Αιχμάλωτος των Τούρκων, κατά τη διάρκεια μιας από τις Σταυροφορίες, ο Ρόμπιν του Λόξλεϊ δραπετεύει και με συνοδό έναν Μαυριτανό επιστρέφει στην Αγγλία. Εκεί θα βρει τον τόπο του να καταδυναστεύεται από τον σφετεριστή του θρόνου και τον σερίφη του Νότινγκαμ να έχει δολοφονήσει τον πατέρα του. Αμέσως, θα βγει στην παρανομία και θα φτιάξει ένα στρατό από κλέφτες με απώτερο σκοπό την δίκαιη επίλυση της κατάστασης.
Από την εποχή των ηρώων έρχεται ο πιο δυνατός πολεμιστής όλων, ο Μπέογουλφ. Αφού πρώτα σκοτώνει τον πανίσχυρο δαίμονα Γκρέντελ, κατόπιν αντιμετωπίζει την ασίγαστη οργή της δόλιας, σαγηνευτικής μητέρας του τέρατος, η οποία θα χρησιμοποιήσει όλα τα δυνατά μέσα για να σιγουρέψει την εκδίκησή της. Η επική μάχη που ακολουθεί αντηχεί στους αιώνες, κάνοντας αθάνατο το όνομα του Μπέογουλφ.
Με μοναδικό όπλο τη δύναμη της ψυχής του, ο πυγμάχος Τζιμ Μπράντοκ ανεβαίνει ξανά στο ρινγκ σε μεγάλη ηλικία, αποθεώνεται σαν ήρωας και εμπνέει ένα ολόκληρο έθνος... Βασισμένη σε αληθινή ιστορία.
Fed up with their strict parents, Tommy and Annika run away from home, with their friend Pippi Longstocking to look after them in their long trek.
Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Kriemhild.
Heroism and romance combine in an action-packed martial arts story. When the Shaolin are betrayed by White-Browed Hermit, hotheaded warrior-hero Fong Sai Yuk vows revenge.
As Carpathian legend has it, Oleksa Dovbush was a heroic outlaw with excellent fighting skills and a gift to predict the future. He was left an orphan as a small boy after a local lord murdered Oleksa's mother. After spending his childhood in exile in the mountains, he returned as a grown man to avenge his mother's death. Oleksa gathered followers to begin a crusade against the lord, but destiny made other plans for him.
A young hero defeats a dragon to find acceptance to the court of burgundy.
Η αληθινη ιστορια ενος αγροτη που κατηγορηθηκε για τη δολοφονια ενος ανθρωπου του νομου
Meet the doers and dreamers who made America great -- including John Henry, the railroad builder who proved the value of believing in oneself. Journey with giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan as he clears the land for American settlers. Follow the trail of the beloved American Icon Johnny Appleseed, who planted apple trees which blossomed along the new frontier. Then, take an unforgettable ride with Casey Jones, The Brave Engineer who never failed to deliver the mail...no matter how difficult the route!
Jánošík has been topic of many Slovak and Polish legends, books and films. According to the legend, he robbed nobles and gave the loot to the poor. The legend were also known in neighboring Silesia, the Margraviate of Moravia and later spread to the Kingdom of Bohemia. The actual robber had little to do with the modern legend, whose content partly reflects the ubiquitous folk myths of a hero taking from the rich and giving to the poor. However, the legend was also shaped in important ways by the activists and writers in the 19th century when Jánošík became the key highwayman character in stories that spread in the north counties of the Kingdom of Hungary (present Slovakia) and among the local Gorals and Polish tourists in the Podhale region north of the Tatras.
In the early eighteenth century, foreign rule means dark times for the Hutsuls of the Carpathians. The two Dovbush brothers become opryshkos - mountain outlaws. But the two brothers become enemies - one cares only about money, the other - Oleksa - fights for his people. The Carpathians are convulsed with a wave of uprisings. The aristocracy uses its military might to try to kill Dovbush and destroy his legend. But Dovbush outwits them. The desperate lords devise a devious plan and attack the invincible outlaw's Achilles heel - his love for his childhood sweetheart, Marichka. Who will be the assassin to attack the Opryshko whose immense strength and bravery inspired folk tales? Will the lords' treacherous plan destroy the hero before he can lead his people to freedom?
MacCumhaill is a tale of a vigilante who assumes himself to be the reincarnation of the mythical Fionn MacCumhaill. He is obsessed and convinced that modern day Ireland is completely over run by crime and violence and will do anything he can to stop this trend continuing.
The story of the "Hutsul Robin Hood" Oleksa Dovbush, an 18th century Carpathian Mountains outlaw who's a popular figure of Ukrainian legend.
The Robber Mathias Kneißl became a legend in Bavaria. The film is based on the historical criminal case and describes the last year of the rebel and folk hero. At the age of 23, he is released from prison, where he has served an unreasonably harsh six-year sentence. When this becomes known, he loses his job as a carpenter and now wants to emigrate to America with his girlfriend. He hopes to earn the money for the journey by committing crimes. In the process, he fatally wounds a gendarme. Despite this, Mathias Kneißl does not leave the area and stays in the Dachau hinterland. Only when his girlfriend betrays him is he able to find his hiding place. The farm was besieged by 300 police officers for days and then shot up. Kneißl was seriously injured and treated in a clinic in Munich before being beheaded in Augsburg in 1902.
In this all-animal version of the familiar story of Robin Hood, retold in stunning CGI animation, Robin Hood is up to his usual heroic antics when he learns that King Richard is finally returning home. However, Prince John arranges for his brother to be captured en route! The race is on -- Robin Hood must reach Richard before the Sheriff of Nottingham does -- or King and Kingdom will be forever lost.
This epic version of the Mulan tale was an early epic, shot on location in Northern China using hundreds of extras. It is the story of Hua Mulan, a young woman who takes her fathers place in the army as he is unwell. She gains glory but must eventually deal with her deception.
Part one of a two part feature serial following the folk hero Fong Sai-yuk. Both parts are now considered lost films.