FILMS FOR WESTERN CIVILIZATION I
@ -- particularly recommended
Prehistory
One Million B.C. (1967)
@Quest for Fire (1981)
The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986)
10,000 BC (2008)
Ancient Middle East
Land of the Pharaohs (1956)
The Scorpion King II (2008)
@The Egyptian (1954)
Joseph (1995)
David and Bathsheba
King David (1985)
The Ten Commandments (silent version 1923)
@The Ten Commandments (1956)
@Intolerance (silent version 1916
Greece
Iphigenia ((1997)
Helen of Troy (1956)
@The Trojan Women (1971)
Electra (1962)
Ulysses (1955)
The Odyssey (1997)
@The 300 Spartans (1961)
@300 (2007)
Alexander the Great (1956)
@Alexander (2004)
Rome
Hannibal (1959)
@Spartacus (1960)
Spartacus (2004)
Spartacus: Blood and Sand (2010)
Julius Caesar (2002)
@Julius Caesar (1953)
Julius Caesar (1970
@Cleopatra (1934)
@Cleopatra (1963)
Cleopatra (1999)
Rome (2005-2007)
I, Claudius (1976)
Caligula (1979(
@The Passion of Christ (2004)
@Ben Hur (1959)
The Robe (1953)
Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)
@King of Kings (1961)
Quo Vadis (1951)
Masada (1981)
@The Gladiator (2000)
@The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
Attila (2001)
Early Middle Ages
King Arthur (2004)
The Mist of Avalon (2001)
@Hamlet (1964)
@The Message (1976) --- Islam
Pope Joan (1972)
Pope Joan (2009)
@The Vikings (1958)
High Middle Ages
@Macbeth (1971)
Macbeth (1997)
@El Cid (1961)
@Becket (1964)
@The Lion In Winter (1968)
@The Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Saladin (1963)
@The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Robin Hood (2010)
@Robin and Marian (1976)
Francis of Assisi (1961)
@Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)
@Mongol (2007)
@Alexander Nevsky (1938)
The Adventures of Marco Polo (1960)
Marco Polo (1982)
Marco Polo (2007)
@The Virgin Spring (1960)
@Braveheart (1995)
The Name of the Rose (1986)
The Decameron (1971)
Black Death (2010)
@The Seventh Seal (1957)
A Knight's Tale (2001)
The Canterbury Tales (1972)
The Canterbury Tales (1998-2000)
Richard the Second (1978)
@Henry V (1944)
@Henry V (1989)
Joan of Arc (1948)
@Saint Joan (1957)
Joan of Arc (1999)
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
Richard III (1995)
Renaissance and Religious Reformations
Christopher Columbus (1985)
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992)
@Conquest of Paradise (1992)
@The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
The Borgias (miniseries--2011)
@Luther (2003)
The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
Henry VIII (2003)
The Tudors (2007-2010)
@A Man for All Seasons (1996)
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
@Ivan the Terrible (1944, 1958)
The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
@The Return of Marin Guerre (1982)