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Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch

General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frank Finlay

In the communal area of a block of temporary accommodation, the residents go about their day-to-day routines in the run-up to Christmas. The bonds of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna Calder-Marshall

As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gillian Anderson

The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern of loss. Why can’t England’s men win at their own game?...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joseph Fiennes

Agamemnon returns home from the Trojan war and is murdered by his wife, setting off a chain of revenge that stretches across this trilogy of play....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jim Carter

In 1964, Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under Sir...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Johnny Flynn

The hour before actors go on stage at the National Theatre in London is a performance in and of itself.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simon Russell Beale

When an old adversary threatens Rome, the city calls once more on her hero and defender: Coriolanus. But he has enemies at home too. Famine threatens...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tom Hiddleston

Presented by Theatre Support Fund+, The Shows Must Go On! and National Theatre Live, the world’s most iconic musicals return to the West End...

Genre: Music

Cast: Bonnie Langford

An African country teeters on the edge of civil war. A society prepares to drive out its colonial present and claim an independent future. Racial...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sheila Atim

Owen, the prodigal son, returns to rural Donegal from Dublin. With him are two British army officers. Their ambition is to create a map of the area,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dermot Crowley

As the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Tennant

A flat in Ladbroke Grove, West London. 1952. When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbours in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helen McCrory

It's February 1974. Ted Heath's Conservative government has been ousted. But only just. In the hung Parliament, Labour manages to form a minority...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vincent Franklin

Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ralph Fiennes

Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she’s left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helen McCrory

Andrew Scott brings multiple characters to life in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, filmed live in West End, London. Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust into...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andrew Scott

From her beginnings as a destitute orphan, Jane Eyre’s spirited heroine faces life’s obstacles head-on, surviving poverty, injustice and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Madeleine Worrall

Confronted with death, National Health Service founder Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan’s deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey...

Genre: History

Cast: Michael Sheen