Films and Movies.

In AD 1400, after over one hundred years of direct English rule, the struggle for Welsh independence began.  Owain Glyndwr, seen by the people as their legitimate ruler, was proclaimed Prince of Wales.  Glyndwr waged war against the English in a series of lightning guerrilla attacks  symbols of English rule were burned or destroyed and boroughs ransacked.  King Henry IV was quick to respond, marching an army into Wales and driving Glyndwr into the wilds of Snowdonia - but the following year the Welsh resumed their assault with fresh vigour.  In June 1402, Glyndwr achieved his greatest success at the Battle of Pilleth.  A superior English force was slaughtered and Glyndwr, now a serious threat, made a powerful English ally in Henry Percy.  Percy led his own men against the King at the Battle of Shrewbury, gambling everything - and losing.  Glyndwr turned to the French for help - with the fate of both the English and Welsh nations at stake...  Peter and Dan Snow, father and son historians, travel to the actual battle sites and use computer generated images woven together with dramatic re-enactments to make history come alive.