El Cid - Champion of Spain - Heroes and Warriors

Relates the battles and exploits of the eleventh-century Castilian warlord against the historical and cultural background of the period. Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar was known as El Cid, from the Arabic word for `Lord.' His exploits are the central feature of chivalrous legends of the Middle Ages, as well as later Hollywood epics. Yet the historical reality of the man and his achievements are to this day shrouded in mystery...