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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

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

A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on her own, she steps out to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tamara Lawrance

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

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

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

From Boris Karloff to Mel Brooks - Frankenstein has fired the imagination of generations of artists who have created their own interpretation of this...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Bradley

Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the educated...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Calder

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

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

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

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

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

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

After years of fierce focus on her political career, a politician turns her attention to her personal life. The reappearance of a figure from her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Archie Barnes

For generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world. These are places where the banter can be barbed and the truth is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maynard Eziashi

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

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

A new version for younger audiences by Bijan Sheibani and Ben Power. Originally staged as part of the National Theatre’s Shakespeare for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ashley Gerlach