Description
Edward III’s army was deep inside France when Philip VI finally brought the French host to battle near Crécy. The English king chose defensive ground, placed his men-at-arms on foot, and used English and Welsh longbowmen as part of a disciplined battlefield system. What followed was not simply longbows against knights, but a collision of terrain, missile fire, command pressure, fatigue, and repeated French cavalry assaults.
This documentary follows the Battle of Crécy during the Hundred Years’ War, showing how Edward’s smaller army survived by forcing French strength to arrive uphill, disordered, and in fragments. Crécy opened the way toward the siege and capture of Calais in 1347, and it proved that prestige and courage could be broken by preparation, discipline, terrain, and command control.