The History Channel Presents The Crusades - Crescent The Cross

Product Description A detailed documentary telling the complete story of the great Christian Crusades into the Holy Land. .com The Christian invaders were regarded as infidels. The Arabs were scorned as lawless pagans. The Westerners saw their quest as literally a sanctified crusade, while the Muslims launched their own holy war, called a jihad, in retaliation. Sound familiar? It should, because although the events depicted in the History Channel's The Crusades - Crescent & The Cross took place nearly a thousand years ago, they are but a distant mirror to what's going on in the Middle East right now. This two-part, three-hour program, released here on two discs (the second includes over an hour of bonus material), impressively details all three Crusades, starting in the late 11th Century, when Pope Urban II dispatched a huge force to reclaim Jerusalem, which had been under Muslim control for some 400 years. For the knights and others who made the journey, it was a noble spiritual quest, not to mention an escape from Europe's petty wars and famines; in the end, the fact that many of them were greedy butchers who murdered Muslims, Jews, and even other Christians indiscriminately (sometimes even eating the flesh of the vanquished) detracted not at all from their conviction that they were acting in the name of God.

Key details: Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No | MPAA rating: NR (Not Rated) | Product Dimensions: 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.88 ounces | Director: Mark Lewis | Media Format: Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC | Run time: 3 hours | Release date: November 29, 2005 | Actors: Keith David | Producers: Mark Lewis | Language: Unqualified (DTS ES 6.1)

Customer feedback: 4.5/5 average rating.

Customers say: Customers find this TV series informative and well-researched, covering the 200-year 3-crusades comprehensively.

Review snippets: For thousands of years the Holy Lands of the Middle East have run with blood. Here the scars of battle fought between three of the world's great religions are etched into the earth. But, the deepest wound was made by / This documentary explains the 1st, 2nd and Third Crusades. Imagine Christians and Muslins fighting in the name of religion. After watching this DVD it made me think of all the Hypocrisy in religion and all the symbols used. The DVD

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