Kingdom of Heaven

Factual error: Before the battle of Kerak we see the city with snow capped mountains in the background. There are no mountains that high visible from Kerak.

Jacob La Cour

Continuity mistake: At the end of the film when the king of England rides away from the camp, Balian's hair changes from before.

Factual error: Prior to the battle with Saladin, there is a shot of the crescent moon. A star is shown inside the disk of the moon, but it should have been blocked out by the moon's presence.

Continuity mistake: At the battle of Jerusalem, the Muslims walk past 2 piles of rocks painted white, but both piles are the same pile - shot reused. Another reused shot was the firing of harpoon arrows with ropes attached, into the siege towers, all harpoons are the same harpoon.

Factual error: When Balian arrives in Ibelin, on the wall inside the manor house, he's watching the painting depicting the Dance of Death, with the writing 'quod sumus hoc eritis'. However, the earliest known Dance of Death (Danse Macabre) paintings are from the first half of the 15th century. This motif developed during the late medieval period, inspired by the memory of the Black Death.

Factual error: Balian is depicted in the start of the film to be from France. He was actually a Poulain, a Frank having been born in Outremer.

Factual error: In the beginning of the movie during the burial scene, it looks like a modern community in the background.

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Suggested correction: You don't see a "modern" community in the background. You see a few houses, but nothing to indicate anything that it's not part of that time period.

lionhead

Hospitaler: I put no stock in religion. By the word "religion" I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the 'Will of God.' Holiness is in right action, and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves, and goodness. What God desires is here [points to head], and here [points to heart], and by what you decide to do every day, you will be a good man. Or not.

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Trivia: When the Christians fire their first volley at the Muslims, one of the guys screams a Wilhelm as he falls.

SexyIrishLeprechaun

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Question: It seems like a glaring factual error that Balian is able to read and write, given that he was raised as a peasant in the Middle Ages. Did I miss some mention as to how he became literate?

Krista

Chosen answer: As Sereenie said in the corrections, Balian has spent months travelling with his father, during which time he has learned many things, including sword-fighting, and how to read and write.

STP

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