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The Golden Age (2007)
Directed by Shekhar Kapur
Writing credits Michael Hirst and William Nicholson
Features a fictional relationship between Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Ralegh.
Cate Blanchett returns to her Oscar-winning part as Queen Elizabeth, Geoffrey Rush as Sir Francis Walsingham,
Clive Owen as Sir Walter Ralegh, and Samantha Morton
as Mary Queen of Scots.
Official Website at Working Title Films
Movie Listing on IMDb
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Elizabeth I (2005) (TV)
Directed by Tom Hooper
Writing credits Nigel Williams
HBO Films miniseries for television. Covers the end of the Leicester years, Elizabeth's courtship with Anjou, and her relationship with Essex.
Stars Helen Mirren as Elizabeth, Jeremy Irons as Leicester.
Official Website at HBO Films
Movie Listing on IMDb
DVD on Amazon.com
HBO Films' Elizabeth I clips (2005)
Clips of Elizabeth I (2005)
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The Virgin Queen (2005) (TV)
Directed by Tom Hooper
Writing credits Nigel Williams
BBC miniseries for television. Covers Elizabeth's whole life.
Stars Anne-Marie Duff as Elizabeth, Ian Hart as Burghley, Tom Hardy as Leicester.
Official Website at BBC
Trailer at PBS
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DVD on Amazon.com
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Elizabeth Rex (2003) (TV PLAY)
Directed by Barbara Willis Sweete
Writing credits Timothy Findley (play)
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) televised performance of Findley's play.
Diane D'Aquila as Queen Elizabeth.
Movie Listing on IMDb
Available at CBC shop
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Gloriana (2000) (TV)
Directed by
Writers: Lytton Strachey (book) William Plomer (libretto)
A televised production of the opera by Benjamin Britten.
Starring Josephine Barstow as Elizabeth.
Movie Listing on IMDb
VHS on Amazon.com
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Elizabeth (2000) (TV DOC)
Directed by Steven Clarke and Mark Fielder
A History Channel documentary.
Presented by Elizabethan scholar David Starkey.
Movie Listing on IMDb
DVD on Amazon UK
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The Royal Diaries: Elizabeth I
Red Rose of the House of Tudor (2000) (VIDEO)
Writing credits Kathryn Lasky (book)
A 30-minute video for young viewers, based on Lasky's fictionalized account of the childhood of Queen Elizabeth I.
Starring Tamara Hope as Princess Elizabeth.
Movie Listing on IMDb
VHS on Amazon
VHS from Scholastic
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Biography: Elizabeth I (1999) (TV DOC)
A documentary produced as part of A&E biography series for television.
Hosted by David Janssen.
DVD on A&E TV Shop
DVD on Amazon
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Elizabeth (1998)
Directed by Shekhar Kapur
Writing credits Michael Hirst
Focusing on the early years of Elizabeth's Reign. Starring Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth, Joseph Fiennes as Robert Dudley, and Geoffrey Rush as Sir Francis Walsingham.
Movie Trailer at IMDb
Movie Listing on IMDb
DVD on Amazon.com
The beginning of the movie Elizabeth (1998)
Clips of Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth (1998)
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Gloriana (1984) (TV OPERA)
Directed by Derek Bailey
Writers: Lytton Strachey (book) William Plomer (libretto)
A Televised production of the opera by Benjamin Britten, performed by the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden). Starring Sarah Walker as Elizabeth.
Movie Listing on IMDb
VHS on Amazon.com
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Elizabeth R (1971) (TV)
Directed by Roderick Graham and Richard Martin
Writing credits John Hale and Julian Mitchell
A 6-part BBC miniseries.
Starring Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth.
Movie Listing on IMDb
DVD on Amazon.com
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Elizabeth the Queen (1968) (TV PLAY)
Directed by George Schaefer
Maxwell Anderson's (play), John Edward Friend, adaptation
TV Movie adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's play.
Judith Anderson as Queen Elizabeth and Charlton Heston as Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex.
Movie Listing on IMDb
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The Virgin Queen (1955)
Directed by Henry Koster
Writing credits Harry Brown (story) and Mildred Lord
Historical drama about Elizabeth's relationship with Ralegh.
Starring Bette Davis as Elizabeth, Richard Todd as Raleigh and Joan Collins as Elizabeth Throckmorton.
Movie Listing on IMDb
VHS on Amazon.com
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Young Bess (1953)
Directed by George Sidney
Writing credits Margaret Irwin (novel) and Jan Lustig
A fictional dramatisation of Elizabeth's years as princess. Starring Jean Simmons as Princess Elizabeth, Stewart Grainger as Thomas Seymour, Deborah Kerr as Queen Catharine Parr and Charles Laughton as King Henry VIII.
Movie Listing on IMDb
VHS on Amazon.com
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The Sea Hawk (1940)
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Writing credits Howard Koch and Seton Miller
A swashbuckling film about an englishman turned pirate during the heyday of the Armada.
Starring Flora Robson as Elizabeth and Errol Flynn as her buccaneer.
Movie Listing on IMDb
DVD on Amazon.com
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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Written by Maxwell Anderson (play) and Norman Reilly Raine
Adaptation of Anderson's play about the love affair between Elizabeth and Essex.
Starring Bette Davis as Elizabeth and Errol Flynn as Essex, Olivia de Havilland as Lady Penelope Gray, Donald Crisp as Sir Francis Bacon, Vincent Price as Ralegh.
Movie Listing on IMDb
DVD on Amazon.com
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Fire Over England (1937)
Directed by William K. Howard
Writing credits A.E.W. Mason (novel) and Clemence Dane
British film about England's tensions with Philip II of Spain, and the fight with the Armada.
Starring Flora Robson as Elizabeth I, Lawrence Olivier as one of Elizabeth's spies, and Vivien Leigh as a beautiful lady-in-waiting.
Movie Listing on IMDb
DVD on Amazon.com
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The Virgin Queen (1923)
Directed by J. Stuart Blackton
Writing credits Harry Pirie Gordon
British silent film.
Starring Lady Diana Manners as Elizabeth I.
Movie Listing on IMDb
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Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth (1912)
(Queen Elizabeth, US title)
Directed by Henri Desfontaines and Louis Mercanton
Writing credits Emile Moreau (play)
French silent film about Elizabeth's affair with Essex.
Starring Sarah Bernhardt as Elizabeth.
Synopsis of the film - WetCanvas
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Movies and television shows featuring Queen Elizabeth I as a character:
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Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Directed by John Madden
Writing credits Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard
Fictional account of William Shakespeare, the writing of his "Romeo and Juliet" and the birth of "Twelfth Night." Queen Elizabeth as a supporting, but pivotal, character.
Starring Dame Judi Dench as an older Queen Elizabeth,
Joseph Fiennes as Shakespeare, and Gwyneth Paltrow as Viola.
Movie Trailers at IMDb
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DVD on Amazon.com
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Orlando (1992)
Directed by Sally Potter
Writing credits Virginia Woolf (book) and Sally Potter
The story of a young nobleman who is ordered by Queen Elizabeth to stay young forever.
Starring Tilda Swinton as Orlando, Quentin Crisp as Elizabeth.
Movie Trailers at IMDb
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DVD on Amazon.com
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Black Adder II (1986) (TV)
Directed by Mandie Fletcher
Writing credits Richard Curtis and Ben Elton
The second season of the British TV comedy series, set in Elizabethan England.
Starring Miranda Richardson as Queen Elizabeth, and Rowan Atkinson as fictional Lord Edmund Black Adder
Movie Listing on IMDb
DVD on Amazon.com
Miranda Richardson as Elizabeth in Blackadder II
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Il Dominatore dei sette mari (1962)
(Seven Seas to Calais, US title)
Directed by Rudolph Mate and Primo Zeglio
Writing credits Filippo Sanjust
An Italian adventure film about the exploits of Sir Francis Drake. Queen Elizabeth as a minor character.
Starring Rod Taylor as Drake and Irene Worth as Elizabeth.
Movie Listing on IMDb
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The Story of Mankind (1954)
Directed by Irwin Allen
Writing credits Henrik Van Loon (novel)
Irwin Allen and Charles Bennet (screenplay)
A scifi film where aliens try to decide whether humans
should be allowed to survive or no. Features episodes
of human history.
Agnes Moorehead as Queen Elizabeth.
Movie Listing on IMDb
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Kenilworth (1954) (TV)
Writing credits Vincent Tilsley
British 6-part miniseries.
Maxine Audley as Queen Elizabeth.
Movie Listing on IMDb
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Mary of Scotland (1936)
Directed by John Ford
Writing credits Maxwell Anderson (play) and Dudley Nichols
The dramatized story of Mary Queen of Scots.
Starring Katharine Hepburn as Mary Queen of Scots and
Florence Eldridge as Queen Elizabeth
Movie Listing on IMDb
DVD on Amazon.com
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Drake of England (1935)
Directed by Arthur B. Woods
Writing credits Marjorie Deans and Clifford Grey
A pirate film about Sir Francis Drake.
Starring Matheson Lang as Drake and Athene Seyler as Queen Elizabeth.
Movie Listing on IMDb
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Queen Elizabeth I of England
