Yah, I thought it was the "we happy, happy few" one, though I remembered neither the exact quote nor the name of the movie (or play, obviously). I do remember the puzzled, sudden certainty of their "truth" by Henry as Kenneth Branagh uttered those lines to a bunch of guys who, frankly, were supposed to mostly die quite soon.
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And
Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be rememberèd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England, now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
Henry V, 4. 3
...though the Brannagh film changed a bit around. A "better" version is Henry V (1979) (TV) and
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