TY - BOOK TI - The Knights Templar SN - 0779252446 AV - CR4743 PY - 2001/// CY - Richmond Hill, Ont. : PB - American Home Treasures KW - Knights Templar (Masonic order) KW - Military religious orders -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 KW - History KW - Middle Ages, 600-1500 KW - Crusades N1 - Originally produced in 2000. Special features: The mythology of the Knights Templar ; Interactive menus ; Scene selection; Executive producer: Ken Maliphant ; writer and director, James Wignall; Presented by Malcolm Barber N2 - Describes the activities of the Knights Templar, a group of knights who took vows like a monastic order and fought violently against the Saracens during the Crusades. Malcolm Barber, the world's leading Templar historian, explores the impressive rise and rapid fall of a group ahead of its time. Did the Knights cause the Crusades to ultimately fail? What happened to the surviving warriors of the Order? And-- even more important-- was there a secret treasure and where might it be now? ER -