In 2012, the remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath a car park in Leicester. For Philippa Langley, this was the culmination of years of obsessive research despite the doubts of her friends, family, experts, and academics.

Filmed entirely on location in Great Britain, this film retraces the life of the king based on the surviving historical record. It reveals the true man behind Shakespeare's villain and exposes the extent to which Shakespeare bent the truth in order to please his own Tudor monarch. Features interviews with leading historians, including Phillippa Langley and authorities on Shakespeare, specially filmed sequences from the play and highly accurate historical...