The medieval world wasn’t a tourist brochure of castles and courtly dances. It was raw, violent, often absurd, and deeply human.

Netflix has just added The Northman, the 2022 Viking movie, which we think is one of the very best action movies of the decade so far.

The 20th century saw the release of some of the greatest action movies ever, and, indeed, the first action movies ever, too, ...