The Swashbuckling legend of Robin Hood unfolds in the 12th century when the mighty Normans ruled England with an iron fist.

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Made the same year as Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) and thus did not receive a theatrical release in the United States.
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John Irvin would later cast Uma Thurman and Edward Fox in another film of his; A Month by the Lake (1995).
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John Irvin rarely works with actors twice. Interestingly enough, most of the actors who have worked with him twice have worked on this film with him. An exception is Don James who acted in Hamburger Hill (1987) and Next of Kin (1989).
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One of two "Robin Hood" films first released in the year of 1991 with the other being the Kevin Costner blockbuster Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991). In a number of territories, Robin Hood (1991) got the jump on the bigger Costner picture by getting distributed first prior to the other pictures cinema release.
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One of two major motion pictures from the 20th Century Fox studio first released in 1991 that starred actor Patrick Bergin. The movies were Robin Hood (1991) and Sleeping with the Enemy (1991).
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Jeroen Krabbè had previously worked with him in Turtle Diary (1985).
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The sun does not fully shine until the end of the film, when Marian and Robin Hood, Norman and Saxon, are wedded and united.
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In both this film and its rival film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), Robin Hood and his outlaws save a child from hanging.
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Prince John keeps insisting on being called "Your Majesty" to indicate that he now considers himself to be king. The first instance of "Majesty" being used by the English monarchy is Richard II - almost 200 years later and it only became an official title around 1490.
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Early in the movie, Folcanet challenges Hode to appear before Daguerre "at seven in the morning". Before the invention of mechanical clocks to have more accurate and evenly divided hours, daytime and nighttime (irrespective of the season) were divided in twelve parts called hours. The sixth hour of the day was noon. In the 12th century, seven in the morning is therefore impossible.
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While Folcanet is describing to Daguerre his first meeting with the Sherwood outlaws, he says that "the thugs surrounded him". However, the British would not encounter the Indian sect of Thuggee, from which the word derives, for another four or five centuries.
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The Baron orders the use of bloodhounds to hunt Robin. The bloodhound, although in existence as a breed sometime after the year 1000 AD, was not a favored breed for tracking until the end of the 1500's.
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Robin makes reference to "cash". This term did not come into use until the end of the 1500s.
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At the end of the film a man colored all in green looks up to the sky, his mouth open in wonder. Inside you can see his teeth fillings.
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The men tailing Friar Tuck closely in a medium shot disappear in the cut to a long shot.
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During the big battle scene, an outlaw tricks one soldier into stabbing another soldier by mistake. The victim falls down, despite the fact that he has clearly not been stabbed by the sword.
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When Robin is talking to Marion (disguised as Martin) in the forest, she crosses her legs in one scene and in the next scene, her legs are uncrossed.
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Woad (the purple dye Robin throws at the tax-collector) wouldn't have been around in the middle of the village. The process used to make the dye smelled so bad that woad-makers had to live outside the village to make it. Also, while in the cauldron it actually looks green, the indigo/purple colour only shows up as you remove the dyed item from the liquid, so the dye would not have appeared purple in the bowl before Robin threw it.
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When Robin and Will run off after Robin's "trial," Robin strikes flint to steel by a stack of wood. Instantly, flames shoot a foot high from the wood.
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After stealing the taxes, Tuck says he can now afford swan's breast in Madeira. As Madeira wasn't discovered until 1419 (by the Portugese) he would have had difficulty.
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When the arrow shot from a longbow supposedly punches through a helmet on a post, there is a horizontal slit supposedly made by the arrowhead whereas the arrowhead on the arrow is shown to be vertical.
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When Robin's men infiltrate the Castle to rescue Marian, they release a volley of arrows under the command "Shoot". The proper command for the archers would be "Loose!", as an arrow is let go rather than shot. "Shoot" is a modern command.
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When Robin and Will visit the house of villager tortured to death for being associated with them the dead man's stomach can clearly be seen moving as he breathes.
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Much of the chainmail is actually cloth made to look like metal armor. This is particularly notable in close shots of camail (the chainmail covering the neck and attached to the bottom of a helmet).
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