30 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 13th Century
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The Rising Hawk
🇷🇴 Romania The 13th CenturyFreedom is my nature. — During the 13th century, a small village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpathian Mountains against Mongolian invaders.
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The Pagan King
🇱🇹 Lithuania 🇱🇻 Latvia The 13th CenturyLive free or die. — Northern Europe. 13th century. Last pagan settlement near the Baltic Sea. The evil and cynical warrior crusader Max von Buxhoveden is trying to destroy the pagan beliefs of the people by spreading lies and fostering dissent. Old king of the last free pagan lands is on his deathbed and without an heir to take his place. Max wants to take over the throne and reign over old king’s tribe. Unexpectedly, with his dying breath the King passes on his ring to his nephew Namejs. The youngster, who grew up amongst pagan priests and studied ancient wisdoms, now has to defend his people. Will he be able to unravel the secret of the Ring and gain its power?
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Baltic Tribes
🇱🇹 Lithuania 🇱🇻 Latvia 🇸🇪 Sweden The 13th CenturyDocuDrama about 13th century pre-Christian culture. Danish spy Lars enters the tribal lands of the Baltic peoples, where he takes part in religious rites, cruel forays, gets high during the Summer Solstice, becomes slave to the Couronians and even fights the crusaders. Who were the last pagans of Europe and how did they live? It is a unique trip into the textures of the past and into the unknown lands of the Baltic Tribes.
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Pilgrimage
🇮🇪 Ireland The 13th CenturyA journey paved in blood — In 13th century Ireland a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across an Irish landscape fraught with peril.
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Furious
🇷🇺 Russia The 13th CenturyA story of a legendary battle, where seventeen fearless warriors defend their land against an army of thousands well-trained soldiers. In 13th-century Mongol warrior hordes and their leader, Batu Khan, control most of the known world. As the Mongols move towards Europe they invade the last Russian principality standing in their way. Little do they know, their plans are about to be ruined by a small detachment of heroic strong men led by a mysterious brave warrior. This is a story about courage, endurance and self-sacrifice for the sake of one's country. This is the story of Evpaty the Furious.
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The Last King
🇳🇴 Norway The 13th CenturyA story of legendary bravery — Norway, 1204. A civil war between the birkebeiners —the king's men— and the baglers —supporters of the Norwegian aristocracy and the Church— ravages the country. Two men must protect a baby, the illegitimate son of King Håkon, who will be the future king and peacemaker, from those who want to kill him.
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Ironclad
England The 13th CenturyHeavy metal goes medieval. — In the year 1215, the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal on the Magna Carta, a seminal document that upheld the rights of free men. Yet within months of pledging himself to the great charter, the King reneged on his word and assembled a mercenary army on the south coast of England with the intention of bringing the barons and the country back under his tyrannical rule. Barring his way stood the mighty Rochester castle, a place that would become the symbol of the rebel's momentous struggle for justice and freedom.
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Arn: The Kingdom at Road's End
🇸🇪 Sweden 🇸🇾 Syria The 13th Century The 12th CenturyArn has served his term in the Holy land and returns home to be reunited with his beloved Cecilia. When he returns home, he discovers that political forces tries to separate him and Cecilia - but thanks to queen Blanka they can finally get married. Arn knows that war is looming and with his martial knowledge he starts to build an army at his new home at Forsvik.
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Crusade in Jeans
🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy The 2000s The 13th CenturyDolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Middle Ages. He is rescued by children who are part of a childrens' crusade, on their way to rescue Jeruzalem. During the trip Dolf finds out the danger is not coming from outside the crusade, but from within.
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Eye of the Eagle
🇩🇰 Denmark The 13th CenturyIn 1218 Danish king Valdemar sends his homonymous young son and heir in safety, as war is at the borders, to Erskil, the bishop of Ravensburg, who is instructed to see to the prince's education. Alas the bishop is the brain of a conspiracy to seize the crown for himself, as most of the nobles are dissatisfied with the endless wars that bring them no profit. The prince and kitchen-boy Aske accidentally fall out of the castle and overhear the conspirators, but are seen and pursued by the men of the One-eyed Man, a feared mercenary who is in the conspiracy to take mortal revenge on the king for leaving him behind on a battlefield where he lost an eye which was eaten by an eagle, which he tamed and now shares his sight with. Written by KGF Vissers
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Braveheart
England Scotland The 13th Century The 14th CenturyEvery man dies. Not every man truly lives. — Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
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Army of Darkness
England The 13th CenturyTrapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas. — Ash is transported back to medieval days, where he is captured by the dreaded Lord Arthur. Aided by the deadly chainsaw that has become his only friend, Ash is sent on a perilous mission to recover the Book of the Dead, a powerful tome that gives its owner the power to summon an army of ghouls.
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
🇦🇹 Austria California New Mexico England The 1870s The 1860s The 1800s The 1900s The 1980s The 1st Century BC The 14th Century The 13th Century The FutureHistory is about to be rewritten by two guys who can't spell. — Bill and Ted are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history class—which means Ted would be sent to military school—but receive help from Rufus, a traveller from a future where their band is the foundation for a perfect society. With the use of Rufus' time machine, Bill and Ted travel to various points in history, returning with important figures to help them complete their final history presentation.
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Francesco
🇮🇹 Italy The 13th CenturyThe life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a privileged and virile youth, a prisoner of war, an heir who turns away from his father and gives all to the poor, a beggar for others, and an inspiration to friends who accept the Gospels' life of poverty. He seeks the Pope's blessing, and he endures persecution at the hands of the family of Chiara Offreduccio (1194-1253), who becomes St. Clare. Many join the order he has established and then rebel at his expectations. In near despair - and ill - he writes a Rule to take to the Pope; then, the Lord sends him a message. He dies smiling.
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Ladyhawke
🇮🇹 Italy The 13th CenturyNo force in Heaven will release them. No power on Earth can save them. — Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his lover, Lady Isabeau, takes the form of a hawk by day. Together, with the thief Philippe Gaston, they must try to overthrow the corrupt Bishop and in doing so break the spell.
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon
🇻🇦 Holy See 🇮🇹 Italy The 13th CenturyThis is a dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare.
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Marco the Magnificent
🇮🇹 Italy 🇨🇳 China 🇲🇳 Mongolia The 14th Century The 13th CenturyA story of endurance, savagery and heroism — Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder.
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Kaloyan
🇧🇬 Bulgaria The 13th Century The 12th Century1197. King Kaloyan ascends the throne in hard times for Bulgaria. The country is still recovering from a century of Byzantine subjugation. He is forced to carry out a very flexible foreign policy in order to strength his positions. Pope Innocent III recognizes him as Emperor (Tsar), but a little later the fourth Crusade crosses the country under Emperor Baldwin. A new conflict is coming. Tsar Kaloyan wages the decisive battle at Adrianople and wins.
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Marco Polo
🇮🇹 Italy 🇨🇳 China The 14th Century The 13th CenturyItalian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.
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Francis of Assisi
🇮🇹 Italy The 13th CenturyThe story of a lusty, fighting young adventurer who exchanged his sword for a cross — The story of a lusty, fighting young adventurer who exchanged his sword for a cross
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The Mongols
🇵🇱 Poland The 13th CenturyGenghis Khan and his Mongol army invade Poland and lay siege to the city of Cracow. The Polish king tries to make peace in order to save his city, and Genghis Khan seems amenable to that. However, his son Ogotai is itching for war, and his mistress eggs him on to defy his father and take the city.
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Oh Islam
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan 🇪🇬 Egypt 🇮🇷 Iran 🇸🇾 Syria The 13th CenturySet in the 14th century. Under their leader Timur, the Tartar hordes invade the Middle East and take over areas as widespread as Persia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, and Syria. A lowly woman from a harem (Lubna Aziz) rises to lead the Egyptians against the invaders.
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The Saracen Blade
🇮🇹 Italy The 13th CenturyBased on the book of the same name by Frank Yerby. Pietro is an orphan who is raised by a family friend in 15th century Italy. When the friend is killed by the same nasty baron who murdered Pietro's father as he led the peasants in revolt against the baron's tyranny, Pietro vows vengeance against the entire family. This will prove difficult, since he's been in love with the daughter of the nasty baron since he was a child and wants to marry her.
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The Black Rose
England 🇨🇳 China The 13th CenturyAn adventure that will blaze... A love that will flame... 'till the stars grow cold... — In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of the fierce but avuncular General Bayan, and journeys all the way to China, where both men become involved in intrigues in the court of Kublai Khan.
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Paolo e Francesca
🇮🇹 Italy The 13th Century - load more
