But when I left the cinema after seeing Scott's extraordinary sand-and-sandals epic on the Crusades, Kingdom of Heaven, I was deeply moved - not so much by the film, but by the Muslim audience ...

Kingdom of Heaven premiered in 2005. After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political ...

Kingdom of Heaven simply introduces Balian as a blacksmith and bastard son of a Crusader knight who has returned home in his old age. It is clear why the otherwise childless Sir Godfrey d’Ibelin ...