Joan of Arc’s importance to the French people was further solidified when she was made a saint, four centuries later, in 1920. Following the execution of Joan of Arc, Henry VI of England wrote ...

Martyrdom finds perhaps its most powerful cinematic expression in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (1928), ...

Born as a peasant girl around 1412, Joan of Arc became a knight and ultimately a patron saint of France after helping to repulse an English attempt to conquer her nation. Believing she was ...