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.

James Purefoy
as Thomas Marshall

Kate Mara
as Lady Isabel

Jason Flemyng
as Becket

Paul Giamatti
as King John

Brian Cox
as Albany

Derek Jacobi
as Cornhill

Charles Dance
as Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury

Aneurin Barnard
as Guy

Jamie Foreman
as Coteral

Mackenzie Crook
as Marks
Filipe Manuel Neto
**A film about a true fact in history, which is entertaining, but not very rigorous.** In 1215, during the First Barons' War, which occurred in the aftermath of a revolt and the signing of the Magna Carta, King John of England had to lay siege to Rochester Castle, a strategic point in his kingdom...