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Knights

Season 1
This elegant and exciting 3-part series evokes the time of the knights in a unique and intimate roller-coaster ride of individual lives set in the wider context of medieval Europe. Their stories are told in gripping reenactments, illustrated by stunning CGI and explored with documentary sequences.
IMDb 7.120153 episodesX-Ray13+
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Part 1: Men In Iron
    September 27, 2015
    54min
    13+
    Knights were like the Grand Prix drivers of the Middle Ages: celebrities, risk-takers, and showmen. Yet, theirs was not just a man's world: female knights were not unheard of, including Joan of Arc. The realities of life as a knight are more than a little surprising!
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  2. S1 E2 - Part 2: For Fame And Honor
    May 5, 2013
    53min
    16+
    Gaining honour, respect and glory is all-important to the medieval knight. And embarking on a crusade to the Holy Land in pursuit of the 'infidels' is one way of getting it. Of course, there's also the promise of land and untold riches. But how did the fabled knights fare on their way to Jerusalem?
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  3. S1 E3 - Part 3: The Last Of Their Kind
    September 27, 2015
    52min
    NR
    We examine the demise of the time of the knights and explore the rise of the robber knights. Peasant revolts, armies of mercenaries, and a new way to fight wars using muskets and cannons make the mounted knight in his cumbersome armor a thing of the past.
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Content advisory
Violencealcohol usesexual content
Subtitles
None available
Directors
ZDFE
Producers
ZDFE
Cast
Markus RothschildStefan RothRoland ScheweClaudia GarnierKarl-Heinz Göttert
Studio
Yuyu
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