HISTORY is in the making again at England’s most famous battle site – with a new crown at stake.

For Bosworth Battlefield – where Richard III lost his throne and head to usher in probably the most famous royal dynasty in history – will wear the mantle of movie-making kings of Britain.

The climax of a burgeoning Heart of England International Film Festival will see Bosworth – where the 1485 bloody battle brought the Tudor monarchs of Henry VII, Henry VIII and Elizabeth 1 to the fore – as a fitting place for a record-breaking event in UK cinematic history.

A special one-day screening at Bosworth Battlefield visitor centre in the Heritage Room will see the last of the festival films being shown – and sometime during that event, on Saturday June 13, the UK record for the biggest number of movies screened in a week in 2009 will be achieved.

“It will be a marvellous piece of theatre – rightly staged at the most memorable of Britain’s heritage sites,” said festival director Nick Hudson.

“History – of the movie-making kind – will be made once more at Bosworth which will hold the new title of Crown Prince of Cinema.”

The festival will march from its battlefield setting on Saturday evening to the charity film premiere of Radio Cape Cod at the Odeon cinema

More than 200 movies – from film-makers all over the world – have been submitted.