Anna Boleyn
The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.
From the archive
I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, along with other pictures of the era that I find interesting, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. This historical drama had a huge budget for a German film at the time, and it mostly shows in the grandiosity of the sets and costumes. Emil Jannings shines in his role as the villainous Henry VIII, while Henny Porten is sympathetic in the latter half of the film as Boleyn.
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Anna Boleyn (1920) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Starring
- Emil Jannings, Henny Porten, Paul Hartmann, Ludwig Hartau, Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein, Hilde Müller, Aud Egede-Nissen, Maria Reisenhofer
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