Middle Ages 476 1453 Movies

This animated short challenges enduring myths, spawned by fairy tales and romances, about women in medieval society. It explores the differences and...

During the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture and execution, and a young girl is given by...

The history of women through the Middle Ages as told to and by little boys and girls and an old man (Michael Lonsdale)

In an imaginary northern European country during the High Middle Ages, two leaders of a barbarian village fight to gain power: one is good and right...

The young Prince Charles (Jaromír Hanzlík), the future King of his country Charles IV, is being educated at the French court in the...

After spending three years in captivity in Tunis, Bartolomé returns home Extremadura with the only hope to eat his favorite dish: the pork....

Sweden, beginning of the 18th Century. Executions are popular entertainment and brothels a given. Still the executioner and the whore are both...

Wang Fo, the greatest master of medieval China, aided by his assistant who has given up everything to follow him, desperately seeks aesthetic...

When Death wants to bring the plague to Württemberg in 1349, he has not reckoned with the two guard soldiers Volckel and Utz, who engage him in...

The musical version of the successful play of Oldřich Daněk was transferred to the screen by director Jiří Sequens in 1986. It...

If middle age has taught Jen Brister anything, it’s that optimism does not come naturally to her. In fact it’s fair to say that her cup...

Kingdom of Granada, al-Andalus, 14th century. After recognizing that his land, always under siege, is hopelessly doomed to be conquered, Sultan Yusuf...

It is the world’s most mysterious manuscript. A book, written by an unknown author, illustrated with pictures that are as bizarre as they are...

He is considered the greatest European poet of the Middle Ages and his work unfolds the whole panopticon of occidental education – theology,...