The raids of the Vikings across Europe were powered by their signature long ships — allowing them access to any substantial waterway — and their military prowess.

Robert Eggers' The Northman is a bloody - and bloody ambitious - Viking epic that showcases the filmmaker's fervent dedication to historical accuracy and his artistic penchant for long continuous ...

Everything in the buildup to The Northman’s Viking raid scene is real. Out in the river shallows of what is supposed to be medieval Europe, an ancient vessel that was once the fear and scourge ...

The aforementioned village raid is the centerpiece sequence of The Northman and one of two scenes in the movie that Eggers says he's proudest of pulling off. Staged as a single take with one ...

Mounting a large-scale Viking epic was new territory for director Robert Eggers, whose “The Northman” opened in theaters last weekend. Among the film’s most ambitiously cinematic sequences ...

In The Northman, Eggers turns to the Viking Age (c.750-1050 CE) in the Nordic countries, making sure to get as far away from dumb horned helmets as possible. We asked Eggers, Skarsgård, and an ...

The Witch and The Lighthouse director returns with The Northman, starring Ethan Hawke, Nicole Kidman, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Alexander Skarsgård in a meticulously historically researched Viking ...

Mounting a large-scale Viking epic was new territory for director Robert Eggers, whose “The Northman” opened in theaters last weekend. Among the film's most ambitiously cinematic sequences are ...

Don't get me wrong: I love what The Northman does with Alexander Skarsgård as its lead. But let's be honest, by far the most underwhelming part of Egger's enthrallingly refreshing film is its ...

As The Northman raids movie theaters this weekend, it is doing so with brutal accuracy of Viking history, as far as that history is known. As archeologist Neil Price explains it, the complete ...

Alexander Skarsgård has been dreaming about Vikings for as long as he can remember. Some of his earliest memories are from Oland, a Swedish island on the Baltic Sea, where his great-grandfather ...