The Templars built fortresses so clever, even siege engineers took notes.
Looks at the engineering of the Knights Templar, the religious order that marked the rise of the Middle Ages, and their amazing buildings in the west of Europe.
Production
Gorgeous drone shots of crumbling stone that look expensive.
Editing
CGI reconstructions that actually explain how things worked.
Director
Benoît Renard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Templars invented an early form of banking — pilgrims could deposit money at one castle and withdraw at another, minus the 'we're definitely not a bank' religious loophole.
Friday the 13th's unlucky reputation traces to October 1307, when France's Philip IV simultaneously arrested hundreds of Templars, proving medieval PR disasters last 700+ years.
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