克伦威尔出身于亨廷登郡的一个没落的新贵族家庭。青年时期就学于剑桥一个著名清教学院，受到清教思想的薰陶。　　1642年，英国内战开始，他站在国会革命阵营方面，以自己组织的“铁骑军”屡建战功。1645年，国会授权克伦威尔改组军队，他以铁骑军为基础组成“新模范军”。他指挥这支军队，战胜了王党的军队。　　1649年1月30日，他在人民的压力下，以议会和军队的名义处死国王查理一世。5月，宣布英国为共和国，成为实际军事独裁者。他镇压掘地派运动，出兵远征爱尔兰。1653年，他驱散议会，自任“护国主”，但国内经济状况不断恶化，阶级矛盾日趋尖锐，克伦威尔始终未能稳定局势。

展现了17世纪英国资产阶级革命（也可以说是世界历史）中最重要的一段历史时期，改革与保守势力之间的一场大决战。影片描述了奥利弗·克伦威尔推动并领导消弱专制王权、确立议会绝对权威斗争中的作用。从而最终奠定了延续至今的西方政体制度的基础。

通过审视托马斯·克伦威尔（Thomas Cromwell）的崛起与陨落，揭示这位大臣是如何应对动荡局面的。

Thomas Cromwell's rise and fall is examined to reveal how the minister dealt with turmoil.

Thomas Cromwell's rise and fall is examined to reveal how the minister dealt with turmoil.

Thomas Cromwell has gone down in history as one of the most corrupt and manipulative ruffians ever to hold power in England. A chief minister who used his position to smash the Roman Catholic church in England and loot the monasteries for his own gain. A man who used torture to bring about the execution of the woman who had once been his friend and supporter - Anne Boleyn. 　　Diarmaid MacCulloch, professor of the history of the church at Oxford University, reveals a very different image of Cromwell. The award-winning novels of Hilary Mantel began the revival of Cromwell's reputation, and now Professor MacCulloch presents Henry VIII's chief minister as a principled and pioneering statesman who was driven by radical evangelism. 　　Cromwell's extraordinary career blossomed after a childhood marked by poverty and violence. The unschooled son of a brewer, he travelled across Europe as a young man and mysteriously taught himself to speak several languages in addition to accounting and knowledge of the law. When Henry VIII failed to persuade the pope to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, Cromwell engineered an incredible solution. Using his political skills he persuaded Parliament and the people to accept a mythological rewriting of the history of England in which the English monarch was as an emperor whose power superseded that of the pope. 　　Professor MacCulloch describes Cromwell as an evangelical reformer, determined to break the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic church and introduce the people of England to a new type of Christianity in which each individual makes direct contact with God.

托马斯·克伦威尔是英国宗教改革最大的支持者之一。在那个血统意味着一切的时代，克伦威尔从一个贫穷的平民崛起成为亨利八世的首席国务大臣。但克伦威尔在他最辉煌的时期被完全摧毁。愤怒的国王迁怒于他，并于1540年7月28日将他处死。克伦威尔因为他的勃勃野心和腐败被载入史册，他是一位无情的政客，他不惜摧毁人民和制度。但这公平吗？这是一段引人入胜的都铎之旅，将探寻亨利八世最忠诚的仆人的真相。

詹姆斯·曼高德([金刚狼3：殊死一战])将执导福斯真人电影[大猫克伦肖](Crenshaw，暂译)。影片改编自凯瑟琳·阿普尔盖特所著同名童书。小男孩杰克逊的家庭遭遇危机，此时他幻想中的朋友一只名叫克伦肖的大猫居然出现在了他的生活中，并向他伸出了援助之手。Kickstart Productions担任制作。