mel Gibson

In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) -- not only what happened on the Bounty, but what also happened afterwards

King George IV (1820-1830):

A Royal Scandal (1996) -- King George IV (ruling from 1820-1830) and Princess Caroline of Brunswick weave a tale of infidelity, illegitimacy and mistresses

X Mrs. Fitzherbert (1947) -- married the future George IV in 1785

V.5. FRANCE & HOLLAND TO FRENCH REVOLUTION

Reformation & Religious Conflict

Capetian Dynasty, Valois-Orléans Branch (1498-1515)

The Sword and the Rose (1953) -- English King's sister Mary Tudor married to King Louis XII, who ruled from 1498-1515

Capetian Dynasty, Valois-Angoulme Branch (1515-1589) that started with King Francis I (1515-1547) who initiated the French Renaissance

Diane (1956) -- mistress of King Henri II, first emperor of the French Renaissance (rule from 1547 to 1559)

Queen Margot (1994) -- sister of Frances's Charles IX (ruled 1560-1574), brother of Francis II, weds in 16th c; marries the future King Henri IV

X Saint-Germain ou La négociation (2003) -- Charles IX sends Catholic Baron to Protestant representatives (includes St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572) (French language only)

Capetian Dynasty, House of Borbon (1589-1792)

X Les samedis de l'histoire: Henri IV (1977) – story of Henri IV of France (reign 1589-1610) who enacted the Edict of Nantes for religious freedom

Henri 4 (2009) -- King Henry IV of France (reigned 1589-1610) from his rise as the Huguenot Henry of Navarre to a very popular King of France

X Ce jour là, tout a changé (2009) -- last day of king Henri IV of France before his murder by the fanatical catholic Ravaillac

Louis XIII (1610-1643)

Cardinal Richelieu (1935) -- Cardinal Richelieu oppresses French Protestants, known as Huguenots (under King Louis XIII, 1610-1643)

X Richelieu (1977) -- French language only

X Richelieu ou La journée des dupes (1983) -- French language only

Under the Red Robe (1937) -- Cardinal Richelieu worried about opposition from the Huguenots in the south

X The Three Musketeers (1935) -- the Musketeers fight against the forces of Cardinal Richelieu.

X The Three Musketeers (1939)

X The Three Musketeers (1948)

X The Three Musketeers (1973) -- King Louis XIII of France, 1610-1643

X The Three Musketeers (1993)

X The Three Musketeers (2011) -- Musketeers have to foil a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war

La Kermesse Héroique (aka Carnival in Flanders) (1935) – a French comedy set during the 1616 Spanish invasion of Flanders

Alatriste (2006) -- heroic Spanish soldier fighting in Flanders in 17th century has to look after a dying friend's son in Madrid

Witch Hunting:

Matka Joanna od aniolów (Mother Joan of the Angels) (1961) -- 1630s; womanizing priest Grandier executed for sorcery & the next priest tries to heal the nuns

X Cautio Criminalis oder Der Hexenanwalt (1974) – German movie; witchcraft

The Headsman (Shadow of the Sword) (2005) -- 16th century Tyrol, Austria; of two childhood friends one becomes a friar and the other an executioner, but both are involved in witch hunting

Le moine et la sorciere (Sorceress) (1987) – supposed witchcraft in 13th century France

The Devils (1971) -- witchcraft in 17th c. France

Vredens dag (Day of Wrath) (1943) -- accusations of witchcraft in a 17th c. Danish village

Witches' Hammer (1970) -- witch hunting in Czechoslovakia

X Posledná bosorka (The Last Witch) (1957) – a painter of a nude model angers the clergy so they condemn the model as a witch

The Hour of the Pig (aka The Advocate) (1993) -- a lawyer defends animals accused of being involved in witchcraft

X Anna Göldin, letzte Hex (Anna Goldin, the Last Witch) (1991) -- ($69)

Rembrandt and Vermeer:

Rembrandt (1936) -- 1630 Dutch painter

Rembrandt (1940) --

Rembrandt (1999) --

X Rembrandt fecit 1669 (Rembrandt - 1669) (1977) --

Night watching (2007) -- Rembrandt's romantic and professional life

X Rembrandt: Fathers and Sons (1999) --

Girl with a Pearl Earring -- Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, 1665

Louis XIV (reigned 1643-1715)

La Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV (The Taking of Power by Louis XIV) (1966) -- Louis XIV (1643-1715)

X Versailles, le reve d'un roi (Versailles: The Dream of a King) (2008) – Louis XIV

X Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (2006) – mistress of King Louis XIV

Vatel (2000) -- in 1671, Prince de Cond é hosts Louis XIV for three days of excess

X Saint-Cyr (The King's Daughters) (2000) -- France under the rule of Louis XIV (including his lady friend and his mistress) ($55)

X Louis, enfant roi (Louis, the Child King) (1993) -- formative years of the young king Louis XIV

X Liselotte von der Pfalz (The Private Life of Louis XIV) (1935) – Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatine (or Pfalz) marries brother of Louis XIV of France and becomes known for her correspondence

X Liselotte von der Pfalz (1966) -- ($40)

X La reine et le cardinal (The Queen and the Cardinal) (2009) – Mazarin functioned as co-ruler of France with Queen Anne during the regency for young King Louis XIV; later Mazarin directed French policy with the monarch

X Le roi, l'écureuil et la couleuvre (The King, the Squirrel and the Grass Snake) (2009) -- TV series

X Versailles, le rêve d'un roi (Versailles: The Dream of a King) ( 2008) -- French language only

X Le château perdu (1973) --

X Le roi danse (The King Is Dancing) (2000) -- King Louis XIV and his growing trust in a musical genius

X L'allée du roi (1996) -- TV mini-series, rags to riches story of Francoise d'Aubigne, the governess of the children by the King and his mistress, the Marquise de Montespan

X Saint-Cyr ( The King's Daughters ) ( 2000 ) - - King Louis XIV

X La marquise des ombres (TV 2010) -- woman poisoner leads off the deaths in the Affair of the Poisons

X Voltaire (1933)

Louis XV, ruled 1715-1774

X Louis XV, le soleil noir (2009) --90 minutes

Cartouche (1962) -- French Robin Hood -- during the time of the Régence, 1715-1723, the regent part of the reign of King Louis XV (1715-1774 )

Que la fête commence... (Let Joy Reign Supreme) (1975) -- the Regent over Louis XV, France

X Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (2006) – mistress of King Louis XV, 1745-1764

Madame du Barry (aka Passion) (1917) -- mistress of King Louis XV of France

Madame du Barry (1954) -- 1 768 Louis XV and the Countess Du Barry

V.6. SPAIN & PORTUGAL

Muslim Era (8th to 15th century):

X King Conqueror (2009) -- James I the Conqueror (reign 1213-1276), King of Aragon, Count of Barcelona, and Lord of Montpellier

X Ines de Castro (1944) – loved one of Pedro I of Portugal (1357-1367); she had a tragic ending

X Ines de Portugal (1997) -- ditto

X O Judea (The Jew) (1996) -- the Portugal Inquisition (1497 to l821) tries a converso (i.e., a Jew who had converted to Catholicism)

'Non', ou A V Glória de Mandar (No, or the Vain Glory of Command) (1990) -- Portuguese in Portuguese Colonial War review early history of Portugal

Imperial Spain (16th to 17th centuries): under Habsburg Empire: Kings Charles I (1516-1556); Philip II (1556-1598); Philip III (1598-1621); Philip IV (1620-1665); Charles II (1665-1700)

X Torquemada (1989) -- Spanish Inquisition

Secret Passage (2004) -- two Jewish Spanish sisters and a daughter try to escape the wrath of the Spanish Inquisition

X La conjura de El Escorial (The El Escorial Controversy) (2008) -- deceit and betrayal in the court of 16th century King Philip II of Spain who reigned 1556-1598

X Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien (2005) -- bad relations between King Philip II of Spain and his son Don Carlos ($41)

X Cervantes (1980) -- Cervantes (1547–1616), later author of Don Quixote, persuades Philip of Spain to join the Holy League and then becomes a soldier

Expulsados 1609, la tragedia de los moriscos (2009) -- 1609 Moriscos expelled from Spain

X El Greco (2007) – a Greek film about the Greek painter (1541–1614) of the Spanish Renaissance

X El Greco (1966) -- about the Greek painter of the Spanish Renaissance

Alatriste (2006) -- heroic Spanish soldier fighting in Flanders in 17th century has to look after a dying friend's son in Madrid; King Philip IV depicted

X Esquilache (1989) -- Spain under troubled reign of Charles II (1665-1700); (specifically, the Esquilache Riots of March 1766) (Spanish only)

Spain under the Borbons (18th century): Philip V (1700-1724); Louis I (1724); Philip V (1724-1746); Ferdinand VI (1746); Charles III (1746-1788)-; Charles IV (1746-1808); Ferdinand VII (1808)

V.7. GERMANY

X Zwölf Meter ohne Kopf (12 Paces without a Head) (2009) -- 1401, German sea pirates Klaus Störtebeker and Gödeke Michels

Il Principe di Homburg (The Prince of Homburg) (1997) -- Prince disobeys orders and leads a cavalry charge against the Swedes and is court-martialed during 17th century Prusso-Swedish Wars (Hitler's favorite play?)

Der große König (The Great King) (1942) – Nazi film glorifying Prussian King Friedrich II during the Seven Years' War (Germans versus Austria and Russia) in the years between 1754/56 and 1763

X Der Choral von Leuthen (The Anthem of Leuthen) (1933) -- German film depicting Frederick the Great, King of Prussia (1740–1786) (no subtitles)

X Maria Theresia (1951) -- (1717-1780) the Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Hungary and a Holy Roman Empress by marriage to Francis I; son Joseph II ; daughter Marie Antoinette

X Maria Theresia (1980) -- ditto

Barry Lyndon (1976) -- Stanley Kubrik; set against the 7 Year's War 1756-1763

X Amadeus (1984) -- 1762, Mozart, musical genius

Mozart (a.k.a., Life and Loves of Mozart) (1956) -- Mozart and his wife, his former mistress and his new mistress

X Motsart i Salieri (A Requiem for Mozart) (1967)

V.8. P OLAND

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1574-1795):

1612: Khroniki smutnogo vremeni (aka 1612) (2007) – Russian film set in the Time of Troubles and the Polish-Muscovite War (1605-1618) (under Polish King Sigismund III (1587-1632))

Taras Bulba (1962) -- fictional character; Cossack life in the Ukraine, once part of Poland

X The Rebel Son (aka The Barbarian and the Lady or The Rebel Son of Taras Bulba) (1938) – earlier fictional film of the Taras Bulba story (amazon.com doesn't have it)

Ogniem i mieczem (With Fire and Sword) (1961) Cossacks vs. Poles; first part of a trilogy set in mid-17th century (1648-1649); under Ladislas IV (1632-1648) & John II Casimir (1648-1668)

Potop (The Deluge) (1975) -- second part of the trilogy; Swedish army invades Poland and a warrior fights for the heart of Olenka; lasted 1665-1660 under John II Casimir

Pan Wolodyjowski (Colonel Wolodyjowski) -- third part of the trilogy; Turkish invasion of Poland; (1668-1670) under Polish Kings John II Casimir (1648-1668) and Michael I (1669-1673)

X August der Starke (King August the Strong) (1936) – King August II The Strong (1697-1733) Polish monarch, abdicated 1706, king again 1709 (amazon.com doesn't have it)

X Virtuti Militari (1995) -- the history of Poland's "Virtuti Militari" medal, awarded for bravery since the Polish-Russian war of 1792

Kings of the Kingdom of Poland ("Congress Poland"), 1815-1917

Pan Tadeusz (2000) -- Poland's attempt to free itself from Russian rule in Napoleonic times, 1803-1815

Wesele (The Wedding) (1973) -- national drive toward self-determination after the Polish uprisings of 1830 and 1863

X Jaroslaw Dabrowski (1976) -- Dabrowski (1836 – 1871) a Polish revolutionary, Nationalist and general who became involved in the preparation of the January Uprising; arrested August 1862

On the Banks of the Niemen (1986) -- 1863 uprising against Russian occupation

Wierna rzeka (The Faithful River) (1987) – only survivor of a unit in the 1863 insurgency in Poland is taken care of by a land steward's daughter

X Wierna rzeka (1936) -- ditto

X Szwadron (Squadron) (1992) – Russian soldier finds out the little insurrection in 1863 Poland is a lot bigger than he expected

Noce i dnie (Nights and Days) (1975) -- life in Poland following the 1863 Poland uprising to World War I; woman marries a man she doesn't love, with some negative repercussions

Goraczka (Fever) (1981) – in 1905 Polish anarchists try to assassinate the Tsarist Governor-General

Zamach Stanu (Coup D'etat) (1981) -- Polish film about General Jozef Pilsudski taking over Poland in 1918 and ruling for four years & coming back in 1926 to rule until his death in 1935

V.9 RUSSIA & TURKEY TO FRENCH REVOLUTION & BEYOND

Tsars of Russia (1547-1721):

Rurik Dynasty (1547-1598): second part of Ivan the Terrible's reign & reign of Feodor I

X Borus Godunov (1986) -- de facto regent of Russia , 1584-1598, and then the first non-Rurikid tsar, 1598 to 1605

X Mest shuta (A Fool's Revenge) (1993) -- 1500s Russia

Times of Troubles (1598-1613)

Gudonov Dynasty (1598-1605): Boris Gudonov & Feodor II

Usurper I: False Dmitry I (1605-1606)

1612: Khroniki smutnogo vremeni (aka 1612) (2007) – Russian film set in the Time of Troubles and the Polish-Muscovite War (1605-1618)

Shuysky Dynasty (1606-1610): Vasily IV Shuysky

Usurper II: False Dmitry II (1607-1610)

Council of Seven Boyars (27 July 1610 – 4 November 1612)

House of Vasa -- Włladysłlaw IV Vasa (1595-1610)

Council of All the Land (17 April 1611 – 26 July 1613)

House of Romanov (1613-1721):

11 settembre 1683 (The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683) (2012)-- siege of Vienna by the Turks

Peter the Great (1689-1725):

Peter the Great (1986)-- 1689-1725, Russian Czar; 1710-11 war with Ottoman Empire

Yunost Petra (Peter's youth) -- young Peter the Great

V nachale slavnykh del (At the Beginning of Glorious Days) (1981) -- Peter the Great and the build up of the Russian Navy

X Sluga Gosudarev (The Sovereign's Servant) (2007) -- 1709 Battle of Poltava during war between Russia and Sweden (The Great Northern War, 1700-1721) -- no English options

X Epitaph für einen König (1969) – epitaph for a king; Karl XII of Sweden (1697-1718)

X Isoviha (1939) – story set in 18th century Finland when the country was occupied twice by Russia, during the Great Northern War (1700-1721) and the Lesser Wrath (1741–1742)

Catherine the Great (1762-1796):

Young Catherine (1991) 1762-1796, Catherine the Great of Russia; 1768 war with Turkey (TV miniseries)

The Scarlet Empress (1934) -- Catherine the Great

Catherine the Great (1934) -- with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Flora Robeson

X Caterina di Russia (Catherine of Russia) (1963) -- Italian film (currently unavailable)

X Catherine the Great (1995) -- with Catherine Zeta-Jones

The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934) -- troubled marriage of Catherine II (played by German actress Elisabeth Bergner) to Peter III (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) and her subsequent ascension to the throne as Empress of Russia

A Royal Scandal (1945) -- love life of Russian Czarina Catherine the Great (with Tallulah Bankhead)

X Tempest (1959) -- Pugachev peasant uprising during the reign of Catherine the Great

Russkiy bunt (Captain's Daughter) (2000) -- during the Pugachev uprising, the love of Masha Mironova and Pyotr Grinev is threatened

X Kapitanskaya dochka (The Captain's Daughter) (1959) -- Pugachev uprising of Cossacks and peasants in 1774-1745 under Empress Catherine II (aka Catherine the Great)

Turkey and others:

X Estergon kalesi (Estergon Castle) (1972) – Estergon Castle in Hungary conquered by Turkish Invaders under Sultan Suleiman II in 1543

Nomad (2005) -- a young fellow in 18th-century Kazakhstan unites the country's disunited tribes

Zhauzhürek myng bala (Myn Bala: Warriors of the Steppe) (2012) -- at the battle of Anyrakay in 1729 the Kazackhs defeat the Dzungars & taking control of their own territory for the first time in their history

V.10. India.

Vijayanagara Empire (1336-1660) -- an empire based in South India , in the Deccan Plateau region

X Sri Krishna Deva Raya (1969) -- Krishnadevaraya (1509-1529); most famous king of Vijayanagara Empire, presided over the empire at zenith

Urumi: Warriors Who Wanted to Kill Vasco Da Gama ( 2011 ) -- fictional story about a young Indian who tried to kill Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, around 1497-1502

X Joymati (1935) – in 17th century an Ahom princess is killed for refusing to betray her husband; film calls for cooperation between hills and plains people; reign of Ahom Dynasty (1228–1826) in Assam

Khalsa (1999) -- Khalsa (Punjabi for "Pure") all baptized Sikhs; founding of the religion & Sikh history

X Anokhe Amar Shaheed Baba Deep Singh Ji (2006) -- based on Sikh history

The Mughal Period: 1526-1757

Humayun (1945) -- Mughal emperor Humayun ( 1530-1539), son of emperor Babar

Jodhaa Akbar (2008) -- Akbar the Great (ruled 1556-1619) and his Hindu wife Jodhabai

Mughal-e-Azam (1960) -- 1 6th century war between crown prince Saleem and his father, the great Moghul emperor Akbar ( 1556-1605), over a beautiful court dancer named Anarkali

Anarkali (1953) -- Shahenshah Jalaudin Akbar, grandson of Babbar and son of Humayun, rules Hindustan justly, but has big problems with a rebellious son in love with the gypsy Anarkali

X Akbar Saleem Anarkali (1978) -- story of Arnakali and Saleem

Noor Jahan (1931) -- a Mughal empress (1577-1645), 20th and favorite wife of Emperor Jehangir ( 1605-27)

Taj Mahal (2005) -- Moghul ruler Shah Jahan (1628-1658) builds a monument to eternal love in honor of his deceased wife

X Taj Mahal: A Monument to Love (2003) -- ditto

X Ranadheera Kanteerava (1960) -- Mysore kingdom was a golden age in Kannada .literature; Mysore royalty’s intrigues & Kannada national chauvinism; King Ranadheera Kanteerava Narasaraja Wodeyar (1638-1659), a devotee of music and literature

Maratha Empire 1674–1818

X Bajirao Mastani (1925) -- prime ministe