Your quality will be known among your enemies...
before ever you meet them, my friend.
You were not that man's servant.
No. He was my servant.
- What becomes of us? - As you deserve.
You reap what you sow.
You have heard of this, no?
Get up.
You may go into Kerak...
but you will die there.
My master is here.
Tell my lord Saladin that Jerusalem has come.
[Whispers] Saladin.
[Speaks Arabic]
I pray you'll pull back your cavalry and leave this matter to me.
I pray you'll retire unharmed to Damascus.
Reynald of Chatillon will be punished.
I swear it.
Withdraw, or we will all die here.
Do we have terms?
We have terms.
[Groans Quietly]
I will send you my physicians.
- Salaam alaikum. - Alaikum salaam.
I am Reynald of Chatillon!
[Grunting]
On your knees.
Lower.
I... am Jerusalem.
And you, Reynald...
will give me the kiss of peace.
[Gasping]
Guard.
- What are you looking at? - A dead man.
Reynald de Chatillon, you are arrested...
and condemned.
Come.
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.
- [Speaks Arabic] - [Men Chattering]
I need you in Jerusalem.
[Horse Whinnying]
- Salaam alaikum. - Alaikum salaam.
Why did we retire?
Why?
God did not favor 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 am not king, I quake for Islam.
Thank you for your visit.
You promised.
You promised to return Jerusalem.
Don't forget.
If I do not deliver war, I have no peace.
The king of Jerusalem will die soon.
When he is dead, the boy will become king of a kingdom he cannot control.
The Christians will make the war you need.
[Man Shouting Orders]
I am Reynald de Chatillon! [Echoes]
Reynald de Chatillon! [Echoes]
[Shouts]
Reynald de Chatillon! [Echoes]
The things that we have left undone...
plague us as death comes.
- That is why to the dying... - [Labored Breathing]
There is no comfort but the Lord.
Spare me your sermon.
Go and prepare your people for the coronation of my nephew.
Your confession, my lord.
I shall confess to God when I see him...
not to you.
Now leave me.
You sometimes dream you are my wife.
Let's pretend you are.
I must go.
We can't meet in the city.
Then we will leave it.
And live how? Live where?
Balian...
my brother's dying.
My son will be king and I his regent. I must rule for him.
And not just in Jerusalem, but Acre...
Ashkelon, Beirut.
And Guy?
[Whinnying]
Always surround your knights with your foot soldiers.
These rooms are not yours.
One day I will be the husband I was commissioned to be.
And perhaps not, my dear.
Your lover has a hundred knights and the love of the king.
I, the largest force in the kingdom...
and the support of the Templars.
I can do without the king's affection.
But as for your love-
Then we must come to an understanding.
You need my knights or his rule will be bloody and brief.
So, my friend...
the time has come to conclude my affairs.
If I leave the army with Guy...
he will take power through my sister and make war on the Muslims.
We have decided that you shall take command of the army of Jerusalem.
Will you defend my nephew when he's king?
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.
Oh. So be it.
Why do you protect Guy, hmm?
He's a man who insults you, who hates you...
who'd kill you himself if he had the chance.
Fulfill the 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 will have power, without Guy or with him.
Guy is indebted to your say-so and my brother's, but it's mine.
Do you have any idea of Jerusalem except that it is yours?
You will never hold it in peace as your brother did.
It will be war.
My grandfather took Jerusalem in blood.
I'll keep it the same way or any way I can.
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.
- [Man] Reynald. - [Door Unlocking]
My lord.
Mmm.
Do you really think the king wants you head of the army once he's gone? Hmm?
Think your wife does?
- I have a problem. - Ah, yes. Balian.
I saw him at Kerak.
Celebrated.
You must beware a popular man.
Kill him.
- [Whinnying] - [Bells Pealing]
- [Sibylla] What's that? - [Boy] England.
- The king? - Richard. And his father was Henry.
- Good. And that? - France.
Will I ever see France?
Maybe one day. But you must be king here.
How many islands can you see here?
- One, two- - The king will see you.
No, I can't. I can't bear to look at him. Use this.
It doesn't mean I don't love him.
Go, madam.
[Gasps]
Oh. 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 have always been beautiful.
In every way.
My beautiful sister. I've missed you.
So beautiful.
I'm sorry if I've caused you any pain.
Remember me as I was.
I will.
Sibylla.
If my son has your knights...
you have your wife.
[Bell Tolling]
[Speaking Latin]
[Patriarch] Behold your rightful king and heir...
to the throne of the kingdom of Jerusalem.
[Chanting] Yes! Yes! Yes!
[Patriarch] Long live the king in prosperity.
[With Crowd] Long live the king. Long live the king.
Long live the king.
[Wind Howling]
One may stare into the light until one becomes the light.
I've done it many times.
There's your religion.
One spark, a creosote bush.
There's your Moses. I did not hear it speak.
That does not mean that there is no God.
Do you love her?
- Yes. - The heart will mend.
Your duty is to the people of the city.
- I go to pray. - For what?
For the strength to endure what is to come.
And what is to come?
The reckoning is to come for what was done 100 years before.
The Muslims will never forget.
Nor should they.
[Whinnies]
My lady, your letter to Saladin.
Peace to be sustained, borders respected, trade allowed to continue.
Is this wise to show your intentions?
Better, surely, to let him wonder.
We keep my brother's peace.
[Whispers] Sign it.
Take the seal.
[Clicks Tongue] Be careful. Be careful.
Put it back, my darling.
Hey! [Laughing]
[Babbling, Laughing]
[Babbling]
[Laughs]
There is a rumor.
We must condemn it immediately.
Call it treason, and kill those who whisper it.
The rumor will die if we show the boy as active.
[Screams]
How long before he wears a mask?
Will you have one made for him?
How did my boy deserve it?
Jerusalem is dead, Tiberias.
No kingdom is worth my son alive in hell.
I will go to hell instead.
- Do you remember the story of Llewellyn? - No.
- Well, do you remember why? - No.
He was so lonely...
and he called all the gods.
- Why? - Because he was desperate. It was a proof of love.
## [Singing In French]
- [Whinnies] - [Whinnies]
- [Chuckles] - [Yells]
[Ferocious Yell]
Is this why you came to the Holy Land?
Come on!
[Shrieks]
Leave us.
[Grunting]
- The boy's in heaven? - Yes.
His mother has more backbone than I do.
She's in the crypt and will not come out.
- Have the Templars killed Balian? - Yes.
Reynald...
give me a war.
That is what I do.
[Patriarch] Behold your rightful queen and heir...
to the throne of the kingdom of Jerusalem.
[Chanting] Yes! Yes! Yes!
I, Sibylla, by the grace of the Holy Spirit...
choose as king Guy de Lusignan...
the man who's been my husband.
With the help of God, he will rule his people well.
[Patriarch] Long live the king in prosperity.
[With Crowd] Long live the king. Long live the king.
Long live the king.
[Men Screaming]
I am what I am.
Someone has to be.
[Screaming In Arabic]
Saladin's sister.
I know.
Saladin achki.
I know.
- Salaam alaikum. - Alaikum salaam.
Speak.
The sultan demands the return of his sister's body...
the heads of those responsible...
and the surrender of Jerusalem.
[All Scoffing]
Does he?
What answer do you return to Saladin?
- This. - [Grunts]
[All Shouting]
[Yells]
- [Shouting In Arabic] - Take the head to Damascus.
[Arabic Continues]
I am Jerusalem.
- Assemble the army! Yea! - [All Cheering]
[Cheering Fades]
[Cheering]
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.
[Soldiers] Aye!
And I am...
the king.
We march at once. What say this council?
- [All] 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 defenseless.
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 man.
- 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.
[Officer] Forward!
Tiberias.
When Saladin has finished with Guy, he will come.
We must look to the defenses.
The boy's dead.
- Guy. - No.
The boy was leprous like his uncle.
She gave him peace.
She let him go...
and Jerusalem along with him.
[Officer] Keep to your lines!
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.
##[Singing In French]
## [Stops]
When Saladin comes...
we're not defensible.
Save the people from what I have done.
I will.
[Coughing]
[Sizzling]
[Speaks Arabic]
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.
[Shouts]
[Gurgling]
A king does not kill a king.
Were you not close enough to a great king...
to learn by his example?
I've given Jerusalem my whole life.
Everything.
First I thought we... were fighting for God.
Then I realized 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's no longer with me.
[Man Speaking Arabic]
- Mark 400. - Four hundred!
Four hundred!
They're here.
It is only one man.
No. They're here.
This is the only section of the wall that 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 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.
[Man] Silence!
[Chattering]
Silence!
[Chattering Ceases]
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 offense 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 sepulcher?
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, uh, 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.
Rise a knight!
- Master Gravedigger. - It is you.
Not what I was. Nor are you.
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. - [Sighs]
Almaric...
if you survive, Ibelin is yours.
You are master of Ibelin.
I confirm it.
Rise a knight and baron of Ibelin.
But it is a poor and dusty place.
[Approaching Hoofbeats]
[Shouting In Arabic]
- My lord? - No.
When will it begin?
Soon.
[Man Shouts, Indistinct]
Get them to the walls!
[Soldier] Water! Bring water!
Get to the walls.
Push!
- Run! - Push!
[Man Shouts]
Why do they not fire back?
- They wait. - [Man Shouts In Arabic]
[Screaming]
##[Singing In Arabic]
That was only the first day. There may be a hundred 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.
[Men Chanting Prayer]
[Grunting]
- Mercy. - No.
I cannot.
[Soldiers Jeering]
- Four hundred! - Four hundred!
- Fire! - Fire!
[Man Screams]
- Three hundred! - Three hundred!
- Fire! - Fire!
Fire!
- One-fifty! - One-fifty!
Line up! Fire!
Hold your fire! Hold!
[Praying In Arabic]
Fire!
[Screaming]
[Shouting In Arabic]
[Pounding Continues]
Oil! Now!
Fire!
[Screaming]
[Saladin] Who defends?
- Balian of Ibelin, 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.
[Soldier Screaming]
[Shouts In Arabic]
[Grunting]
[Screams]
Fire!
Now!
- You are not a sister. - We are what we do.
Then I'm a man who's traveled a long way to die for nothing.
What would you say to that?
I-I would say that I'm sorry.
And I'm sorry for you...
Queen of Jerusalem.
[Praying In Arabic]
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.
- Salaam alaikum. - Alaikum salaam.
The wall, where the Christopher Gate used to be, has been weakened.
Usually when a 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 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!
- Allah hu akbar! - Allah hu akbar!
[Shouting Continues]
[Cheering]
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.
- [Loud Explosion] - So I say let them come!
Let them come!
- Come on! Come on! - [Cheering]
Come on!
[All Shouting]
Remember me in France, Master Gravedigger.
My lord!
[Grunts]
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 10 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.
Your king, such as he is...
I leave to you...
and what God will make of him.
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.
Salaam alaikum.
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.
- [Cheering] - Balian!
Balian!
[Patriarch] Yes! Thanks to the Lord!
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.
The perfect knight.
Is that what you think you are, is it?
We are all of us what we do.
Do it.
When you rise again...
if you rise...
rise a knight.
This horse...
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.
Alaikum salaam.
[Bell Tolling]
A queen never walks.
And yet you are walking.
[Dogs Barking]
[Children Chattering]
- [Approaching Hoofbeats] - [Man] Forward!
Forward!
[Man] 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'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.
[Man] Formation! Forward!
##[Woman Singing In Middle Eastern Language]
##[Woman Singing Continues]
##[Women Singing]
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