Goofs

French soldier wearing blue dies twice of an arrow in the back.

The French herald, Montjoy, is with Henry V when he receives the lists of the dead. This is immediately followed by the tracking shot of Henry walking over the battlefield, part-way through which he passes Montjoy who bows to him. Unless Montjoy did some pointless off-camera sprinting, he could not have got ahead of Henry in time.

During the march it begins to rain, Henry is shown with just a few drops falling in front of him. The next instant, the camera angle changes, Henry turns his head, and behind him it is pouring.

Despite the exciting battle scenes the whole English army is thought to have fought on foot, so knights would not have engaged the French cavalry from horseback as depicted. Large numbers of the French army were also dismounted although cavalry attacks were also launched against Henry.

The real Henry V had a large scar on the left side of his face, the result of being struck and nearly killed by an arrow during the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403. The scar is not shown in this film.

Before the battle of Agincourt, when Harry is giving his reply to Montjoy, on the line, "Why should they mock poor fellows thus?" an extra in the back can be seen waving at the camera.

In the confrontation scene between between Lord Henry Scroop (Stephen Simms) and the Duke of Exeter (Brian Blessed), Scroop briefly flinches before Exeter slaps his face.

One of the "dead" soldiers lying in the field after a battle winks.

During the battle scene, a horseman's sword is seen bending severely when striking another sword, clearly revealing that it is rubber or plastic.

When the army crosses the river, rain is clearly falling into the water in the foreground but not in the background, which is glassy smooth.

The Treaty of Troyes (1420) is shown as taking place a week or so after the Battle of Agincourt (1415). This is the result of cuts from William Shakespeare's text. The play does acknowledge that more time has gone by.

After 4 minutes a violin string is plucked. This string is clearly one of the middle strings, either the "D" or the "A" string. However, we actually hear the sound of the "E" string being plucked.

When the Archbishop of Canterbury is making his case for war, he recites a list of past French kings and their relations to each other. He gets some of the names, numbers, and relations wrong. This error is taken from William Shakespeare's text.

When Kenneth Branagh (as Henry) is delivering his 'Saint Crispian's Day speech', he says "He that shall see this day and live old age . .." transposing the two verbs in the original William Shakespearean line which is "He that shall live this day and see old age . . ."

It's in William Shakespeare's text, but during the English lesson between Katherine and Alice, Katherine switches from the familiar "tu" (which is to be expected when a princess addresses a servant) to the formal "vous" (which would be appropriate for a younger person addressing an older one, were the younger one not of royal blood) in her first line of dialogue in this scene, and continues using it throughout thereafter.

At the end of the film, whilst Henry is carrying the corpse and Non Nobis is being sung, he walks past three 'dead' French soldiers in blue lying as if impaled on wooden stakes. One of them makes a facial grimace as the king walks past.