March 24 movie: The Six Wives of Henry VIII. This is a six part BBC miniseries from the early 70s; one episode for each wife. I adored the followup series Elizabeth R, and I heard this was equally good. I agree. Keith Mitchell's Henry is really interesting, much more sympathetic than other portrayals I've seen.
I watched the first two episodes: Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. My only disappointment was that the Anne Boleyn episode dealt entirely with her falling out of Henry's favor and her death. Not at all with her rise to power or her political influence, which I've read was enormous. With only ninety minutes to cover such an important and eventful life, I guess they felt like they had to focus.
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When I was taking Tudor England in college, my prof showed about half of this series, the episodes Catherine of Aragon, Anne of Cleves (if only because he had a crush on the actress) and Katherine Parr. So the two divorces and the survived.
Actually that course should have been called 'Tudor Movies' because I dont remember much about it except seeing these, Elizabeth (Cate Blanchet version), some Elizabethian movie that had Bette Davis, and a Man for All Seasons- the last one is a 1966 movie I highly recommend.
HBO (or Showtime?) is supposed to start a series on the Tudors starting from around the time of Catherine of Aragon/seduction of Anne Boleyn, though I am not sure how historically accurate that will be.
The Bette Davis movie must have been The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, with her and Errol Flynn in the title roles. Too bad he didn't show you Young Bess with Jean Simmons. Not very historical, but one of my favorite movies about the Tudors. I've also heard the movie with Charles Laughton as Henry VIII is excellent.
I heard somewhere about that new series on the Tudors. I don't get HBO (or Showtime) so I'll have to wait for it to come out on DVD.