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American television series about the inner workings of the federal government starring Martin Sheen as President Jed Bartlet. In this episode President Bartlet issues an illegal order to assassinate a...
Television documentary first shown on German television. A record of the filming of Welles’ OTHELLO. The film is re-edited to make the points Welles wishes to make while discussing it. Also included is a...
Feature film version of the play. Widely criticised and a commercial failure, the film was received as an interesting deconstruction or completely unintelligible according to taste. The film makes the...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed for radio by Susan Roberts, with Richard Griffiths as Bottom, David Threlfall as Oberon and Sylvestra le Touzel as Titania. Music composed and performed by Robin Rimbaud.
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1986 production of Richard II. Directed by Barry Kyle with Jeremy Irons as Richard.
Video recording of Brian Rintoul’s 1988 production of Richard III for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival with Colm Feore in the title role.
A compilation of seven early silent versions of Shakespeare plays, created from nitrate prints held in the BFI National Archive. They include examples of hand-stencilled and tinted prints, and, though...
Documentary. Ethan Hawke presents a documentary on Macbeth. Excerpts: MACBETH (CBC, 1962) d. Paul Almond. MACBETH (1971) d. Polanski. MACBETH (2001) d. Doran. MACBETH (2010) d. Goold. There is also a...
An ambitious modern dress version of the play, directed and produced by Dallas Bower. The production was enhanced with stock news footage and incidental music. Ernest Milton is Julius Caesar.
Episode 11 of a 26-part serialisation of the Elizabethan history play (encompassing the reign of Edward II to Henry VI), adapted for radio by Martin Jenkins. This episode, based on Shakespeare’s Henry IV,...
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