The BBC documentary In Search of Shakespeare by Michael Wood is a little gem. I generally like Michael Wood's videos.
And when it comes to documentaries, the BBC is legendary.
It is in four parts. Here is part one.
"It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.”
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, 1794