The Child Crusades - Barefoot to the Promised Land (2006)

overview : It was a fateful expedition into the unknown. 50.000 children marched along the banks of the Rhine and the Loire Rivers dressed in rags, dragged themselves barefoot across the snow-covered Alps. They reached the shores of the Mediterranean in a state of exhaustion, and were loaded onto shady ships and ended up as slaves at North African markets. The film snatches the stirring fate of these children from the realm of the forgotten and gives them back their dignity on the pages of history.

Release Date : Jan 01, 2006

Runtime : 53m

Genre : Documentary  History  

Companies : Zauberberg Filmproduktion, ZDF, ARTE

Countries : Germany

Keywords : france, germany, crusade, 13th century