On your knees.
Lower.
I am Jerusalem. Do you, Reynald
will give me the kiss of peace?
Guard!
- What are you looking at? - A dead man.
Reynald de Chatillon, you're arrested.
If you continue like this, I shall have to find the use for you.
If God could spare you that is.
- God does not know me. - Yes, but I do.
I need you in Jerusalem.
Why did we retire?
Why?
God did not favor it.
God determined the results of battles.
The results of battles are determined by God. But also by preparation,
numbers, the absence of disease and the aviability of force.
Why he cannot maintain us seizure with the enemy behind?
How many battles did God win before I came?
That is, before God had determined that I should come.
That's because we were sent for.
- It is because you were unprepared. - If you think that, you shall not be King for long.
When I'm not King, I quit for us.
Thank you for your visit.
You promised.
You promised to return Jerusalem.
Don't forget.
So my friend, the time has come to conclude my affairs.
We have decided that you shall take command of the army of Jerusalem.
If I leave the army with Guy, he will take power through my sister and make war on the Muslims.
- Whatever you ask, I will serve. - No, hear it all before you answer.
Would you marry my sister Sybilla were she free of Guy de Lusignan?
- And Guy? - He will be executed.
Along with his knights who do not swear your religions.
I cannot be because of that.
Whatever you ask I will serve.
The King may move a man, you said.
But the soul belongs to the man.
Yes I did.
You have my love and my answer.
So be it.
Why do you protect Guy?
He's a man who insults you, hates you. Will kill you himself if he had a chance.
But for the salvation of this kingdom, will it be so hard to marry Sibylla?
Jerusalem has no need of a perfect knight.
No. It is a kingdom of conscience or nothing.
Sibylla.
Who are you to refuse a King?
I am what I am.
I offer you that. And the world.
You say no.
Do you think I'm like Guy? That I would sell my soul?
There'll be a day,
when you will wish you have done a little evil
to do a greater good.
My lord.
Do you really think the King wants you head of the army once he's gone?
You think your wife does?
- I have a problem. - Ah yes, Balian.
I saw him at Kerak.
Celebrated.
Kill him.
Ah, hello.
I was dreaming.
About that summer. When I defeated Saladhudin.
Do you remember it? I was only 16.
- You were a beautiful boy. - Yes.
You've always been beautiful.
My beautiful sister.
So beautiful.
I'm sorry I've got you through this.
- Remember me as I was? - I will.
Sibylla.
If I have your nights, you have your wife.
Behold your rightful queen and heir to the throne to the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
I, Sybilla by the grace of the Holy Spirit choose the King Guy de Lusignan,
the man who's been my husband. With the help of God he will rule his people well.
Long live the King in prosperity.
Long live the King!
Is this why you came to the Holy Land? Come on!
Leave us.
- The King is in heaven? - Yes.
- And the Templar's King Balian? - Yes.
Reynald, give me a war.
That is what I do.
I am what I am. Someone has to be.
Saladhudin's sister.
I know.
Speak.
The sultan demands the return of his sister's body.
The heads of those responsible. And the surrender of Jerusalem.
Does he?
What answer do you return to Saladhudin?
This.
Take the head to Damascus.
I am Jerusalem.
Assemble the army!
Now this assembly of barons and all Jerusalem is complete.
There are those among you who may disagree with our succession,
but it is war!
And I am...
the King.
We march at once. What say this council?
No. If you must have war, this army cannot move away from water.
You have a chance to hold the city.
But if you move out against Saladhudin,
this army will be destroyed. And the city left defenseless.
When I wish of blacksmith to advise on war, I will tell it.
Saladhudin wants you to come out.
He is waiting for you to make that mistake.
He knows his men.
We should reach the enemies of God!
So we shall.
- And you do so without my knights. - Then I will have the glory, Tiberias.
You had yours years and years ago.
It's time for mine.
Tiberias.
When Saladin is finished with Guy, he will come.
We must look to the defenses.
The King is dead.
And Jerusalem along with him.
You go with the army?
My order is with the army.
You go to certain death.
All death is certain.
I shall tell your father what I've seen you become.
When Saladhudin comes,
we do not defense upon.
Save the people from a dying time.
I will.
God with it.
- Can you sense it? - There's been my messenger.
I drink water for what it is.
- I did not give the cup to you. - No, my lord.
A King does not kill a King.
Why you're not close enough to a great King? To learn by his example.
I've given Jerusalem my whole life. Everything.
First I thought we're fighting for God,
then I realized we're fighting for wealth and land.
I was ashamed.
Tiberias.
There is no more Jerusalem.
I shall go to Cyprus, will you come with me?
No.
You are your father's son.
Saladin has moved his army from water to water.
Not within four days, maybe five. God be with you.
He's no longer with me.
- Mark four hundred. - Four hundred!
Four hundred!
- They are here. - It is only one man.
No, they're here.
This is the only section of the wall they can attack.
Once they begin to bomb all the walls,
they will stop only to avoid these narrow siege towers as they come in.
You take the bombardment.
When they seize firing, we fire.
- We must leave the city! - How exactly my lord we shall?
The fastest horses we can get.
- And the people? - That is unfortunate about the people,
but it is God's will.
Quiet!
It is fallen to us, to defend Jerusalem.
And we have made our preparations as well as they can be made.
None of us took this city from Muslims!
No Muslim of the great army now coming against us
was born when this city was lost.
We fight over an offence we did not give.
Against those who were not alive to be offended.
What is Jerusalem?
Your holy places lie over the Jewish temples that the Romans pulled down!
The Muslim place is a worship, high over yours.
Which is more homy?
The wool?
The musk?
This applica?
Who has claim?
No one has claim.
All have claim!
- That is blasphemy! - Be quiet.
We defend this city not to protect these stones, but the people living within these walls!
My lord!
My lord, my lord.
How we're to defend Jerusalem without knights?
- We have no knights! - Truly.
- What is your condition? - I'm servant to the patria.
That is so. One of my servants.
Is he? You were born a servant?
Kneel.
Every man in arms who capable of bearing them, kneel!
On your knees!
Be without fear in the face of your enemies.
Be brave and upright that God may thee.
Speak the truth even if it leads to your death.
Save God the helpless. That is your oath.
And that so you remember it.
Rise a knight!
Who do you think you are?
Beyond the world?
Does making a man a knight make him a better fighter?
Yes.
Only God gives victory.
- My lord? - No.
God be with us!
When will it begin?
Soon.
Water! Bring water!
Forth!
- Why don't they fight back? - They wait.
That was only the first day.
- It may be a hundred more. - Saladin will show no mercy.
We must do well.
- Force him to offer terms. - What terms?
We fight for the people.
Their safety and freedom.
- Mercy. - No, I cannot.
Four hundred!
Fire!
Three hundred!
Fire!
One fifty!
Hold your fire!
Hold!
Fire!
Pour out! Now!
Fire!
- Who defends? - Balian of Ibelin. The son of Godfrey.
Godfrey? Godfrey nearly killed me in another one.
- Truly, I did not know he had a son. - It was his son at Kerak.
- The one you let live. - Yes.
- Perhaps you should not have. - Perhaps I should have had a different teacher.
Fire!
When a body is burnt,
it cannot be resurrected until the Judgment day.
If we do not burn these bodies, we will all be dead of disease in three days.
God will understand, my lord.
And if he doesn't, then he is not God. And we need not worry.
The wall, where the entrance gate used to be has been weak.
It's usually when the gate is blocked in, it is weaker than the wall around it.
- Or stronger. - It is weaker, Rashid has seen it.
This will be our door into Jerusalem.
This wall will make us down.
We must prepare.
Brothers! Brothers!
God has sent you this day!
You did not listen as they did!
When this wall comes down,
there will be no quarter.
If you throw down your arms,
your families will die.
We can break this army here!
So I say let them come!
Let them come!
Come on! Come on! Come on!
They will ask for terms.
They must ask for terms.
Convert to Islam, repent later.
You've taught me a lot about religion, reverence.
When you leave the city?
Before I lose it, I will burn it to the ground.
Your holy place is ours.
Every last thing in Jerusalem that drives men mad.
I wonder if it will not be better if you did.
- You will destroy it? - Every stone.
And every Christian knight you kill will take ten Saracens with him.
You will destroy your army here and never raise another.
I swear to God that to take this city will be the end of you.
Your city is full of women and children.
If my army will die, so will your city.
You offer terms, I ask none.
I will give every soul safe conduct to Christian lands.
Every soul. The women, the children, the old and all your knights and soldiers
and your queen. No one will be hurt. I swear to God.
The Christians butchered every Muslim within the walls when they took this city.
I am not those men.
I am Saladhudin.
Saladhudin.
Then under these terms I surrender Jerusalem.
And peace be with you.
What is Jerusalem worth?
Nothing.
Everything.
I had surrendered Jerusalem.
All will be safely escorted to the sea.
If this is the Kingdom of Heaven,
let God do with it as he wills.
Your brother's Kingdom was here. And here.
That Kingdom can never be surrendered.
What should I do?
I'm still the queen of Accra, Escalon.
Decide not to be a queen. And I will come to you.
This horse.
It is not a very good horse. I will not keep it.
Thank you.
And if God does not love you,
how could you have done all the things that you have done?
Peace be with you.
A queen never walks.
And yet you are walking.
We crusades are to come to the kingdom of Jerusalem.
You go to where the men speak Italian.
And then continue until they speak something else.
We've come by this road to find Balian, who was defender of Jerusalem.
I am the blacksmith.
And I am the King of England.
I am the blacksmith.
The King, Richard the Lionheart, went on to the Holy Land and crusaded for three years.
His struggle to regain Jerusalem ended in an uneasy truce with Saladin.
Nearly a thousand years later, peace in the Kingdom of Heaven remains elusive.
Directed by RIDLEY SCOTT