# Becket

Excerpts from Paramount's 1964 motion picture of the same title; prepared for educational use on the initiative of the American Historical Association

Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Felix Aylmer

Based on a play of the same title by Jean Anouilh

A dramatization of the career of Thomas à Becket from the time of his appointment to chancellorship of England by King Henry II, through his consecration as Archbishop of Canterbury, his opposition to Henry's efforts to curtail churchly authority, and his assassination in Canterbury Cathedral on December 29, 1170

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1970
- By: Anouilh, Jean, 1910-1987. Becket, Teaching Film Custodians, Paramount Pictures Corporation
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/becket_201701)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/becket_201701?play=1)