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* The Netflix blurb for Kingdom of Heaven states that Orlando Bloom's character takes up his sword to free the Holy Land from the Turks. That would be true if the movie were about the first crusade-it's actually about Saladin's recapture of the Holy Land *from* Crusaders, who had been occupying it for almost a century. And that would still be wrong, because the conflict is between the Chrusaders and ''Arabs''. Turks were not involved, and only became a significant political power centuries later.
**Um...you're thinking of the ''Ottoman'' Turks. The ''Seljuk'' (based like the Ottomans on a tribe led by a conqueror from whom they took their name) Turks were the ones invading the Holy Land before the First Crusade; and more to the strategic if not the religious perspective
***In fact the Crusades started when the Emperor started screaming for help to the West after losing to the Seljuk warlord, Alp Arslan at the Battle of Manzikart. Alp Arslan was, be it known, a Turk.
* The ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men]]'' films:
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