Richard The Lionheart on DVD

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Starring Steven Waddington as Richard the Lionheart (The Last of the Mohicans, The Imitation Game.) Richard The Lionheart, King of England was one of the greatest warriors of his age. After a declaration from the Pope to the recapture of the Holy land, Richard takes on the biggest challenge of his life by agreeing to lead a coalition army to win back these sacred lands and take back the city of Jerusalem in the name of God. All of the eyes of the Christian world were upon him, the task is immense, and his adversary Saladin is himself a great leader who controls a huge army vastly outnumbering the Crusaders. This epic struggle between these two great warrior leaders would shape the future of the world forever. Almost a thousand years ago, Richard the Lionheart King of England arrived in the Holy Land to fight in the Crusades, the first religious wars the world had ever seen. He had made a promise to God and his knights that he would not rest until he had taken back Jerusalem from the Saracens. Richard's impact was immediate leading from the front and always in the thick of fighting, he beat Saladin in a series of key battles. But during the next few months, Richard's luck changed: his army was bogged down by bad weather and disease and his leadership of the Crusade was repeatedly challenged by rivals. But when Richard discovered the Saracens were besieging the Christian city of Jaffa, although heavily out-numbered he launched a heroic rescue attempt and, with it, a final grasp at redemption. The crusader state would endure for a further hundred years but Richard's reputation as a warrior king would last forever.