THE BLACK BANNER : CINEMATIC 15TH CENTURY MEDIEVAL HISTORY
- Andy Lunn
- Feb 26
- 2 min read
My vision for telling history in an interesting way.
History is not dead.It is beneath our feet. It is in the wind.
The Black Banner UK is a cinematic exploration of late-medieval England — its battles, churches, forgotten fields, ruined abbeys and the men who once stood upon them.
This is not fast history.
It is not trivia.
It is not list-based entertainment.
It is atmosphere.
It is place.
It is memory.
What It Is
The Black Banner UK is a historically grounded film project focused primarily on the Wars of the Roses and medieval England.
Each episode is filmed on location — in churchyards, beside rivers, across battlefields and beneath ancient stone towers — because history makes more sense when you stand where it happened.
From Towton to Wakefield.
From rural parish churches to forgotten grave markers.
From chronicles and primary sources to the sound of wind in long grass.
Every film is built from:
On-site cinematography
Carefully researched historical sources
Period artwork and manuscripts
Measured, reflective narration
A dark, immersive visual style
Accuracy matters. Place matters. Tone matters.
The Tone
The Black Banner is not nostalgic fantasy. It does not romanticise war.It does not simplify people into heroes and villains.It does not shout.
The tone is reflective.
Measured.
Often sombre.
There is beauty in ruined stone. There is weight in old churches. There is something humbling about standing in a field where thousands once fell.
The films are intentionally slow in places — allowing space for thought. Because medieval England was not a theme park. It was brutal. Faithful. Political. Violent. Devout. Human.
Why I Create It
I create The Black Banner UK because I do not feel detached from the past.
When I stand in a medieval church and hear a crow outside, or wind move through trees, I am hearing the same sounds heard 500 years ago.
The same sky.The same river. The same cold air on skin.
The past is not unreachable. It is layered beneath us.
The Black Banner is my attempt to reconnect with that continuity — to remind myself, and anyone watching, that we are not separate from history. We are its consequence, and perhaps, its custodians.
What You Will Not Find Here
You will not find clickbait history.You will not find fantasy armour.You will not find algorithm-driven noise. You will find:
Fields.
Stone.
Graves.
Chronicles.
Wind.
And the stories that remain.
The Purpose
To preserve memory.To walk the ground.To speak the names.To remind us that England’s medieval past was real, complicated, and deeply human.
The banner is black not for drama —but for mourning, reflection, and remembrance.
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