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Matronly Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) loves the dashing Earl of Essex (Errol Flynn), but politics come first.

Henry VIII's (Charles Laughton) daughter Elizabeth (Jean Simmons) has a forbidden romance with naval hero Thomas Seymour (Stewart Granger).

Sir Gawain meets the Green Knight, Sir Percival seeks the Holy Grail, and King Arthur's (Mel Ferrer) Guinevere (Ava Gardner) loves Sir Lancelot (Robert Taylor).

Back from a Crusade, the knight hero (Robert Taylor) of Sir Walter Scott's novel fights for courtly love and Saxon honor.

A New Orleans belle (Elizabeth Taylor) lures a man (Montgomery Clift) away from his sweetheart (Eva Marie Saint) and into marriage during the Civil War.

A noble peasant beauty (Nastassja Kinski) is victimized by men (Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson) and Victorian ways.

A widowed lawyer (Gregory Peck) with two bright children (Mary Badham, Phillip Alford) defends a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman in 1930s Alabama.

An aging barrister (Charles Laughton) defends a man (Tyrone Power) for murder despite damaging testimony from the accused's wife (Marlene Dietrich).

One (Henry Fonda) of 12 jurors holds out in the case of a boy from the slums who is accused of killing his father.

A Michigan lawyer (James Stewart) and his colleague defend an Army lieutenant (Ben Gazzara) who killed the man who raped the officer's wife (Lee Remick).

A fundamentalist orator (Fredric March) opposes a liberal lawyer (Spencer Tracy) defending a Darwinist teacher in the 1920s South.