 Thulsa Doom and his warriors are patterned after the Teutonic  knights from _Aleksandr Nevskiy (1938)_ (qv). The similarities  between the two are very striking. From the helmets, body armor,  weapons and mannerisms. Thulsa Dooms even has the same pageboy  haircut has the Teutonic Knights commander. Milius even went on to  use the same Prokiev score for the work prints and pre