Goldshield Castle Recommended Medieval Feature Film

 

"A Knight’s Tale" This movie, starring the late Heath Ledger, is unique among medieval movies. The story is set to music, rock music, that makes for a good time for the audience. Ledger plays a peasant with a burning desire to become a knight, or at least to survive.

"Kingdom of Heaven" This epic drama that takes you from the crusades of the east to the hard life of medieval Europe. This Ridley Scott film stars Liam Neeson (Sir Godfrey) and Orlando Bloom as a blacksmith who becomes a crusader. Rarely are medieval films shot with the skill of these graphic battle scenes and sweeping views. 

"First Knight" How could this be anything be one of the best medieval movies with a cast like Sean Connery as King Arthur, Richard Gere as Lancelot and Julia Ormond as Guinevere? Of course, as in any of the medieval movies about Camelot, Lancelot falls in love with Guinevere while King Arthur battles a violent adversary.

"Excalibur" This is one of the most ambitious medieval movies made about King Arthur and the times he lived in. The action is nonstop. The beautiful photography and brass-brassiered Helen Mirrin make this a film worth seeing.

"Ever After" Drew Barrymore is an enchanting, feisty Cinderella in this fairy tale film. Anjelica Huston is the perfect wicked step mother. Much closer to the original Brothers Grimm fable it is still a story between a common girl and a prince in the end. This Cinderella sports a pretty progressive attitude than other women in medieval films.