Inside the Court of Henry VIII FULL SPECIAL (2016) | PBS America 

This narrator has a great voice for historical documentaries. It is clear, captivating, and commands one's attention.

that was incredible! i was hooked from beginning to end. thank you

This is a breath of fresh air after the previous documentary i just watched on henry vii. Props to the cameramen, editors and many experts.

As an historical graduate and student of Early Modern England, I would like to congratulate PDS on this episode. It includes testimony from respected historians and covers the entire reign of Henry 8 with very few contentious assertions. Well done. ,

This is possibly one of the most interesting programmes l have seen on Henry V111 ...having read much about him it was good to know that inadvertently he left important legacies..including historical fascination with his reign for ever ...

Fun fact: all of Henry's wifes and himself were related, although you have to go back 200 years to find the common ancestor, Edward I.

This was a great watch, thanks for posting

Brilliantly made documentary.🙌

THANK YOU...!!!

The pain he would have been in would be beyond excruciating. Leg ulcers are more painful than kidney stones. And nothing to even take the edge off of his pain and nothing to cure the infection.

What goes around etc.

Very good presentation TY to all who contributed to the production....

Think this documentary has its facts slightly confused - if i remember my history classes correctly, Richard II was actually the most tyrannical king England ever knew, and he was also the one that started the whole " your highness/majesty" crap too.... just saying...

I have read works by T. Borman and R Hutchinson but of them all Professor MacCulloch's biography of Thomas Cromwell is masterful.

A Paranoid Ruthless Tyrant just like Joseph Stalin

The actor playing Ann is a babe.

“She wanted to be queen”. I believe this is a false accusation. I believe she truly loved her betrothed and wanted to marry him. She went into a fit when Henry forced them to split and I believe she wanted away from him in earnest when she fled his presence. Slowly but surely he made himself her only option and eventually she grasped the chance. That said, no, it wasn’t her initial intention, how could it be. In catholic Europe, divorce was unheard of. She would not have expected Henry to get him and she didn’t want to be a mistress. You can’t treat her intentions as if she knew marriage was a possibility, she had zero reason to believe it was even remotely possible. We know it - she didn’t.

Sounds like a complete narcissist

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Well at least Henry VIII held court indoors eh? I mean how else are some people since then who are tyrants outside too supposed to get away with what they do while blaming everybody else except Henry the VIII and themselves too while NOT taking proper responsibilty for their own choice of which set of hats to wear all at the same time too. For example a priest offering a re-baptism of the mother of his children n a very slippery river bank during a flood with 2 infants looking on at the time. Or how about a tyrannt who decides to become both a gender expression policeman and executioner both at the same time. Every woman during their lifetiime has a story about a male tyrant like that. A lot of men during their lifetime too has a story about a female tyrant like that who only once or who more than once always held court indoors only too instead. How does a personality best described as being tyrannical get planted and then formed? Could that have at least something to do with what is called human based only respector of persons? Respector of persons human nature which enables some of us to recognize our marriage partner for life. Turned into something else. Something else which fails to recognize how the word was made flesh in its fullest sense. A tyrant cheats himself or herself of being able to look into the heavens when outside resting without feeling bitter and resentful about anything written down about what he cannot see there yet too. Plato was like that. So was a lot of tyrants who insist they are the best interpreters of the bible around. As if they could be better at that than both Saint John the Baptist and god himself too..

That background'music' is revolting

What makes Catherine Howard "a silly, silly" girl, please? A statement like that discards the whole documentary. The statement is outrageously unprofessional for a historian.