When "Elizabeth" was released in 1998, it not only was a superb piece of historical film making, it also marked the breakthrough of a remarkable actress. Cate Blanchett's portrait of Queen Elizabeth I of England is argueably inferior to none, even that of Dame Helen Mirren.

Now, a decade later, she reunites with writer Michael Hirst and director Shekhar Kapur for the sequel, "Elizabeth: The Golden Age", covering the story of the high noon of the Elizabethan era.

It is the age of Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh (played by Clive Owen), the age of the early flowering of English drama, and the battle for the very independence of that culture with the Spanish Armada, and the death of Mary Queen of Scots (who was in most ways more French than Scottish), played in the movie by Samantha Morton.

The online film magazine Filmstalker reports that an extended trailer for the film, clocking in at more than five minutes, has been released online.

If your computer has Adobe/Macromedia Flash installed, you can watch the trailer for the film below in streaming Flash video format below, courtesy of YouTube, or you can go to The Daily Telegraph and watch it in streaming Real video format. Or you can simply save the trailer to your hard drive via this link in high quality 47 MB QuickTime format.

If you're having trouble getting the video file to play, you can open it in the excellent cross platform media player VLC, which can be downloaded for a number of operating systems here.