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Sundance Film Festival winners

This year's fest runs from January 15-25. Enjoy a past winner from our great collection of features and documentaries.

 
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A knight’s tale (2001)
After his master dies, a peasant squire creates a new identify for himself as a knight.

      
Captain Blood (1935)
An enslaved Irish doctor and his comrades in chains escape their English overlords in Jamaica and become pirates.

      
Casanova (2005)
Casanova is on the run from a Roman Inquisitor who wants to try him for heresy.

      
Crossbow (1987)
William Tell is transformed from a peaceful blacksmith to a freedom fighter to save his son and country from an evil Austrian governor.

      
Don Q, son of Zorro (1925)
Zorro’s son is framed for murder and assumes the identity of the outlaw Don Q.

      
First knight (1995)
Sir Lancelot falls in love with Guinevere, King Arthur's fiance, and has to rescue her from an evil renegade knight.

      
Hook (1991)
When Captain Hook kidnaps his children, an adult Peter Pan must return to Neverland to challenge his old enemy.

      
In the name of the king: a Dungeon Siege tale (2007)
A man sets out against a race of animal-warriors to rescue his wife and avenge his son.

      
Jamaica Inn (1939)
In 1800s Cornwall, a young woman discovers that she is living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.

      
Kidnapped (1995)
An exiled rebel returns to Scotland and joins forces with a young man struggling to earn his inheritance in this film based extremely loosely on the Robert Louis Stevenson classic novel.

      
King Arthur (2004)
Under the guidance of Merlin, Arthur finds the strength to lead Britain.

      
Kingdom of heaven (2005)
A young Frenchmen fulfills his destiny as a knight in Medieval Jerusalem in the Crusades.

      
Man of La Mancha (1972)
The aging nobleman Don Quixote embarrasses his family with his mad adventures.

      
Master and commander: the far side of the world (2003)
During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and crew to the limit while chasing a French war vessel around South America.

      
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
In 1789, first mate Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny against the cruel Captain Bligh, setting him adrift in an open boat while the HMS Bounty leaves Tahiti for England.

      
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
In 1787, the HMS Bounty sets out on a journey into history as one of the most ill-fated vessels ever to sail for England

      
Pirates of the Caribbean: at world’s end (2007)
Jack Sparrow, Captain Barbossa, Will Turner, and Elizabeth Swann make their final alliances for one last decisive battle.

      
Pirates of the Caribbean: dead man’s chest (2006)
Pirate Jack Sparrow owes an unpaid debt to an army of sea-phantoms: his soul.

      
Pirates of the Caribbean: the curse of the black pearl (2003)
Pirate Jack Sparrow sets out to save a governor’s daughter in hopes that it will help him regain the ship that was stolen from him.

      
Robin Hood (1922)
The dashing Earl of Huntingdon opposes evil Prince John and finds himself and his friends outlawed in Sherwood Forest.



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