The Tudors (Seasons 1–4)

The Tudors (2007) is a Showtime historical drama you can watch online on iFILM. Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays a Henry VIII far removed from the famous Holbein portrait — young, magnetic, and capable of rewriting the rules of an entire kingdom to get what he wants.

Over four seasons, the show moves through the full arc of Tudor power: negotiations with Rome, the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn (Natalie Dormer), wars by proxy, and the slow machinery of the English Reformation. Henry Cavill appears as the Duke of Suffolk, the king's closest friend and occasional rival. Creator Michael Hirst built the series around one idea — how a brilliant prince becomes something much harder to name.

Filmed on location in Ireland and winner of a Golden Globe for drama, The Tudors ran from 2007 to 2010 and remains one of the sharpest dramatizations of Tudor politics ever made. Stream all four seasons of The Tudors online on iFILM.