• Director(s)

    Sergio Mimica-Gezzan

  • Production Year

    2010

  • Genre(s)

    Drama, Romance

  • Cast

    Ian McShane, Matthew Macfadyen, Eddie Redmayne, Hayley Atwell, Donald Sutherland, Rufus Sewell

TV Show

The Pillars Of The Earth

Contains strong language, once very strong, sex and bloody violence

  • Director(s)

    Sergio Mimica-Gezzan

  • Production Year

    2010

  • Genre(s)

    Drama, Romance

  • Cast

    Ian McShane, Matthew Macfadyen, Eddie Redmayne, Hayley Atwell, Donald Sutherland, Rufus Sewell

Classified Date:
14/01/2011
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Sony DADC UK Limited
Paperwork Remarks:
INTERNATIONAL HE TRAILER (''ON BLU-RAY AND DVD'')
Classified Date:
04/01/2011
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Sony DADC UK Limited
Paperwork Remarks:
REVISED STARZ TRAILER (''ON BLU-RAY AND DVD'')
strong bloody violence
Classified Date:
30/05/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
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.
additional issues
A suitor forcibly kisses a woman, but she shoves him away. Bad language includes uses of 'bitch', 'bastard' and 'bloody'. There are also occasional sex references and scenes of emotional upset, such as when a father abandons his newborn son to die in the woods.
Contains strong language, once very strong, sex and bloody violence
Classified Date:
22/11/2010
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
Paperwork Remarks:
Season 1
sexual violence, strong violence, sex, sex references, very strong language
Classified Date:
14/06/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
Sword and knife-play occasionally results in large blood spurts. A man cuts off another's ear.
language
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').
sex
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').
sexual violence and sexual threat
A woman is raped in front of her brother after their home is invaded.
additional issues
A woman exposes herself and then urinates before several men in court.
strong violence, sex, sexual violence
Classified Date:
30/05/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
There are scenes of bloody violence, including a beheading and the severing of limbs.
sex
Scenes of strong sex include breast and buttock nudity.
sexual violence and sexual threat
The season recap includes brief sexual violence from a previous episode. There is also a scene in which a man grabs at a woman after making sexist remarks.
additional issues
There is moderate threat and horror, and mild bad language ('piss').
strong violence, bloody images, sex, sex references
Classified Date:
05/06/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
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.
sex
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.
injury detail
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.
additional issues
There is use of moderate bad language ('whore', 'bitch') as well as milder terms ('bastard', 'bloody', 'balls', 'God'). Characters grieve for the loss of loved ones.
strong violence, sexual violence, sex, nudity
Classified Date:
30/05/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
Scenes of violence include stabbing and slashing, and are accompanied by heavy blood spurts.
sex
Scenes of strong sex include breast nudity.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A woman experiences flashbacks to being raped. She is also subjected to unwelcome sexual attention from another man, who watches her while she bathes, then tries to initiate a sexual encounter. During another sequence, raiders attack a village and two men assault a woman, pulling open her clothing and exposing her breasts.
additional issues
There is moderate threat and mild bad language ('bastard'). There is also a scene in which a caged bear is taunted by a crowd.
sexual violence, strong sex
Classified Date:
30/05/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
sex
Scenes of strong sex include breast and buttock nudity. During a night of revelry, a man performs crude gestures.
sexual violence and sexual threat
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.
additional issues
There is moderate threat and violence, with occasional bloody images, including a scene in which a woman severs the head of a chicken for the purpose of placing a curse on an enemy. There are also scenes in which a monk undertakes mortification of the flesh, self-flagellating, wearing a cilice, and mutilating his leg with a knife. There is moderate bad language ('whore').
strong violence, sex, sexual violence, domestic abuse
Classified Date:
30/05/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
Scenes of violence include stabbing and slashing, with accompanying blood spurts and bloody injury detail. In one battle sequence, a man is beheaded and his severed head is subsequently paraded.
sex
Scenes of strong sex include breast nudity.
sexual violence and sexual threat
There is a scene in which a man chases his wife (who is 13-years-old) uttering sexual threats.
additional issues
There is infrequent strong language ('f**k') and milder terms including 'whore' and 'piss'. A woman severs the head of a chicken while placing a curse on an enemy.
strong violence, bloody images, sexual violence & domestic abuse references
Classified Date:
05/06/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
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.
sexual violence and sexual threat
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.
additional issues
There is moderate knife threat. There is a passing reference to a man’s suicide. There is infrequent mild bad language (‘bastard’).
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  • Classified date

    22/11/2010

  • BBFC reference

    AVV273394

  • Distributor

    Sony DADC UK Limited

  • Language

    English