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1. Wolf Hall (2015)
TV-14 | 60 min | Biography, Drama, History
After the downfall of Cardinal Wolsey, his secretary, Thomas Cromwell, finds himself amongst the treachery and intrigue of King Henry VIII's court and soon becomes a close advisor to the King, a role fraught with danger.
Stars: Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Claire Foy, Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Votes: 13,131
2. Elizabeth (1998)
R | 124 min | Biography, Drama, History
The early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.
Director: Shekhar Kapur | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Liz Giles, Rod Culbertson, Paul Fox
Votes: 105,245 | Gross: $30.08M
3. 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
4. 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: 75,135 | Gross: $16.29M
5. Gunpowder (2017)
TV-MA | 59 min | Drama, History
Robert Catesby leads Guy Fawkes a group of English Catholic traitors plan to blow up the Palace Of Westminster and kill King James I in the infamous Gunpowder Plot.
Stars: Kit Harington, Liv Tyler, Edward Holcroft, Shaun Dooley
Votes: 11,681
6. Luther (2003)
PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History
During the early sixteenth century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the Catholic Church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.
Director: Eric Till | Stars: Joseph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Peter Ustinov, Alfred Molina
Votes: 16,009 | Gross: $5.79M
7. Path to War (2002 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 165 min | Biography, Drama, War
In the mid 1960s, President Lyndon B. Johnson (Sir Michael Gambon) and his foreign-policy team debate the decision to withdraw from or escalate the war in Vietnam.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Michael Gambon, Donald Sutherland, Alec Baldwin, Bruce McGill
Votes: 4,123
8. Gunpowder, Treason & Plot (2004 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 205 min | Drama, History
Mini series depicting the turbulent and bloody reigns of Scottish monarchs Mary, Queen of Scots and her son King James VI of Scotland who became King James I of England and foiled the Gunpowder Plot.
Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Vulpe Adrian, Carmen Ungureanu, Clémence Poésy, Tadeusz Pasternak
Votes: 1,929
9. The Mill and the Cross (2011)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, History
This movie focuses on a dozen of the five hundred characters depicted in Bruegel's painting. The theme of Christ's suffering is set against religious persecution in Flanders in 1564.
Director: Lech Majewski | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Michael York, Charlotte Rampling, Joanna Litwin
Votes: 4,434 | Gross: $0.31M
10. 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
11. Eleanor and Franklin (1976)
203 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, from early youth to his election as President of the United States, as told from Eleanor's point of view.
Stars: David Huffman, Mackenzie Phillips, Lilia Skala, Ed Flanders
Votes: 387
12. Henri 4 (2010)
155 min | Biography, Drama, War
A wide-ranging, energetic period piece tracing the rise of the Protestant Henry of Navarre as he goes from battlefield warrior to France's beloved King Henri IV. Director Jo Baier's epic is... See full summary »
Director: Jo Baier | Stars: Julien Boisselier, Joachim Król, Andreas Schmidt, Roger Casamajor
Votes: 1,365
13. Kenau (2014)
Not Rated | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
While she fights a heroic battle against the Spanish besieger with her female army, Kenau, driven by hate and sorrow of the execution of her youngest daughter, is threatened to also lose her eldest daughter.
Director: Maarten Treurniet | Stars: Monic Hendrickx, Lisa Smit, Sallie Harmsen, Peter Van den Begin
Votes: 1,764
14. Mary of Scotland (1936)
Approved | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History
The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
Directors: John Ford, Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Douglas Walton
Votes: 2,795
15. God's Outlaw (1986)
Not Rated | 93 min | Biography, Drama, History
A dramatized biography of William Tyndale, the 16th Century reformer determined to translate the Bible into English, which illegal act set him at odds with the Catholic Church, Sir Thomas More and King Henry VIII.
Director: Tony Tew | Stars: Roger Rees, Bernard Archard, Keith Barron, Kenneth Gilbert
Votes: 246
16. The Reformer. Zwingli: A Life's Portrait. (2019)
128 min | Biography, Drama, History
Zurich in 1519: The young widow Anna Reinhart lives a barren life between fear of the church and worries about the future of her three children, when the arrival of a man in the city causes... See full summary »
Director: Stefan Haupt | Stars: Maximilian Simonischek, Sarah Sophia Meyer, Anatole Taubman, Stefan Kurt
Votes: 386
17. The Most Fertile Man in Ireland (2000)
96 min | Comedy
The most fertile man in Ireland is in serious demand.
Director: Dudi Appleton | Stars: Kris Marshall, Kathy Kiera Clarke, Bronagh Gallagher, James Nesbitt
Votes: 614
18. Zwischen Himmel und Hölle (2017)
180 min | Drama, History
Two-part drama about how, 500 years ago, a revolutionary priest named Martin Luther changed the face of Christendom and the path of European civilization forever.
Stars: Maximilian Brückner, Jan Krauter, Johannes Klaußner, Joachim Król
Votes: 159
19. Martin Luther (2002 TV Movie)
TV-G | 115 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Martin Luther is born into a world dominated by the Catholic Church. For the keenly spiritual Luther, the Church's promise of salvation is irresistible. Caught in a thunderstorm and ... See full summary »
Director: Cassian Harrison | Stars: Liam Neeson, Timothy West
Votes: 225
20. Best: His Mother's Son (2009 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Colin Barr | Stars: Lorcan Cranitch, Luke de Woolfson, Laurence Doherty, Laura Donnelly
Votes: 76
21. Willem van Oranje (1984)
438 min | Biography, Drama, History
As the Dutch title indicates, this series chronicles magnificently the life of William I "the Silent" of Orange, who grew up with his Lutheran family in the princely castle of a minor ... See full summary »
Stars: Jeroen Krabbé, Willem Nijholt, Alex Wilequet, André van den Heuvel
Votes: 183
22. Koroleva Margo (1996)
48 min | Biography, Drama, History
The history of the decline of the reign of the French Valois dynasty, full of drama, religious contradictions, palace and love intrigues.
Stars: Mikhail Efremov, Mikhail Boyarskiy, Dmitriy Pevtsov, Sergey Yurskiy
Votes: 246
23. The Troubles (1981– )
Documentary
Six-part documentary series looking at Northern Ireland from the perspective of recent Irish history.
Votes: 10
24. 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
25. Martin Luther (1983– )
90 min | Biography, Drama
Stars: Ulrich Thein, Otto Mellies, Ralf Kober, Hartmut Puls
Votes: 33
26. Zwinglis Erbe (2018)
57 min | Biography, Drama, History
When Huldrych Zwingli starts out as a priest in Zurich in 1519, the Plague affects him. As he looks death in the face, God's Word carries him through and he survives. Encouraged, he turns Zurich upside-down with the Bible in his hand.
Director: Alex Fröhlich | Stars: Reinhard Fust, Richard Rabelbauer, Tom Pukhely, Patrik Simeon
Votes: 44
27. Faith School Menace? (2010 TV Movie)
48 min | Documentary
Richard Dawkins looks at Government funded faith schools and the effect they could have on children.
Director: Molly Milton | Star: Richard Dawkins
Votes: 326
28. What Catholics Really Believe (2001– )
Talk-Show
A 13-episode series featuring an entertaining dialogue between Dr. Ray Guarendi and Reverend Kevin Fete as they explore the common misunderstandings of Catholicism.
Stars: Ray Guarendi, Kevin Fete
29.
Royal History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley (2020– )
Episode:
The Spanish Armada
(2020)
Documentary, History
Lucy Worsley discovers how the history of the Spanish Armada has been manipulated and mythologised by politicians and artists for generations.
Director: Laura Blount | Stars: Lucy Worsley, Susan Doran, Allison Goudie, Boris Johnson
Votes: 40
30.
Royal History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley (2020– )
Episode:
Queen Anne and the Union
(2020)
Documentary, History
Historian Lucy Worsley explores how historical falsehoods including the movie The Favourite (2018) ruined the reputation of Queen Anne, a key English monarch responsible for the creation of Great Britain.
Director: Tom Cholmondeley | Star: Lucy Worsley
Votes: 37
31.
The Days That Made History (2009– )
Episode:
L'assassinat d'Henri IV
(2009)
90 min | History
A reenactment of the last day of king Henri IV of France before his murder by the fanatical catholic Ravaillac.
Director: Jacques Malaterre | Stars: Arnaud Bedouët, Chiara De Luca, Marc Saez, Jean-Baptiste Malartre
Votes: 19
32.
The Tudors (2007–2010)
Episode:
Death of a Monarchy
(2010)
TV-MA | 56 min | Drama, History, Romance
As Henry's health deteriorates, he grows introspective as various factions in the court try to position themselves for the seemingly inevitable succession.
Director: Ciaran Donnelly | Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Henry Cavill, Sarah Bolger, Max Brown
Votes: 785
33.
The Tudors (2007–2010)
Episode:
Secrets of the Heart
(2010)
TV-MA | 57 min | Drama, History, Romance
Surrey plots treason after being relieved of command, and as Bishop Gardiner's inquisition proceeds, it comes closer and closer to the Queen.
Director: Ciaran Donnelly | Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Henry Cavill, Lothaire Bluteau, Sarah Bolger
Votes: 538
34.
Prohibition (2011)
Episode:
A Nation of Hypocrites
(2011)
TV-PG | 105 min | Documentary, History
With gangsters terrorizing the public and profiting from the sale of alcohol, many citizens believed Prohibition was unsuccessful, which led to its repeal.
Directors: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Pete Hamill, Jonathan Eig, Michael Lerner
Votes: 173
35.
She-Wolves: England's Early Queens (2012)
Episode:
Jane, Mary and Elizabeth
(2012)
62 min | Documentary, Biography, History
In 1553, the death of a 15-year-old boy caused an unprecedented political crisis. Edward VI was Henry VIII's only male heir. For the first time in English history, all the contender for his... See full summary »
Director: Lucy Swingler | Stars: Helen Castor, Queen Elizabeth II
Votes: 41
36.
The Last Days Of ... (2015– )
Episode:
Guy Fawkes
(2015)
Documentary, Drama, History
Director: Ben Mole | Stars: Toby Jones, Alan Calton, Alice Hogge, Ronald Hutton
Votes: 8
37.
Sex and the Church (2015– )
Episode:
Christianity v the West
(2015)
TV-14 | 53 min | Documentary
Diarmaid MacCulloch explores how the offical Christian Church and Western society have moved apart on issues of sex and gender over the last 300 years.
Director: Andrea Illescas | Stars: Diarmaid MacCulloch, Michael Ramsey
Votes: 8