So Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut of course) is probably one of my favorite movies of all time, I really don't know why but I love it. This movie is about a blacksmith (Orlando Bloom) who joins a Crusade. It is set during the height of Saladin's campeigns to regain Jerusalem.
Although this movie gives the audience a general idea of what was going during those times. I think that the tensions between Muslims and Christians in Jerusalem and the surrounding areas is pretty accurate. As for everything else, well Hollywood exaggerates as always. I believe it is nearly impossible for movies to be historically accurate because there is a need to generally please the audience through entertainment NOT educate them with facts.
I found this article that talks about the Kingdom of Heaven which is pretty good because the author is a historian whose expertise if Muslim history. Although Timothy Furnish does give the movie some credit for keeping to historical facts, he pretty much disapproves of the main message the hero (Bloom) is trying to put forth-religious tolerance.
http://hnn.us/articles/11933.html
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