'Suppos þat þai be nocht bot fabill': Medieval Film and Robert the Bruce

Abstract

This article focusses on three films about Robert the Bruce: The Bruce (1996), Outlaw King (2018) and Robert the Bruce (2019). By exploring connections between historians and film-makers views of the past, and how these are expressed through cinematic conventions, it goes beyond assessments of ‘accuracy’ to enable more nuanced assessments of these films as creative works of art.