Anne of the Thousand Days

“He was King. She was barely 18. And in their thousand days they played out the most passionate and shocking love story in history!”

Henry VIII (Richard Burton) is a king with a wife, Queen Catherine (Irene Papas), who has given him no male heir. He sets his eye on Anne Boleyn (Geneviève Bujold), a young woman at court who will not simply be taken. Charles Jarrott's film follows Anne as she weighs what she wants against what the throne asks of her, and as she learns she is stepping into a role she cannot easily leave.