Reclaiming the Blade
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Daniel Mcnicoll
Viggo Mortensen
Lee Jones
Tom Urso
John Rhys-davies
John Waller
Film Details
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Synopsis
Chronicles the history of swordplay from its shadowed and legendary past to today. Includes interviews and demos with the world's leading sword masters, Hollywood stars, academics, practitioners, private collectors and sword-smiths. The documentary delves deep, systematically exploring the Medieval and Renaissance blade, a profound and beautiful object handcrafted by master artisans of old. An object of great complexity, yet one with a singular use in mind--it is designed to kill. The truth of the sword has been shrouded in antiquity, and the Renaissance martial arts that brought it to being are long forgotten. The ancient practitioners lent us all they knew through their manuscripts. As gunslingers of the Renaissance they were western heroes with swords, and they lived and died by them.
Director
Daniel Mcnicoll
Cast
Viggo Mortensen
Lee Jones
Tom Urso
John Rhys-davies
John Waller
Hank Reinhardt
Bob Anderson
Gareth Mcghie
Mitchell Lane
Karl Urban
Dr. Sydney Anglo
Richard F. Taylor
Rudy Volkman
John Clements
Jonathan Waller
Paul Champagne
Peter Lyon
John Howe
Crew
Philip Abbott
Stuart Aimer
Stuart Aimer
Bob Anderson
Dr. Sydney Anglo
Matt Appleton
Alasdair Beckett
Peter Belsito
Erica Black
Erica Black
Erica Black
Richard Black
Karen Blackmann
Jon Bowden
Jon Bowden
Jen Burkley
Mark Chamberlin
Mark Chamberlin
Paul Champagne
Yu-ting Chiu
John Clements
Melissa Dodds
Chris Doehling
Rachel Drews
Grant Finlay
Adam Franklin
Tim Goodwin
Matt Hayes
John Howe
Matt Johnson
Lee Jones
Mitchell Lane
John Lepore
Peter Lyon
Andy Macdonald
Gareth Mcghie
Daniel Mcnicoll
Viggo Mortensen
David Murphy
David Murphy
David James Neilsen
Daniel Ott
Hank Reinhardt
Ayme Richard
Paul Richardson
Paul Richardson
Kathy Sams
Ken Saville
Kent Sparling
Shawn Stevens
Richard F. Taylor
Tim Tozer
Gerard Twomey
Gerard Twomey
Gerard Twomey
Steve Unwin
Steve Unwin
Karl Urban
Tom Urso
Rudy Volkman
Lee Waldrep
John Waller
Jonathan Waller
Film Details
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Released in United States 2009
Released in United States on Video May 5, 2009
dialogue English
Released in United States 2009
Released in United States on Video May 5, 2009
