Movies like William Tell (2025)
The best movies like William Tell (2025) are Medieval (2022), The Physician (2013) and The Uprising (2026). If William Tell hooked you with its action and adventure, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedGladiator (2000)8.2/10 from 21,850 votes
- NewestThe Uprising (2026)Released 2026
Medieval (2022)
The story of fifteenth century Czech icon and warlord, Jan Zizka, who defeated armies of the Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Physician (2013)
England, 1021: Born in a miserable mining town, Robert Cole swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to the remote Isfahan, in Persia, where he meets Ibn Sina, the greatest healer of his time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Uprising (2026)
As war and plague devastate 14th-century England, a humble peasant ignites a rebellion, uniting an army of commoners to defy the King’s might in a desperate fight for justice and survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRobin Hood (2010)
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBraveheart (1995)
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both history & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisBlack Death (2010)
As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to raise the dead. A fearsome knight joined by a cohort of soldiers and a young monk are charged by the church to investigate. Their journey is filled with danger, but it's upon entering the village that their true horror begins.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & history
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe 13th Warrior (1999)
A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their behavior but growing to respect them. As they travel together, they learn of a legendary evil closing in and must unite to confront this formidable force.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & history
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe King (2019)
England, 15th century. Hal, a capricious prince who lives among the populace far from court, is forced by circumstances to reluctantly accept the throne and become Henry V.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & history
Worth the HypeMovies like thisViking (2016)
The early Middle Ages. A time of heavy swords and dark blood law. The ruling clan is in discord. The guilt for the accidental death of the brother has fallen on the Grand Duke. According to the law, revenge must be taken by the younger brother, a bastard. For the refusal to kill, he has to pay with eve- rything he had, because “for peace you need more swords than for a war”...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both history & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisArn: The Knight Templar (2007)
Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKingdom of Heaven (2005)
After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCenturion (2010)
Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKnights of the Teutonic Order (1960)
A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMacbeth (2015)
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Return (2024)
After twenty years away, Odysseus washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. The king has finally returned home, but much has changed in his kingdom since he left to fight in the Trojan war.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both history & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGladiator (2000)
After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome's most capable generals who Marcus preferred. Eventually, Maximus is forced to become a gladiator and battle to the death against other men for the amusement of paying audiences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Northman (2022)
Prince Amleth is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, who kidnaps the boy's mother. Two decades later, Amleth is now a Viking who's on a mission to save his mother, kill his uncle and avenge his father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAlexander (2004)
Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both history & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Promised Land (2023)
Denmark, 1755. Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer a Danish heath reputed to be uncultivable, with an impossible goal: to establish a colony in the name of the king, in exchange for a royal title. A single-minded ambition that the ruthless lord of the region will relentlessly seek to put down. Kahlen's fate hangs in the balance: will his endevours bring him wealth and honour, or cost him his life...?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRise of the Conqueror (2026)
In the 14th-century, as the Silk Road crumbles and rival factions tear the land apart, fearless warrior Timur emerges from exile. Stripped of everything, he fights to unite the fractured kingdoms, using strategy and sheer will to carve an empire from chaos. Undefeated in battle and widely regarded as one of history’s greatest military leaders and tacticians, not to mention one of its most brutal, Timur would found the Timurid Empire, which ruled over modern-day Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asia.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both history & action
Outlaw King (2018)
Forced into exile by the English after being crowned King of Scotland, legendary warrior Robert the Bruce fights to reclaim the throne.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & history
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Green Knight (2021)
An epic fantasy adventure based on the timeless Arthurian legend, The Green Knight tells the story of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's reckless and headstrong nephew, who embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight, a gigantic emerald-skinned stranger and tester of men.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRobin Hood (2018)
A war-hardened Crusader and his Moorish commander mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisKing Arthur (2004)
The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in Britain, and that the Roman-British military commander, Lucius Artorius Castus is the historical person behind the legend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & history
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Last Duel (2021)
King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire, Jacques Le Gris, by challenging him to a duel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & history
Worth the HypeMovies like thisApocalypto (2006)
Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Eagle (2011)
In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila arrives from Rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father, the commander of the Ninth. Accompanied only by his British slave Esca, Marcus sets out across Hadrian's Wall into the uncharted highlands of Caledonia - to confront its savage tribes, make peace with his father's memory, and retrieve the lost legion's golden emblem, the Eagle of the Ninth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRobert the Bruce (2019)
In 1306, Scottish King Robert the Bruce turns a defeated outlaw when his country is invaded. But before to free his sacred land, he must manage to regain his will to fight back and survive the persecution of those who want take his head and the English gold.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & history
SnoozefestMovies like thisValhalla Rising (2010)
Scandinavia, 1,000 AD. For years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness. On their flight, One Eye and Are board a Viking vessel, but the ship is soon engulfed by an endless fog that clears only as the crew sights an unknown land. As the new world reveals its secrets and the Vikings confront their terrible and bloody fate, One Eye discovers his true self.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Rising Hawk (2019)
During the 13th century, a small village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpathian Mountains against Mongolian invaders.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & history
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like William Tell?
The closest matches to William Tell are Medieval (2022), The Physician (2013) and The Uprising (2026). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after William Tell?
People who watched William Tell most often go on to Medieval (2022), The Physician (2013) and The Uprising (2026).
What is the highest-rated movie like William Tell?
Gladiator (2000), rated 8.2/10 by 21,850 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like William Tell?
The Uprising (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like William Tell?
Yes: Medieval (2022), The Physician (2013) and The Uprising (2026).
How are movies similar to William Tell chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside William Tell, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.