For five hundred years, castles held the key to power and dominated the landscape. This video looks at why they were built, life inside them and the reasons behind their demise. .

It covers: * Castles - their defence, layout, great hall, the keep, the moat * Castle life - food, cooking, medicine * Knights - jousting, knighting ceremony, feasting * Combat and armour * War - battle of Tewkesbury ( re-enactment) * The end of castles - attack strategies, the advent of gunpowder.