Greek Mythology in Movie and Video

The Trojan War	The Odyssey	Sophocles : Oedipus and Antigone
Euripides : Medea, Phaedra, and The Bacchae	Other Myths: Jason and Stories from Ovid	Documentaries

THE TROJAN WAR

Iphigenia 1971*
Directed by Michael Cacoyannis
Irene Papas, Tatiana Papamoschou. Kostas Kazokos
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0076208
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6300134318/windweavwebandwi/

Helen of Troy 1953*
directed by Robert Wise
Rossana Podesta, Jacques Sernas, Niall McGinnis
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0049301
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6304071787/windweavwebandwi/

Helen of Troy 2002*
USA Network http://www.usanetwork.com/movies/helenoftroy
VHS http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000A02U0/windweavwebandwi
DVD http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005JMH8/windweavwebandwi

Electra 1960s
directed by Cacoyannis
Irene Pappas, Aleka Katsili, Yannis Fertis
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0055950
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6303201504/

Achilles 1996 animated
Directed by Barry Purves
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0164317

The Trojan Women 1971
directed by Cacoyannis
Katherine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, Irene Pappas, Genevieve Bujold
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0067881
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6300166139/windweavwebaandwi/

La Guerra di Troia 1962
John Barrymore
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004STB5/windweavwebandwi/
TO BE RELEASED TO THE BIG SCREEN 5/04:
Troy starring Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom

THE ODYSSEY

The Odyssey TV Movie 1997*
Directed by Andreu Konchalovsky
Armand Assante, Isabel Rosselini,
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0118414
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1574924494/windweavwebandwi/

Ulysses 1954*
Kirk Douglas,directed by Mario Camarini
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0047630
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00001ZWBJ/windweavwebandwi/

MYTHS FROM SOPHOCLES:
Oedipus and Antigone

Oedipus the King 1968
directed by Philip Saville
Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Lily Palmer, Richard Johnson
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0063376
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6301783131/windweavwebandwi/

Oedipus Rex (Pasolini versions)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6301783131/windweavwebandwi/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000006E16/windweavwebandwi/

Oedipus Rex, Stravinski Opera
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6302993342/windweavwebandwi/

Antigone 1961
directed by Yorgos Javellas, with Irene Papas
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6302766885/windweavwebandwi/

Antigone 1984 tv
directed by Don Taylor, with Juliet Stevenson, Gwen Taylor, John Shrapnel
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0086905

Antigone 1973 (German)
directed by Piet Drescher, with Genevieve Bujold
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0069720
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0201426

Antigone Rights of Passion (experimental)
Amy Greenfield, Bertram Ross
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000541W5/windweavwebandwi/

MYTHS FROM EURIPIDES:
Medea, Phaedra, The Bacchae

Medea 1970
directed by Pier Pasolini
Maria Callas, Giuseppe Gentile
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0066065
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6301007360/windweavwebandwi/

Medea 1982 tv
directed by Mark Cunningham
Zoe Caldwell, Judith Anderson, Mitch Ryan
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0213875
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000K3UC/windweavwebandwi/

Medea 1987 tv
directed by Lars Von Trier
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0095607
Kirsten Oleson, Udo Kier

The Bacchae/ Dionysus
directed by Brian de Palma, Bruce Joel Rubin
Remi Barclay, Samuel Blazer
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0065641

The Bacchae 2001
directed by Brad Mays, with Jonathan Klein, Rich Werner
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0154187

Phaedra 1962 (modern retelling)
directed by Jules Dassin
Melina Mercouri, Anthony Perkins
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0056346

OTHER MYTHS: (Jason and
Stories from OVID)

Jason and the Argonauts 2000 (not recommended)
Jason London, Dennis Hopper, Jolene Blalock, Derek Jacobi Frank Langella
directed by Nick Willing
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0217579
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004W21J/ windweavwebandwi/

Jasons and the Argonauts 1963
directed by Ron Chaffey
Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0057197
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6302182522/windweavwebandwi/

Clash of the Titans 1981(Perseus)
directed by Desmond Davis
Harry Hamlin, Laurence Olivier, Judy Bowker, Claire Bloom
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0082186
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6304546335/windweavwebandwi/

Orphee and Eurydice
Gluck's 18^th century opera, Robert Wilson
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005B34Y/windweavwebandwi/

Black Orpheus 1959 (modern retelling)
directed by Marcel Camus
Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0053146
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005B34Y/windweavwebandwi/

The Storyteller - Theseus and the Minotaur/
Orpheus and Eurydice (1999)
Jim Henson, Anthony Minghella
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00003OKRH/windweavwebandwi/

The Storyteller – Perseus and the Gorgon, Daedalus and Icarus*
(this one is the best of the series)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00003OKRG/windweavwebandwi/

ALSO
Many movies about Hercules (not listed here)

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