Best Viking Movies of All Time – Top 30 Epic Norse Adventures

Ready for epic Norse adventures? Discover the best Viking movies of all time – from brutal historical sagas like The Northman to cult classics like The 13th Warrior. These films bring you axe-swinging action, legendary battles, and deep Viking lore. Whether you love Ragnar Lothbrok’s cunning or crave Valhalla’s glory, our ranked list has something for every shieldmaiden and warrior!

Why settle for mediocre battles? We’ve combed through decades of cinema to find the most authentic Viking films – packed with Norse mythology, fjord cinematography, and unforgettable characters. Click to see which blood-soaked epic tops our list!

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30 Hammer of the Gods, 2013

A high energy, high concept, stylish action epic set in the Norse world sees a passionate young man transform into a brutal warrior as he travels the unforgiving British landscape in search of his long lost brother Hakan The Ferrocious who his people are relying on to restore order to their kingdom following the bloody death of their king.

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29 The Viking Sagas, 1995

A mythical warrior wanders the snow-capped landscapes of the North territories on an arduous quest for vengeance. Amid nobles and schemers, saints and brutes, and lovers and fools, this Viking swings his sword for his family’s honor, his beloved’s hand, and the very survival of his pitiless culture.

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28 Valhalla: The Legend of Thor (Valhalla), 2019

Viking children Røskva and Tjalfe embark on an adventurous journey from Midgard to Valhalla with the gods Thor and Loki. Life in Valhalla, however, turns out to be threatened by the dreaded Fenrir wolf and the god’s barbaric archenemies, the Jotnar. Side by side with the gods, the two children must fight to save Valhalla from the end of the world-Ragnarok.

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27 Den sidste viking, 1997

The son of Viking Harald is left behind in his village with women and children, when his father joins a group of rebels. They are revolving against the king, but the king takes revenge by overtaking the village and tyrannizing the population.

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26 The Red Mantle (Den røde kappe), 1966

The story, based on an ancient legend, concerns Hagbard, the son of a slain Norse king. Seeking revenge against the rival clan responsible for the killing, Hagbard calms down long enough to establish a truce. He also falls in love with Signe, daughter of his onetime enemy. Signe’s former beau, sizzling with jealousy, breaks the truce and makes it appear that Hagbard was responsible. The young prince escapes, but returns disguised as a woman to his beloved Signe.

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25 Beowulf & Grendel, 2005

Denmark, 6th Century AD. Driven on by the murder of his father troll Grendel exacts revenge on those he holds responsible. Sent to stop him is the great warrior Beowulf and his troops. However, Beowulf discovers the reason for Grendel’s murderous rampage, making him think twice about his mission.

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24 Northmen: A Viking Saga, 2014

A band of Vikings are stranded behind enemy lines on the coast of Alba as their longboat goes down in a dreadful storm. Their only chance of survival is to find a path to the Viking settlement, Danelagh, traversing an unfamiliar and hostile land they have never known. The journey becomes a race for their lives when the King of Alba sends his most feared mercenaries after them. But when the Vikings meet a kind Christian Monk who preaches with his sword, the hunters become the hunted as the Vikings set deadly traps, mercilessly decimating their pursuers one by one, culminating in a final and deadly encounter.

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23 Pathfinder, 2007

A Viking Age expedition arrives in North America, intending to subjugate or slaughter the native «Skræling» population. The party is itself wiped out by another native tribe, the only survivor being the Viking leader’s son, who is adopted by a native woman. The boy is taken in by the local tribe and named «Ghost» for his paleness.

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22 The Island at the Top of the World, 1974

An Edwardian gentleman hopes to find his long-lost son, who vanished whilst searching for a mysterious Viking community in a volcanic valley somewhere in uncharted Arctic regions. The gentleman puts together an expedition team to go on the search, but when they reach their destination they must escape from some Viking descendants who will kill to keep their existence a secret.

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21 1066: The Battle for Middle Earth (1066), 2009

Despite earlier promises to pass his crown to one of his Flemish, Viking, or Norman relatives, English King Edward the Confessor dies in 1066, leaving his crown to Anglo-Saxon Harold Godwinson, causing a bloody succession war.

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20 The Last King (Birkebeinerne), 2016

In the year 1206 Norway is raged by civil war. The King’s illegitimate infant son, Håkon Håkonsson, which half the kingdom wants killed off, is guarded in secrecy by two men. A story which changed the course of the country’s history.

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19 Alfred the Great, 1969

In 9th century England, Alfred abandons his path to priesthood to fight Danish invaders, leading English Christians to victory. Though successful, he struggles between religious devotion and warrior bloodlust.

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18 The White Viking (Hvíti víkingurinn), 1991

Norway in the 10th century. Askur, son of the powerful Thorgeir marries Embla, daughter of one of the few remaining landowners in Norway, in a pagan ceremony. King Olav, a ruthless Christian, wants to remove all traces of non-Christian beliefs and captures the two of them during the ceremony. In order to free Embla, Askur must go to Iceland and convert the people there to Christianity.

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17 The Long Ships, 1964

After returning to his homeland, Viking sailor Rolfe steals King Harald’s funeral boat and kidnaps Harald’s daughter as insurance to return to the Moorish coast. He lost his first boat there in a storm but heard tales of a solid-gold bell as tall as three tall men, forged centuries before by monks. Also interested in the bell is the local leader, Aly Mansuh, whose interest verges on obsession. After several confrontations between the two, they set off to find the bell and, they hope, a fortune in gold.

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16 Erik the Viking, 1989

Erik, a young Viking, discovers that he has no taste for rape and pillage, and suffers guilt over the death of an innocent woman, Helga.

Erik learns from the wise woman Freya that Fenrir the wolf has swallowed the sun, plunging the world into the age of Ragnarök. Erik resolves to travel to Asgard to petition the gods to end Ragnarök. Freya informs him that to do so he must seek the Horn Resounding in the land of Hy-Brasil. The first note blown upon the Horn will take Erik and his crew to Asgard, the second will awaken the gods, and the third will bring the crew home. Erik sets out with a crew of all ages and professions from his village, including Harald, a Christian missionary who does not believe the myths.

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15 Valhalla, 1986

In a story based freely on Norse mythology, brother and sister Tjalfe and Røskva are paid a surprise visit by gods Thor and Loke. After the children disobey his orders, Thor takes them along with him to Asgaard, the land of gods. After quarreling with Loke, the children follow their own path, accompanied by strange creature Quark, and their adventure takes them to Odin, king of gods, to a playful forest and to the land of the giants.

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14 Viking (Викинг), 2016

Kievan Rus, late 10th century. After the death of his father, Svyatoslav I, ruler of Kievan Rus, the young Viking prince Vladimir of Novgorod is forced into exile across the frozen sea to escape his treacherous half-brother Yaropolk, who has murdered his other brother Oleg and conquered the Viking territory of Kievan Rus. The old warrior Sveneld convinces Vladimir to assemble a Varangian armada, hoping to reconquer Novgorod from Yaropolk and ultimately face the mighty Byzantine forces.

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13 Shadow of the Raven (Í skugga hrafnsins), 1988

Trausti returns to Iceland just in time to be entangled in a family feud over a stranded whale-cadaver. His mother (the family head) is mortally wounded and Grim kills Erikur; the other clan leader. Isold, daughter of Erikur now takes his place. Isold and Trausti are attracted to each other, but Isold was promised to Hjoerleifur — the son of the Bishop (of Iceland) and his powerful wife. However, Isold has a plan…

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12 Ancient Tale: When the Sun Was God (Stara baśń: Kiedy słońce było bogiem), 2003

Polish historical action fantasy based on a novel by Jozef Ignacy Kraszewski. In 9th-century pre-Christian Poland, the rustic natives have lived peacefully for centuries, tending their land and worshipping the sun god. But when the power-hungry Prince Popiel brings in the Viking army to establish a barbarous and bloodthirsty regime of terror, it is up to one lone warrior, the famed archer Ziemowit, to lead a peasant uprising and put an end to the bloodshed.

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11 Outlander, 2008

During the reign of the Vikings, Kainan, a man from a far-off world, crash lands on Earth, bringing with him an alien predator known as the Moorwen. Though both man and monster are seeking revenge for violence committed against them, Kainan leads the alliance to kill the Moorwen by fusing his advanced technology with the Viking’s Iron Age weaponry.

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10 Valhalla Rising, 2009

1000 AD, for years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness. On their flight, One Eye and Are board a Viking vessel, but the ship is soon engulfed by an endless fog that clears only as the crew sights an unknown land. As the new world reveals its secrets and the Vikings confront their terrible and bloody fate, One Eye discovers his true self.

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9 When the Raven Flies (Hrafninn flýgur), 1983

Ireland: Vikings pillage the land, seeking silver and slaves, slaying men and women in the process. A young boy is spared when a Viking takes pity on him instead of killing him. Iceland 20 years later: The boy returns to take his revenge on the killers, the Norwegian foster brothers; Thord and Eirik, by cunning and hidden weapons.

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8 Beowulf, 2007

In 507, Geatish warrior Beowulf travels to Denmark with his band of soldiers, to slay Grendel, a creature that killed King Hrothgar’s people during a celebration in the mead hall Heorot. Beowulf becomes attracted to Hrothgar’s wife Queen Wealtheow.

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7 The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die (Seven Kings Must Die), 2023

Britain, early-10th century AD. Edward, King of Wessex, Mercia and East Anglia has died, creating a power vacuum in the kingdom. Vying to be king are Aethelstan and Aelfweard, both sons of Edward but with the claim of Aethelstan, the eldest, in dispute. Aethelstan has fallen under the influence of Ingilmundr, a half-Dane, half-Saxon, who appears to have prophetic powers. The Saxons’ enemies — the Danes, Scots and some smaller kingdoms — see Edward’s death as a chance to invade. Sitting between the two forces is Northumbria, ruled by Uhtred of Bebbanburg.

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6 How to Train Your Dragon, 2010

The Viking village of Berk is frequently attacked by dragons that steal livestock and endanger the villagers. Hiccup, the 15-year-old son of the village chieftain, Stoick the Vast, is deemed too weak to fight. Instead, he creates mechanical devices under apprenticeship with Gobber, the village blacksmith. Hiccup uses a bolas launcher to shoot down a Night Fury, a rare dragon, during a dragon raid, but nobody believes him. He enters the forest and finds the creature but cannot bring himself to kill it, so he sets the dragon free. The Night Fury then suddenly pins Hiccup down, but to Hiccup’s surprise, it spares him.

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5 Outlaw: The Saga of Gisli (Útlaginn), 1981

This Icelandic Saga begins with Gisli, Thorgrim, Thorkel, and Vestein making a blood pact to protect one another. Controversy breaks out when one of the men, Thorgrim, refuses to complete the pact because he does not want any involvement with Vestein. Thorgrim claims that taking on Vestein as a brother is taking on more trouble than he can handle. The scene ends with the men storming off from one another and the blood oath incomplete. The plot begins to unfold when Thorkel hears his wife tell Aud, Gisli’s wife, that she had amorous feelings for Vestein before she married Thorkel, leading Thorkel to suspect his wife was unfaithful.

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4 The 13th Warrior, 1999

A man, having fallen in love with the wrong woman, is sent by the sultan himself on a diplomatic mission to a distant land as an ambassador. Stopping at a Viking village port to restock on supplies, he finds himself unwittingly embroiled in a quest to banish a mysterious threat in a distant Viking land.

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3 Trees Grow on the Stones Too (И на камнях растут деревья), 1985

Vikings attack Kuksja’s village, and end up bringing him along on their ship because they believe he is good luck. After proving himself in a battle against the dreaded Danes, chief Torir bestows upon him the name of Einar and takes him in as his son. Back home in Norway the men are received as heros, but new trouble arises when Kuksja falls in love with the beautiful Signy, who is already betroth to the vicious Sigurd.

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2 The Northman, 2022

The Viking Age. With a mind aflame with hate and revenge, Prince Amleth, the wronged son of King Aurvandill War-Raven, heads to cold, windswept Iceland to retrieve what was stolen from him: a father, a mother, and a kingdom. And like a war dog picking up the enemy’s scent, brutal Amleth embarks on a murderous quest to find the hateful adversary, whose life is forever woven together with his by the threads of fate. Now, in the name of Valhalla, no one can stop the Northman, not even God.

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1 The Vikings, 1958

The King of Northumbria is killed during a Viking raid led by King Ragnar Lodbrok. Because the king died childless, his cousin Aella takes the throne. The king’s widow, however, is pregnant with Ragnar’s child. To protect the infant from Aella’s ambitions, she sends him off to Italy. The ship is intercepted by the Vikings, who are unaware of the child’s kinship and enslave him.

The boy grows into a young man named Eric. His parentage is discovered by Lord Egbert, a Northumbrian nobleman opposed to Aella. When Aella accuses him of treason, Egbert finds sanctuary with Ragnar in Norway. Egbert recognises the pommel stone of the Northumbrian royal sword Requiter on an amulet around Eric’s neck, placed there by Eric’s mother when he was a child, but says nothing.

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