The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross
The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross is a documentary that tells the story of the battles between the Christian Crusaders and the Muslims for the city of Jerusalem.
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- Ep 1
1.First Crusade Part 1
06-11-200590mWe will follow the two great waves of crusader armies - that of the nobility led by Count Raymond IV of Toulouse, and that of the commoners exhorted into mobilisation by Peter the...
- Ep 2
2.First Crusade Part 2
13-11-200590mUpon conquering Jerusalem, the crusader-settlers were faced with an entirely new dilemma: their survival in a hostile territory far from home. This programme will tell the untold s...
- Ep 3
3.The Second and Third Crusades
29-11-200590mAn enigma even in his own time, Saladin became a hero in the West long before his rediscovery in the Muslim world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His famous truce with R...
- Ep 4
4.Fourth Crusade
29-11-200590mAt the death of Saladin the Crusader kingdom has been reduced to a narrow strip of land and a handful of ports. A fourth crusade never reaches the Holy Land, setting its sights ins...
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