Favorite Movie or TV Series Featuring Viking Lore
by cartman_1337 | created - 01 Dec 2013 | updated - 03 Dec 2013 | PublicWhat's your favorite movie or TV series featuring viking lore? (At least 1,000 votes and 5.0 or higher rating)
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1. Vikings (2013–2020)
TV-MA | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Vikings transports us to the brutal and mysterious world of Ragnar Lothbrok, a Viking warrior and farmer who yearns to explore--and raid--the distant shores across the ocean.
Stars: Katheryn Winnick, Gustaf Skarsgård, Alexander Ludwig, Georgia Hirst
Votes: 581,067
2. How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
PG | 98 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed.
Directors: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders | Stars: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Craig Ferguson
Votes: 799,187 | Gross: $217.58M
3. DreamWorks Dragons (2012–2014)
TV-Y7 | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The further adventures of Hiccup and his friends on the Island of Berk.
Stars: Jay Baruchel, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller, America Ferrera
Votes: 13,407
4. The Vikings (1958)
Not Rated | 116 min | Action, Adventure, History
A slave and a Viking prince fight for the love of a captive princess.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh
Votes: 15,671 | Gross: $7.00M
5. Thor (2011)
PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Fantasy
The powerful but arrogant god Thor is cast out of Asgard to live amongst humans in Midgard (Earth), where he soon becomes one of their finest defenders.
Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston
Votes: 899,406 | Gross: $181.03M
6. When the Raven Flies (1984)
R | 109 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An Irish man seeks vengeance against the vikings who killed his parents.
Director: Hrafn Gunnlaugsson | Stars: Jakob Þór Einarsson, Edda Björgvinsdóttir, Helgi Skúlason, Gotti Sigurdarson
Votes: 2,571
7. Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
PG-13 | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The ancient war between humans and a race of giants is reignited when Jack, a young farmhand fighting for a kingdom and the love of a princess, opens a gateway between the two worlds.
Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Stanley Tucci, Ewan McGregor, Bill Nighy
Votes: 146,892 | Gross: $65.19M
8. The 13th Warrior (1999)
R | 102 min | Action, Adventure, History
A man, having fallen in love with the wrong woman, is sent by the sultan himself on a diplomatic mission to a distant land as an ambassador. Stopping at a Viking village port to restock on supplies, he finds himself unwittingly embroiled in a quest to banish a mysterious threat in a distant Viking land.
Directors: John McTiernan, Michael Crichton | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Diane Venora, Dennis Storhøi, Vladimir Kulich
Votes: 131,984 | Gross: $32.70M
9. Beowulf (2007)
PG-13 | 115 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel, who is terrorizing Denmark, then Grendel's Mother, who begins killing out of revenge.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Ray Winstone, Crispin Glover, Angelina Jolie, Robin Wright
Votes: 174,076 | Gross: $82.16M
10. Prince Valiant (1954)
Approved | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: James Mason, Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner, Debra Paget
Votes: 2,945
11. Outlander (2008)
R | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
During the reign of the Vikings, Kainan, a man from a far-off world, crash lands on Earth, bringing with him an alien predator known as the Moorwen. Though both man and monster are seeking revenge for violence committed against them, Kainan leads the alliance to kill the Moorwen by fusing his advanced technology with the Viking's Iron Age weaponry.
Director: Howard McCain | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Ron Perlman, Jack Huston
Votes: 78,662 | Gross: $0.16M
12. The Island at the Top of the World (1974)
G | 93 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
In 1907, four explorers discover a lost colony of Vikings in the Arctic.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: David Hartman, Donald Sinden, Jacques Marin, Mako
Votes: 3,158
13. Erik the Viking (1989)
PG-13 | 107 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Erik the Viking and his men travel across the sea to find Valhalla to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnarok.
Director: Terry Jones | Stars: Tim Robbins, John Cleese, Mickey Rooney, Eartha Kitt
Votes: 14,473 | Gross: $1.93M
14. The Long Ships (1964)
Not Rated | 126 min | Adventure, Drama
A vagabond Viking adventurer and a Moor both compete to find "The Mother of All Voices", a legendary golden bell near the Pillars of Hercules.
Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn, Rosanna Schiaffino
Votes: 3,109
15. Deeply (2000)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A reclusive woman's unpublished story about a curse, told to a grieving girl, turns out to be something other than a fairy tale.
Director: Sheri Elwood | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Lynn Redgrave, Julia Brendler, Trent Ford
Votes: 1,806
16. Asterix and the Vikings (2006)
Not Rated | 78 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
While tutoring Vitalstatistix's rebellious nephew Justforkix, Asterix and Obelix must rescue him from Vikings who wish to learn the meaning of fear to become invincible.
Directors: Stefan Fjeldmark, Jesper Møller, Joanna Wizmur, Jack Fletcher | Stars: Roger Carel, Lorànt Deutsch, Sara Forestier, Jacques Frantz
Votes: 12,721
17. Beowulf & Grendel (2005)
R | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In Denmark, during the 6th century, Danish king Hrothgar and his warriors kill a troll whose son, Grendel, vows revenge.
Director: Sturla Gunnarsson | Stars: Hringur Ingvarsson, Spencer Wilding, Stellan Skarsgård, Ingvar Sigurdsson
Votes: 18,580 | Gross: $0.07M
18. Valhalla Rising (2009)
Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Forced for some time to be a fighting slave, a pagan warrior escapes his captors with a boy and joins a group of Crusaders on their quest to the Holy Land.
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Maarten Stevenson, Alexander Morton, Stewart Porter
Votes: 63,596 | Gross: $0.02M
19. Wickie und die starken Männer (2009)
85 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The story of a young Viking boy who accompanies his father, the chief of their village, and his men on their adventures--and often is the person who uses his wit and instincts to help the men in their times of need.
Director: Michael Herbig | Stars: Jonas Hämmerle, Waldemar Kobus, Günther Kaufmann, Michael Herbig
Votes: 3,487
20. Pathfinder (2007)
R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A Viking boy is left behind after his clan battles a Native American tribe. Raised within the tribe, he ultimately becomes their savior in a fight against the Norsemen.
Director: Marcus Nispel | Stars: Karl Urban, Clancy Brown, Moon Bloodgood, Russell Means
Votes: 46,253 | Gross: $10.23M
21. True Blood (2008–2014)
TV-MA | 55 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse encounters a strange new supernatural world when she meets the mysterious Bill Compton, a southern Louisiana gentleman and vampire.
Stars: Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell, Ryan Kwanten
Votes: 259,879
Alexander Skarsgård's character used to be a viking and there many flashbacks to his viking days during the series.
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