Medieval Movies: A Filmography

David John WilliamsUniversity of Reading

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    This must be presented with apologies. It is not a finished list but a selection from a working tool. It is accident, not policy, that for some entries I give more information than simply director and country of origin, and sometimes not even that much. The idea is to give an overall chronology of productions rather than details on individual fims, which, for famous cases, are available elsewhere. Accuracy is greater in some areas than others. I have seen only some of the films myself, so that, especially among the early productions, there are bound to be both omissions and duplications (the same film under an alternative title). Genuine alternative titles, to facilitate the tracing of individual films, are given in brackets. Dates are mostly of release (in the country of origin) rather than production, except, for instance, in complicated cases like Andrei Rublev.As for what is medieval, I have included everything from approximately the Vikings to the day before Columbus sailed, but have not been strict. What one needs to know about the films is whether makers or audiences call them medieval or not. Perhaps I have included too many sword and sorcery fantasies, but some might say not enough

1898	Jeanne d'Arc, d. Georges Hatot. France.
1900	Jeanne d'Arc, d. Georges Méliès, with Louise d'Alcy. France.
1903	William Tell, d. Lucien Nouguet. France: Pathé Frères.
1904	Parsifal, d. Edwin J. Porter. USA: Edison. From the Wagner opera; reissued 1909.
1906	Esmeralda, d. Alice Guy. France. A version of Notre Dame de Paris.
	L'Inferno. Italy.
1907	The Pied Piper of Hamelin, d. Percy Stow, Great Britain: Clarendon.
1908	Jane Shore. Great Britain: Gaumont Co.
	Leggenda Medievale, d. Mario Caserini. Italy: Ambrosio.
	Macbeth. USA: Vitagraph.
	The Martyrdom of Thomas Becket. Great Britain: Clarendon.
	The Viking's Daughter, d. J. Stuart Blackton. USA: Vitagraph.
	When Knights Were Bold. USA: Biograph.
1909	Alboino e Rosmunda. Italy: Pasquali e Tempo, Torino.
	Il Conte Ugolino, d. Giovanni Pastrone. Italy: Cines.
	Corradino di Svevia (Conrad V Last of the Hohenstauffens), d. Romolo Bacchini. Italy: Vesuvio.
	Henri III. Italy: Cines.
	L'Inferno. Italy: Saffi-Comerio.
	Jeanne d'Arc (La Vie de Jeanne d'Arc),...