Henry VIII and his reign have frequently been depicted in art, film, literature, music, opera, plays, and television.
The Family of Henry VIII
Henry VIII (c. 1545)
Portrait of Henry VIII, The Dynasty Portrait, and Henry VIII and the Barber-Surgeons (1540)
Untitled Miniature of King Henry (c. 1526)
Henry Meeting Anne at Hampton Court
Untitled Bust of Prince Henry (c. 1498)
Henry VIII (c. 1535)
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Richard Burton (for which Burton was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor)
Llewyn performs a song about Henry and Jane Seymour for Grossman
Miles references Henry
Robert Shaw (for which Shaw was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor)
Charles Laughton (for which Laughton won the Academy Award for Best Actor)
Henry VIII is featured in a canceled, but later launched, episode of the webseries in a rap battle with Hillary Clinton. In the conflict, comparisons between the king's intimate life and the Monicagate controversy are made.
The Confessions of Katherine Howard, The Queen of Subtleties, and The Sixth Wife
The First Elizabeth, Mistress Anne, and The Last Wife of Henry VIII
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1993)
The Autobiography of Henry VIII
The Secret Bride, The Queen's Mistake, The Queen's Rival, I, Jane
The Morland Dynasty, and "The Dark Rose"
A Woman of Passion
Shadow of the Pomegranate, Katharine the Virgin Widow, King's Secret Matter, The Lady in the Tower: The Wives of Henry VIII, Murder Most Royal, Mary, Queen of France, St. Thomas's Eve, and The Sixth Wife
Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light
Henry VIII and His Six Wives (a novelization of the 1972 film)
Dissolution, Dark Fire and Sovereign
Non-Fiction - Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII, The Reign of Henry VIII: The Personalities and Politics, Monarchy: From the Middle Ages to Modernity, Henry: Virtuous Prince, Henry: Model of a Tyrant, Henry VIII: A European Court in England
Non-Fiction - Henry VIII: The King and His Court, Elizabeth the Queen/The Life of Elizabeth I, Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII, and The Six Wives of Henry VIII, and Fiction - The Lady Elizabeth, Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen, Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession, Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen, and Anna of Kleve: Queen of Secrets
"With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm" co-written with R. P. Weston; recorded by Stanley Holloway, The Kingston Trio, The Barron Knights, and Rudy Vallee
Henry VIII and His Six Wives (soundtrack album)
The Six Wives of Henry VIII and The Six Wives of Henry VIII Live at Hampton Court Palace
"I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am"; recorded by Harry Champion, Joe Brown, and Herman's Hermits
Anne of the Thousand Days, originally played by Rex Harrison
A Man for All Seasons (1960), originally played by Richard Leech
Anne Boleyn, originally played by Anthony Howell
La cisma de Inglaterra/The Schism in England
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth
"How Not to Lose Your Head to Henry VIII, Parts 1 & 2" (Ronald Long)
"The Prince and the Pauper" (Paul Rogers)
"The Prince and the Pauper" (Douglas Campbell)
"The Terrible Tudors" (1998)
"The Girl Who Never Had a Birthday, Part 2" (Jack Fife)
"The Trial of Anne Boleyn" (Rex Harrison)
"The Royal Ring" (Michael Hofland)
"Margical History Tour" (Dan Castellaneta as Homer Simpson)