Kim Bell

Brian Helgeland's 2001 hit "A Knight's Tale" is about a peasant squire named William Thatcher (Heath Ledger) who takes on the identity of his master in the wake of the latter's death. On the off-chance that you weren't one of the many swooning, early-aughts teens who watched the movie over and over again, committing its anachronistic soundtrack and delicious litany of characters to memory (including Paul Bettany as Geoffrey Chaucer), a first-time viewing will reveal a surprisingly stacked cast.

This article contains spoilers for the movie "Lamb" Writer/director Valdimar Jóhannsson's nightmare-inducing horror film, "Lamb," arrived in theaters on October 8, promising to disturb audiences with its quiet, unnerving pace and surrealist narrative. Co-written by Sjón and distributed by A24 (of "Midsommar" and "Hereditary" fame), "Lamb" follows Icelandic sheep farmers Maria (Noomi Rapace) and Ingvar (Hilmir Snær Guðnason) as they grieve the loss of their child.

If you don't have the time or stamina to give multi-season period pieces like "Peaky Blinders" or "Outlander" a watch, you can still fully submerge yourself in the past and indulge your inner English Major in one fell swoop with Amazon's "The Pursuit of Love." Set in early 20th-century England, the series was adapted from Nancy Mitford's thinly-veiled autobiographical novel of the same name by actor-director Emily Mortimer.