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Jul 7, 2016 · Actor Kenneth Branagh performed the speech in the 2008 BBC television series 10 Days to War: Despite its endurance the speech (reprinted in full below) remains surrounded in mystery and controversy. There exists no audio or video recording of the speech.
To deliver this speech successfully is to pass the acid test for anyone daring to perform the role of Henry V in public, and as Kenneth Branagh, as Henry, stood up on the dawn of the Battle of Agincourt and delivered the famous words, I was emotionally stirred even though I had heard them many times before.
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The speech has been famously portrayed by Laurence Olivier to raise British spirits during the Second World War, and by Kenneth Branagh in the 1989 film Henry V; it made famous the phrase "band of brothers".
18. 2.2K views 15 years ago. Henry V in the film of Kenneth Branagh (1989) before the battle of Agincourt. ...more.
Nov 8, 1989 · Henry V: Directed by Kenneth Branagh. With Derek Jacobi, Kenneth Branagh, Simon Shepherd, James Larkin. In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
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Shakespeare's "Henry V" is a favorite play of the British in times of national crisis, and in 1944, during the darkest days of World War II, Laurence Olivier directed and starred in it as a patriotic call to the barricades.
Whilst acknowledging that Olivier was obliged to ignore the ‘violence and extremism of Henry’s behaviour’ in his wartime film, Branagh admitted that his ‘post-war sensibilities’ would force him to view such omissions with ‘suspicion’.
