Web Exercises

Skill Goal: Using online databases
Subject: Medieval history in the movies

The Internet Movie Database is a massive compilation of information on the history of the movies. Find information there, by using its search mechanisms, on movies about ancient Rome.

Here are some titles to check:

• The Lion in Winter
• Braveheart
• Becket
• The Sorceress
• The Passion of Joan of Arc
• The Seventh Seal

Read the comments people have made about these movies. How important is historical accuracy in a movie? Give several arguments that you find (for instance, about Braveheart).

Rent or borrow one of these movies and write your own review in which you assess the movie in terms of historical accuracy and as a piece of movie making.