Henry VIII: Mind of a Tyrant (2009)

Actors: Ken Bones (actor), Siobhan Hewlett (actress), Duncan Copp (producer), Sophie Hunter (actress), Ryan Kiggell (actor), Heather Walsh (producer),

Genres: History,

Princes in the Tower (2005)

Actors: Richard Griffiths (actor), Roger Hammond (actor), John Castle (actor), Nicholas Rowe (actor), Justin Hardy (director), Nadia Cameron-Blakey (actress), Richard Blair-Oliphant (composer), Liz Hartford (producer), Mark Umbers (actor), Paul Hilton (actor), Sally Edwards (actress), Catia Di Giorgio (miscellaneous crew), Tina Pepler (writer), Timotei Cresta (actor), Correntin Combeau (actor),

Plot: 16 years after the 'deaths' of the two boy Princes held captive in the Tower, Perkin Warbeck makes his claim to the throne as the rightful King Richard. Did the younger brother survive? Is he an imposter or is he, as he says 'King Richard'.

Keywords: 1490's, 15th-century, based-on-real-events, cloth, death-by-hanging, death-sentence, doubt, england, henry-vii, impostor
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Perkin Warbeck: You used to sing me to sleep, do you remember? La-le, La-le my little child, sleep and now be still...::Queen Elizabeth: ... if thou be a little child, yet may thou have thy will

Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972)

Actors: Peter Madden (actor), John Bloom (editor), Kay Mander (miscellaneous crew), Michael Byrne (actor), Donald Pleasence (actor), Waris Hussein (director), Charlotte Rampling (actress), Mark Shivas (producer), Michael Goodliffe (actor), Michael Gough (actor), Brian Blessed (actor), John Bennett (actor), Jane Asher (actress), Clive Merrison (actor), John Bloomfield (costume designer),

Plot: On his deathbed Tudor-king Henry VIII remembers his long reign and especially the crucial part his six marriages played in it, without producing the male heir he desired most to prevent civil wars for the succession as England suffered before his father's ascent. His first queen, Spanish princess Kathryn of Aragon, had one fatal flaw: her children died, except daughter Mary, so he pressed Rome for an annulment, and when that failed out went cardinal Wolsey as chief minister and Henry made himself head of the Church of England instead of the papacy and married Anne Boleyn. When she too failed to produce a male heir, just princess Elisabeth, he had her head roll for 'infidelity'. The third queen, gentle Jane Seymour, died giving birth to sickly prince Edward. For diplomatic reasons Henry married minor princes Anne of Cleves, whose utter lack of female charms causes another annulment and the fall of Thomas Cromwell, who recommended her. Fifth is the lovely Catherine Howard, cousin of Anne Boleyn, but again childless and found to have been carnal with servants before and after her royal marriage, so also decapitated. Finally Catherine Parr, a young widow, stands at his deathbed.

Keywords: adultery, anne-boleyn, anne-of-cleaves, archbishop-of-canterbury, british-royal-family, burned-at-the-stake, caesarean-birth, caesaropapism, catherine-howard, catherine-of-aragon
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Henry VIII: Wait, Anne. Only wait.::Anne Boleyn: Ah, then farewell to my young looks!

Thomas Cromwell: Your Grace.::Henry VIII: Whom can a man trust in this world when there is nothing real in it?::[showing Cromwell a miniature portrait of Anne of Cleves]::Henry VIII: Is this a true likeness?::Thomas Cromwell: Yes, sire, I think.::Henry VIII: Where are the great pits in her face?::Thomas Cromwell: She has a queenly manner, I think, sire.::Henry VIII: I like her not!::[shoving and shaking Cromwell]::Henry VIII: She is nothing fair and I like her not!

Thomas Cromwell: It lies within my power to make Your Majesty still more prosperous yet.::Henry VIII: But how would I ever reward you, Crom? You have it all: the Privy Seal, the Garter, Vicar General, the earldom of Essex and Lord Chamberlain. What more could I do for you?::Thomas Cromwell: Your Grace might box my head at times.::Henry VIII: [gives a huge laugh and playfully slaps Cromwell on the face] That would not be seemly. But I'm keeping his Lordship from his business.

Thomas Cromwell: Cromwell walks into the council chamber"You where in a great hurry gentlemen to begin without me"::Norfolk: As Cromwell is about to take his seat at the council table"Cromwell do not sit there.There is no place for you,traitors do not sit with gentlemen."::Thomas Cromwell: Cromwell mumbles "I'm no traitor"::Thomas Cromwell: Cromwell flings down his cap in rage and screams in a loud voice,"Upon your conscience am I a traitor?"::Thomas Cromwell: Cromwell tries to run out of the chamber but the guards seize him"Let me speak to the King"::Norfolk: The guards fling Cromwell up to the table facing The Duke of Norfolk,"No, Cromwell, but by your own law that no man accused of treason may attend his grace.Send to his house to take inventory,take him!"::Suffolk: As Cromwell is about to be led away,Suffolk walks slowly up to Cromwell, "Wait"Suffolk and the rest of the council except Cranmer who is disgusted,tear Cromwell's decorations from his person and give him a beating and a bloody nose.::Suffolk: Now take him away.

Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

Actors: Anthony Quayle (actor), Kate Burton (actress), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Geneviève Bujold (actress), John Colicos (actor), Kynaston Reeves (actor), Richard Burton (actor), Esmond Knight (actor), Harry Fielder (actor), Marne Maitland (actor), T.P. McKenna (actor), Michael Hordern (actor), Peter Jeffrey (actor), Nora Swinburne (actress), Irene Papas (actress),

Plot: Henry VIII of England discards one wife Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of a young and beautiful woman, Anne Boleyn, whose one-thousand-day reign as Queen of England ends with the loss of her head on the block. Henry weds Ann and soon she gives him a child. The girl, Elizabeth, is a bitter disappointment to Henry, who desperately wants an heir. Anne promises Henry a son "next time," but Henry is doubtful. Shortly thereafter, rumors begin that the King's eye has already wandered. One Jane Seymour is at court for a moment. The Queen has her sent away, but, if Anne will bring Jane back to court, the King promises to sign the Act of Succession to insure that Elizabeth will be Queen.

Keywords: 1500s, 16th-century, adultery, ambition, aristocrat, arranged-marriage, baby, baby-born, bare-chested-male, based-on-play
Genres: Drama, History,
Taglines: He was King. She was barely 18. And in their thousand days they played out the most passionate and shocking love story in history!

Quotes:

Anne: But Elizabeth is yours. Watch her as she grows; she's yours. She's a Tudor! Get yourself a son off of that sweet, pale girl if you can - and hope that he will live! But Elizabeth shall reign after you! Yes, Elizabeth - child of Anne the Whore and Henry the Blood-Stained Lecher - shall be Queen! And remember this: Elizabeth shall be a greater queen than any king of yours! She shall rule a greater England than you could ever have built! Yes - MY Elizabeth SHALL BE QUEEN! And my blood will have been well spent!

Anne: She has the face of a simpering sheep. And the manners. But not the morals. I don't want her near me.

Duke of Norfolk: Each to his own conscience, son.::Norris: God keep me from yours.

Anne: Doesn't do that well. Not as well as I've known it done. But it's the one arm I want - for some God-knows-what reason. You do everything badly - everything awkwardly - and I love it the way you do it.

Anne: Won't you kiss your daughter?::King Henry VIII: I will kiss her when she's older - and when she has a brother!

King Henry VIII: If some young man wrote this song for you, Anne, what would you say to him?::Anne: I would ask him if his wife liked it, Your Grace.

King Henry VIII: Nan, is it true?::Anne: Have you stepped into your own trap, my lord? Any evidence you have against me, you yourself bought and paid for. Do you now begin to believe it?::King Henry VIII: Anny, the court is still in session to decide your... verdict. I don't want to hear your guilt from them, I want to hear it from your lips.::Anne: That I was unfaithful to you?::King Henry VIII: Yes, just that. Were you unfaithful to me whilst I still loved you? Of course, I'll never know. Whether you say aye or no, I shall never know.::Anne: You come here to make sure whether there was truly adultery, because that would touch your manhood or your pride. And even so, my heart and my eyes are glad of you. Fool of all women that I am, I'm glad of you here. Go, then. Keep your pride of manhood, you know about me now.::King Henry VIII: Nan, is it true that you're glad to see me?::Anne: Yes, it's true.::King Henry VIII: Then, Anne, lets do all gently for old times sake. I have no wish to harm you, and your words have moved me deeply. I must be free to have a son, and the son must be free to rule England when I die.::Anne: Why must you leave a king to follow you, Henry? Why not a queen?::King Henry VIII: This country has never been ruled by a queen. I know it never could be. We can never have a son now, God has spoken. I must have a son elsewhere. And it's getting late. I'm not as young as I was.::Anne: What do you want of me?::King Henry VIII: Agree to annul the marriage and give up all rights. You shall go abroad and take Elizabeth with you. You will be well cared for. Please set me free.::Anne: To marry Seymour and make our child a bastard? No. No. No.::King Henry VIII: Nan... Nan, you leave me no choice!::Anne: Once I told you any children we had would not be bastards. You promised marriage and the crown. Now you try to dance out of your promise. Well, I won't have it! We are man and wife together. King and Queen. I keep that. Take it from me as best you can.::King Henry VIII: Then you have decided, and so have I!::Anne: Before you go, perhaps you should hear one thing. I lied to you. I said "I love you", but I lied. I was untrue. Untrue with many.::King Henry VIII: That is a lie.::Anne: It is true. I was unfaithful to you with all of them. With half your court. With soldiers of your guard, with grooms, with stablehands. Look for the rest of your life at every man that ever knew me and wonder if I didn't find him a better man than you!::King Henry VIII: You whore!

King Henry VIII: Any man who marries when he can be free is a fool!

King Henry VIII: I never married Katherine - England married Spain!

Anne: For six years, this year, and this, and this, and this, I did not love him. And then I did. Then I was his. I can count the days I was his in hundreds. [picks up day counter]. The days we bedded. Married. Were Happy. Bore Elizabeth. Hated. Lusted. Bore a dead child... which condemned me... to death. In all one thousand days. Just a thousand. strange. And of those thousand, one when we were both in love, only one, when our loves met and overlapped and were both mine and his. And when I no longer hated him, he began to hate me. Except for that one day.

A Man for All Seasons (1966)

Actors: Fred Zinnemann (producer), Georges Delerue (composer), Vanessa Redgrave (actress), Orson Welles (actor), Corin Redgrave (actor), Susannah York (actress), John Hurt (actor), Nick Tate (actor), Martin Boddey (actor), Robert Shaw (actor), Colin Blakely (actor), Leo McKern (actor), Nigel Davenport (actor), Ralph Kemplen (editor), Fred Zinnemann (director),

Plot: The story takes place in 16th century England. But men like Sir Thomas More, who love life yet have the moral fiber to lay down their lives for their principles, are found in every century. Concentrating on the last seven years of English chancellor's life, the struggle between More and his King, Henry VIII, hinges on Henry's determination to break with Rome so he can divorce his current wife and wed again, and good Catholic More's inability to go along with such heresy. More resigns as chancellor, hoping to be able to live out his life as a private citizen. But Henry will settle for nothing less than that the much respected More give public approval to his headstrong course.

Keywords: 1520s, 1530s, 16th-century, ambition, anne-boleyn, annulment, archbishop, barge, based-on-play, beefeater
Genres: Biography, Drama, History,
Taglines: ...a motion picture for all times!

Quotes:

King Henry VIII: Thomas. I chose the right man for chancellor!::Sir Thomas More: I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.::King Henry VIII: Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coincides with my own!

The Duke of Norfolk: Oh confound all this. I'm not a scholar, I don't know whether the marriage was lawful or not but dammit, Thomas, look at these names! Why can't you do as I did and come with us, for fellowship!::Sir Thomas More: And when we die, and you are sent to heaven for doing your conscience, and I am sent to hell for not doing mine, will you come with me, for fellowship?

King Henry VIII: [shouting angrily] I have no queen! Catherine's not my wife! No priest can make her so! They that say she is my wife are not only liars, but traitors! Yes, traitors that I will not brook now! Treachery... treachery... treachery I will not brook! It maddens me! It is a deadly canker in the body politic, and I will have it out!

Richard Rich: I would be faithful.::Sir Thomas More: Richard, you couldn't answer for yourself even so far as tonight.

The Duke of Norfolk: The nobility of England...::Sir Thomas More: The nobility of England, My Lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount, but you'll labor like scholars over a bulldog's pedigree.

The Duke of Norfolk: Your life lies in your own hands, Thomas, as it always has.::Sir Thomas More: Is that so, My Lord? Then I'll keep a good grip on it.

Sir Thomas More: [to the Chief Justice] Death comes for us all, My Lord... even for kings.

Cromwell: Now, Sir Thomas, you stand on your silence.::Sir Thomas More: I do.::Cromwell: But, gentlemen of the jury, there are many kinds of silence. Consider first the silence of a man who is dead. Let us suppose we go into the room where he is laid out, and we listen: what do we hear? Silence. What does it betoken, this silence? Nothing; this is silence pure and simple. But let us take another case. Suppose I were to take a dagger from my sleeve and make to kill the prisoner with it; and my lordships there, instead of crying out for me to stop, maintained their silence. That would betoken! It would betoken a willingness that I should do it, and under the law, they will be guilty with me. So silence can, according to the circumstances, speak! Let us consider now the circumstances of the prisoner's silence. The oath was put to loyal subjects up and down the country, and they all declared His Grace's title to be just and good. But when it came to the prisoner, he refused! He calls this silence. Yet is there a man in this court - is there a man in this country! - who does not know Sir Thomas More's opinion of this title?::Crowd in court gallery: No!::Cromwell: Yet how can this be? Because this silence betokened, nay, this silence was, not silence at all, but most eloquent denial!::Sir Thomas More: Not so. Not so, Master Secretary. The maxim is "Qui tacet consentire": the maxim of the law is "Silence gives consent". If therefore you wish to construe what my silence betokened, you must construe that I consented, not that I denied.::Cromwell: Is that in fact what the world construes from it? Do you pretend that is what you wish the world to construe from it?::Sir Thomas More: The world must construe according to its wits; this court must construe according to the law.

Cromwell: I know a man who wants to change his woman.

Margaret More: Father, that man's bad.::Sir Thomas More: There's no law against that.::William Roper: There is: God's law.::Sir Thomas More: Then God can arrest him.

The Last Rose of Summer (1937)

Actors: James A. FitzPatrick (writer), James A. FitzPatrick (director), John Garrick (actor), Cecil Ramage (actor), Marian Spencer (actress), Meadows White (actor), Kathleen Gibson (actress), Malcolm Graham (actor), Gideon Fagan (composer), W.K. Williamson (writer),

Genres: Musical,