4 Films & TV Shows Set In Iran During The Middle Ages

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  Muhammad: The Messenger of God

  🇮🇷 Iran The 7th Century

  The events, trials and tribulations of the city of Makkah in 7th century AD.

  Released in 2015 • 171 minutes
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  The Physician

  England 🇮🇷 Iran 🇪🇬 Egypt The 11th Century

  A journey out of darkness into light — England, 1021. Rob Cole, a boy born in a miserable mining town, swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to the remote Isfahan, in Persia, where he meets Ibn Sina, the greatest healer of his time.

  Released in 2013 • 155 minutes
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  Oh Islam

  🇦🇿 Azerbaijan 🇪🇬 Egypt 🇮🇷 Iran 🇸🇾 Syria The 13th Century

  Set in the 14th century. Under their leader Timur, the Tartar hordes invade the Middle East and take over areas as widespread as Persia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, and Syria. A lowly woman from a harem (Lubna Aziz) rises to lead the Egyptians against the invaders.

  Released in 1961 • 110 minutes
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  Omar Khayyam

  🇮🇷 Iran The 11th Century

  Riding high with spectacular action and excitement ! — Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century, they are still popular the world over. The details of his life are unknown, so this movie invents a biography for him and includes in it his real achievements - the invention of a new calendar and the penning of those epigrammatic poems. This film has him romancing a sultan's bride and foiling the assassin sect's plot to kill the sultan's son.

  Released in 1957 • 101 minutes