Crusade (disambiguation)

The Crusades were a series of religious wars sanctioned by the Latin Church in the medieval period, especially the campaigns in the Eastern Mediterranean aimed at recovering the Holy Land from Islamic rule.

Crusade or Crusades may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Comics

Crusade (comics), a Franco-Belgian comics series
The Crusades (comics), a series of American comic books

Films

The Crusaders (1918 film), a 1918 Italian film
The Crusaders (2001 film), a 2001 Italian television mini-series
The Crusades (film), a 1935 film directed by Cecil B. DeMille

Games

Darkness Falls: The Crusade, a 1999 internet MUD
Great Crusade, an episode in Warhammer 40,000 fictional history
Knights of the Temple: Infernal Crusade, a 2004 videogame
Space Crusade, a boardgame set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Dark Crusade, a computer game expansion pack
Wing Commander: The Secret Missions 2: Crusade, a computer game expansion pack
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, a 2007 computer game expansion pack

Literature

Crusade (Destroyermen novel), the second book of the Destroyermen series
Crusade (Forgotten Realms novel), a novel by James Lowder
Crusade (Laird novel), a 2007 historical novel by Elizabeth Laird
Crusade (short story), a 1968 Arthur C. Clarke short story
Crusade (Young novel), a 2007 novel by Robyn Young
Crusade, a 2003 novel from the Aquasilva Trilogy, by Anselm Audley
Crusade, a young-adult series by Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguié
Crusade, a 1992 Starfire novel by David Weber and Steve White
Crusade, The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War (1993), Rick Atkinson's non-fictional account of the 1990–1991 Persian Gulf War
The Crusade, novelization of the TV serial Doctor Who

Music

Crusade Records, an independent record label based in Sydney, Australia
"Crusades", a song by August Burns Red from the 2009 album Constellations

Albums

Crusade (album), a 1967 blues album by John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers
Crusades (album), an album by The Plastic Constellations
The Crusade (album), a 2006 album by Trivium

Television

"Crusade" (Stargate SG-1), an episode from the science fiction TV series
Crusade (TV series), a short-lived 1999 American science fiction spinoff from Babylon 5
Crusader (TV series), an American drama series from 1955 to 1956, starring Brian Keith
Crusades (TV series), a British television series hosted by Terry Jones
The Crusade (Doctor Who), four episode serial from Doctor Who
WHAS Crusade for Children, an annual telethon broadcast in Louisville, Kentucky

Events and movements

Children's Crusade (1963), a 1963 Civil Rights march in Alabama
Children's Crusade, a failed popular crusade by European Christians to regain the Holy Land from the Muslims, said to have taken place in 1212

Organizations

Campus Crusade for Christ, the former name of Cru, an American interdenominational Christian mission organization
Crusade of Romanianism, a Romanian fascist party

Other uses

Crusade (horse), an American-bred, Irish-trained Thoroughbred racehorse

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