He stops fighting, jumps on his horse and rides across the field to attack the King. This was also how a very dramatic scene was accomplished when William is hit by an arrow. When they got to the end of the tracks they merely somersaulted throwing their stuntriders forward. Three of the horses fell head first into the fighters. In one scene there were several horses lined up and then charged into a group of warriors. Then by adding some cutting and splicing of the film in post production, the scenes appeared very violent with horses in the middle of all the fighting. By using a long lens, it pulled the groups of people and animals together for the scenes. The ground had been dug up and filled with sand for the horse falls. The battle scenes were all shot with pockets of people fighting in different areas, with the horses having their own area. Horses were used throughout, both as a means of transportation and in the battle scenes. The American Humane Film/TV Organization issued the following report describing how fake horses on tracks were used in the various scenes: None, although the scenes of horses being wounded were so real it is said that Mel Gibson was investigated by an animal welfare organization. They fought like Scotsmen and won their freedom. In a voiceover, Mel Gibson says, In the year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields of Bannockburn. In what is supposed to be his ceremonial acceptance of English rule, he and his troops ride out on the fields of Bannockburn and, instead, attack the English army. Nine years later, in 1314, Robert the Bruce has been declared King of Scotland. As the crowd begins to yell for mercy, Wallace shouts, 'Freedom!' Just before he is beheaded, he looks out at the crowd and has a vision of Murron.

The next morning, he is led out of the Tower of London where he is publicly hanged, racked, and disemboweled in an attempt to make him swear allegiance to the King of England. Princess Isabelle ( Sophie Marceau), who is in love with Wallace, begs for his life to no avail and tries to slip him something 'to ease the pain,' but Wallace refuses it. When Wallace goes to Edinburgh to meet with Robert the Bruce ( Angus Macfadyen), who wishes to join with Wallace, he is taken captive by Robert's father and sent to London where the magistrate finds him guilty of high treason and sentences him to be tortured and beheaded.

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