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Filmography of Saladin

Known as: PoliticalMilitary

3 titles in the archive · first depicted 1184

Lived1138 – 1193

Kurdish founder of the Ayyubid dynasty and sultan of Egypt and Syria, who retook Jerusalem from the crusaders in 1187.

Shelfmark Vita XLIV

3
titles
3 films
3.4/5
average rating
across 3 rated titles
7h 18m
on screen
across 3 titles
100%
set in The Crusades
3 of 3 appearances
3
appearances, all on film
never on television

Compare their 3 titles in the Canons

7 years of a 55 year life depicted onscreen

Distinct years the archive depicts, against Saladin’s lifetime (1138 – 1193) — 12.7% of it.

Depicted in

118411871187 to 119211911192

First and Last on Screen

Earliest portrayalKing Richard and the Crusaders1954
Most recentKingdom of Heaven2005

51 years of cinema separate them. A series is sorted here by the first year of its release.

A series counts once, regardless of how many of its episodes feature them.

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The Box Office Ledger

What the films portraying Saladin cost to make and took at the worldwide box office, as TMDB records them.

$130 million
in budgets
over 1 film with both sums
$218.4 million
at the box office
over 1 film with both sums
1.7×
return on budget
box office ÷ budget
Budget and box office of each film
FilmBudgetBox office
Kingdom of Heaven$130,000,000$218,366,336
Saladin$360,000not recorded

US dollars as TMDB records them, not adjusted for inflation. 2 films of the 3 portraying them carry either sum.