A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years.
Casts David Tennant, Nigel Lindsay, Michael Pennington, Oliver Ford Davies, Antony Byrne, Emma Hamilton, Oliver Rix, Sean Chapman, Jim Hooper, Jane Lapotaire
MOVIE COMMENTS
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National Theatre Live: War Horse
National Theatre Live: King Lear
National Theatre Live: Fleabag
Death of a Salesman
National Theatre Live: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
National Theatre Live: Obsession
National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part One: Millennium Approaches
National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part Two: Perestroika
National Theatre Live: Yerma
National Theatre Live: Amadeus
Much Ado About Nothing
Sty of the Blind Pig
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play One: Hungry
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Two: What Did You Expect?
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Three: Women of a Certain Age
The Last of Mrs. Lincoln
A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja
The Gin Game
National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
SIMILAR MOVIES
National Theatre Live: War Horse
IMDB 8.8 | Feb , 2014
Based on Michael Morpurgo's novel and adapted for the stage by Nick Stafford, War Horse takes audiences on an extraordinary journey from the fields of rural Devon to the trenches of First World War France.National Theatre Live: King Lear
IMDB 7.1 | May , 2014
An aged king decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, according to which of them is most eloquent in praising him. His favourite, Cordelia, says nothing. Simon Russell Beale, whose recent appearances at the National include Timon of Athens and Collaborators, takes the title role in Shakespeare’s tragedy.National Theatre Live: Fleabag
IMDB 7.7 | Sep , 2019
Fleabag may seem oversexed, emotionally unfiltered and self-obsessed, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. With family and friendships under strain and a guinea pig café struggling to keep afloat, Fleabag suddenly finds herself with nothing to lose.Death of a Salesman
IMDB 8.5 | Jan , 2000
Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's long-suffering wife Linda, and Biff and Happy, his troubled sons and his life.National Theatre Live: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
IMDB 6.1 | Apr , 2017
Against the backdrop of Hamlet, two hapless minor characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, take centre stage. As the young double act stumble their way in and out of the action of Shakespeare’s iconic drama, they become increasingly out of their depth as their version of the story unfolds.National Theatre Live: Obsession
IMDB 6.6 | May , 2017
Gino is a drifter, down-at-heel and magnetically handsome. At a road side restaurant he encounters husband and wife, Joseph and Hanna. Irresistibly attracted to each other, Gino and Hanna begin a fiery affair and plot to murder her husband. But, in this chilling tale of passion and destruction, the crime only serves to tear them apart.National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part One: Millennium Approaches
IMDB 8.6 | Jul , 2017
The National Theatre's live theatrical production of Tony Kushner's two-part play 'Angels In America' about New Yorkers grappling with the AIDS crisis during the mid-1980s.National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part Two: Perestroika
IMDB 8.6 | Jul , 2017
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. This new staging of Tony Kushner's multi-award winning two-part play, Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia On National Themes, is directed by Olivier and Tony award winning director Marianne Elliott.National Theatre Live: Yerma
IMDB 9 | Aug , 2017
A woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child in Simon Stone’s radical production of Lorca’s achingly powerful masterpiece.National Theatre Live: Amadeus
IMDB 7.4 | Feb , 2017
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna, the music capital of the world – and he’s determined to make a splash. Awestruck by his genius, court composer Antonio Salieri has the power to promote his talent or destroy his name. Seized by obsessive jealousy he begins a war with Mozart, with music, and ultimately, with God.Much Ado About Nothing
IMDB 6.9 | May , 1993
In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice -- a tough task indeed, considering their corresponding distaste for love and each other. Meanwhile, meddling Don John plots to ruin the wedding.Sty of the Blind Pig
IMDB 0 | May , 1974
After moving to Chicago from the South just as the civil rights movement takes hold, the members of an African American family led by steely matriarch Weedy Warren have different reactions to the social upheaval surrounding them.The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play One: Hungry
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2017
Hungry is the first in a three-play cycle introducing us to the Gabriels of Rhinebeck, New York. These three plays unfold in real time and track the lives of the Gabriels throughout the coming presidential election year. To the rhythm of peeling, chopping and mixing, Hungry places us in the center of the Gabriel’s kitchen. The family discusses their lives and disappointments, and the world at large and nearby. As they struggle against the fear of being left behind, the family attempts to find resilience in the face of loss.The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Two: What Did You Expect?
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2017
Back in the kitchen of the Gabriel family, the country is now in the midst of the general election for President. In the course of one evening in the house they grew up in, history (both theirs and our country's), money, politics, family, art, and culture are chopped up and mixed together, while a meal is made around the kitchen table.The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Three: Women of a Certain Age
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2017
Eight months after we first meet the Gabriels, Patricia, the family matriarch, joins her children and daughters-in-law as they prepare a meal from the past and consider the future of their country, town and home. Paying tribute to the difficult year behind them, the Gabriels compare notes on the search for empathy and authenticity at a time when the game seems rigged and the rules are forever changing.The Last of Mrs. Lincoln
IMDB 0 | Sep , 1976
The Last of Mrs. Lincoln depicts the final seventeen years of Mary Todd Lincoln's life, following her husband's assassination.A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja
IMDB 6.7 | May , 1974
A corrupt village commissar insists on mounting a production of Hamlet. The clever local teacher, however, casts the son of a man framed for theft as Hamlet, and the commissar as the usurping king, leading to a climax of truly Shakespearean proportions.The Gin Game
IMDB 8 | Apr , 1981
Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey, two elderly residents at a nursing home for senior citizens, strike up an acquaintance. Neither seems to have any other friends, and they start to enjoy each other's company. Weller offers to teach Fonsia how to play gin rummy, and they begin playing a series of games that Fonsia always wins. Weller's inability to win a single hand becomes increasingly frustrating to him, while Fonsia becomes increasingly confident. While playing their games of gin, they engage in lengthy conversations about their families and their lives in the outside world. Gradually, each conversation becomes a battle, much like the ongoing gin games, as each player tries to expose the other's weaknesses, to belittle the other's life, and to humiliate the other thoroughly.National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
IMDB 6.2 | May , 2017
In the early hours of the morning on the campus of an American college, Martha, much to her husband George’s displeasure, has invited the new professor and his wife to their home for some after-party drinks. As the alcohol flows and dawn approaches, the young couple are drawn into George and Martha’s toxic games until the evening reaches its climax in a moment of devastating truth-telling.National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
IMDB 10 | Jun , 2011
Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.