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1. The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
PG-13 | 115 min | Biography, Drama, History
Two sisters contend for the affection of King Henry VIII.
Director: Justin Chadwick | Stars: Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Jim Sturgess
Votes: 120,076 | Gross: $26.81M
2. Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
R | 124 min | Biography, Drama, History
Mary Stuart's (Saoirse Ronan's) attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie), Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution.
Director: Josie Rourke | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden, Joe Alwyn
Votes: 55,422 | Gross: $16.47M
3. Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
PG-13 | 114 min | Biography, Drama, History
A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments.
Director: Shekhar Kapur | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Geoffrey Rush, Jordi Mollà
Votes: 75,136 | Gross: $16.29M
4. Blackadder II (1986)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
In the Tudor court of Elizabeth I, Lord Edmund Blackadder strives to win Her Majesty's favour while attempting to avoid a grisly fate should he offend her.
Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Miranda Richardson
Votes: 49,948
5. Anonymous (I) (2011)
PG-13 | 130 min | Drama, Thriller
The theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays. Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I and the Essex rebellion against her.
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis, Sebastian Armesto
Votes: 42,148 | Gross: $4.46M
6. The Libertine (2004)
R | 114 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
Director: Laurence Dunmore | Stars: Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton, John Malkovich, Paul Ritter
Votes: 37,814 | Gross: $4.84M
7. Elizabeth I (2005)
TV-MA | 112 min | Biography, Drama, History
Mini-series about the the public and private lives of the later years of Queen Elizabeth I.
Stars: Helen Mirren, Toby Jones, Hugh Dancy, Patrick Malahide
Votes: 7,040
8. The Virgin Queen (2005–2006)
59 min | Biography, Drama, History
From teenage princess to accomplished queen, torn between duty and personal longing, the reign of Elizabeth I is exposed in this lavish drama filmed against a backdrop of some of Great Britain's most beautiful houses and landscapes.
Stars: Anne-Marie Duff, Sienna Guillory, Ian Hart, Tom Hardy
Votes: 3,281
9. Jubilee (1978)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Queen Elizabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk.
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Adam Ant, Richard O'Brien, Ian Charleson, Jayne County
Votes: 3,712
10. The Sea Hawk (1940)
Approved | 127 min | Action, Adventure, History
Geoffrey Thorpe, a buccaneer, is hired by Queen Elizabeth I to nag the Spanish Armada. The Armada is waiting for the attack on England and Thorpe surprises them with attacks on their galleons where he shows his skills on the sword.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Donald Crisp
Votes: 10,759
11. Elizabeth R (1971)
520 min | Biography, Drama, History
When Elizabeth Tudor comes to the throne, her (male) advisers know she has to marry. Doesn't she? Thus starts a decades-long political/matrimonial game, during an age of high passions and high achievement.
Stars: Glenda Jackson, Ronald Hines, Robert Hardy, Stephen Murray
Votes: 1,943
12. Blackadder Back & Forth (1999)
33 min | Short, Comedy, History
At a New Millennium Eve party, Blackadder and Baldrick test their new time machine and ping pong through history encountering famous characters and changing events rather alarmingly.
Director: Paul Weiland | Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie
Votes: 15,805
13. Mary Queen of Scots (2013)
119 min | Biography, Drama, History
A queen who lost three kingdoms. A wife who lost three husbands. A woman who lost her head.
Director: Thomas Imbach | Stars: Camille Rutherford, Mehdi Dehbi, Sean Biggerstaff, Aneurin Barnard
Votes: 994
14. Elizabeth I (2017)
Not Rated | 180 min | Drama, History
Docu-drama starring Lily Cole as a young Elizabeth I, featuring dramatic reconstructions of key moments in her life. Presented by historians Suzannah Lipscomb and Dan Jones.
Stars: Lily Cole, Vincent Kerschbaum, Suzannah Lipscomb, Dan Jones
Votes: 264
15. A History of Britain (2000–2002)
60 min | Documentary, History
A comprehensive historical survey of the British Isles.
Stars: Simon Schama, Michael Kitchen, Samuel West, Lindsay Duncan
Votes: 946
16. Seven Seas to Calais (1962)
Approved | 102 min | Adventure
Sir Francis Drake goes on an expedition to the New World and steals gold from the Spaniards. After making a daring getaway, he returns to England where he protects Queen Elizabeth I from a ... See full summary »
Directors: Rudolph Maté, Primo Zeglio | Stars: Rod Taylor, Keith Michell, Edy Vessel, Terence Hill
Votes: 503
17. The Lion Has Wings (1939)
Approved | 76 min | Drama, War
A look at the current might of the Royal Air Force. Place - Great Britain, time - two months after the start of World War ll.
Directors: Adrian Brunel, Brian Desmond Hurst, Michael Powell, Alexander Korda | Stars: Merle Oberon, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez, Flora Robson
Votes: 762
18. The Pirate Queen (2011)
12 min | Short, Drama
Director: Alisha Hasan | Stars: Anne-Marie Hughes, Julie Porter, Stephen Scheurer-Smith
19. Armada: 12 Days to Save England (2015)
59 min | Documentary, History
Dramatic reconstruction, recovered documents, Dan Snow's maritime exploration chronicling England's close call during 1588 Spanish Armada invasion; stars Anita Dobson as Elizabeth I.
Stars: Anita Dobson, Joseph Balderrama, Rupert Frazer, Dominic Jephcott
Votes: 62
20. Shakespeare: The Truth Behind the Name (2021)
99 min | Documentary
Literary history's greatest mystery? Who created the greatest works of iambic thunder in the English language, and who lived the courtly life that is written about in the works of Shakespeare. An uneducated tradesman from Stratford?
Director: Robin K. Phillips | Star: Robin K. Phillips
Votes: 39
21. Elizabeth (2000)
200 min | Documentary, Drama
The life of Queen Elizabeth I of England
Stars: David Starkey, Michelle Bunyan, Imogen Slaughter, Karen Archer
Votes: 188
22. The Pearls of the Crown (1937)
105 min | Comedy, History
Three narrators (French writer Jean Martin, an English royal equerry, and a papal chamberlain) tell the story of seven matched pearls, four of them now in the British Crown. Episodes whirl ... See full summary »
Directors: Christian-Jaque, Sacha Guitry | Stars: Jacqueline Delubac, Sacha Guitry, Lyn Harding, Renée Saint-Cyr
Votes: 635
23. The King James Bible: The Book That Changed the World (2011 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary
Director: Gillian Bancroft | Stars: James Adler, Melvyn Bragg, James Bryce, François Scarborough Clemmons
Votes: 59
24. Time Flies (1944)
88 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A minor music hall star uses a professor's time machine to travel back to the Elizabethan era.
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Tommy Handley, Evelyn Dall, George Moon, Felix Aylmer
Votes: 162
25. Royal History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley (2020– )
59 min | Documentary, History
Historian Lucy Worsley debunks popular myths and royal as well as anti-royal propaganda about key events from British royal history including the English Reformation, the attack of the Spanish Armada and Queen Anne's forgotten legacy.
Stars: Lucy Worsley, Mathieu Da Vinha, Michael Rapport, Munro Price
Votes: 165
26. Last Will & Testament (2012)
TV-PG | 85 min | Documentary, Mystery
This documentary explores the ongoing debate about the authorship of the works attributed to Shakespeare. Writers and critics, actors and scholars, including Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, ... See full summary »
Directors: Laura Wilson, Lisa Wilson | Stars: Jonathan Bate, Charles Beauclerk, William Boyle, Michael Cecil
Votes: 295
27. Kenilworth (1967– )
45 min | Drama, History, Romance
In 1575, ambitious 1st Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley, decides to keep his marriage to the love of his life, Amy Robsart, secret in order to gain favor with Queen Elizabeth I. This leads to tragedy. Based on fact-based novel.
Stars: Jeremy Brett, Gemma Jones, George Innes, John Fraser
Votes: 10
28. Les amours de la reine Élisabeth (1912)
TV-PG | 44 min | Short, Biography, Drama
Episodes from the life of Elizabeth I, Queen of England (1533-1603), focusing on her ill-fated love affair with Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.
Directors: Henri Desfontaines, Louis Mercanton | Stars: Sarah Bernhardt, Lou Tellegen, Max Maxudian, Nita Romani
Votes: 155
29. Britain's Royals: The House of Windsor (2019 Video)
70 min | Documentary, Biography, History
From grand pageants to war for land, from a fascinated media and public to secret dealings and marriages with Hollywood celebrities, the Royal family of the United Kingdom has held us ... See full summary »
Director: Philip Gardiner | Stars: Paul Hughes, Razor Keeves
Votes: 30
30. Master Will Shakespeare (1936)
Approved | 11 min | Short, Biography
A short biography of William Shakespeare that highlights the various jobs he worked at in the theatre.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Carey Wilson, Lionel Belmore, Francis X. Bushman Jr., Charles Coleman
Votes: 183
31. Secrets of the Virgin Queen (2010 TV Movie)
44 min | Documentary, History, Mystery
They called her the Virgin Queen, England's first Queen Elizabeth, a revered ruler in her own lifetime. Yet behind her fame lie many dark secrets, and an unsolved mystery. Why didn't the ... See full summary »
Director: Dean Love | Stars: George Bernard, Nicole Blackman, Paul Doherty, Susan Doran
Votes: 35
32. Schau mir in die Augen, Kleiner (2007)
90 min | Documentary, History
Documentary on the history of gay and lesbian film.
Director: André Schäfer | Stars: John Waters, Wieland Speck, Rosa von Praunheim, Jennifer Morris
Votes: 141
33. Drake the Pirate (1935)
78 min | Action, Biography, Drama
Faced with a Spanish conspiracy, Queen Elizabeth gives the pirate Drake carte blanche to raid a Spanish settlement and plunder that country's wealth.
Director: Arthur B. Woods | Stars: Matheson Lang, Athene Seyler, Jane Baxter, Henry Mollison
Votes: 43
34. Tudor Rose (2008)
7 min | Short, Romance
King Henry VIII doesn't wear his heart on his sleeve, he carries it with him in the emblem of the Tudor Dynasty a red rose. Love for him is a seasonal cycle. His first wife Katherine of ... See full summary »
Director: Sarah R. Lotfi | Stars: Tracey Allyn, Rebecca Bigler, Ethan Eagar, Mimi Forrester
Votes: 36
35. The Virgin Queen (1923)
Drama, History
A Lord save the queen from a countess's assassination plot.
Director: J. Stuart Blackton | Stars: Diana Manners, Carlyle Blackwell, Walter Tennyson, Hubert Carrer
36. Elizabeth Rex (2004 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Diane D'Aquila, Brent Carver, Peter Hutt, Scott Wentworth
Votes: 37
37. Kenilworth (1909)
Short, Drama
Sir Hugh Robsart sits dozing in his chair, his daughter Amy and Tresillian, a suitor for her hand, are standing at the window. The latter is pleading with Amy, but she refuses and leaves ... See full summary »
Stars: Maurice Costello, Florence Turner
38. Rose to Crown (2023)
50 min | Documentary, Family
Director: Shihyun Wang | Stars: Charles DeNatale, River Lundskog, Kiera McInally, Seth Morales
39. Tales from the Royal Wardrobe (2014 TV Movie)
PG | 59 min | Documentary, History
Today, few people's clothes attract as much attention as the royal family, but this is not a modern-day paparazzi-inspired obsession. Historian Dr. Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator at Historic ... See full summary »
Director: Nick Gillam-Smith | Stars: Lucy Worsley, Beatrice Behlen, Shaun Cole, Meredith Etherington-Smith
Votes: 235
40. Gloriana (1984 TV Movie)
146 min | Music
The Earl of Essex, Robert Devereux, is hot-blooded and jealous of anyone who might win the Queen's favour. He provokes a fight with the tournament victor, Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy, but... See full summary »
Director: Derek Bailey | Stars: Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, Jean Rigby, Neil Howlett
Votes: 20
41. Old Bill Through the Ages (1924)
Comedy, Fantasy
A private dreams he is William the Conqueror, at Runnymede, at Plymouth Hoe, and a bootlegger at the Boston Rea Party.
Director: Thomas Bentley | Stars: Syd Walker, Arthur Cleave, Jack Denton, Gladys Ffolliott
42. The Red Lodge, Bristol's Hidden Gem (2013)
24 min | Short, History
A documentary about the folk who lived at Bristol's Red Lodge at various points between the 1580s to 1920s. The film features sumptuous costumes.
Director: Theresa Roche | Stars: Jasmine Atkins-Smart, Ellie Bailey, Jenny Bell, Derek Cameron
43. Elizabeth, la femme sans homme (1960 TV Movie)
118 min | Biography, Drama, History
Director: Roland-Bernard | Stars: Annie Ducaux, Jacques Toja, Robert Hirsch, Louis Arbessier
44. The Love Romance of Sir Francis Drake (1913)
26 min | Short, Drama, History
Sir Francis Drake's first meeting with the beautiful Elizabeth Syderham takes place outside the gates of the city, on his triumphant return from a foreign expedition. Determined to win her,... See full summary »
Director: Hay Plumb | Stars: Hay Plumb, Chrissie White, Violet Hopson
45. Will Shakespeare (1938 TV Movie)
30 min | Drama
A small portion of William Shakespeare's life and loves.
Stars: Barbara Everest, Basil Gill, Esmond Knight, Eugene Leahy
46.
Time Team (1994– )
Episode:
Richmond, Surrey
(1998)
Not Rated | 50 min | Documentary, History
Trumpeters House in Richmond, near London. Records show it was the site of a royal palace from the time of Edward III through to Elizabeth I, who died there. Destroyed during Cromwell's Commonwealth, the site has lain unexcavated.
Director: Simon Raikes | Stars: Tony Robinson, Mick Aston, Carenza Lewis, Phil Harding
Votes: 28
47.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Shakespeare Code
(2007)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The Doctor takes Martha to London in 1599, where William Shakespeare's new play is being used by three witches in an evil plan.
Director: Charlie Palmer | Stars: David Tennant, Freema Agyeman, Dean Lennox Kelly, Christina Cole
Votes: 7,792
48.
World's Greatest Palaces (2019)
Episode:
Edinburgh Castle
(2019)
Documentary, History
It has been said that whoever takes Edinburgh Castle takes Scotland. Throughout its 1000 year long history, this fortified Scottish royal palace built on volcanic Castle Rock has been besieged more times than any other castle in Europe.
Stars: Christien Anholt, Roma Agrawal, David Caldwell, James W.P. Campbell
49.
The Supersizers Go... (2007–2009)
Episode:
Elizabethan
(2008)
History
Going back to Shakespeare's London of the 1590's, Sue and Giles experience a very different diet to the one they're used to.
Director: Tom Coveney | Stars: Giles Coren, Michael Dobson, Amanda Harris, David Lan
Votes: 11
50.
An American Aristocrat's Guide to Great Estates (2020– )
Episode:
Sudeley Castle
(2020)
TV-G | 51 min | Documentary, History
Julie visits Sudeley, an ancient castle notable for its garden, pheasant refuge, romantic weddings, and for being the place where Queen Elizabeth I's epic garden party was held, and King Henry VIII's wife Queen Catherine Parr was buried.
Star: Julie Montagu
Votes: 9