VHS
Anne
of the Thousand Days VHS
Starring: Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold
Director: Charles Jarrott
This lush, perfectly cast 1969 drama concerns both a doomed, royal
love affair and a pivotal moment in British history. Based on Maxwell Anderson's
1948 play, Anne of the Thousand Days concerns the mess that surrounded
King Henry VIII's decision to rid himself of his first wife, Catherine
of Aragon (Irene Papas), and marry the young Anne Boleyn (Geneviève Bujold).
Anglophiles know what happened next: Henry (Richard Burton) solved his
problems with the Vatican's condemnation of divorce by having himself named
head of the Church of England (see also A Man for All Seasons), while Anne's
perceived problem conceiving a male heir made her vulnerable to plots by
the nefarious likes of Oliver Cromwell (John Colicos). Director Charles
Jarrott does a splendid job bringing all of these intrigues to life, though
the story is ultimately about Anne, a naive young woman who prepares herself
to navigate some of the dangers of Henry's court. Bujold and Burton never
gave better performances, and this strange, tragic chapter in the history
of the kings of England has never been more compellingly told on film.
--Tom
Keogh - Amazon.com
Becket
VHS
Richard Burton
Great
Queens of England: Boudicca of the Iceni VHS
Macbeth
- Royal Shakespeare Company. 1978
Ian McKellen and Judi Dench.
Macbeth
1948
Orson Welles
Mary,
Queen of Scots VHS
Vanessa Redgrave
The
Lion in Winter VHS
Peter O'Toole
The
Six Wives of Henry VIII - Complete Set VHS
Biography
- Elizabeth I: Virgin Queen VHS
A
History of Britain: 3500 B.C. - 1603 A.D. Boxed Set Volume I-III
(2000)
History of Britain-3500 B.C.-1, et al.
What do you get when you combine the resources and ethos of the BBC
with the literary panache of one of the world's best narrative historians?
The answer is Simon Schama's History of Britain television series. In this
well-written and thoughtfully crafted survey, Schama, the bestselling author
of books on European cultural history such as The Embarrassment of Riches
and Citizens, has managed to be both conventional and provocative. He tells
the official version of Britain's story--from Roman Britain, through the
Norman conquest, the struggles of the Henrys and Richards with their barons
and clerics, Edward I and the subjugation of Wales, King Death (the plague),
and on to the Henrician reformation, before closing with the remarkable
reign of the virgin queen, Elizabeth I. But while sticking to a script
familiar to anyone who sat up and listened in history lessons at school,
Schama brings it all alive with memorable prose and presence--Simon de
Montfort's rebel parliament is described as inaugurating the "union between
patriotism and insubordination"; with Henry VIII, Schama says, "you could
practically smell the testosterone." Schama is also particularly enlightening
on the symbolism of buildings, memorials, language, and ceremonies, and
on the complex relations between England and its Celtic and Catholic neighbors.
If history must have gloss, then let it be presented like this. --Miles
Taylor, Amazon.co.uk
VHS; Not Rated; NTSC format (US and Canada
only)
A
History of Britain - The Complete Collection
from A & E Home Video
starring Simon Schama
A
History of Britain II - The Wars of the British (1603 - 1776)
from A & E Entertainment
A
History of Britain III
from A & E Home Video |
The
Virgin Queen VHS
Bette Davis 1955
Elizabeth
1998 VHS
Starring: Cate Blanchett
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Young
Bess VHS
1953 Jean Simmons and Stewart Granger
A
Celtic Journey Through Time: A Short History of Ireland (1998)
VHS
DVD
Macbeth.
1971 DVD
Roman Polanski director
Jon Finch as Macbeth
ASIN: B000063JZQ
History
of British Trains
from Columbia River Entertainment
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