text: **Films**
  
  The film,*The Taking of Power by Louis XIV*(1966), directed by Roberto Rossellini, shows Louis's rise to power 
  after the death of Cardinal Mazarin. 
  The film*Man in the Iron Mask*(1998), directed by Randall Wallace, focused on the identity of an anonymous 
  masked prisoner who spent decades in the Bastille and other French prisons, and his true identity remains 
  somewhat a mystery till date. The monarch was played by Leonardo DiCaprio. 