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1. The Laurence Olivier Awards 1997 (1997 TV Special)
Director: Geoff Miles | Stars: Clive Anderson, Eileen Atkins, Frances Barber, Stephen Boxer
Votes: 35
2. The King's Head: A Maverick in London (2006 Video)
55 min | Documentary
Despite a severely limited budget and lack of government funding, The King's Head Theatre of London, founded by Dan Crawford, has been responsible for launching many famous names within the... See full summary »
Directors: Jason Figgis, Stephanie Sinclaire | Stars: Dan Crawford, Paul Alexander, Steven Berkoff, Christopher Biggins
Votes: 18
3. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Extended Edition Scenes (2014 Video)
PG-13 | 25 min | Short, Action, Adventure
Extended scenes from 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug'.
Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Richard Armitage, John Callen, Martin Freeman, Stephen Hunter
Votes: 577
4. Shakespeare Uncovered (2012– )
55 min | Documentary
Various actors discuss Shakespeare plays. Each episode is presented by one actor and, in most cases, the actor discusses one play. However, some episodes cover more than one play. For ... See full summary »
Stars: Simon Russell Beale, Ethan Hawke, Harriet Walter, Vanessa Redgrave
Votes: 274
5. The History Man (1981– )
206 min | Drama
Ardently left-wing, or so it seems, Howard Kirk (Antony Sher) subtly extends his power over students and colleagues alike at a redbrick university.
Stars: Antony Sher, Geraldine James, Isla Blair, Laura Davenport
Votes: 110
6. Royal Shakespeare Company: Henry IV Part I (2014)
165 min | Comedy, Drama, History
The second play in Shakespeare's series of histories covering the reigns of Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V. Shakespeare muses on the consequences of actions, the role of princes and the realities of wielding power.
Director: Gregory Doran | Stars: Antony Sher, Alex Hassell, Jasper Britton, Trevor White
Votes: 56
7. Royal Shakespeare Company: Henry IV Part II (2014)
170 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Gregory Doran directs Shakespeare's epic pair of plays with a cast including Antony Sher as Sir John Falstaff, Jasper Britton as King Henry and Alex Hassell as Prince Hal.
Director: Gregory Doran | Stars: Antony Sher, Alex Hassell, Jasper Britton, Elliot Barnes-Worrell
Votes: 46
8. Turtle's Progress (1979–1980)
60 min | Comedy
The series was was a mix of drama & comedy and dealt with a petty criminal named Turtle and his minder, "Razor" Eddie, who by accident come into possession of the proceeds of a major bank ... See full summary »
Stars: John F. Landry, Michael Attwell, Ruby Head, Tony London
Votes: 61
9. Mark Lawson Talks to... (2003–2015)
60 min | Talk-Show
A series in which arts presenter Mark Lawson has a 60-minute in-depth conversation with a notable figure.
Stars: Mark Lawson, Noel Gallagher, Terry Wogan, Celia Imrie
Votes: 76
10. The Madness (1976 TV Movie)
Director: James Cellan Jones | Stars: Bill Fraser, Patrick Stewart, Zena Walker, Michael Goodliffe
Votes: 9
11.
The Jury (2002–2011)
Episode:
Episode #1.6
(2002)
TV-14 | 48 min | Drama
The jury's task is coming to a close. Johnny Donne is recovering from his bender and has to come to terms with falling off the wagon. Johnny and Rose are appropriately awkward with one ... See full summary »
Director: Pete Travis | Stars: Gerard Butler, Sonnell Dadral, Nick Bartlett, Ellen Thomas
Votes: 56
12.
The Jury (2002–2011)
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(2002)
TV-14 | 46 min | Drama
The trial continues with the defendant, Davinder Singh, now questioned by the prosecution who try to paint Sikhs as a warrior race and the defendant in particular as a violent young man. ... See full summary »
Director: Pete Travis | Stars: Sonnell Dadral, Nick Bartlett, Gerard Butler, Tim Healy
Votes: 56
13.
The Jury (2002–2011)
Episode:
Episode #1.5
(2002)
TV-14 | 47 min | Drama
The trial is now approaching the end. Jeremy Crawford borrows heavily against his flat to buy into Mark Waters' latest scheme. Johnnie Donne is feeling more than a little tender from his ... See full summary »
Director: Pete Travis | Stars: Gerard Butler, Sonnell Dadral, Nick Bartlett, Ellen Thomas
Votes: 56
14. One Fine Day (1979 TV Movie)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
George Phillips, a middle-aged Londoner, works as an estate agent for the firm of Frobisher, Rendell and Ross. His home life is soured by clashes with his wife over whether their teenage ... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Dave Allen, Robert Stephens, Dominic Guard, Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Votes: 52
15.
The Jury (2002–2011)
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(2002)
TV-MA | 47 min | Drama
Juror Marcia Thomas decides she's going to report the threatening phone call she received, warning her to find the accused guilty or else. She wasn't quite prepared the next morning when ... See full summary »
Director: Pete Travis | Stars: Stuart Bunce, Gerard Butler, Nicholas Farrell, Michael Maloney
Votes: 56
16.
The Company (2007)
Episode:
Episode #1.5
(2007)
TV-14 | 91 min | Drama, History, Romance
Washington, DC, 1975. Evgeny 'Gene' Tsipin visits his terminally-ill father and double agent Philby in Moskow. Soviet embassy 'political attaché' Sergei Kukushkin, a KGB captain, defects, ... See full summary »
Director: Mikael Salomon | Stars: Chris O'Donnell, Alfred Molina, Michael Keaton, Rory Cochrane
Votes: 71
17.
The Shadow Line (2011)
Episode:
Episode #1.6
(2011)
TV-14 | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Glickman meets Gabriel, telling him that Gatehouse will give him the answers he needs but to beware that Gatehouse will use his 'secrets' to hurt him. Gabriel assumes that this means his ... See full summary »
Director: Hugo Blick | Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Simon Chandler, Clare Calbraith, Rachel Bavidge
Votes: 133
18. Shakespeare Live! From the RSC (2016 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 120 min | Biography, Musical
A celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, broadcast live at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Directors: Bridget Caldwell, Gregory Doran, Robin Mason, Tim Taggart | Stars: Catherine Tate, David Tennant, Akala, Roger Allam
Votes: 207
19. In Search of Shakespeare (2004)
240 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Michael Wood tours the English locations important to William Shakespeare as he explores the playwright and poet's life and work.
Stars: Michael Wood, Gregory Doran, Ray Fearon, Robert Whitelock
Votes: 242
20.
The Jury (2002–2011)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(2002)
TV-MA | 48 min | Drama
When a 15 year-old boy, John Meyer, is found in a park hacked to death with a ceremonial sword his classmate Duvinder Singh, a young Sikh, is charged with the murder. The case has received ... See full summary »
Directors: Michael Offer, Pete Travis | Stars: Sonnell Dadral, Amanda Royle, Billy Scott, Nick Bartlett
Votes: 70
21.
The Jury (2002–2011)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(2002)
TV-14 | 46 min | Drama
Before the second day of the trial begins, the accused is beaten by a prison officer delivering a "message" from the dead boy's family. While the head of the family, Ron Maher, admonishes ... See full summary »
Directors: Michael Offer, Pete Travis | Stars: Sonnell Dadral, Nick Bartlett, Ellen Thomas, Nina Sosanya
Votes: 60
22.
The Shadow Line (2011)
Episode:
Episode #1.5
(2011)
TV-14 | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Bede starts an affair with Petra, Peter Glickman's girlfriend; whilst Glickman himself, now posing as Paul Donnelly, a watch-maker in Dublin, lures Gatehouse to a showdown which both ... See full summary »
Director: Hugo Blick | Stars: Nathan Osgood, Frank Dunne, Antony Sher, Ciaran Dowd
Votes: 132
23. One Foot in the Grave (1990–2001)
TV-PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
Victor Meldrew is a retiree who attracts bad luck. If he's not driving his long suffering wife Margaret crazy with his constant moaning, he's fighting with neighbours.
Stars: Richard Wilson, Annette Crosbie, Doreen Mantle, Owen Brenman
Votes: 7,325
24. The Shadow Line (2011)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Christopher Eccleston and Chiwetel Ejiofor star in this intricate conspiracy thriller set in a world of blurred morality, inhabited by conflicted characters on both sides of the law.
Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Christopher Eccleston, Kierston Wareing, Richard Lintern
Votes: 5,005
25. Horatio Hornblower: The Wrong War (1999 TV Movie)
100 min | Adventure, Drama, War
Lt. Hornblower and his mates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Antony Sher, Samuel West
Votes: 4,287
26. Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992–1994)
TV-Y7 | 26 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Condensed animated adaptations of plays by William Shakespeare.
Stars: Alec McCowen, Michael Kitchen, Suzanne Burden, John Warner
Votes: 359
27.
In Search of Shakespeare (2004)
Episode:
A Time of Revolution
(2004)
Documentary, Biography, History
The life of young William Shakespeare from his birth in Warwickshire, through his school years until age fourteen and up to his marriage to Anne Hathaway at age 19. It was a turbulent time ... See full summary »
Director: David Wallace | Stars: Michael Wood, Gregory Doran, Desmond Barrit, Ray Fearon
Votes: 22
28. Marple (2004–2013)
TV-14 | 2,090 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An elderly spinster living in the village of St. Mary Mead helps her friends and relatives solve mysterious murders.
Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Julia McKenzie, Stephen Churchett, Isabella Parriss
Votes: 10,693
29. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
PG-13 | 161 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
The dwarves, along with Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the Grey, continue their quest to reclaim Erebor, their homeland, from Smaug. Bilbo Baggins is in possession of a mysterious and magical ring.
Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Ken Stott
Votes: 705,499 | Gross: $258.37M
30. The Comic Strip Presents (1982– )
Comedy
A series of self contained television movies starring performers from London's "Comic Strip" comedy club and their friends. Noted for a high sense of parody of previous movies, literature, and generally everyone in sight.
Stars: Peter Richardson, Adrian Edmondson, Jennifer Saunders, Nigel Planer
Votes: 1,631
31. Play for Today (1970–1984)
75 min | Comedy, Drama
A British television anthology drama series that aired on BBC1 between 1970 and 1984.
Stars: Alison Steadman, Nigel Hawthorne, Tony Caunter, David Daker
Votes: 392
32. The Winter's Tale (1999 TV Movie)
170 min | Comedy, Drama
William Shakespeare's play as performed by the Barbican Theater in 1999.
Directors: Gregory Doran, Robin Lough | Stars: Steven Atholl, Ken Bones, Christopher Brand, Emily Bruni
Votes: 61
33. Collision Course (1979 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
Dramatisation of the events leading to the Zagreb air disaster and the subsequent trial of the air-traffic controllers.
Director: Leslie Woodhead | Stars: Antony Sher, David de Keyser, Nick Brimble, David Beames
Votes: 19
34.
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992–1994)
Episode:
King Richard III
(1994)
TV-Y7 | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Embittered by his deformed appearance, Richard of Gloucester schemes, seduces and murders his way to the throne of England.
Director: Natalya Orlova | Stars: Antony Sher, Alec McCowen, Eleanor Bron, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 53
35. Murphy's Law (2003–2007)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
As a maverick cop with a dark past, DS Tommy Murphy fails a psychiatric assessment but is given one last chance by his boss and given a dangerous undercover assignment.
Stars: James Nesbitt, Del Synnott, Claudia Harrison, Owen Teale
Votes: 1,481
36. The Company (2007)
TV-14 | 48 min | Drama, History, Romance
Real-life figures from the Cold War-era mix with a fictional story based on a group of C.I.A. operatives and their counterparts in the K.G.B., MI6, and the Mossad.
Stars: Chris O'Donnell, Alfred Molina, Michael Keaton, Rory Cochrane
Votes: 4,967
37. Arena (1975– )
60 min | Documentary
Wide-ranging arts program.
Stars: Gavin Millar, Kenneth Tynan, John Walters, Jonathan Miller
Votes: 320
38. National Theatre Live: Travelling Light (2012)
147 min | Biography, Drama
In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father's cinematograph.
Directors: Nicholas Hytner, Robin Lough | Stars: Tom Allwinton, Norma Atallah, Roy Baron, Pablo Carciofa
Votes: 23
39. Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (1980)
PG | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.
Directors: Richard Donner, Richard Lester | Stars: Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Marlon Brando, Ned Beatty
Votes: 19,097
40. The Jury (2002–2011)
TV-MA | 300 min | Drama
Twelve men and women are called for jury service in the retrial of a man accused of a triple murder after the High Court overturns the original verdict.
Stars: Paul Bhattacharjee, Gerard Butler, Nina Sosanya, Nicholas Farrell
Votes: 1,265
41. God on Trial (2008 TV Movie)
86 min | Drama, War
Awaiting their inevitable deaths at one of the worst concentration camps, a group of Jews make a rabbinical court to decide whether God has gone against the Holy Covenant and if He is the one guilty for their suffering.
Director: Andy De Emmony | Stars: Joseph Muir, Josef Altin, Ashley Artus, Alexi Kaye Campbell
Votes: 3,913
42. Primo (2005 Video)
89 min | Drama
Known for his haunting work on the holocaust, Italian chemist and author Primo Levi had his book IF THIS IS A MAN brought to the stage in September 2004. In 1944, Levi was imprisoned in ... See full summary »
Directors: Robin Lough, Richard Wilson | Star: Antony Sher
Votes: 173
43. Pickersgill People (1978– )
55 min | Comedy
Comedy series about the everyday events in a small town in Northern England.
Stars: Nick Stringer, Philip Jackson, Antony Sher, Bernard Hill
Votes: 12
44.
The Dame Edna Experience (1987–1989)
Episode:
Episode #2.4
(1989)
42 min | Comedy, Talk-Show
Starring guests Jason Donovan, Michael Gambon, David Suchet, Malcolm McDowell, Tim Piggot-Smith, Anthony Sher and Glenys Kinnock.
Director: Alasdair Macmillan | Stars: Barry Humphries, Emily Perry, Robin Houston, Jason Donovan
Votes: 7
45. The Dame Edna Experience (1987–1989)
Comedy, Talk-Show
An arrogant Australian TV host who mocks celebrity guests and abuses her sidekick Madge in a series of comedic talk show parodies.
Stars: Barry Humphries, Emily Perry, Robin Houston, Jeffrey Archer
Votes: 270
46. Primo (2007 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 84 min | Drama
Adapted by Antony Sher from If This Is a Man (1947) by Primo Levi, it is a monologue told as a memoir by an older Primo looking back at his life in Auschwitz.
Director: Richard Wilson | Star: Antony Sher
Votes: 267
47. Imagine (2003– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Biography, History
Wide-ranging BBC arts programme.
Stars: Alan Yentob, Tracey Emin, Chuck Close, Richard Rogers
Votes: 147
48. Royal Shakespeare Company: King Lear (2016)
Not Rated | 180 min | Drama
King Lear has ruled for many years. As age begins to overtake him, he decides to divide his kingdom amongst his children, living out his days without the burden of power. A proud man, he ... See full summary »
Director: Gregory Doran | Stars: Romayne Andrews, Antony Byrne, Eke Chukwu, James Clyde
Votes: 76
49. Tartuffe, or The Impostor (1983 TV Movie)
Comedy
Televised adaptation of Moliere's play with Antony Sher in the title role of Tartuffe.
Director: Bill Alexander | Stars: Lesley Sharp, Sylvia Coleridge, Stephanie Fayerman, Sara Mair-Thomas
Votes: 59
50. Macbeth (2001 TV Movie)
132 min | Drama
A television adaptation of the classical Shakespeare play.
Director: Gregory Doran | Stars: Antony Sher, Harriet Walter, Joseph O'Conor, Nigel Cooke
Votes: 93