Elizabeth (Shekhar Kapur, 1998)

It's funny but I learned a lot about the politico-religious history of England from this film. How in fact sovereignty needs to be sanctioned by religious authority is a matter to be considered. What is also very intriguing is the way they switch between English and French in the 16th century. And all this put into a filmic text by an India-born director? Cinema is a strange, funny art.