Knights Templar: The history behind Assassin's Creed

Videogame franchise and film draw on true stories of a Crusader charity-turned-army and group of Muslim assassins

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The featurette for the upcoming Assassin's Creed, a film adaptation of the popular videogames, delves into the mythology of Assassins and the Knights Templar, but does it have any basis in historical fact?

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