The Knights Templar

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Summary: Knights Feeble
Review: A dull and uninformative effort with low production values, utilizing two talking heads with the same limited graphics and music in mind numbing repetition for two hours! A poorly written documentary that jerks without explanation from one period to another, shows buildings without explanation of what they are and where, and even abruptly introduces Salidin without explanation of who he was and where he came from. The Knights Templar story is a fascinating one which has lead to some fevered speculations about their secrets, treasures, and religious icons, including the Holy Grail. So excess regarding the Templars has usually been the problem -- but this thing has suceeded in reducing the story to something that would bore a ten year old. Not worth buying at any price.

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Summary: Excellent historical review
Review: Excellent historical review of the Templars with minimum attention to the myths and ridiculous legends that pop history tends to try and sell the uneducated. An excellent first look at the Templars from their true historical purposes and not the mystical mumbo jumbo that Holy Blood Holy Grail offered with absolutely no proof.

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Summary: The Knights Templar
Review: I found the documentary a bit repetitive with its scences. It looks to have been made with a very low budget. So much more could have been said about the history of a very influencial order that changed many of the rules of warfare and even trade during the 13th and 14th Century and have given rise to a lot of speculation as to their connection with Masons, Rosicrucians and other secret organizations. The two "experts" did a credible job in their explanations and the photography, particularly that in the deserts was very good but as far as historical information, it left a lot out.

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Summary: Interesting Two Hour Historical Documentary.
Review: This is a four part TV documentary from 2000 totaling 120 minutes, and is stereophonic, but unfortunately does not contain sub-titles/closed captions. Prof. Malcolm Barber who is the world's leading expert on the Templar's explains the history of this group of medieval knights who were renowned for protecting Christain Holy Sites in the Palestine area of the Middle East. The historical aspects are very well done with some mini recreations of the knights life-styles, but the mythological aspects of the knights alleged posession of the Holy Grail and other items pertaining to Christ and his family, seem to me to be glossed over. Overall this is a good introduction to the Knights Templar which should be followed up by reading the series of books by Micheal Baigent & Richard Leigh.

Rating:
Summary: Interesting Two Hour Historical Documentary.
Review: This is a four part TV documentary from 2000 totaling 120 minutes, and is stereophonic, but unfortunately does not contain sub-titles/closed captions. Prof. Malcolm Barber who is the world's leading expert on the Templar's explains the history of this group of medieval knights who were renowned for protecting Christain Holy Sites in the Palestine area of the Middle East. The historical aspects are very well done with some mini recreations of the knights life-styles, but the mythological aspects of the knights alleged posession of the Holy Grail and other items pertaining to Christ and his family, seem to me to be glossed over. Overall this is a good introduction to the Knights Templar which should be followed up by reading the series of books by Micheal Baigent & Richard Leigh.