Bill

Bill (2015) is a British family comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Richard Bracewell, it takes a crack at Shakespeare's "lost years" — the decade between Stratford and his emergence as a London playwright that history left completely blank.

Young Bill is a terrible lute player with big ambitions. He heads to London, immediately gets tangled in palace conspiracies and schemes well above his station. Matthew Baynton plays Bill; Helen McCrory and Damian Lewis handle the villainy. The rest of the cast came largely from Horrible Histories, which tells you exactly what flavour of comedy this is.

Fast, anachronistic, and happily uninterested in being educational — the film works for kids and adults at once, just for different reasons. Stream Bill (2015) online on iFILM.