"Every man dies, not every man really lives."

“Aye, fight and you may die. Run and you’ll live, at least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!”

I am so glad that you respected William Wallace in this video. Almost every video of him I see tries to be very disrespectful about him. I found out a few months ago that I directly descend from William Wallace’s brother John Wallace. And I couldn’t be more proud🥲

Proud to call Scotland HOME!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

This is the best I have seen about William Wallace thank you so much

I am from *DRUMNADROCHIT* and I am a *PROUD HIGHLANDER!* There are but two kinds of people in this world; *those of us who are Scots and those who wish they were Scots!*

Proud to be Scottish ❤❤

I’m from Ayr. We have so much history in my town.

As a Wallace myself with a degree in history, you sir get two thumbs up 👍🏻 👍🏻 Well done short documentary

You tell your king, that William Wallace will not be ruled, nor any Scot

Proud of my Scottish Blood.

It is really sad that the scottish people didnt chosse freedom in 2014 they had all in their hands.

Great episode, thanks for creating watchable content that stands out from the rest. Cheers from Canada

Thanks Ollie. Just finished watching the movie of William last night. This was appreciated. 🥰

Amazing video mate, learned so much from it. Definitely one of the most brutal deaths in history!

Thanks to all involved forra fair assessment of the Guardian. We all need reminding that at times we have to put all hopes of Peace aside and throw all our cards on the table.

WALLICE WAS A TRUE GREAT FREEDOMFIGHTER !!!!!!! GOD REST HIS SOUL!!!

Being the daughter of a Glasgow born mother and a London born father I've always been a child of both camps its always been a weird carry on for me im feirecly proud of my Scottish ancestry but in the same breath must uphold my father's as well but strange i feel i belong to both

I was in Edinburgh beautiful place beautiful women friendly people nothing like what you hear i would go back any time

Your work never, ever, disappoints!! Great research, great narration, great music and visuals. This was especially inspiring to me, the daughter of countless generations of Scots (and Englishmen too!). Many thanks for the wonderful video!! 💯💯💯💯💥 Ciao! 🙋🏻‍♀️🙂

Aye, fight and you may die. Run and you'll live, at least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!

Dont forget , it was scots who had last laugh . Remember when Queen Elizabeth the first died childless in 1603 . It was the scottish King James of Stuart dynasty , that was offred crown and became King of England . Also James the first was a descendant of King Robert the Bruce . So bruces’s descendant ended up ruling both countries …

Thank you for sharing this with people that don't know the real story or just seen the movie. You have to give it to William Wallace he was devoted to his country freedom that's what you call a true patriot. I bet you he's disappointed & rolling in his grave knowing that Scotland is a part of the United Kingdom. The only thing I don't like is people call his sword a claymore when it is not it will be considered a great or long sword

William Wallace was a representative for what happens to a man who loses everything. He becomes a force to be reckoned with. Bruce is also another example and theres no doubt in my mind that it was Wallace who heavily inspired Bruce to continue his fight.

Thank you for this amazing video! As an American, I know that many of us don't know much of our ancestors. I've got many family charts, and did my DNA. I am grateful that my DNA showed a large percent of my heritage is from Scotland. We have visited your lovely country, and look forward to our next visit!

Excelent! Thank You

Great video, its strange as the story of Robert The Bruce is the one that seems to be told far more, its good that you have shared the story of William Wallace

england just got beat in the euros final so i will go watch there tears and save this for watch later thanks my friend 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍

Wow! Thank you History Profiles :) Great time to listen your incredible history. # 2 Like 👍 I never been this early! I wish you a nice weekend

Love your content! Thanks For this!

Nicely done documentary sir. Everything seems to be on point.

Great narration, thank you.

Such warnings never took hold

There is a huge monument a short walk from where I live in Scotland,it depicts to where William was born, this place is called Elderslie, about one mile from Johnstone town centre.

Hey you guys do know that the name braveheart is associated with Robert the Bruce not William Wallace. When the Bruce died they cut out his heart and put it in a box. And would carry it into battle, people would say there goes his braveheart.

I really Enjoyed "BRAVEHEART" with "MEL GIBSON"...I RECOMMEND the Movie if anyone hasn't seen it. You did an Excellent job in Re-telling the Story of WILLIAM WALLACE..YOUR NARRATION IS SO CLEAR, WITH YOUR WONDERFUL ACCENT. THANK YOU FOR THIS HISTORICAL/ EDUCATIONAL VIDEO. 🎉PAMELA

Thank you 🙏🏻

Great job once again Ollie! I thought I would have missed the episode on William Wallace. Now if someone would make an intelligent and more factual film about him.

Wallace (Welsh) was of Welsh Norman origin. Bruce (deBruice) was Norman, his father born in Essex. This was Norman internecine warfare using the English and Scots peasantry as fodder.

I’ve always wondered if he was actually 6’6”, because fun fact: the ‘foot’ as we know it today was only standardised in 1959 and there were regional variants. So, my strange brain always wondered who measured him to come up with 6’6”.

History is written by those who have hanged heroes

He deserved a better onscreen tribute than 'Braveheart'

Scotland needs a William Wallace to come back for present day.

I was actually doing some research on my genealogy and I found I'm actually related to William and according to your description of him we're the same height and build hell we even look similar got the big nose and everything it's cool to see I'm related to a legend

Don't confuse the film Braveheart with the true story of William Wallace. Most of the film was glamorised by Hollywood and didn't actually happen. I'll probably be the most hated Scotsman in Scotland for saying that, but it's true.

That man makes us what we are watch out

In history and today there are men and women that prevailed no matter how difficult and almost impossible life was they made a difference in the commen men's lives we are always in debt to them

FREEDOM

I am a DNA linked decent of William Wallace.. thank you gor this family insight

Scots wha hae wi Wallace bled, Scots wham Bruce has aften led welcome tae yer gory bed or tae victory. See the front o battle lour, see approach proud Edward's power, chains and slavery. . . So long as one hundred of us remain alive we will never submit to the domination of the English for it is not for riches or glory that we fight, but for freedom and freedom alone - that which no good man gives up save with his life. . .

To Hell with Edward longshanks. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland the Brave Scotland forever. William Wallace Robert the Bruce. Bon Scott Malcom n Angus Young. Rock on Scotland... my mother was a beautiful lass. Redhead. We love Nessie.... ❤😊❤

Was going to watch it and than found out the volume on the audio recording must have been close to mute

FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!

wallace owes a lot of his success to gromit.

I wanna visit my ancestry in an around Selkirk n Glasgow and enjoy the pipes an Scotlands beauty...my bucket list 😎

The Anderson fought along side them, i am a Anderson crazy to think that my ancestors were apart of this

The father of the Confederacy may it rise again!

Suggestion: Athelstan the GLorious. The first King of england

1. de Moray was the leader of the Scots army at Stirling Bridge. He was the senior Man, the experienced soldier. Wallace was nothing more than a 'scrapper'. 2. This is not Wallace's sword. It's far too large and unwieldy. This sword is a 15th century piece created by King James IV. It is made up of 3 different swords. It is rumoured that Wallace's actual sword was smelted with another 2 swords in order to create this piece. This is a ceremonial sword, or at very best, a sword used for duelling. 3. Wallace most certainly was not 6'6" or taller. The average height at the time was 5'5". What was considered tall then, would then not be considered tall today. Wallace may have been tall by comparison to others. Historians believe Wallace was perhaps 5'8" - 5'10", certainly not the giant he's described as in chronicles written 150-200 years after his death. 4. Wallace showed his lack of military understanding at Falkirk. Once word had reached Longshanks(who was in Linlithgow), that Wallace was only 7 miles away (at modern day Shield Hill), Wallace would also have been aware that Longshanks was once more on the march. Wallace had Callander Wood to his rear, he should've used that to his advantage and retreated towards Stirling. At very worst, Longshanks would've caught up prior to him reaching Stirling, but he could then have utilised the guerilla tactics, ambushing Longshanks army, rendering his cavalry and archers useless. Had he managed to reach Stirling, then he meets Longshanks on perhaps the same ground de Moray defeated the English a year earlier. As it was, Wallace showed a complete lack of understanding, and was humiliated as a result. He then ran away to France. Wallace wasn't a freedom fighter. He was no different to any other Noble. He would've gained had Scotland been 'freed' in his lifetime, make no mistake about it. He was in it for himself. He was being heavily taxed, which he obviously didn't enjoy, so he wanted 'home rule' so his taxes would be reduced. The image we have today of Wallace is an overly romanticised picture painted by the Georgians, and the Victorians. Wallace was an itch on Longshanks rear end which Longshanks eventually decided to get rid of. Many people were executed the same way Wallace had been. It was as common in Medieval times as Crucifixion had been centuries earlier. As Scots, we have to start learning real history, not this romanticised nonsense we've been getting taught for the last 150-200 years.

Wallace was not Braveheart, that title lays with Robert the Bruce

It's a shame everyone thinks William Wallace is Braveheart.

Scottish &+ more in my ancestors.

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Lightning bolts from his ars

How many american "relatives" of wallace are here?

Please tell me if this is true or not. Robert the Bruce was actually called Braveheart and not William Wallace. Just curious. Cheers

Please do some great English Knights = Marmaduke Thweng - Ralph Stafford (hundred yrs war) - Bartholomew Burghersh the Younger and his father the elder - Robert Umfraville of redesdale - Francis Vere (Spanish/Dutch wars).

I agree.The Bloody english .

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I lost interest when you wrongly stated that he was from Ayrshire. He Was actually from Elderslie, Renfrewshire, and educated at the monastery of the nearby Paisley Abbey.

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Great video thanks for your time!✨

Margaret "fell ill" during her voyage to scotland

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Blessings good morning everyone blessings 💪🫂👣🫶🙏👁🫀🙌

I can’t imagine such a horrendous death!

WAR IS EVIL

Paul McCartney 2.0/William Wallace Shepherd/Billy Shears may possibly go back to the Wallace family tree: "Sage of Quay® - Decoding Paul “Billy Shears” McCartney’s Family Tree (Sep 2023)" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rr9-ntqkudTHeYE.html 54m (Who were the parents of Billy Shears (aka Paul McCartney)? Beatles researcher, Stacy, presents her research into the possible identity of Billy Shears' family and lineage. Her journey took her back to William Wallace, Sir William Douglas, Robert the Bruce, Sir James Douglas, and the 14th Duke of Hamilton)

I find it quite funny that the surname Wallace mean Welsh. QI

you didn't mention his best friend john de graham who saved his life?

Us Scots need a modern Wallace to rally behind. Personally think Wallace would be turning in his grave at the sight of what Scotland has become.

Murron pass me my can of iron bruuu

It was indeed a wonderful presentation. You can't know the future without understanding the past. Too bad Mel Gibson wasn't another 8 inches taller. The movie would have taken on a truly different air.

They were called English but the Kings of England were French.

So they cut his body into quarter's not his head; as it was tar dipped and piked? I think I misunderstood what you said. Thank you for this great study in the man the myth the legend, William Wallace! I really appreciate your work on this digging though and poring over the histories and presenting all the historic art about his life and death a true hero...make's me proud to have Scottish blood in my vein's as tyranny has recently tried to completely ruin the US or are just trying to plunge us into another civil war simply to cull the herd! Sickening what is happening with all of these idiot's supporting terrorist's who would throw them off the tallest. building if they we're there as sharia law is sickening and brutal and is as stated by the koran itself is straight from the great deceiver and they wish to enslave us all and are as brutal as the English were to well everyone it seem's, as this bastard line sit's the throne and the man who should've been there is a sweet old guy in Australia who just thought it was lovely to know and was on a documentary about 10ish year's ago...anyway's great work and thanks again. Fight, fight, fight or lose our freedom to a bunch of crooks who make a living robbing, lying, coercing, stealing and killing without justice reaching them or any of us down in the middle who they seem to want to eliminate and just have rich and slave...brilliant work!

I remembet seeing "Braveheart" and walking from the Theater extremely disappointed on how badly Randall Wallace (the author of the book the movie was drawn from) had destroyed the story of Wallace. Wallace was never "Braveheart." That nickname/title belongs to Robert the Bruce. Isabella of France, the future Princess of Wales, was 11 years old when Wallace was executed. She was still living in France and not married to Edward II yet. Robert the Bruce did not betray Wallace to Edward the first. Wallace didn't support the Bruce family's claim to the throne. Wallace supported John Baliol, the puppet king installed by Edward I. There's actually no evidence that Wallace and Bruce ever met in the historical record. Wallace was betrayed by John de Menteith, a minor Scottish knight loyal to Edward I. Edward I died in 1307, two years after Wallace' execution. No, "Braveheart," though stirring, was so full of Historical Inaccuracies it bears little resemblance to the real William Wallace.

WHAT? William Wallace WASN’T a short arsed Australian ?

What about the wall of spears?

Yep William Wallace had acromegaly like Andre the Giant people would have followed him back then especially they would have thought he was descended from the Giants even maybe descended from the old gods and the superstitious Highlanders would have followed him I'm sure even by this point some of them was still packing in their hearts deep down they didn't let me know they didn't tell people but I'm sure behind closed doors some of them still practice the old ways I'm part of that was about you know the Ancient Giants an old guy because I thought William Wallace was descended from these Ancient Giants and he had Giants flood back then was almost like was descended from the Pagan old gods or something

Where can I find the false story?

could have got a decent actor to play the part me Gibson looked about as genuine as his sword does has anyone ever seen a sword that big

Berwick is pronounced Berick........... the W is silent.

The way Wallace was executed was *(imo)* what really caused the English to lose that war: they made him a martyr, and nothing is more powerful an inspiration to fight than that; the gruesome post-execution treatment of Wallace’s remains only worsened that mistake, leading to England’s defeat and Scotland’s indipendence.

You are saying Falkirk wrong my friend say fall kirk you will say it correctly.

why believe in blind harry

Funny thing. I watched a series on the "complete history" of England and this dude was barely a footnote. It reminded me of The Hitchhiker's Guide...mostly harmless 😂😂😂

I listen daily to documentaries about history but despite the interesting theme, the narrator's voice is soo boring and slow. I'm falling asleep here 😟

Falkirk is prounced FOLKIRK. (Didn't anyone check these pronounciations? They are embarrassing Moray is Moray no ephasis on the ''' ray bit..