List of war films and TV specials set between 476 and 1453

The war films and TV specials included here are set in the Middle Ages, starting with the time period after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476, and lasting until the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453.

Gothic Wars (248–554)

• Theodora (1921)
• Theodora, Slave Empress (1954)
• Revenge of the Barbarians (1960)
• Kampf um Rom (1968) is the last film to be directed by Robert Siodmak.

Wars of the Francia (481–840)

• Orlando e i Paladini di Francia (1956)
• I paladini – Storia d'armi e d'amori (1983)
• Charlemagne, le prince à cheval (1993)
• Redbad (2018)

Wars of China in the middle ages (618-1500)

Wars of Tang dynasty (618–907)

Wars of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period (907–960)

• Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)
• The Banquet (2006)

Wars of Song dynasty (960–1279)

Early Muslim conquests (622–751)

• Mohammad, Messenger of God (1976)
• Al Qadisiyya (1981)
• Hussein Who Said No (2014)
• Muhammad: The Messenger of God (2015)

Spanish Reconquest (718–1492)

• El Cid (1961)
• The Castilian (1963)
• I cento cavalieri (1964)
• El Cid (TV series) (2020)

War during the Viking Age (789–1130)

Norman conquest of England (1066–1076)

• The War Lord (1965)
• 1066 The Battle for Middle Earth (2009)
• William the Young Conqueror (2015)

Crusades (1095–1272)

Civil war era in Norway (1130 - 1240)

• The Last King (2016)

Northern Crusades (1147–1410)

• Alexander Nevsky (1938)
• Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960)
• Kazimierz Wielki (1976)
• Alexander – Battle of the Neva (2008)
• The Pagan King (2018)

Mongol conquests (1206–1324)

First Barons' War (1215–1217)

• Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950)
• Robin Hood (2010)
• Ironclad (2011), The film chronicles the siege of Rochester Castle by King John in 1215.

Ottoman wars in Europe (1299–1481)

Byzantine–Ottoman Wars (1299–1479)

• Florante at Laura (1939), depicting the history the war between the Byzantine Empire and Ottoman Empire
• Tirante el Blanco (2006)
• Fetih 1453 (Conquest 1453) (2012), Siege and Fall of Constantinople in 1453, marking the end of the Roman Empire

Ottoman Invasion of Serbia (1371–1459)

• Banović Strahinja (1981)
• Battle of Kosovo (1989)
• Put ružama posut (Rose covered road) (2013)

Ottoman–Hungarian Wars (1421–1566)

Skanderbeg's rebellion (1443–1468)

• The Great Warrior Skanderbeg (1954)

Ottoman invasion of Otranto (1480–1481)

• Flavia the Heretic (1974)

Wars of Scottish Independence (1296–1328), (1332–1357)

• Braveheart (1995), depictions of the Battles of Stirling and Falkirk
• The Bruce (1996), depiction of the Battle of Bannockburn (1314)
• Outlaw King (2018)

Hundred Years' War (1337–1453)

Hussite Wars (1419–1434)

Wars of the Roses (1455–1485)

• Richard III (1912)
• Tower of London (1939)
• Richard III (1955)
• Tower of London (1962)
• The Hollow Crown (2012)

See also

List of war films and TV specials

References