it's almost easy to forget that there was one Viking-focused action film that was released in 1999: The 13th Warrior, starring Antonio Banderas and directed by John McTiernan. To be fair ...

The comradery and mutual respect that develops between Ahmad and the Vikings in the film is heartening. According to Lewis, The 13th Warrior was even shown in a class on unit cohesion at the US ...

Based on Michael Crichton’s novel Eaters of the Dead, The 13th Warrior follows Ahmad ibn Fadlan (Banderas), a court poet who is exiled from Baghdad after having an affair with the wife of a ...