A great motivational speech. To bad it was written long after the event.
True enough with Shakespeare writing it in 1598-9 and the battle occurring in 1415 BUT as an inspirational speech it has been put to use countless times since then. For a comparison to this Branagh version of 1989, you can also watch the 1944 Laurence Olivier's Henry V, sumptuously done in mid-war Britain with full government cooperation. This same speech starts at 1:26:40 with very different costumes and staging. That a 'purported' educated person can graduate from any number of 'top' colleges without even studying a line of Shakespeare is very telling about our debased academia! This includes English, History and Literature majors! SIGH!