Overview

In the year 1215, the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal on the Magna Carta, a seminal document that upheld the rights of free men. Yet within months of pledging himself to the great charter, the King reneged on his word and assembled a mercenary army on the south coast of England with the intention of bringing the barons and the country back under his tyrannical rule. Barring his way stood the mighty Rochester castle, a place that would become the symbol of the rebel's momentous struggle for justice and freedom.

Cast

James Purefoy

Thomas Marshall

Kate Mara

Lady Isabel

Jason Flemyng

Becket

Paul Giamatti

King John

Brian Cox

Albany

Derek Jacobi

Cornhill

Charles Dance

Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury

Aneurin Barnard

Guy

Jamie Foreman

Coteral

Mackenzie Crook

Marks

Rhys Parry Jones

Wulfstan

Vladimir Kulich

Tiberius