The battle sequences are considerably more violent and bloodier than in most other medieval film epics of the time. Many fighters on both sides of the battles are shown bloodied by various weapons. Others are seen killed by arrows and falling from extreme heights to their deaths.
Blood is often seen on many weapons used in battle, including axes and swords. Some victims are seen with blood on their heads and faces.
Several warriors are seen caught on fire and slowly dying.
One warrior has his face burned by a torch during battle.
A knight threatens an enemy lord of beheading his captive little boy if he refused to pay ransom or else withdraw from his attempted siege of the knight's tower.
The same knight that threatened to behead a captive boy-prince, later threatens to trade him to his siege lord father piece-by-piece starting with an ear. Almost moments later, threatens his brother's woman to return his father's family ring to him or lose her finger along with it.
A knight is stabbed by his brother with a dagger in his side. He slowly backs away towards a ledge and throws himself over, falling from an extreme height to his death. It might also be viewed as a suicide as the dagger did not immediately kill him.
A man pounces from the top of a tree, stabbing a knight with his sickle hook. There is blood on his sickle as he tries to attack the knight's woman. The man instead is charged into a low-hanging tree branch with a quick cut-away, implying he had been fatally impaled. It is most disturbing to the woman who witnessed his death.