elizabeth, 1558-1603

Helen Mirren and Jeremh Irons star. A two-part HBO films miniseries event that explores the intersection of the private and public life of Elizabeth I in the latter half of her reign, offering a personal look at her allies, her enemies and her suitors as she struggles to survive in a male-dominated world.

Presents a history of the struggle Elizabeth I had in trying to unite her country under one religion.

Offers a fictionalized account of the life of Mary Stuart, who, at six days old, became Queen of Scotland, and spent her childhood in France before returning to her birth country to claim her right to the throne.

Michael Deven, working for spymaster Francis Walsingham thirty years into the reign of Queen Elizabeth, falls in love with Anne Montrose, a lady who serves at Hampton Court Palace, not realizing she is really Lady Lune, an unwilling servant to Invidiana, the faerie queen who rules the dark and unseen world of Onyx Court with the complete knowledge and cooperation of the Tudor monarch.

Amy Robsart and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and favorite of the Queen, try to keep their forbidden marriage a secret during the reign of Elizabeth I of England.

A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty.