Drama, Documentary
Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop drama-doc – shot in London in 1967 and released only briefly in the UK and New York at the height of the Vietnam War – remains both thought-provoking and disturbing. A theatrical and cinematic social comment on US intervention in Vietnam, Brook’s film also reveals a 1960s London where art, theatre and political protest actively collude and where a young Glenda Jackson and RSC icons such as Peggy Ashcroft and Paul Scofield feature prominently on the front line. Multi-layered scenarios staged by Brook combine with newsreel footage, demonstrations, satirical songs and skits to illustrate the intensity of anti-war opinion within London’s artistic and intellectual community.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Dancer in the Dark
La La La
Baba Shamal
Apocalypse Now
Greatest Days
Sawan Ko Aane Do
42nd Street
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Hairspray
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Riot at the Rite
A Star Is Born
Veer-Zaara
Kal Ho Naa Ho
A Room in Town
The Emperor of Atlantis
Three Seasons
Frankenstein : The Musical Live
Shall We Dance?
Fame
SIMILAR MOVIES
Dancer in the Dark
IMDB 7.8 | Sep , 2000
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.La La La
IMDB 7.2 | Nov , 2018
When the silent cinema learned to speak, the audience was surprised not only by the voices of the actors and the sound effects, but also by a new element, the music, which, combined with the dance and an unprejudiced imagination, gave rise to a new genre, as important to Hollywood cinema as the western was: the musical. A journey through the history of this genre, from its beginnings to the present day.Baba Shamal
IMDB 5.3 | Oct , 1971
Baba Shamal and Looti Heydar, two community leaders of adjacent neighbourhoods make a pact of fraternity. Baba Shamal's high attitude of Heydar however dramatically changes when he is told that Heydar has been enamoured with Shokat, the girl Baba Shamal has just wed,...Apocalypse Now
IMDB 8.3 | May , 1979
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.Greatest Days
IMDB 6.2 | Jun , 2023
Based on the Take That musical, five best friends have the night of their lives seeing their favourite boy band in concert. Twenty-five years later, their lives have changed in many different ways as they reunite for one more epic show by their beloved band, to relight their friendship and discover that maybe their greatest days are ahead of them.Sawan Ko Aane Do
IMDB 8.1 | Jan , 1979
Chandramukhi, the city educated daughter of the village zamindar returns to Ramnagar, a typical village. There she meets her childhood friend Birju aka Brij Mohan. He has a lovely voice and she encourages him to pursue singing. Eventually Brij and Chandramukhi fall in love, but Chandramukhi's father cuts it abruptly and sends her to Lucknow. A short while later Brij arrives at Lucknow. Gitanjali, Chandramukhi's friend, is thrilled by his voice and helps him get a job at Aakashvani through her father. Brij returns to Ramnagar to ask Chandramukhis hand in marriage but is once again rebuked. He returns and goes on to become a great singer in Mumbai with Gitanjali by his side. All through he yearns for Chandramukhi as she yearns for him. How he manages to marry her forms the rest of the story.42nd Street
IMDB 6.9 | Mar , 1933
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
IMDB 7.3 | Aug , 1994
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.Hairspray
IMDB 6.7 | Jul , 2007
Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad auditions to be on Baltimore's most popular dance show - The Corny Collins Show - and lands a prime spot. Through her newfound fame, she becomes determined to help her friends and end the racial segregation that has been a staple of the show.Yankee Doodle Dandy
IMDB 7 | May , 1942
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.Riot at the Rite
IMDB 8 | Oct , 2005
In the spring of 1913, Parisian businessman Gabriel Astruc opens a new theater on the Champs Elysées. The first performance is the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring', danced by the Ballet Russes. The rehearsal process is extremely fraught: the orchestra dislike Stravinsky's harsh, atonal music; the dancers dislike the 'ugly' choreography of Vaslav Nijinsky. The volatile, bisexual Nijinsky is in a strained relationship with the much older Sergei Diaghilev, the Ballet Russes' charismatic but manipulative impresario. Public expectation is extremely high after Nijinsky's success in 'L'apres-midi d'un faune'. Finally, 'The Rite of Spring' premieres to a gossip-loving, febrile, fashion-conscious Parisian audience sharply divided as to its merits.A Star Is Born
IMDB 7.1 | Oct , 1954
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.Veer-Zaara
IMDB 7.4 | Nov , 2004
Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh, a pilot in the Indian Air Force, rescues the stranded Zaara, a woman from Pakistan, following a bus accident, and their lives are forever bound.Kal Ho Naa Ho
IMDB 7.5 | Nov , 2003
An uptight MBA student falls for the charismatic new neighbor who charms her troubled family – but he has a secret that forces him to push her away.A Room in Town
IMDB 6.4 | Oct , 1982
Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.The Emperor of Atlantis
IMDB 10 | Jan , 1977
Opera written by inmates of a Nazi concentration camp in 1943 before their murder in Auschwitz.Three Seasons
IMDB 7.2 | Apr , 1999
The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Marine arrives on a search for his daughter, whom he abandoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Elsewhere, a cyclo driver falls for a troubled prostitute and schemes to raise money so he can spend time with her. Additionally, a young women begins harvesting lotuses for a writer suffering from leprosy, and a child trinket seller loses his traveling case.Frankenstein : The Musical Live
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2025
Shall We Dance?
IMDB 6.4 | Oct , 2004
A bored estate lawyer spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.Fame
IMDB 6.4 | May , 1980
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.