Michael Hirst
Michael Hirst is an English screenwriter, best known for his films Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age, as well as the Emmy Award-winning television series The Tudors.
Works
Billy the Kid
An epic romantic adventure series based on the life of famous American outlaw Billy the Kid — from his humble Irish roots, to his early days as a cowboy and gunslinger in the American frontier, to his pivotal role in the Lincoln County War and beyond.
Release Date: 2022-04-24
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 8
Vote Count: 123
Vikings: Valhalla
In this sequel to "Vikings," a hundred years have passed and a new generation of legendary heroes arises to forge its own destiny — and make history.
Release Date: 2022-02-25
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 24
Vote Count: 935
Real Vikings
The history of the Vikings is explored by "Vikings" star Clive Standen, who joins experts in Europe to learn how the Vikings successfully invaded England and France.
Release Date: 2016-02-13
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 6
Vikings
The adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods. Legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors.
Release Date: 2013-03-03
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 89
Vote Count: 7143
The Borgias
Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amass and retain power, influence and enormous wealth for himself and his family.
Release Date: 2011-04-03
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 29
Vote Count: 471
Camelot
Camelot is a historical-fantasy-drama television series based on the Arthurian legend, was produced by Graham King, Morgan O'Sullivan and Michael Hirst.
Release Date: 2011-02-25
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 169
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
When Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by ruthless familial betrayal and Spain's invading army, she and her shrewd adviser must act to safeguard the lives of her people.
Release Date: 2007-09-09
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1244
The Tudors
The Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion.
Release Date: 2007-04-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 38
Vote Count: 752
Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II
The eventful life of a humble Polish priest who once decried the pomp of the Catholic Church "a circus" and labeled the Pope a "prisoner of the Vatican" before ascending to the papal throne to usher Catholicism into the 21st century. Born in Poland and forced to carry on following the untimely death of his family, Karol Wojtyla endured both personal hardships and the rape of his homeland by the Third Reich to spread the word of God through the Catholic Church. Later, as Pope John Paul II, Wojtyla was beloved by millions of Catholics worldwide. From the sexual-abuse scandal that shook the American Catholic Church in the later-20th century to the murder of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero and the near-fatal assassination attempt made on his own life, Pope John Paul II endured to bridge the gap between various faiths until his death resulting from Parkinson's disease in April of 2005.
Release Date: 2006-02-24
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 8
The Young Casanova
Dashing through the streets of Venice, slipping from the clutches of the law, darting across Europe in search of new challenges, Giacomo Casanova races through life with irrepressible energy. Violinist, writer, soldier, spy, gambler, adventurer - it is as a lover that he unbridles the full force of his energy. A charmer and seducer, he, too, is charmed by the beauty of women, seduced by their passion, intrigued by their mystery.
Release Date: 2002-04-26
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 5
Elizabeth
The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.
Release Date: 1998-09-13
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1407
Uncovered
While restoring a fifteenth-century painting Julia reveals a hidden Latin phrase. A series of murders begin to rock her small world of art experts, patrons and restorers, and she finds that the mystery of the painting is interwoven with the mystery of the deaths around her.
Release Date: 1994-05-01
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 54
Meeting Venus
Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian conductor Zoltan Szanto. The much-anticipated production may never get off the ground, thanks to labor-management difficulties, intramural jealousies, and clashing egos. Amidst all this chaos, the mismatched Anderson and Szanto fall in love.
Release Date: 1991-09-18
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 18
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
A small-town eccentric opens a café in her decaying home.
Release Date: 1991-03-28
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 10
Fools of Fortune
A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.
Release Date: 1990-06-20
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 3
Wherever You Are...
An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II.
Release Date: 1988-09-11
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 5
The Deceivers
India, 1825: the country lives in mortal fear of cult members known as the “Deceivers." They commit robbery and ritualistic murder. Appalled by their activities, an English military man, Captain William Savage, conceives a hazardous plot to stop them. In disguise, he plans to himself become a “Deceiver” and infiltrate their numbers. Ever present in Savage’s adventures is a sense of dread; he is in constant fear of betrayal and vengeance and also undergoes a disturbing psychological transformation as he experiences the cult’s blood lust firsthand.
Release Date: 1988-09-02
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 26
The Plague Year
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 1
Civil Blood
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Pompeii: A Day of Fire
A series of overlapping stories of the people living in Pompeii and what their lives were like before fire rained down from the sky with the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 1
Bloodaxe
Follow Erik Bloodaxe, and his formidable wife, Gunnhild, Mother of Kings as they fight for the throne of Norway, the land is torn apart by fierce rivals, shifting loyalties, and bloody betrayals. With war looming and chaos consuming the kingdom, drawing in the ruthless Kings of other Scandinavian countries, and even a powerful English ruler, the stage is set for a thundering, cataclysmic, compelling and utterly magical new Viking Saga.
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer