Arn: The Knight Templar poster

TV series

Arn: The Knight Templar

2010NR1 season7.6 / 10

Arn has to endure so much before he can get the love of his life Cecilie, who has been put away in a monastery.

See similar shows

Availability

Availability not confirmed in United States

We haven't confirmed streaming options for Arn: The Knight Templar in United States yet.

See similar shows available now Check another country Browse all available shows

Synopsis

Arn has to endure so much before he can get the love of his life Cecilie, who has been put away in a monastery.

Season 1 episodes

Choose an episode, then use the watch options above for the show.

Episode 1

The Beginning

Mar 22, 201045m7.5 / 10

Arn Magnusson remembers, as a fearful crusading templar, his youth in fractured Sweden's West Gotland. He and his brother Erskin were friends with king Erik's son Knut, until a neighboring warlord killed the king to seize the crown during the local church's solemn consecration. After Arn's seemingly fatal fall and 'miraculous survival', his mother insisted on keeping a promise to God to offer the boy as oblate to the regional abbey. There abbot Henri allowed father Guilbert, a former templar, to add warrior skills to his monastic education. After an incident in which he was forced to kill a bride-robber in a duel, Arn tries to prevent his family's feud with a haughty neighbor's getting bloodily out of hand.

Episode credits

Directed by Peter FlinthWritten by Hans GunnarssonGuest stars Mirja Turestedt, Jørgen Langhelle, Noa Samenius, Mikael Bohlin, Michael Nyqvist, Vincent Perez, Simon Callow, Thomas W. Gabrielsson

Where to watch Arn: The Knight Templar

Episode 2

Arn and Cecilia

Mar 29, 201045m5.0 / 10

Arn's brothers would be-fiancée fails to seduce Arn before he finds out she's the sister of his beloved. Prince Knut, now an adult, is back from Norwegian exile to reclaim the throne. He lures crack archer Arn to help him kill the usurper, but Arn's family fears that only leads to civil war. Arn's siren convinces the bishop that her alleged lover Arn and his true love, her sister, committed mortal sins, so they are confined to strict convents for 'half their lives', 20 years. Arn's abbot however gets his sentence commuted into joining the Knights Templars, a crusading order.

Episode credits

Directed by Peter FlinthWritten by Hans GunnarssonGuest stars Michael Nyqvist, Vincent Perez, Simon Callow, Lina Englund, Donald Högberg, Charlotta Larsson, Thomas W. Gabrielsson, Svante Martin

Where to watch Arn: The Knight Templar

Episode 3

Worlds Apart

Apr 5, 201045m7.5 / 10

Arn is now a seasoned Templar, enjoying trust and respect of the grand master. His chivalrous behavior towards Muslim passersby wins him the respect of sultan Saladin, who was anonymously among them. When Saladin's army marches to besiege Jerusalem, he sends a retainer to offer Arn safe passage, which is declined. Arn correctly analyzes the enemy's best route and sets a masterly trap, which forces Saladin to retreat for the time being. Back home, Arn's beloved Cecilia gave birth to their son, which was taken away, and suffers a horror regime under the Sverker abbess. She befriends another Cecilia, who turns out the fiancée of Knut. When he comes collect her, the abbess must promise a decent treatment.

Episode credits

Directed by Peter FlinthWritten by Hans GunnarssonGuest stars Sven-Bertil Taube, Alex Wyndham, Julia Dufvenius, Steven Waddington, Bibi Andersson, Frank Sieckel, Milind Soman, Nicholas Boulton

Where to watch Arn: The Knight Templar

Episode 4

Arn of Gothia, the Devil with the Red Cross

Apr 12, 201045m8.0 / 10

At the end of his penance term of 20 years, Templar Arn expects to return home with an honorable discharge from the late grandmaster after a last desert mission, during which he must defeat fellow knights to prevent Bedouin allies being slaughtered. The grandmaster's successor tears it up, claiming victory over Saladin is at hand and imposing foolish risks. In Sweden, his bride Cecilia is offered to succeed the wicked abbess, who dies cursing her for refusing to forgive. However she chooses to leave, visit their son Magnus, now a man, and seeking to find and marry Arn at last.

Episode credits

Directed by Peter FlinthWritten by Hans GunnarssonGuest stars Steven Waddington, Bibi Andersson, Robert Willox, Barnaby Kay, Mohamed Tsouli, Frank Sieckel, Milind Soman, Nicholas Boulton

Where to watch Arn: The Knight Templar

Episode 5

Love, War and Religion

Apr 19, 201045m7.5 / 10

The haughty grandmaster's expedition ends as disastrously as Arn warned: the crusader army is annihilated by Saladin's at the battle of Hattin. The sultan's brother however rescues badly wounded Arn from the battlefield, nurses him to health and accompanies him home to Sweden. They arrive just in time to prevent Cecioa, who was told all Templars were dead, accepting to becoming abbess for the family's political sake. Their patriarchs' objections result in the bishop forbidding a wedding, but the archbishop undoes that after an intervention from the bride's friend, Knud's queen. The happy couple is now united with their strapping son Magnus, squire to the Folkung patriarch.

Episode credits

Directed by Peter FlinthWritten by Hans GunnarssonGuest stars Frank Sieckel, Milind Soman, Nicholas Boulton, Driss Roukhe, Morgan Alling, Fanny Risberg, Gustaf Skarsgård, Jakob Cedergren

Where to watch Arn: The Knight Templar

Episode 6

The Kingdom at Road's End

Apr 26, 201045m9.0 / 10finale

After happy years for Arn and his finally reunited family, king Knut is dying, spelling a bloody civil war. Fearing a Danish intervention would be fatal, the Folkungs arrange a deal by which Karl, whose father's throne Knut re-usurped, succeeds but must adopt Knut's firstborn Erik as crown prince. Rightly suspecting foul play, Arn sends his Danish former Templars squire along as supposed turncoat, in fact Eric's bodyguard. After he prevents Eric and his brothers, one of which is however slain, being cowardly drowned, Arn takes command of a revolt, heading for an epically bloody battle.

Episode credits

Directed by Peter FlinthWritten by Hans GunnarssonGuest stars Morgan Alling, Fanny Risberg, Gustaf Skarsgård, Joel Kinnaman, Jakob Cedergren, Martin Wallström, Nijas Ørnbak-Fjeldmose, Göran Ragnerstam

Where to watch Arn: The Knight Templar

Episode information updated Nov 14, 2026

Available now in United States

What to watch instead

These shows are available now and closely match Arn: The Knight Templar.

Alias Grace poster

Alias Grace

TV series · 2017★ 7.2

Shared themes

Band of Brothers poster

Band of Brothers

TV series · 2001★ 8.6

Shared themes

The Spy poster

The Spy

TV series · 2019★ 7.4

Shared themes

The Queen's Gambit poster

The Queen's Gambit

TV series · 2020★ 8.4

Shared themes

I, Claudius poster

I, Claudius

TV series · 1976★ 7.8

Shared themes

The Pacific poster

The Pacific

TV series · 2010★ 7.8

Shared themes

More about Arn: The Knight Templar

Cast

Sofia HelinCecilia Algotsdotter

Joakim NätterqvistArn Magnusson

Stellan SkarsgårdBirger Brosa

Michael NyqvistMagnus Folkesson

Vincent PerezBroder Guilbert

Simon CallowFader Henry

Thomas W. GabrielssonEmund Ulvbane

Svante MartinKarl Sverkersson

Credits

Written by: Hans Gunnarsson, Jan Guillou

Production details

Status: Ended
Series type: Miniseries
Episodes: 6
Original language: Swedish
Original title: Arn

Networks & production

TV4Sweden
SF StudiosSweden
Arion Communications Ltd.
Film i VästSweden
AMC PicturesUnited Kingdom
Dagsljus FilmequipmentSweden

Themes

based on novel or bookcrusadehistoricalminiseries