The BBC Television Shakespeare (1979) ★ Henry VIII (S1E6)

Henry VIII (The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight) is a 1979 British BBC 'William Shakespeare' television historical drama film. It features John Stride, Julian Glover, Jeremy Kemp, Ronald Pickup, Barbara Kellerman, Timothy West, Claire Bloom, and John Nettleton. An account of the political machinations surrounding the divorce of Henry VIII from Katharine of Aragon, the subsequent Reformation and wedding to Anne Bullen (Boleyn) and the birth of the future Queen Elizabeth I. The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series, which aired from 1978 to 1985, of British television adaptations of all 37 plays wholly and authoritatively credited to William Shakespeare.