Relat biogràfic d'una etapa de la vida de la reina Maria Estuard d'Escòcia, que es va enfrontar a la seva cosina Isabel I quan, en tornar de França després d'haver enviduat, reclamava el dret a la corona d'Anglaterra.
Anglaterra, 1529. El matrimoni entre Enric VIII i Caterina d'Aragó no ha pogut engendrar un hereu i la dinastia perilla. Per posar-hi remei el rei es proposa repudiar la reina i casar-se amb Anna Bolena, encara que sigui sense consentiment del Papa. A aquesta decisió s'oposa Sir Thomas More, eminent humanista aleshores membre del Consell Reial. Quan el monarca decideix tirar pel dret, trencar amb l'església catòlica i erigir-se en cap de l'església d'Anglaterra, Sir Thomas es trobarà en un greu dilema entre la seva fidelitat al rei i els seus principis morals i religiosos. A diferència d'una cort d'intrigants i llagoters, Sir Thomas triarà actuar d'acord amb la seva consciència.
Anglaterra 1554. Després de la mort de la reina Maria Tudor, que ha deixat el país sumit en un estat d'inestabilitat financera i crisi religiosa, puja al tron Isabel I (Cate Blanchett). Popularment se la coneix com "La Reina Verge", encara que per la seva participació en el repartiment del botí obtingut després dels atacs de Drake a les costes espanyoles, tant peninsulars com a colonials, és també coneguda com "La Reina Pirata".
La reina Isabel I d'Anglaterra ha d'enfrontar-se a una traïció en el si de la seva pròpia família i també amb el poderós rei espanyol Felip II, que està decidit a restaurar el catolicisme a Anglaterra amb l'ajuda del seu exèrcit.
Enric VIII d'Anglaterra (1509-1547), casat amb Caterina d'Aragó, filla dels Reis Catòlics, s'encapritxa d'Ana Bolena, una dama de la Cort, i decideix casar-s'hi. Però, com que el Papa no accedeix a concedir-li el divorci, trenca amb l'Església de Roma i crea l'Església Anglicana (Acta de Supremacia de 1534), convertint-se així en la suprema autoritat eclesiàstica d'Anglaterra. Anys després, el rei acusa Anna d'alta traïció i ordena que sigui executada.
Adapted from the BBC2 serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. 1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back over his life and the many loves which had brought him his three children, only one of which was the desired male heir to secure the Tudor dynasty.
The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son, Edward, is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation, a scheming minister John Dudley marries off his son, Guildford to Lady Jane Grey, whom he places on the throne after Edward dies. At first hostile to each other, Guildford and Jane fall in love, but they cannot withstand the course of power which will lead to their ultimate downfall.
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.
Sir Walter Raleigh overcomes court intrigue to win favor with the Queen in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World.
Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at the age of 23 by her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, the English Queen and her arch adversary. Nineteen years later the life of Mary is to be ended on the scaffold and with her execution the last threat to Elizabeth's throne has been removed. The two Queens with their contrasting personalities make a dramatic counterpoint to history.
Maria Estuard abandona França i torna a Escòcia, disposada a ocupar el tron del que és hereva. Però els conflictes s'acumulen: la noblesa li és hostil, començant pel seu mig germà el comte de Moray, i el seu aferrament al catolicisme xoca amb la fe que predica John Knox, fundador de l'Església presbiteriana a Escòcia. D'altra banda, la seva cosina Isabel Tudor, filla il·legítima d'Enric VIII, tem que reclami la corona anglesa. El seu únic aliat és el comte Bothwell, comandant de les tropes escoceses, de qui s'enamora.
Anglaterra, segle XVI. La joventut de la princesa Elizabeth Tudor, filla de la decapitada Anna Bolena, transcorre sota l'atenta mirada del seu pare, el rei Enric VIII. L'ambient cortesà i el seu romanç dramàtic amb Thomas Seymour forgen l'enèrgic caràcter de la futura reina d'Anglaterra.
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
Henry VIII has just married Marie of Normandy, and is eager to consummate their marriage. Unfortunately for Henry, she is always eating garlic, and refuses to stop. Deciding to get rid of her in his usual manner, Henry has to find some way of doing it without provoking war with Marie's cousin, the King of France. Perhaps if she had an affair...
A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution block and made to kneel down with her neck over it. The executioner lifts his axe ready to bring it down. After that frame Mary has been replaced by a dummy. The axe comes down and severs the head of the dummy from the body. The executioner picks up the head and shows it around for everyone else to see. One of the first camera tricks to be used in a movie.
Una bruixa intenta venjar-se del regne de sang que imposa un noble, impartint-li una terrible maledicció a ell ia la seva família. Un dimoni amb forma d'home jove és enviat a assassinar la família del terratinent.
An adaptation of the classic, "The Prince and the Pauper" is the retelling of Edward Tudor and young Thomas Canty, two amazing look-alikes caught up in imperial intrigue and scandal. In fleeing from his violent father, Tom stumbles into the palace courtyard, and is seen by young Prince Edward, who takes him in. Each desiring to see what the other's life is like, the boys impulsively switch identities... little knowing what disaster lies ahead at this fault of thought. And soon Thomas becomes a pawn in the hands of Edward's malicious and greedy uncle, who would have the kingdom for himself.
A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the conflict between the House of Lancaster and the House of York over the throne of England, a conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. It was based on the 1963 theatre adaptation by John Barton, and directed by Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Mary Tudor falls in love with a new arrival to court, Charles Brandon. She convinces her brother King Henry VIII to make him his Captain of the Guard. Meanwhile, Henry is determined to marry her off to the aging King Louis XII of France as part of a peace agreement.