History has immortalised European folk hero William Tell and his ‘apple-shot’ moment — but what stories made his name across ...

Nick Hamm's "William Tell" is a throwback. It's a big-budget - roughly $45 million - action pic based on popular folklore and loaded with rousing action sequences, inspiring speeches from the ...

Despite Rossini’s banger of an overture and a Looney Tunes cartoon starring Daffy Duck as William Tell, I’ll wager that few ...

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 ...

The battles are staged with gusto but a rickety screenplay and underwhelming central performance mean this misses the mark.

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 ...

Behind the most recent of these doors is the historical thriller William Tell, released in cinemas this week. The film sees Bang play the Swiss folk hero opposite Rafe Spall and Ben Kingsley ...

For centuries, William Tell has been Switzerland’s national hero. Now, he’s the Alpine nation’s comic book superhero. WSJ’s John Letzing talks with the artist behind “Tell.” ...

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 ...

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.

The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and clay head on the statue, thus completing it.