ÔÇ£Soldier of GodÔÇØ A film by W. D. Hogan From The New York Times Director W. D. HoganÔÇÿs sweeping period epic ÔÇ£Soldier of GodÔÇØ unfurls in the Middle East of the late Twelfth Century. As the story opens, the Knights Templar, a religious order originally assigned to protect Christian pilgrims, has disintegrated from chivalric order and justice into dissolute chaos, as its individual factions bloodthirstily vie with one another for power and control.