Movie Description:
VOL 1: This volume chronicles the improbable origins of the Crusades, fromPope Urban II`shunger for military power to the success of one of history`sgreatest mass communication and recruitment campaigns. Terry Jones traces the Crusaders` routes across Europe , and details the massacres andlooting that marked their progress. VOL 2: The second volume chronicles the Crusaders` trail of carnage across the Middle East. Two-thirds of them wouldnot even survive the beginning of their journey, and Terry Jones illustrates whyas he attempts to duplicate their march across the harsh, rocky landscape ofAnatolia in the heat of summer,wearing chain mail. Jones follows their path to Antioch, site of the famed siege whose strangeoutcome would encourage thesavagery of the Crusaders` campaign.
