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Documentary telling the story of a group of young actors with Downs Syndrome who set out to create a touring production of Hamlet. Along the way the play begins to blur with their real lives, leading to...
American sitcom portraying a working-class family living in fictional Lanford, Illinois struggling to get by on a limited income. In this episode Dan puts his foot down when D.J. allows a pushy shrewish...
Educational film. Two mothers wonder if there is a place in the education system for their two sons. Isaac Larsen and Willie Smith have Down syndrome. The boys are admitted to a "regular" elementary school...
Newsreel item. Scenes in Stratford-upon-Avon during the Shakespeare birthday celebrations. Shots of the Flags of the Nations ceremony, including the Soviet officials, representatives leaving Shakespeare’s...
Sound recording. Duke Ellington’s suite, in collaboration with Billy Strayhorn, in tribute to Shakespeare, commissioned by, and dedicated to, the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. It was premiered...
US television commercial for NYNEX Yellow Pages. A baseball manager with a penchant for quoting Shakespeare says, ‘to bunt or not to bunt, that is the question, whether ‘tis nobler to lay one down the...
Comedy short. A small-town Shakespeare Club stages a production of Romeo and Juliet. In the role of both Romeo and Montague Hiers creates havoc bringing down Juliet’s balcony.
A series of short programmes transmitted as part of the BBC WINDRUSH season made to mark 50 years since the Windrush ship brought black immigrants to Britain. Black people who broke down barriers for others...
William Shatner, with tongue in cheek, hosts this documentary that revisits the treasure hunts undertaken by brothers Marty and Rick Lagina on Oak Island in Nova Scotia. If Shakespeare’s plays were in fact...
Hugh Quarshie looks back on his highly praised interpretation of Othello in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2015 production, directed by Iqbal Khan. He considers the extra responsibility a black actor must...
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