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Two estranged brothers confront each other as rivals when war breaks out between Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and the Vikings. Vikings: 2013–2020: 793–825: Western Europe: Series inspired by the sagas of Viking Ragnar Lothbrok, one of the best-known legendary Norse heroes and notorious as the scourge of England and France. An Ancient Tale: When the ...
1917 is a 2019 war film directed and produced by Sam Mendes, who co-wrote it with Krysty Wilson-Cairns.Partially inspired by stories told to Mendes by his paternal grandfather Alfred about his service during World War I, [6] the film takes place after the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line during Operation Alberich, and follows two British soldiers, Will Schofield (George MacKay) and Tom ...
Major conflicts of this era include the Italian Wars and Thirty Years' War in Europe, the Kongo Civil War in Africa, the Qing conquest of the Ming in Asia, the Spanish conquest of Peru in South America, and the American Revolutionary War in North America. Based on statistics from Our World in Data (starting in 1400), 1525 (the end of the German ...
Films set in 15th-century Holy Roman Empire (9 P) Films based on The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (16 P) Hundred Years' War films (1 C, 10 P)
The siege of Haarlem was an episode of the Eighty Years' War. From 11 December 1572 to 13 July 1573 an army of Philip II of Spain laid bloody siege to the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands, whose loyalties had begun wavering during the previous summer. After the naval battle of Haarlemmermeer and the defeat of a land relief force, the starving ...
Dutch, German and English. Box office. $9.1 million. Winter in Wartime (Dutch: Oorlogswinter) is a 2008 Dutch war film directed by Martin Koolhoven. The screenplay was written by Mieke de Jong, Paul Jan Nelissen, and Martin Koolhoven [1] based on Jan Terlouw 's eponymous 1972 novel. The film was hugely successful in the Netherlands, out ...
412-413 War of Heraclianus. 409–418 Gothic War (409–418) 409–417: Bagaudae Revolt, uprising in the Loire valley and Brittany. 416–418 Gothic War in Spain (416-418) 420 Battle of the Nervasos Mountains. 422 Battle of Tarraco. 424–425 Roman civil war (Joannes vs Galla Placidia) 425–426: Gothic revolt of Theodoric I.
The 20th century is not the first to create images of life during medieval times. The Middle Ages ended over five centuries ago and each century has imagined, portrayed and depicted the Middle Ages through painting, architecture, poetry, music and novel. In the 20th century, film has defined Medieval history perhaps more so than any other medium.