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...

Henry VI, Parts I and II and Richard III tell the story of an exceptionally turbulent period in British history. These exhilarating and emotionally charged films feature some of Shakespeare's most eloquent and powerful language.