Medieval England, Scotland, Ireland

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

Druids battle occupying Romans in ancient Britain/(Boudica-like character)

Accompanied by his slave, a Roman journeys to Scotland to retrieve his father's long-lost emblem, the golden Eagle of the Ninth Legion

Multi-DVD set; a French television series with a more "realistic" approach to the Arthurian legend

King Arthur and Court (legend)

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

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

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

Life at Camelot

King Arthur and Court (legend)

French film about Lancelot

Arthur repelling an invasion of the Saxons

TV series set in the time of Alfred fighting the Vikings of what became Denmark

9th century uniter of most of what became England (880s-899)

Alfred has to flee from the Vikings

Viking settlers in England fight against an English Duke trying to take the place of the English King at beginning of the 9th century

Viking, raised in England, fights his brother, raised in the land of the Norsemen, in 9th century England

During reign of Edward the Confessor (1042-1066); Norman conquest of England 1066; mother of Hereward the Wake

Norman conquest of England in 1066 along with some Viking trouble

The son of Lady Godiva (?) fought a long time in local resistance against the Normans, but to no avail

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

Norman Conqueror of England, 1066

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

1154-1189 Henry II and his estranged wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine

1154-1189 Henry II and his estranged wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine

Under Henry II, 1154-1189; Becket eliminated because he was in the way of the King

A Knight Templar must re-examine his life after a disastrous defeat by the Saracens in 1187

Richard the Lion Hearted, son of Henry II, who ruled 1189-1199

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

Russian film

Richard the Lion-hearted

The Third Crusade, involving Richard the Lion Hearted, among others

Movie about the great Kurdish leader of the Arabs, Saladin

Part of a trilogy

Part of a trilogy

TV mini-series about the crusader Arn

Christian Richard I of England faces off with Moslem Saladin

Historical drama from Cecil B. DeMille

Two young men swept up in the Crusades

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

With Errol Flynn

Robin Hood against King John (1199-1216)

Robin Hood

Starring Patrick Bergin and Uma Thurman

Story of William Wallace, 1297, Scottish independence leader; during the Second Interregnum (1296–1306)

1307-1327 anti-gay bias ruins his rule; directed by Derek Jarman

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

Miniseries set in England's 100 year war with France (1337-1453); sequel to The Pillars of the Earth (2010)

Bubonic plague enters England, 1348

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 (ruled 1377-1399) who took the throne at age 10 and overthrown by future King Henry IV

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

With Orson Welles; Duncan killed in battle by Macbeth; Duncan's son Malcolm III defeated and killed Macbeth and claimed the throne

With Ian McKellan

1040, Shakespeare, with Jon Finch

Story of William Wallace, 1297, Scottish independence leader; during the Second Interregnum (1296–1306)

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

1307-1327anti-gay bias ruins his rule; directed by Derek Jarman

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

Story of Scottish poet Robert Burns

English slave who became the founder of Christianity in Ireland, 5th century

William Shakespeare adaptation

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), with Laurence Olivier

Made for TV movie, with John Clements

Made for TV movie, with Douglas Rain

Made for TV movie with David Gwillim

Henry V (1413-1422) with Kenneth Branagh

With Peter Babakitis

By Shakespeare

By Shakespeare

TV mini-series

TV mini-series

Romance between Lancastrian commoner Elizabeth Yorkville and Yorkist King Edward IV (1461-1470 and 1471-1483); they married 1464

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

Shakespeare version set in 1930s England

Richard III, that is

Questionable story of Richard III with Boris Karloff and Vincent Price

Remake of the 1939 film