Check out this article talking about Hollywood vs. history when it comes to the Christian crusades.
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In addition to this just being a bad movie, it was chock full of revisionist history. I have a great deal of difficulty watching movies that will inaccurately portray historical events in order to make a social point. This one was as bad as I’ve seen.