From the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, David Tennant, Catherine Tate and guests mark the life of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death.
Antonio
Filmed as live stage production of Webster's Jacobean tragedy. The widowed Duchess of Malfi longs to marry her lover, the steward Antonio. But her rancorous brothers, Ferdinand and the Cardinal, are implacably opposed to the match. When their spy, Bosola, discovers that the Duchess has secretly married and carries Antonio’s child, they exact a terrible and horrific revenge.
Alec Jennings
Set against the turbulent backdrop of London in the 1940s, this adaptation of Sarah Waters' bestselling novel, The Night Watch, follows four young Londoners inextricably linked by their wartime experiences. In a time when the barriers of sexual morality and social convention have been broken down, Kay, Helen, Viv and Duncan enjoy a freedom never experienced before. Moving back in time through the 1940s into the maelstrom of the Blitz, the lives, loves and losses of these four central characters are unravelled. For them, the post-war victory is bittersweet, for it returns them to the margins of society, from which they hoped they had been liberated. In order to build their future they must each make peace with their past.
Drummond
В мае 1940-го года, 18-ти летний Джеффри Веллум поступает на службу в 92-ую эскадрилью Королевских ВВС и отправляется отмечать это событие в паб, в котором все опытные пилоты оставляют свои автографы. А уже на следующий день, не имея ни малейшего опыта, он оказывается за штурвалом истребителя Спитфайр, чем напуган и обрадован одновременно. Впереди его ожидают схватки с пилотами Люфтваффе, чувство долга постепенно вытесняет страх, а за участие в Битве за Британию он будет удостоен медали…
