
Agincourt and the Rise of Henry V (Chivalry and Betrayal: The 100 Years War, Episode 2)
England in the late fourteenth century is a kingdom battered by the Black Death and internal revolt, and this episode of the Chivalry and Betrayal series picks up as English fortunes in France slip away. The narrative tracks the young Henry V as he claims the throne and stakes his legitimacy on a renewed war with the French crown, culminating in the 1415 campaign that ends at Agincourt. Historians and battlefield analysis lay out how a smaller, exhausted English army facing a much larger French force turns the encounter through terrain, longbowmen, and French tactical missteps. The film uses period imagery, maps of the campaign route through Normandy, and expert commentary to explain why Agincourt became the defining moment of Henry's reign and reshaped the course of the wider conflict. As the second episode in a series covering the full Hundred Years War, it treats Agincourt not as an isolated triumph but as the payoff of decades of plague, rebellion, and dynastic maneuvering that preceded it.