Jonathan Miller Movies

This is an effective staging, though the set looks medieval and the costumes are modern. It’s well paced, well played, well sung. Jonas...

Pioneer photographer, forefather of cinema, showman, murderer - Eadweard Muybridge was a Victorian enigma. He was born and died in Kingston upon...

Originally staged (with these actors) in 1986 at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theater (appearing first on Showtime cable television in April 1987, and...

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

A chance to see director Jonathan Miller at work on his acclaimed staging of Gilbert and Sullivan's famous comic opera.

Jonathan Miller set his well-known production of The Mikado, staged for the English National Opera, in a British seaside resort of the 1920s. The...

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia,...

Documentary charting the history of the supernatural on British TV, revisiting classic ghost stories and controversial shows. Contributors include...

Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a...

Live from La Scala Sunday 03 February 1991

An interpretation of Plato's Symposium as a picnic organised by a University don for his students. Each guest is asked to explain the nature of love...

A TV version of the stage show originally performed at the Edinburgh Fringe (August 1960) and in London (Fortune Theatre, May 1961) and Broadway...

Two impressions of New York - a city of dreams or nightmares. The Outsider: Jonathan Miller 'If you enter New York in the first place in a show...

A summer evening in Edinburgh, 1776. The ailing philosopher David Hume has an unexpected visitor.

Jonathan Miller visits the Regent's Park Zoo and gives his personal opinions on the animals and their enclosures.

A modernized depiction. In his last few hours alive, Socrates discusses life, death, and the soul.

Paul Goodwin conducts a specially assembled "Passion Band" performing on period instruments, who are joined by two young choirs and a cast of...

Jonathan Miller's acclaimed documentary on Clive Wearing - the man with the ten-minute memory.