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Films & Shows Set during The Crusades

Runs from10951291196 years wide

Shelfmark Liber XXIII

Medieval Era

6
titles
6 films · 1 through its sub-periods
3.6/5
average rating
across 6 rated titles
44%
of the span is tagged
4 of 9 titles set inside it

See The Crusades on the timelineEvery year from 1095 to 1291 the archive holds, and what is set in them

Compare the titles of The Crusades in the CanonsWhat every title on it shares, what two or three share, and what is proper to one

Inside this Archive

1184Kingdom of HeavenFilm · 2005 · initially set in 11843.5/51187SaladinFilm · 1963 · set in 1187 · depicts 1187 – 11923.6/51191King Richard and the CrusadersFilm · 1954 · initially set in 11913.1/51193IvanhoeFilm · 1952 · set in 11933.3/51240Alexander Nevskyvia Northern CrusadesFilm · 1938 · initially set in 12403.8/51350The Seventh Sealset outsideFilm · 1957 · set in 13504.3/5

6 titles · in the order the archive depicts them. A series counts once, regardless of however many of its episodes carry the tag. 1 title here is set entirely outside the boundaries above, which is usually a period bounded more narrowly than a title that touches it. 1 title here comes through the periods inside this one rather than its own tag, and is counted only because it is set inside these boundaries.

The Chronicle

The events and themes the archive follows through The Crusades, in the order they happened, each with the titles that depict it. Press a name to read about it in the threads below.

  1. 1187
    Battle of HattinMilitary
  2. 1242
    Battle on the IceMilitary
  3. 1260–1400
    FlagellantsReligious
  4. 1346–1353
    The Black DeathDisaster

Sub-Periods

The periods the archive counts as part of The Crusades. Their titles are gathered on this page where they are set inside its boundaries. The number represents how many titles in these sub-periods are also directly attached to this period and how many are just inherited rather being directly tagged with The Crusades.

Cinematic Introduction

Every title set during The Crusades, by the decade it came out. A series is placed on the chart by its first season and counts as one title entity.

First on screen
Alexander Nevsky1938
Most recent
Kingdom of Heaven2005

FilmsSeriesAt the archive’s paceeach bar is the titles released that decade

The median title about The Crusades came out in 1956; the median across the rest of the archive, in 2004, so this period’s titles run 48 years earlier. Most over-told: the 1950s, with 3 titles where about 0.4 would be expected.

The gold dashes are how many of this period’s 6 titles each decade would hold if they had been released at the same pace as the other 285 dated titles in the archive. That measures the archive’s own collecting, not the world’s film output, and at these sizes one title moves a bar by a whole step.

Historical Threads

A thread follows one event or historical theme across the archive, wherever and whenever it appears. Pick a tab to read one; they are in the order they are filed on the timeline. Pulling a thread opens up a narrowed timeline view filtered to every year that thread touches.

Places Connected to this Period

Every place the archive’s titles set in this period name, with each one nested under the larger place it sits inside where that place is here too. The number is how many titles set here name it.

Saltiness Across the Period

No title set here has been given a saltiness score yet. That is unrated, which is not the same as accurate.

Archive Density

44%4 of the 9 titles the archive sets between 1095 and 1291 carry the The Crusades tag.

56%With its sub-periods: 5 of the same 9 titles carry The Crusades or one of Great Teutonic War, Northern Crusades and Third Crusade.

This measure can help illustrate cinematic hotspots within a time period by comparing which years of the overarching, actual historical time period are backed up by a cinematic release.

  1. 10990 of 1
  2. 11720 of 1
  3. 11841 of 1
  4. 1185nothing set here
  5. 11860 of 1
  6. 11872 of 2
  7. 1188nothing set here
  8. 1189nothing set here
  9. 11911 of 1
  10. 11921 of 2
  11. 11931 of 1
  12. 1195nothing set here
  13. 11960 of 1
  14. 12060 of 1
  15. 12270 of 1
  16. 1237nothing set here
  17. 12400 of 1 · 1 with sub-periods
  18. 12410 of 1 · 1 with sub-periods
  19. 12420 of 1 · 1 with sub-periods
  20. 1250nothing set here
  21. 1258nothing set here
  22. 1265nothing set here
  23. 12750 of 1
  24. 12800 of 1

24 years on the timeline fall inside the boundaries, 8 of them with nothing set there yet. The dark part of each bar is the share carrying this period; the lighter part beside it, the share carrying one of its sub-periods instead.

Share of the 20 genre taggings across 6 titles set in this period. A title filed under three genres is in three of these slices, so this is a share of taggings rather than of titles.

Credits

Directors

1David Butler1 title3.1/5unsalted2Dmitriy Vasilev1 title3.8/5unsalted3Ingmar Bergman1 title4.3/5unsalted4Richard Thorpe1 title3.3/5unsalted5Ridley Scott1 title3.5/5unsalted6Sergei Eisenstein1 title3.8/5unsalted7Youssef Chahine1 title3.6/5unsalted

Films only. Co-directors are counted individually, so a director’s solo work and their collaborations are grouped together. Average saltiness ignores any title still unsalted.

Also on the Timeline

Part of and part of it are declared by the archive: one period counted as belonging to another, whatever their dates. Periods overlap freely so concurrent means the two spans share years, and the shared stretch is named. Bounded means it lies wholly inside this one, beginning and ending more than 10 years within its boundaries. Before and after are the nearest periods lying outside this one, with the gap in years shown instead. A shared thread is what the two have in common besides the calendar, and a period lying wholly outside this one can still share one.

RelationPeriodRunsShared yearsShared threadsTitles
Part of itThird Crusade1189–11921189–1192Battle of Hattin4
Part of itNorthern Crusades1195–14101195–1291none shared2
BeforeViking Age793–106629 years earliernone shared6
ConcurrentHigh Middle Ages1000–13001095–1291none shared6
ConcurrentIslamic Golden Age786–12581095–1258none shared2
ConcurrentRurikid Dynasty862–15981095–1291none shared1
ConcurrentFeudal Japan1185–18681185–1291none shared5
ConcurrentMongol Conquests1206–13371206–1291none shared2
ConcurrentTatar Yoke1237–14801237–1291none shared1
ConcurrentPax Mongolica1250–13501250–1291none shared1
ConcurrentByzantine–Ottoman Wars1265–14791265–1291none shared1
AfterWars of Scottish Independence1296–13575 years laternone shared2