Ridley Scott's 2005 historical drama was a disappointment in theaters, but the director's cut transformed it into one of his best films.

Five years later, the DVD release of another Scott film, Kingdom of Heaven—in a pathetically lavish four-disc “director’s cut” box set—rings down the curtain on the historical-movie ...

In Kingdom of Heaven, Ridley Scott’s handsome but curiously remote Crusades epic, the bloody holy war between Christians and Muslims surges forth with the boiling logistical fury we’ve come to ...

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews Kingdom of Heaven. Gladiator director Ridley Scott's take on the Crusades features actor Orlando Bloom as a young blacksmith who saves the ...

Ridley Scott used the scriptural phrase to title his 2005 epic “Kingdom of Heaven,” a dramatization of a chaotic and violent time in Jerusalem’s history, as crusaders and saracens traded ...

Despite its drubbing at the B.O., "Kingdom of Heaven" is director Ridley Scott's best film since "Gladiator," combining an intelligent script which tackles the historical complexity of the ...

Despite initial controversy surrounding "The Kingdom of Heaven," Ridley Scott's new film about the Crusades, it is getting generally positive reviews from Muslims in the United States and in Arab ...

The Crusades lasted, what, 150, 175 years? Ridley Scott's self-important new sand and swords epic "Kingdom of Heaven," set in 12th-century Jerusalem and environs, feels exactly as long as those ...

The Crusades led to the unification of Egypt and Syria under the Ayyubid sultan, exactly the same geopolitical alliance that sought to wrest Jerusalem from the Zionists in the October 1973 war.

LOS ANGELES – The epic battle tale "Kingdom of Heaven" (search) fought its way to the top of the box office, taking in $20 million in its debut weekend. The film by "Gladiator" director Ridley ...