York vs Lancaster: The War That Destroyed Medieval England

For thirty brutal years, England was consumed by civil war. Two rival branches of the same royal family, the white rose of York and the red rose of Lancaster, fought for the crown in a conflict defined by ambition, betrayal, shifting alliances, and devastating bloodshed. Kings were deposed, princes disappeared, noble houses were destroyed, and the fate of England hung on one battle after another. This documentary follows the full story of the Wars of the Roses, from the long shadow of the Hundred Years’ War and the weakness of Henry the Sixth, through the rise of Richard Duke of York, the violence of St Albans, Wakefield, Towton, Barnet, and Tewkesbury, to the final showdown at Bosworth Field where Richard the Third fell and Henry Tudor seized the crown. This is the story of how medieval England nearly destroyed itself, and how the chaos of dynastic war gave birth to the Tudor age.