His son, Henry VI, would continue the fight for these lands. Joan of Arc was born in 1412 in Domrémy, a small village in northeastern France near the border of the lands controlled by the English.

Born as a peasant girl around 1412, Joan of Arc became a knight and ultimately a patron saint of France after helping to repulse an English attempt to conquer her nation. Believing she was ...

Martyrdom finds perhaps its most powerful cinematic expression in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (1928), ...