Middle Ages in film
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Medieval films imagine and portray the Middle Ages through the visual, audio and thematic forms of cinema.
Douglas Fairbanks as Robin Hood in Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood (1922)
Joan of Arc has inspired artistic and cultural works for nearly six centuries. The following lists cover various media to include items of historic interest, enduring works of high art, and recent rep
Jeanne d'Arc statue at Place des Pyramides, Paris by Emmanuel Frémiet, 1874
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain, 1896 novel
Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw, 1923 play
Lalla Fatma N'Soumer, the Kabile woman who led a prolonged resistance to the French conquest of Algeria, was respected and honored by her French foes as "The Alegerian Jeanne d'Arc" or "La Jeanne d'Arc du Djurdjura". Like Joan of Arc, Lalla Fatma N'Soumer was a notable religious leader as well as a political and military one. (Here shown in a famous painting by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux).