Reviewing Kingdom of Heaven

The movie is accurate but has some flaws in it. In most scene the information is true. At the beginning Godfrey tells Balian that it is a long journey to get to Jerusalem. The path they are taking goes through Italy. This scene is accurate because the journeys the men took to get to Jerusalem would have taken a long time when riding on horseback. When Balian murders the priest he leaves and joins his father in the Crusades. Many people in the crusades were people who have not had a clean record. When Balian hears Pope Urban II talk about taking the journey to Jerusalem he says that your sin will go away in history it is true that Pope Urban II does say that. In the movie there is also a lot of scenes that are not true. Much of the depiction of the sequence events at Reynald of Chatillon’s stronghold of Kerak is not true to history. Saladin did besiege Kerak unsuccessfully. This siege was the setting of one of the most famous stories about Saladin. Towards the end the scene where Balian surrenders Jerusalem to Saladin and the people cheer for peace but in history the people devastated by Saladin capturing Jerusalem.