List of works based on Arthurian legends  

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Films based on the Arthurian legend are many and varied. They can be divided into several broad categories:

Adaptations

Relatively straightforward adaptations of the legends, reconstructed history, or modern Arthurian material.

• Parsifal (1904)
• Launcelot and Elaine (1909)
• Il Re Artù e i cavalieri della tavola rotonda (1910)
• Parsifal (1912)
• The Quest of the Holy Grail (1915)
• The Adventures of Sir Galahad (serial) (1950)
• Knights of the Round Table (1953)
• Parsifal (1953)
• The Black Knight (1954)
• Prince Valiant (1954)
• The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (serial) (1956)
• Lancelot and Guinevere (1963)
• Siege of the Saxons (1963)
• Camelot (1967)
• Arthur of the Britons (1972)
• Gawain and the Green Knight (1973)
• Lancelot du Lac (1974)
• The Legend of King Arthur (BBC TV series, 1979)
• Perceval le Gallois (1979)
• Parzival (1980)
• Excalibur (1981)
• Parsifal (1982) (a film version of the performance of the Wagner opera by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg)
• Camelot (a videotaped stage performance of the musical, presented on HBO) (1982)
• Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1984)
• Les Chevaliers de la table ronde (1990)
• Ginevra (1992)
• Guinevere (1994)
• First Knight (1995)
• Prince Valiant (1997)
• Merlin (1998)
• The Mists of Avalon (2001)
• King Arthur (2004)
• Merlin's Apprentice (2006)
• The Last Legion (2007)
• Pendragon: Sword of His Father (2008)
• Merlin and the War of the Dragons (2008)
• Merlin (BBC TV series, 2008)
• Merlin and the Book of Beasts (2009)

Modernization

Productions whose plot "updates" or otherwise moves the legend to modern times.

• Knights of the Square Table (1917)
• King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942)
• Knightriders (1981)
• The Natural (1984)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
• The Fisher King (1991)
• Seaview Knights (1994)
• Four Diamonds (1995)
• Kids of the Round Table (1995)
• Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders (1996)
• Lancelot, Guardian of Time (1997)
• Arthur's Quest (1999)
• Avalon (2001)
• Fate/stay night (2004)
• Stargate SG1 Season 9 to 10 (2006 - 2007)

TV Series

• Mr. Merlin (1981-82)
• Merlin (TV series) (2008-present)
• Kaamelott (2005-2009)

Films based on the Tristan legend

• Tristan et Yseut (1909)
• Tristan et Yseut (1911)
• Tristan et Yseut (1920)
• The Eternal Return (1943)
• Tristana (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)
• Connemara (1989)
• Pardes (1997)
• Tristan et Yseut (2002)
• Tristan and Isolde (2006)

Connecticut Yankee

Films based on Mark Twain's novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, about a modern man/woman who travels in time to Arthur's period.

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921)[1]
• A Connecticut Yankee (1931)[2]
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949), a musical film starring Bing Crosby and Rhonda Fleming
• A Connecticut Yankee (1955 TV movie)[3]
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1970)[4]
• Unidentified Flying Oddball, also known as The Spaceman and King Arthur (1979)
• Novye prikluchenia janke pri dvore Korola Artura (1987)[5]
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1989 TV movie)[6]
• A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1995)[7]
• A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995)
• A Knight in Camelot (1998)
• Black Knight (2001)

Animation

• The Sword in the Stone (1963)
• A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur's Court (1978)
• The Legend of Prince Valiant (1991-1994)
• King Arthur & the Knights of Justice (1992-1993)
• Quest for Camelot (1998)
• Tristan et Yseut (2002)
• An scene in No Time for Nuts (2007)
• Shrek the Third (2007)
• Arthur! and the Square Knights of the Round Table - Australian animated cartoon series of the late 1960s

Humour

• Monty Python and the Holy Grail(1975)
• Sir Gadabout: The Worst Knight in the Land (2002)
• Kaamelott (2005)

See also

• Lists of movie source material