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Joan of Arc
UNITED STATES · 1948

Joan of Arc

Victor Fleming
religious faith military leadership French history divine calling war and conflict
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Synopsis

In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.

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