HENRY V 1944 film Directed by, produced by, and starring Laurence Olivier Produced during World War II with explicit propaganda objectives. At the suggestion of Winston Churchill, the BBC commissioned Olivier to create a film that would boost British morale, drawing direct parallels between Henry V’s 1415 invasion of France and the 1944 Allied D-Day invasion of Normandy. The film was released just months after the Normandy landings, amplifying its symbolic resonance. Olivier shot the battle scen