Smithsonian Channel Documentaries

Elizabeth I: War On Terror (2014x42)

Air date: Nov 17, 2014

How England’s greatest spy pioneered covert espionage techniques to foil a terror plot to murder Elizabeth I, and to engineer the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. In a gripping day-by-day account of the action, using dramatized scenes and location interviews with top historians, we unfold the remarkable events across eight weeks in 1586, when the danger was at its height.