Zoë Wanamaker

A quantum physicist and a beekeeper meet at a barbeque. They hit it off, or perhaps they don’t. They go home together, or maybe they go their separate ways. In the multiverse, with every possible future ahead of them, a love of honey could make all the difference. See each of the four casts of Donmar Warehouse's summer 2020 production in this filmed presentation.

In 1944, two prisoners miraculously escaped from Auschwitz. They told the world of the horror of the Holocaust and raised one of the greatest moral questions of the 20th century.

This is the story of Dame Barbara Windsor, the Cockney kid with a dazzling smile and talent to match. Preparing to perform in the theatre one cold evening in 1993, the cheeky, chirpy blonde Babs recounts the people and events that have shaped her life and career over fifty years from 1943 to 1993. She contemplates her lonely childhood and WWII evacuation, her decision to go from Barbara Ann Deeks to Barbara Windsor - inspired by the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, her complicated relationship with her father, her doomed marriage to Ronnie Knight, capturing the attention of Joan Littlewood and becoming the blonde bombshell in the Carry On films. Babs, ever the consummate professional, never lets her fans down whatever her personal anguish and steps on the stage to rapturous applause.

Could love be used as a weapon? An award-winning film noir spy thriller, set in 1940's 'steam punk' London.

Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary follows two actors, Giles Terera and Dan Poole, as they travel the world to find out everything they can about tackling the greatest writer of them all. Together they have directed and produced an inspiring film that aims to demystify and illuminate Shakespeare’s work for everyone: from actors, directors and students of all disciplines, right through to the? man on the street? Denmark with Jude Law, Baz Luhrmann in Hollywood, Prison in Berlin, and on the street with Mark Rylance. Think Shakespeare is boring? Think again!

An all-star cast heads up this intimate film about how author, P.G.Wodehouse, came to face a charge of treason during the Second World War and how this quintessential Englishman, creator of Jeeves and Wooster, became an exile from his own country and never set foot on English soil again.

To mark 30 years since the Falklands War, this documentary follows three men back to the islands. For veteran Simon Weston, the journey is an opportunity to experience some of the stunning wildlife on Sea Lion Island.

Рассказ о проведенном артисткой времени с Лоуренсом Оливье в работе над «Принцем и танцовщицей». Невероятная, сексуальная и легендарная Мэрилин Монро отправляется в Англию для съемок в новом фильме. Она очаровывает и покоряет всех, включая юного ассистента режиссера Колина. Но что чувствует сама Мэрилин? Может ли она влюбиться в неопытного юношу? И каково это быть Мэрилин Монро?

Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.

Arthur Miller's scathing portrait of American society is revived here by director Howard Davies with an intricate, naturalistic set and detailed performances.

Типичная индуистская семья, проживающая в Англии. Мама, патриарх этой семьи, так хочет отдать свою страшненькую дочку за хорошего парня, что становится серийным убийцей. Проблема в том, что привидения убитых ею людей не могут покинуть этот мир, пока дочь ее остается незамужней.

Documentary about a business tycoon who helped rescue children orphaned during the brutal aftermath of the Russian Revolution.

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.

In 1609, William Shakespeare published a collection of 154 sonnets, creating what is arguably the greatest lyric sequence in English literature - and at the center of this masterpiece lies a mystery that has endured for centuries. What are the identities of “the young man” and “the dark lady” to whom all but two of the sonnets allude? This moving performance brings to life the gritty reality of Shakespeare’s England, bits of the Bard’s plays and poems, and the consummate poet and dramatist himself as it exposes these personages unseen but so keenly felt in Shakespeare’s sonnets and in his life. Rupert Graves, Tom Sturridge, Indira Varma, Anna Chancellor, and Zoë Wanamaker star. Contains mature themes and explicit language. Some content may be objectionable. Produced by the Open University.

A haunting documentary about a normal family living in Connecticut, who, after moving into their new house, are terrorized by an evil ghost that dwells in the home.

Shakespeare’s Globe is a film offering an intimate look at the working life of a unique theatrical institution. It charts a vivid journey from the reconstruction in London of the sixteenth-century open-air playhouse to the establishment of a centre housing the theatre, a permanent exhibition and an unrivalled education programme. The film explores a day in the life of this remarkable enterprise: behind-the-scenes preparations, rehearsals, backstage drama and performance extracts from a production of Romeo and Juliet, together with glimpses into Globe Education workshops and activities, the exhibition and tours. Actors, musicians, directors, Globe Education Practitioners and other experts reveal their knowledge of the original playhouse and its practices, and explain how the modern-day theatre continues to enthral and challenge audiences.

В годы первой мировой войны отец пятерых детей, пилот Британского Королевского Воздушного флота, ушел на фронт. Его жена, мать этих пятерых детей, отправилась в госпиталь ухаживать за ранеными солдатами и офицерами. А самим пятерым — старшему Сирилу, младшему Роберту, двум сестрам Антеи и Джейн, а также их самому младшему братцу, которого все звали просто Лэмб (Ягненок), — пришлось уехать в поместье родного дяди. Там в первый же день столичные детки услышали от домохозяйки строгий наказ — не ходить туда, не ходить сюда, и ни при каких обстоятельствах не открывать вон ту дверь… Разумеется, пятеро братьев и сестер открыли запретную дверь и волшебным образом оказались на пустынном морском берегу. Здесь-то они и познакомились со странным существом, которое назвало себя Песчаной Феей, сказало, что ему (существу) — 8 тысяч лет, а еще похвасталось, что умеет выполнять желания. Правда, только по одному желанию в день, но зато любому!

The making of The Dreamers, its background and relation to the May 1968 student riots in Paris.

Обычный лондонский мальчик Гарри Поттер на 11-м году жизни узнаёт, что он — осиротевший сын двух могущественных волшебников, и сам обладает магической силой. В Хогвартской школе чародейства и волшебства Гарри попадает в водоворот невероятных приключений. Он изучает квиддич — спорт высшего пилотажа, играет в захватывающую игру живыми шахматными фигурами, встречается с Тёмным Волшебником, который хочет его уничтожить.

Фильм рассказывает историю англичанки Эми Фостер, которая встречает выжившего после страшного шторма Янко. Так завязывается их история любви…

Остроумие и яркий талант Оскара Уайлда стали широко известны после публикации его романа «Портрет Дориана Грея». Уайлд, вполне довольный жизнью, наслаждался плодами успеха, пока одно событие не стало для него переломным. Однажды он был представлен красивому и молодому лорду Альфреду Дугласу по прозвищу «Боззи», чья дерзость и ум очаровали Оскара. Это знакомство переросло в страстную зависимость, которая полностью поглотила и, в конечном счете, разрушила его жизнь.

D.H, Lawrence's early play about a married woman who wishes her husband dead after falling in love with another man comes to the screen in this adaptation starring Zoe Wannamaker and Colin Firth. When her wish becomes a horrifying reality, her life begins to change in ways she could have never anticipated.

A reporter is assigned a then-and-now piece on a 50-year old photospread of three society beauties. One of them, Lady Alice Munroe, now the widowed Grafin von Holzendorf, has agreed to be interviewed.

The investigation of Paul Vandervent into the mysterious death of his father brings further discord among two feuding families tied together in business and marriage, living under the same roof.

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (also known as The Animated Shakespeare) is a series of twelve half-hour animated television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, originally broadcast on BBC2 between 1992 and 1994. Macbeth was a cel animation directed by Nikolai Serebryakov

Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...

Jane Tennison is a detective chief inspector assigned to Southampton Row Police Station in Central London. She is repeatedly passed over for major cases but, following the death of a senior investigating officer, she is grudgingly given the opportunity to take over his latest homicide investigation. The crime involves the brutal murder of a young woman whose body has been badly mutilated.

Noble Moroccan Othello finds his life with beautiful, fiercely loyal Desdemona thrown tragically out of balance when secretly jealous, scheming confidante Iago begins an insidious campaign of lies and treachery.

Joe and Sarah Marriot are a pair of European campers who have pitched their tent for a little R & R at a campsite in France. The other families that have come to the site on holiday provide great comedy and plenty of people watching for the Marriots. Of course, you'd expect hilarity from characters dubbed the Fitness Family, Mr. and Mrs. Topless, Fatty Granada, and the In-the-Trades. But the Marriots' enjoyment of observing the outside world turns inward when the entrance of Early Bird, a free-spirited female, shakes up their little nest.

Rupert Purvis jumps off a bridge onto a dog, causing problems for Blair, his superior at MI5. Blair must convince Hogbin, the agent who's been tailing Purvis, of which side Purvis is really on--once he finds out what it is.

During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to escape. The young man, now very emotionally distraught, dresses in women's clothes and eventually joins a passing gypsy caravan, who think him a young girl... as well as a kind of seer, or 'rawney'. In time, however, he regains some composure and becomes attracted to one of the gypsy girls, which only leads to problems within the gypsy band, especially when the wounded commanding officer finds him.

A clergyman noted for his support of left-wing causes, leaves his considerable estate to a Conservative member of parliament. Adaptation of the novel by John Mortimer.

Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the crown. He first convinces the ailing King that the Duke of Clarence, his elder brother, is a threat to the lives of Edward's two young sons. Edward has him imprisoned in the Tower of London; killers in Richard's pay then drown Clarence in a barrel of wine. When news of Clarence's death reaches the King, the subsequent grief and remorse bring about his death. Richard is made Lord Protector, with power to rule England while his nephew (now King Edward V) is still a minor. Before the young king's coronation he has his two nephews conveyed to the Tower, ostensibly for their safekeeping. Richard's accomplice, the Duke of Buckingham, then declares the two boys illegitimate and offers Richard the crown, which after a show of reticence he accepts. After Richard's coronation, he and Buckingham have a falling-out over whether or not to assassinate the two children.

Фильм основан на мемуарах Альберта Шпеера, архитектора из ближайшего окружения Гитлера, ставшего рейхсминистром вооружений и военной промышленности в годы Второй мировой войны.

Baal is an amoral poetic genius who, after a life of debauchery, betrayal and violence, is about to cut his ties to the world and meet his doom. A high society party is where the end begins.

Danton 's Death is arguably the most dramatic and penetrating study of revolution ever written. Georg Biichner concentrates on that moment in 1794 when the Reign of Terror, already well established, spills over into a total blood-bath. The play, adapted by director Alan Clarke and Stuart Griffiths, both highly imaginative and closely documentary, shows how the great hero of the early phase of the Revolution, Danton, sickened by the excesses of the guillotine, which he helped to create, wants to call a halt. But Robespierre and Saint-Just, the leaders of the extremists, with a ferocious puritanical zeal, spur on ' the wild horses of the Revolution.'

«Если бы я мог исполнить своё желание, каждый идиот, у которого с губ сходит слово - «Счастливого Рождества!», то он был бы сварен в своём собственном пудинге и похоронен с осиновым колом в сердце». Так говорил бессмертные слова о Рождестве, «самый известный скряга» Чарльза Дикеннса - Эбенезер Скрудж. Вместо того чтобы присоединиться к празднованию; он сидит один в канун Рождества. Декорированная сцена с посещением призрака его покойного делового партнёра Марли, который теперь привязан к земле вечными цепями и его знакомством с Призраками прошлого, настоящего и будущего Рождества. Ибо именно они проведут его через всю его жизнь, чтобы узнать правду о себе...

This 1976 BBC documentary sees Ken Campbell (and his Roadshow) investigate the origins and the development of the traditional British Christmas pantomime.

Lee Remick stars as Jennie Jerome, born in the United States in 1845, who eventually became Lady Randolph Churchill, and gave birth to Sir Winston Churchill in this seven-part, seven-hour biographical mini-series.

Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.