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 ...

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, ...

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. (Swiss! How ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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.