The Warrior King

This is a thrilling story about one man's destiny, which became a nation's epic struggle for freedom. A powerful and gripping documentary account of the life and times of a great warrior and one of history's greatest forgotten leaders. THE WARRIOR KING is the story of Gjergj Kastrioti, commonly known as Scanderbeg, a name that struck terror to his enemies and gave hope to a world on the brink of oblivion. Scanderbeg and his loyal following of warriors successfully drove out the Ottoman Turks from Albania for over two decades in the fifteenth century, which prevented Turkey's efforts to spread Islam through the predominantly Roman Catholic Western Europe. Based on the biography of Marin Barleti, an Albanian Catholic monk who witnessed the sunset of the Age of Scanderbeg, and filmed on location in Albania, Kosova, Austria, Italy, UK and the United States, this story features an exciting mixture of re-enactments and interviews with a panel of historical experts.