Adaptations

• Parsifal
  Parsifal
  Parsifal is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. It is loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the 13th century epic poem of the Arthurian knight Parzival and his quest for the Holy Grail, and on Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail.Wagner first conceived the work...
  
  (1904)
• Launcelot and Elaine (1909)
• Il Re Artù e i cavalieri della tavola rotonda (1910)
• Parsifal
  Parsifal
  Parsifal is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. It is loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the 13th century epic poem of the Arthurian knight Parzival and his quest for the Holy Grail, and on Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail.Wagner first conceived the work...
  
  (1912)
• The Quest of the Holy Grail (1915)
• The Adventures of Sir Galahad
  Adventures of Sir Galahad
  Adventures of Sir Galahad is the 41st serial released by Columbia Pictures. It was based on Arthurian legend and, notably, was one of the very few serials of the time with a period setting that was not a western.-Plot:...
  
  (serial) (1949)
• Knights of the Round Table
  Knights of the Round Table (film)
  Knights of the Round Table is a 1953 Technicolor Cinemascope historical film made by MGM. Directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Pandro S. Berman, it was the first film in Cinemascope made by that studio...
  
  (1953)
• Parsifal
  Parsifal
  Parsifal is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. It is loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the 13th century epic poem of the Arthurian knight Parzival and his quest for the Holy Grail, and on Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail.Wagner first conceived the work...
  
  (1953)
• The Black Knight
  The Black Knight (1954 film)
  The Black Knight is a 1954 film starring Alan Ladd as the title character and Peter Cushing and Patrick Troughton as two conspirators attempting to overthrow King Arthur...
  
  (1954)
• Prince Valiant
  Prince Valiant (1954 film)
  Prince Valiant is a 1954 adventure film in Technicolor and Cinemascope, based on the comic strip of the same name by Hal Foster. A young man seeks to join the Knights of the Round Table in order to restore his father to his own kingship, and uncovers a plot against King Arthur.-Plot summary:The...
  
  (1954)
• The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
  The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
  The Adventures of Sir Lancelot is a British television series first broadcast in 1956, produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and screened on the ITV network...
  
  (serial) (1956)
• Lancelot and Guinevere
  Lancelot and Guinevere
  Lancelot and Guinevere is a British 1963 film starring Cornel Wilde, his real-life wife at the time, Jean Wallace, and Brian Aherne...
  
  (1963)
• Siege of the Saxons
  Siege of the Saxons
  Siege of the Saxons is a 1963 British film directed by Nathan H. Juran and released by Columbia Pictures. It is a historical epic, set in the time of King Arthur....
  
  (1963)
• The Sword in the Stone
  The Sword in the Stone (film)
  The Sword in the Stone is a 1963 American animated fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney and originally released to theaters on December 25, 1963...
  
  (1963)
• Camelot
  Camelot (film)
  Camelot is a 1967 film adaptation of the musical of the same name. Richard Harris stars as Arthur, Vanessa Redgrave as Guinevere, and Franco Nero as Lancelot. The film was directed by Joshua Logan.-Plot:...
  
  (1967)
• Arthur of the Britons
  Arthur of the Britons
  Arthur of the Britons is a British television show about the historical King Arthur. Produced by the HTV regional franchise, it consisted of two series, released between 1972 and 1973...
  
  (1972)
• Gawain and the Green Knight
  Gawain and the Green Knight (1973 film)
  Gawain and the Green Knight is a 1973 film directed by Stephen Weeks, and starring Murray Head as Gawain and Nigel Green in his final theatrical film as the Green Knight...
  
  (1973)
• Lancelot du Lac
  Lancelot du Lac (film)
  Lancelot du Lac is 1974 film that was written and directed by Robert Bresson. It relates the story of Lancelot and Guinevere's love as Camelot and the Round Table fall apart...
  
  (1974)
• The Legend of King Arthur (BBC
  BBC
  The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
  
   TV series, 1979)
• Perceval le Gallois
  Perceval le Gallois
  Perceval le Gallois is a 1978 French film directed by Éric Rohmer. It was inspired by Chrétien de Troyes's 12th century Arthurian romance Perceval, the Story of the Grail.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1979)
• Parzival
  Parzival
  Parzival is a major medieval German romance by the poet Wolfram von Eschenbach, in the Middle High German language. The poem, commonly dated to the first quarter of the 13th century, is itself largely based on Chrétien de Troyes’s Perceval, the Story of the Grail and mainly centers on the Arthurian...
  
  (1980)
• Excalibur
  Excalibur (film)
  Excalibur is a 1981 dramatic fantasy film directed, produced and co-written by John Boorman that retells the legend of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. Adapted from the 15th century Arthurian romance, Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory, Excalibur features the music of Richard Wagner...
  
  (1981)
• Parsifal
  Parsifal (film)
  Parsifal is a 1982 German musical film directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, based on the opera of the same name by Richard Wagner. It was shown out of competition at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival....
  
  (1982) (a film version of the performance of the Wagner opera by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
  Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
  Hans-Jürgen Syberberg is a German film director, whose best known film is his lengthy feature, Hitler: A Film from Germany.- Early life :...
  
  )
• Camelot
  Camelot (musical)
  Camelot is a musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe . It is based on the King Arthur legend as adapted from the T. H. White tetralogy novel The Once and Future King....
  
  (a videotaped stage performance of the musical, presented on HBO) (1982)
• Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a 1984 film starring Miles O'Keeffe, Cyrielle Claire, Leigh Lawson, and Sean Connery. The film is based on the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, written in the late 14th century, but the narrative differs...
  
  (1984)
• Les Chevaliers de la table ronde (1990)
• Ginevra (1992)
• Guinevere (1994)
• First Knight
  First Knight
  First Knight is a 1995 American medieval film based on Arthurian legend, directed by Jerry Zucker. It stars Richard Gere as Lancelot, Julia Ormond as Guinevere, Sean Connery as King Arthur and Ben Cross as Malagant....
  
  (1995)
• Prince Valiant
  Prince Valiant (1997 film)
  Prince Valiant is a 1997 independent sword and sorcery film directed by Anthony Hickox. It is based on the long running Prince Valiant comic strip of Hal Foster, some panels of which were used in the movie.-Plot:...
  
  (1997)
• Merlin
  Merlin (film)
  Merlin is a television miniseries which originally aired in 1998 that retells the legend of King Arthur from the perspective of the wizard Merlin...
  
  (1998)
• Quest For Camelot
  Quest for Camelot
  Quest for Camelot is a 1998 animated feature film from Warner Bros. Animation, based on the novel The King's Damosel by Vera Chapman, starring the voices of Jessalyn Gilsig, Cary Elwes, Gary Oldman, Eric Idle, Don Rickles, Jane Seymour, Pierce Brosnan, Bronson Pinchot, Jaleel White, Gabriel Byrne,...
  
  (1998)
• The Mists of Avalon
  The Mists of Avalon (TV miniseries)
  The Mists of Avalon is a 2001 miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Marion Zimmer Bradley. It was produced by American cable channel TNT and directed by Uli Edel...
  
  (2001)
• King Arthur
  King Arthur (film)
  King Arthur is a 2004 film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Franzoni. It stars Clive Owen as the title character, Ioan Gruffudd as Lancelot, and Keira Knightley as Guinevere....
  
  (2004)
• Merlin's Apprentice
  Merlin's Apprentice
  Merlin's Apprentice is a 2006 miniseries. Though also produced for Hallmark, it is not a sequel to the hit television miniseries Merlin from , but does feature Sam Neill as an alternate version of Merlin and Miranda Richardson returning as a very different Lady of the Lake.While being vaguely based...
  
  (2006)
• The Last Legion
  The Last Legion
  The Last Legion is a 2007 film directed by Doug Lefler. Produced by Dino De Laurentiis and others, it is based on a 2003 Italian novel of the same name written by Valerio Massimo Manfredi...
  
  (2007)
• Pendragon: Sword of His Father
  Pendragon: Sword of His Father
  Pendragon: Sword of His Father is a 2008 Christian historical fantasy film based on the Arthurian legend directed by Chad Burns. It was filmed in five U.S. states, and was released on November 25, 2008...
  
  (2008)
• Merlin and the War of the Dragons
  Merlin and the War of the Dragons
  Merlin and the War of the Dragons is a 2008 fantasy film produced by The Asylum, based loosely on the legends of King Arthur. It was filmed entirely on location in Wales.- Plot :...
  
  (2008)
• Merlin and the Book of Beasts
  Merlin and the Book of Beasts
  -Plot:An evil sorcerer Mordred takes over Camelot leaving destruction and death in his path with his Book of Beast...
  
  (2009)

Modernization

• Knights of the Square Table (1917)
• King Arthur Was a Gentleman
  King Arthur Was a Gentleman
  King Arthur Was a Gentleman is a 1942 British, black-and-white, comedy, musical film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Ronald Shiner as Sargent and Arthur Askey as Arthur King...
  
  (1942)
• Knightriders
  Knightriders
  Knightriders is a 1981 film written and directed by George A. Romero. It was filmed entirely on location in Pennsylvania, especially in Fawn Township and Natrona...
  
  (1981)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 American adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, from a story co-written by executive producer George Lucas. It is the third film in the Indiana Jones franchise. Harrison Ford reprises the title role and Sean Connery plays Indiana's father, Henry...
  
  (1989)
• The Fisher King
  The Fisher King (film)
  The Fisher King is a 1991 American comedy-drama film written by Richard LaGravenese and directed by Terry Gilliam. It stars Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, Mercedes Ruehl, Amanda Plummer and Michael Jeter...
  
  (1991)
• Seaview Knights (1994)
• Four Diamonds (1995)
• Kids of the Round Table (1995)
• Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders
  Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders
  Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders is a 1996 fantasy/horror film directed by Kenneth J. Berton. The film stars Ernest Borgnine, who plays a grandfather telling his grandson a story about the wizard Merlin opening up a store in modern-day America...
  
  (1996)
• Lancelot, Guardian of Time (1997)
• Arthur's Quest (1999)
• Avalon
  Avalon (2001 film)
  is a 2001 science-fiction film by Japanese filmmaker Mamoru Oshii. The name of the film originates from the island Avalon in the legend of King Arthur.-Overview:...
  
  (2001)
• Stargate SG1 Season 9 to 10 (2006–2007)
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010 film)
  The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a 2010 fantasy adventure film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, directed by Jon Turteltaub, and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, the team behind the National Treasure franchise...
  
  (2010)
• Avalon High (film)
  Avalon High (film)
  Avalon High is a 2010 Disney Channel Original Movie starring Britt Robertson, Gregg Sulkin, Joey Pollari and Devon Graye. The movie is based on the book of the same name by Meg Cabot...
  
   (2010 film)

• Mr. Merlin
  Mr. Merlin
  Mr. Merlin, a Larry Larry Company Production in association with Columbia Pictures Television, was a 1981–82 sitcom starring Barnard Hughes as Merlin the wizard, disguised as Max Merlin, a mechanic in modern-day San Francisco.-Plot:...
  
  (1981–82)
• Merlin
  Merlin (TV series)
  Merlin is a British fantasy-adventure television programme by Julian Jones, Jake Michie, Julian Murphy and Johnny Capps. It began broadcasting on BBC One on 20 September 2008. The show is based on the Arthurian legends of the wizard Merlin and his relationship with Prince Arthur but differs from...
  
  (BBC
  BBC
  The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
  
   TV series, 2008–present)
• Kaamelott
  Kaamelott
  Kaamelott is a French television series running originally 2005–2009. It combines medieval fantasy and comedy to present a new "realistic epic" version of the Arthurian legend....
  
   (2005–2009)
• Camelot (TV series)
  Camelot (TV series)
  Camelot is a historical-fantasy-drama television series which premiered on April 1, 2011. It was co-produced by the Starz cable network and GK-TV which began production during the summer of 2010...
  
  (Starz) (2010 - 2011)

Films based on the Tristan legend

Tristan and Iseult

The legend of Tristan and Iseult is an influential romance and tragedy, retold in numerous sources with as many variations. The tragic story is of the adulterous love between the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Iseult...

• Tristan et Yseut (1909)
• Tristan et Yseut (1911)
• Tristan et Yseut (1920)
• The Eternal Return (1943)
• Tristana
  Tristana
  Tristana is a 1970 Spanish film directed by Luis Buñuel. Based on the eponymous novel by Benito Pérez Galdós, it stars Catherine Deneuve and Fernando Rey and was shot in Toledo, Spain. The voices of French actress Catherine Deneuve and Italian actor Franco Nero were dubbed to Spanish...
  
  (1970)
• Tristan et Yseut (1972)
• Tristan and Isolt aka Lovespell (1979)
• Fire and Sword (1981)
• The Woman Next Door (1981)
• Isolde (1989)
• In the Shadow of the Raven (1988)
• Doctor Who Battlefield
  Battlefield (Doctor Who)
  Battlefield is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from September 6 to September 27, 1989. It was the last appearance of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in Doctor Who....
  
   (1988-1989)
• Connemara
  Connemara
  Connemara is a district in the west of Ireland consisting of a broad peninsula between Killary Harbour and Kilkieran Bay in the west of County Galway.-Overview:...
  
  (1989)
• Pardes
  Pardes
  The soundtrack was composed by the duo of Nadeem Shravan while the lyrics were penned by Anand Bakshi. It was released under the label of Tips Music Films. The album was very successful amongst the audience. The tracks "I Love My India", "Meri Mehbooba", "Do Dil Mil Rahe Hain" and "Nahin Hona Tha"...
  
  (1997)
• Tristan et Yseut (2002)
• Tristan and Isolde (2006)

Connecticut Yankee

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921 film)
  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a 1921 American silent film adaptation of Mark Twain's 1889 novel of the same name. The film was produced by the Fox Film Corporation and directed by Emmet J. Flynn based on a screenplay by Bernard McConville...
  
  (1921)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0012067/
• A Connecticut Yankee (1931)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021759/
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949 film)
  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a 1949 musical comedy film adaptation of the Mark Twain novel of the same name that was distributed by Paramount Pictures.-Plot:...
  
  (1949), a musical film starring Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
  
   and Rhonda Fleming
  Rhonda Fleming
  Rhonda Fleming , is an American film and television actress.She acted in more than 40 films, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, and became renowned as one of the most beautiful and glamorous actresses of her day...
  
  
• A Connecticut Yankee (1955 TV movie)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0321754/
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1970)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756637/
• Unidentified Flying Oddball
  Unidentified Flying Oddball
  Unidentified Flying Oddball, also known as The Spaceman and King Arthur, is Disney’s film adaptation of Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. It was directed by Russ Mayberry...
  
  , also known as The Spaceman and King Arthur (1979)
• Novye prikluchenia janke pri dvore Korola Artura (1987)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307245/
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court...
  
  (1989 TV movie)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097104/
• A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1995)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115030/
• A Kid in King Arthur's Court
  A Kid in King Arthur's Court
  A Kid in King Arthur's Court is a 1995 film directed by Michael Gottlieb. It is based on the famous Mark Twain novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, transplanted into the twentieth century....
  
  (1995)
• A Knight in Camelot
  A Knight in Camelot
  A Knight in Camelot is a 1998 TV movie starring Whoopi Goldberg and Michael York. It was directed by Roger Young, distributed by Disney and is loosely based on Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.-Plot:...
  
  (1998)
• Black Knight
  Black Knight (film)
  Black Knight is a 2001 American comedy film starring Martin Lawrence. The film was directed by Gil Junger, whose experience was primarily with television sitcoms...
  
  (2001)

• The Sword in the Stone
  The Sword in the Stone (film)
  The Sword in the Stone is a 1963 American animated fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney and originally released to theaters on December 25, 1963...
  
  (1963)
• Arthur! and the Square Knights of the Round Table
  Arthur! and the Square Knights of the Round Table
  Arthur! And the Square Knights of the Round Table was an Australian animated series based on the legend of King Arthur of Camelot.The series was produced from 1966 to 1968 and written by Melbourne playwright Alex Buzo and British-born entertainer Rod Hull, with Lyle Martin, M. Robinson, and John...
  
  - Australian animated cartoon series of the late 1960s
• A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur's Court (1978)
• King Arthur - Japanese animated cartoon series
  Anime
  is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
  
   (1979-1980)
• The Legend of Prince Valiant
  The Legend of Prince Valiant
  The Legend of Prince Valiant is an American animated television series based on the Prince Valiant comic strip created by Hal Foster. Set in the time of King Arthur, it's a family-oriented adventure show about an exiled prince who goes on a quest to become one of the Knights of the Round Table. He...
  
  (1991–1994)
• King Arthur & the Knights of Justice (1992–1993)
• Quest for Camelot
  Quest for Camelot
  Quest for Camelot is a 1998 animated feature film from Warner Bros. Animation, based on the novel The King's Damosel by Vera Chapman, starring the voices of Jessalyn Gilsig, Cary Elwes, Gary Oldman, Eric Idle, Don Rickles, Jane Seymour, Pierce Brosnan, Bronson Pinchot, Jaleel White, Gabriel Byrne,...
  
  (1998)
• King Arthur and the Knights of The Round Table
  King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
  King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table can refer to:*The legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table*King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table , a 1979 Japanese anime series...
  
   (1999)
• Tristan et Yseut (2002)
• Fate/stay night
  Fate/stay night
  is a Japanese visual novel developed by Type-Moon, which was originally released as an adult game for the PC. An all-ages version of Fate/stay night, titled Fate/stay night Réalta Nua, was released for the PlayStation 2 on April 19, 2007, and features the Japanese voice actors from the anime series...
  
  (2006)
• A scene in No Time for Nuts
  No Time for Nuts
  No Time for Nuts is a computer animated short film from Blue Sky Studios , starring Scrat of Ice Age fame, premiering on the DVD release of Ice Age: The Meltdown, much in the same vein as Gone Nutty on the previous movie's DVD release...
  
  (2007)
• Shrek the Third
  Shrek the Third
  Shrek the Third is a 2007 American animated film, and the third film in the Shrek series. It was produced by Jeffrey Katzenberg for DreamWorks Animation, and is distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was released in U.S. theaters on May 18, 2007...
  
  (2007)
• Merlin and the Dragons
  Merlin and the Dragons
  Merlin and the Dragons is a 1991 animated film narrated and voiced by Kevin Kline. Originally broadcast as a feature of the pbs program "Long Ago and Far Away , it was published by WB in 1991. It is a retelling of the Arthurian legend.-Plot summary:...
  
  (1991)
• Soul Eater
  Soul Eater (manga)
  is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Atsushi Ōkubo. Set at the "Death Weapon Meister Academy," the series revolves around three teams consisting of a weapon meister and human weapon...
  
  (2008)
• Fate/Zero
  Fate/zero
  is a prequel to Type-Moon's visual novel Fate/stay night. It is a light novel by Gen Urobuchi, illustrated by Takashi Takeuchi. The first volume was released on December 29, 2006, and is a collaboration between Type-Moon and fellow developer Nitroplus. The second volume was released on March 31,...
  
  (2011)

Humour

• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1974 British comedy film written and performed by the comedy group Monty Python , and directed by Gilliam and Jones...
  
  (1975)
• Sir Gadabout: The Worst Knight in the Land
  Sir Gadabout: The Worst Knight in the Land
  Sir Gadabout: The Worst Knight In The Land was a British children's comedy television programme, broadcast on CITV. It originally aired between February 11, 2002 and May 9, 2003.- Overview :...
  
  (2002)

External links

• Arthurian Film by Kevin J. Harty