England was at war with France during Henry’s reign ... He became king following the death of his father, Henry V. Until he was 16, a group of advisors ruled the country on Henry’s behalf.

King Henry V of England (Sir Kenneth Branagh) is insulted by King Charles VI of France (Paul Scofield ... his troops and his own inner doubts. The war culminates at the bloody Battle of Agincourt.

He may even agree with the God-is-dead proponents. But Shakespeare and the sixteenth-century Elizabethans believed in war, just as had Henry V and his subjects in the early fifteenth century.