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Warrior Queen |  | Director: Bill Anderson (III)
Actors: Alex Kingston, Steven Waddington, Emily Blunt, Leanne Rowe, Ben Faulks
Studio: WGBH BOSTON
Category: DVD
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 17346
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WGBD36979D
ISBN: 1593750250
UPC: 783421369795
EAN: 9781593750251
ASIN: B00009MEKC
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
Release Date: January 6, 2004
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Studio: Wgbh Wholesale Release Date: 01/06/2004 Run time: 120 minutes
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 Where can i get the region 2 or UK version of this please May 3, 2010
Cat (England)
Sorry 2 write this in reviews, I'd love 2 buy this but I am British and live in England, where can I get the Region 2 version???? Thanks in advance
 Not good October 4, 2008
Adina Bernstein (New York)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you know anything about Boudicca and are looking for a both entertaining and accurate movie, your half right. Entertaining it is, accurate, far from it.
To give away what has been edited or deleted from the facts would give away the story, but as someone who is educated on her story,I was not pleased. If I would have known how inaccurate this movie was, I would have not purchased it.
Warrior Queen - The Good and the bad. December 22, 2007
E. Dodd
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Warrior Queen
I very much enjoyed the movie. I had first seen it on PBS's Masterpiece Theater. This show that uses fictional works, rather than a documentary approach. Using the works of Tacitus and Cassius Dio to guide him, Andrew Davies, who wrote the screenplay for the movie, tells a story that is basically true but uses also uses speculation to fill in the gaps of knowledge left by the Roman historians accounts. Further, Davies occasionally does deviate from the Roman accounts of the battles, especially in the area of tactics. The celts, who did not write things down. So we lack their "take" on this time. So an understanding of accounts of what happened, which were left to us by history helps separate fact from fiction in this movie. I felt, as an biography, it was adequate but not exceptional. The brilliance of the movie is in the twist at the very last scene, which gives the story a whole new power.
Do be ready for violence, sex, and what I like to refer to as "Fellini moments". I would give it an "R" rating, if it was up to me.
Where this film does excel, in my opinion, is the "humanization" of the celts and of the romans. Fleshing them out into real people. It deals no only with the what but the why. The emotion with the intellect. This is where I feel other documentaries, that I have on the subject of Boudica, fail. I personally love this movie, you may very well also; but I can see where some may not. In general, I recommend it!
 Absolutely Dreadful! September 7, 2007
James M. Mace (Meridian, Idaho United States)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Okay, there's bad, and then there's utterly dreadful. This falls into the later category. The producers don't even try to conceal the fact that this is totally biased. To add insult to injury, the costumes and overall production are absolutely terrible. The Celts look like something out of the movie "Caveman" while the Romans look straight out of a low-budget movie from the 1960's.
I was able to forgive the cheesy sequences depicting magic, however the fact that every attrocity committed by Boudicca is conveniently overlooked is unforgivable. It is only mentioned in passing that they had sacked Londinium (London). No mention of the fact that every citizen unable to leave was murderously butchered. Most historians agree that approximately 80,000 were killed in Boudicca's rampage, most of them fellow Brittons.
The Roman tactics were the most abominable I have ever seen. Children burrowing under a camp and hamstringing the legionaries?? Say what?? If the Romans were so easily beaten by children and teenage girls (yeah, I loved how Boudicca's daughters are able to cut down numerous Roman soldiers before falling in the final battle), then it is doubtful they would have ever conquered the known world in the first place. Their armor looked straight out of a third-grade Halloween party as well.
It is painfully obvious that no effort was made whatsoever with historical integrity. What you have is a piece of poorly made Celtic propoganda that even the most die-hard "woad" could not find inspiring.
If you want to learn about Boudicca's rebellion, read "Imperial Governor" by George Shipway. It is the book that the movie SHOULD have been based on. Don't waste your time watching this; I honestly felt like my IQ had dropped a few points after suffering through it!
Not up to Masterpiece Theater Standards June 12, 2007
Yet Another Bob (Alexandria, VA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I wouldn't know about the historical inaccuracies some mentioned here, but I was expecting a bit more. I am familiar with her story and was eager to enjoy this, but it just felt flat for a PBS produced piece. There is a film in production on Boudica, but I don't know its status.
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