As a historian who has spent 30 + years studying the crusades unfortunately I was left a little disappointed with the accuracy of the documentary.
Majority of the content was accurate however it was very clear from the onset the narrative of the documentary was to disparage the knights templars as some barbaric army that just slaughtered men, women and children every where they went. This is simply not true and historically inaccurate.
The two "specialists" in the documentary that provide details are Muslims that clearly have a very biased and one sided opinion.
The documentary fails to mention the Islamic caliphates from 600 - 1000AD that absolutely decimated nation after nation town after town through out the whole Middle East. Killing, raping, kidnapping, forcing conversions, forcing militarisation etc etc.
The Islamic movement at that time was a horrible and barbaric movement. The knights templars were instructed to destroy this barbaric movement and reclaim Christian towns and nations.
The Islamic movement were not victims as this documentary paints it out to be, but rather they themselves were the largely the aggressors for hundreds of years.
Secondly, the narrative displayed in this documentary that the crusaders committed war crimes and killed indiscriminately. Simply not true.
Firstly, what we would constitute now days as war crimes were extremely different to how that would have looked like 1000 years ago. Secondly, there is absolutely no primary source of evidence that gives merit that the templars killed women and children, fellow Christians or otherwise. These are fable stories passed down from generation to generation and heavily reliant on the confession of the last templar master under extreme torture to which he later recanted as he was about to be killed.
There is so much more I could write and include here however in closing if you decide to watch this documentary, try to see it with out the bias narrative of the narrators and so called specialists.
