movie – The Templar Knight

A medieval knight plays Death at chess

Posted on July 21, 2017 by Tony McMahon

If you have never seen The Seventh Seal – then watch it. A tortured medieval knight is played by a very young Max von Sydow, who you may have seen in The Minority Report and other movies. In this scene, he plays a game of chess with Death in order to remain alive. It’s a Swedish movie with subtitles but don’t let that put you off.

The Dark Truths of the Templars – watch me on TV expose some secrets

Posted on June 28, 2017July 3, 2017 by Tony McMahon

Screen Shot 2017-06-28 at 15.10.47 I will be appearing as a guest several times in a special edition of Forbidden History devoted to exposing the secrets of the Knights Templar. Presented by Jamie Theakston and broadcast on UKTV/Yesterday TV, Forbidden History asks the questions you have all been dying to know the answers to.

I will be discussing:

Screen Shot 2017-06-28 at 15.08.08 — Me on Forbidden History: The Dark Truths of the Templars (Yesterday TV/UKTV)

The trial of the Knights Templar in 1307
Pagan rituals that may have become part of the Templar rites
How did the Templars become so rich, so quickly?
Were the Templars influenced by eastern ideas?
Did they reject church authority?
Why was such violence used to put down the Templars?
The way in which the order was wiped out

Battle scene from the Templar movie – Arn

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Tony McMahon

Name of the Rose

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Tony McMahon

I’d quite forgotten how much fun this medieval movie is – a 1980s gem based on the book by Umberto Eco. If you’ve never seen it – do! If for nothing else other than to experience Sean Connery playing a monk and a very young Christian Slater.