On your knees.
Lower.
I am Jerusalem.
And you, Reynald,
will give me the kiss of peace.
Guard.
- What are you looking at? - A dead man.
Reynald de Chatillon, you are arrested and condemned.
If you continue like this,
I shall have to find a use for you,
if God can spare you, that is.
- God does not know me. - Yes, but I do.
I need you in Jerusalem.
Why did you retire?
Why?
God did not favour him. God alone determines the results of battles.
The results of battles are determined by God.
But also by preparation, numbers,
the absence of disease and the availability of water.
One cannot maintain a siege with the enemy behind.
How many battles did God win for the Muslims before I came?
That is, before God determined that I should come.
Few enough.
That's because we were sinful.
It is because you were unprepared.
If you think that way, you shall not be king for long.
When I'm not king, I quake for Islam.
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 Sibylla, were she free of Guy de Lusignan?
And Guy?
He will be executed.
Along with his knights who do not swear your allegiance.
- I cannot be the cause of that. - "Whatever you ask
I will serve."
A 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.
He'd kill you himself if he had the chance.
For further salvation of this kingdom, would 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 had done a little evil
to do a greater good.
My lord.
Do you really think the king wants you as head of the army once he's gone?
Think your wife does?
- I have a problem. - Yes. Balian.
I saw him at Kerak.
Celebrated.
Kill him.
Hello.
I was dreaming.
I was back in that summer
when I defeated Saladin.
Do you remember it?
I was only 16.
- You were a beautiful boy. - Yes.
You've always been beautiful
in every way.
My beautiful sister.
So beautiful.
I'm sorry if I've caused you any pain.
Remember me as I was.
I will.
Sibylla.
If I have your knights,
you have your wife.
Behold your rightful queen and heir to the throne of the kingdom of Jerusalem.
Hail! Hail! Hail!
I, Sibylla, by the grace of the holy spirit,
choose as king, Guy de Lusignan,
the man who has been my husband.
With the help of God, he will rule his people well.
Long live the king in prosperity.
Long live the king. Long live the king. Long live the king.
Is this why you came to the Holy Land?
Come on!
Leave us.
- The king is in heaven? - Yes.
- Have the Templars killed Balian? - Yes.
Reynald,
give me a war.
That is what I do.
I am what I am.
Someone has to be.
Saladin'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 Saladin?
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? - Aye!
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 Saladin,
this army will be destroyed and the city left defenceless.
When I wish a blacksmith to advise me in war, I will tell him.
Saladin wants you to come out.
He is waiting for you to make that mistake.
- He knows his men. - We should meet the enemies of God.
- Aye! - And so we shall.
Then 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 has finished with Guy, he will come.
We must look to the defences.
The king's 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 Saladin comes,
we're not defensible.
Save the people from what I have done.
I will.
God wills it.
Can you sense it?
There has been no 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.
Were you not close enough to a great king to learn by his example?
I have given Jerusalem my whole life.
Everything.
First, I thought we
were fighting for God.
Then I realised we were 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 must move his army from water to water.
That gives you four days, maybe five.
God be with you.
He is no longer with me.
- Mark 400. - 400.
400!
- They're 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 bombard the walls.
They will stop only to avoid hitting their own siege towers as they come in.
We'll take the bombardment. When they cease firing, we fire.
We must leave the city.
- How exactly, my lord bishop? - The fastest horses from a lesser gate.
- And the people? - It is unfortunate about the people,
but it is God's will.
Silence!
It has 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 temple that the Romans pulled down.
The Muslim places of worship lie over yours.
Which is more holy?
The wall? The mosque?
The sepulchre?
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 are we to defend Jerusalem without knights?
- We have no knights. - Truly.
- What is your condition? - I'm servant to the patriarch.
- He's one of my servants. - Is he?
You were born a servant.
Kneel.
Every man at arms
or capable of bearing them,
kneel!
On your knees!
Be without fear in the face of your enemies.
Be brave and upright that God may love thee.
Speak the truth, even if it leads to your death.
Safeguard the helpless. That is your oath.
And that is so you remember it.
Rise a knight.
Who do you think you are? Will you alter the world?
Does making a man a knight make him a better fighter?
Yes.
My lord?
No.
When will it begin?
Soon.
Ballista!
Get them to the walls.
Water. Bring water.
Get the machines to the walls.
Push!
Why do they not fire back?
They wait.
That was only the first day.
There may be 100 more.
Saladin will show no mercy.
We must hold out. Force him to offer terms.
- What terms? - We fight for the people.
Their safety and freedom.
- Mercy. - No. I cannot.
400.
- 400. - Fire!
Fire!
- 300. - 300.
- Fire! - Fire!
- 150. - 150.
Fire!
Hold your fire!
Hold!
Fire!
Oil! Now!
Fire!
- Who defends? - Balian of lbelin.
- The son of Godfrey. - Godfrey?
Godfrey nearly killed me in the Lebanon.
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 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 Christopher Gate used to be, has been weakened.
When a gate is blocked in, it is weaker than the wall round it.
- Or stronger. - It is weaker. Rashid has seen it.
This will be our door into Jerusalem.
This is where we will make our stand.
We must prepare.
Brothers! Brothers!
God has sent you this day.
You will take no prisoners.
As they did, so shall it be done.
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, Your Eminence.
Will you yield the city?
Before I lose it, I will burn it to the ground.
Your holy places - ours. Every last thing in Jerusalem that drives men mad.
I wonder if it would 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'll 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.
Do 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 harmed. I swear to God.
The Christians butchered every Muslim within the walls when they took this city.
I am not those men.
I am Saladin.
Saladin.
Then, under these terms, I surrender Jerusalem.
And peace be with you.
What is Jerusalem worth?
Nothing.
Everything.
I have 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 Acre, Ashkelon, Tripoli.
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 upon you.
A queen never walks.
And yet you are walking.
Forward.
Halt!
We crusade to recover the kingdom of Jerusalem.
You go to where the men speak Italian.
And then continue until they speak something else.
We 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.
Forward!