The Pillars Of The Earth

A battle sequence features sprays of blood as men are stabbed and slashed with swords. There is a also a brief scene of self-flagellation.

Sword and knife-play occasionally results in large blood spurts. A man cuts off another's ear.

There is infrequent use of very strong language ('c**t'), accompanied by more frequent strong language ('f**k'), and other milder terms ('bitch', 'piss', 'bloody' and 'God').

There are also brief scenes of thrusty sex. In another scene, a mother and son engage in incestuous sexual activity - which is depicted briefly and without nudity. Occasional crude sex references include sexualised use of very strong language ('c**t').

A woman is raped in front of her brother after their home is invaded.

There are scenes of strong violence, including sword fights during battle sequences which result in large spurts of blood, and a scene in which a man is tortured using burning hot coals.

There is a brief scene of strong sex in which a man and woman are seen copulating in the street, with visible thrusting detail. Strong sex references include allusions to an incestuous relationship between a mother and son.

Whilst pretending to bleed her husband as a medical procedure, a woman deliberately cuts too deep, causing blood to flow freely from the wound down the man’s arm. Following an off-screen decapitation, blood is seen spurting upward. In the aftermath of battle violence, characters are seen moving bloody corpses.

Scenes of strong sex include breast and buttock nudity. During a night of revelry, a man performs crude gestures.

There are verbal references to sexual violence, and it is implied that a child is raped. There is also a scene in which a woman reluctantly engages in sexual intercourse with a man she has married for the sake of her brother's career. Frustrated by her lack of enthusiasm, the husband slaps her face.

There is strong violence in battlefield scenes and more personalised confrontations, featuring strikes with swords and axes, stabbings, throat-slashings, a beheading, a suffocation, and heavy blows from punches and kicks. The violence produces blood spurts, and there are strong bloody images in its aftermath. There are also deaths from an execution by hanging and a fall from a tall building.

A woman with facial injuries caused by her husband beating her talks about his history of abuse in their marriage, and says that he raped her on their wedding night when she was thirteen.