‘William Tell' will arrive on digital, DVD and Blu-ray on 3rd March 2025 courtesy of Altitude. The film brings to life the legendary story of the 14th-century marksman with a fresh take on the ...

For a folk hero whose story is seldom told in 21st-century pop culture, William Tell was surely blessed with a great name. It ...

What do you really know about William Tell and the famous scene, where a young boy has an apple shot from his head by his father? Perhaps you’re aware of the story but not sure of its context, when, ...

Like many who grew up in the ’90s, I have a fondness for period epics. So when I saw the description of William Tell while ...

Writer-director Nick Hamm based William Tell on Friedrich Schiller’s 1804 drama, itself the source of Rossini’s opera. After a sluggish opening, in which Tell (Claes Bang), an ex-Crusader turned ...

A 'William Tell' circus act went disastrously wrong when a performer trying to shoot an apple off his wife's head hit her in the face instead. Last night Cathy Jamet, of French celebrity double ...

In 14th Century Switzerland, a once peaceful hunter leads his people to rebellion after his family and country are threatened by a tyrannical Austrian King. The year is 1307 and the Holy Roman ...

So the story goes, anyway. Wilhelm Tell likely never existed. But if he did, one would hope he showed more grit and zeal than Claes Bang musters in this merely competent historical epic.

William Tell’s status as a folk hero makes his story kind of a Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves for the Swiss, only they're taking a country from the rich (Austria) and giving it to the poor.

When William Tell refuses to salute the tyrannical Governor’s hat, his punishment is to put his son’s life in danger. Rossini’s opera, based on Friedrich Schiller’s play, is performed in Lausanne for ...

Protagonist William Tell, a formerly peaceful hunter, finds himself forced to take action as his family and homeland come under threat from the oppressive Austrian King and his ruthless warlords.