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1. Great Performances (1971– )
TV-G | 180 min | Music, Musical
Filmed and televised versions of theater productions, such as plays, musicals, operas, ballets, and concerts from around the world.
Stars: Scott Yoo, Julie Andrews, Renée Fleming, Plácido Domingo
Votes: 903
2. American Masters (1985– )
TV-14 | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary series focusing on great American artists and personalities.
Stars: Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Tony Bennett, Dick Cavett
Votes: 1,175
3. Arena (1975– )
60 min | Documentary
Wide-ranging arts program.
Stars: Gavin Millar, Kenneth Tynan, John Walters, Jonathan Miller
Votes: 320
4. Madame Sousatzka (1988)
PG-13 | 122 min | Drama, Music
Renowned Russian piano teacher Irina Sousatzka gets a new student - Bengali piano prodigy Manek. They are both immigrants in the UK and bond quickly. When Manek's single mother's business fails, he must make a career decision.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Navin Chowdhry, Peggy Ashcroft, Twiggy
Votes: 1,616 | Gross: $3.55M
5. ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969–1974)
78 min | Drama
Anthology series of dramatic works.
Stars: Michael Balfour, Madoline Thomas, Diane Cilento, Jim Dale
Votes: 98
6. The South Bank Show (1978– )
53 min | Documentary
ITV's long-running arts series presented by Melvyn Bragg.
Stars: Melvyn Bragg, Ian McKellen, David Hockney, Victoria Wood
Votes: 216
7. Omnibus (1967–2003)
Not Rated | 43 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Arts documentary series with concerts and experimental dramatizations.
Stars: Humphrey Burton, Kirsty Wark, David Collings, Michael Hordern
Votes: 294
8. Interlude (1968)
M/PG | 113 min | Drama, Romance
A famous conductor gives an interview to a pretty young reporter. He speaks a bit too frankly and finds he's given himself an unwanted sabbatical from conducting. He begins an affair with ... See full summary »
Director: Kevin Billington | Stars: Oskar Werner, Barbara Ferris, Virginia Maskell, Donald Sutherland
Votes: 419
9. Call My Bluff (II) (1965–1988)
30 min | Family, Game-Show
Two teams of three alternate between giving and guessing the meanings of obscure English words.
Stars: Robert Robinson, Frank Muir, Patrick Campbell, Arthur Marshall
Votes: 86
10. The Making of 'West Side Story' (1985 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary, Music
A documentary which shows, in great detail, the making of the 1985 Bernstein-conducted recording of the entire score of "West Side Story", featuring operatic stars.
Director: Christopher Swann | Stars: Leonard Bernstein, Kiri Te Kanawa, José Carreras, Tatiana Troyanos
Votes: 202
11. Boris Godunov (1990 TV Movie)
210 min | Drama, Music
This is the Andrei Tarkovsky production of the famous Pushkin/Mussorgsky opera, performed in 1990 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, conducted by Valery Gergiev.
Director: Humphrey Burton | Stars: Robert Lloyd, Olga Borodina, Alexei Steblianko, Sergei Leiferkus
Votes: 77
12. Candide (1991 TV Movie)
148 min | Music, Musical
All's for the best in the best of all possible worlds. Isn't it?
Director: Humphrey Burton | Stars: Leonard Bernstein, Jerry Hadley, June Anderson, Adolph Green
Votes: 73
13. Monitor (1958–1965)
Documentary, Talk-Show
Fortnightly arts show from the BBC, covering the worlds of theatre, film, literature, painting, sculpture, architecture and music.
Stars: Huw Wheldon, Jonathan Miller, John Berger, Robert Robinson
Votes: 98
14. Did You See..? (1980–1993)
30 min | Talk-Show
Presenter Ludovic Kennedy and three guests discuss the week's television, while there are also interviews with those responsible for making it. The series was later revived with Jeremy Paxman as the host.
Stars: Ludovic Kennedy, Jeremy Paxman, Sarah Dunant, Sue Peacock
Votes: 7
15. Aquarius (1970–1977)
39 min | Documentary
An arts magazine programme for ITV, presented by Humphrey Burton. Originally a fortnightly series, it became weekly, while later editions were presented by Peter Hall.
Stars: Humphrey Burton, Peter Hall, Russell Harty, Leonard Bernstein
Votes: 30
16. A Question of Faith (1979)
97 min | Biography, Drama
The last days of famous Russian author Leo Tolstoy which are paralleled with one of his last stories - The Death of Ivan Ilyich - about a man who is happy with his life until he finds out he's sick and is about to die.
Director: Colin Nears | Stars: Harry Andrews, Alan Dobie, Rosemary Leach, Annette Crosbie
Votes: 22
17. Candide (1988 TV Movie)
165 min | Musical
Innocent, optimistic Candide grows up in the secluded paradise of a German castle, illegitimate nephew of a wealthy baron. His tutor Dr Pangloss instils in him the doctrine that 'All is for... See full summary »
Director: Humphrey Burton | Stars: Nickolas Grace, Mark Beudert, Marilyn Hill Smith, Ann Howard
Votes: 10
18. Late Night Line-Up (1964–1972)
Talk-Show
Live, weekday show in which at first was a talk show on contemporary artistic events, but as the 1960s moved on (due to its nature of being late night and live) could get quite shambolic in presentation .
Stars: Joan Bakewell, Michael Dean, Tony Bilbow, Denis Tuohy
Votes: 17
19. Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker (1959– )
Music
Stars: Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsopernballett, Willi Boskovsky, Roswitha Over
Votes: 50
20. The Lively Arts (1969– )
Documentary
Documentary series taking a serious and wide-ranging look at the arts, encompassing intellectual subject matter and popular culture.
Stars: Robin Ray, Melvyn Bragg, Richard Baker, André Previn
21. Die Fledermaus (1983 TV Movie)
177 min | Comedy, Music
Director: Humphrey Burton | Stars: Kiri Te Kanawa, Hermann Prey, Dennis O'Neill, Hildegard Heichele
Votes: 72
22. How the BBC Began (2022–2024)
Documentary
Participants in the BBC's early history describe the challenges and triumphs of its first fifty years, as it evolved into the corporation of today.
Stars: Joanna Scanlan, David Attenborough, Joan Bakewell, David Dimbleby
Votes: 20
23. La Traviata (1994 TV Movie)
134 min | Drama, Music
Courtesan falls in love, lives with her man, but his father convinces her to give him up. Some time after they parted, they have an ugly public confrontation. Ultimately, consumption decides her fate, and her lover regrets his actions.
Directors: Humphrey Burton, Peter Maniura | Stars: Angela Gheorghiu, Frank Lopardo, Leo Nucci, Richard Van Allan
Votes: 109
24. Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (I) (2002 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Director: Humphrey Burton | Stars: Kresimir Spicer, Marijana Mijanovic, Cyril Auvity, Joseph Cornwell
Votes: 24
25. The American (I)
Biography, Music | Announced
The life story of American Leonard Bernstein who began conducting for the New York Philharmonic at the age of 25.
26. War and Peace (1991 TV Movie)
249 min | Drama, Music, Romance
BBC production of 'Sergei Prokofiev (I)''s opera "War and Peace" performed by the Kirov Opera under the baton of Valery Gergiev in St. Petersburg, Russia. The love story of young Countess ... See full summary »
Director: Humphrey Burton | Stars: Sergei Alexashkin, Gennady Bezzubenkov, Irina Bogachova, Yevgeny Boitsov
Votes: 31
27. Die Fledermaus (1990 TV Movie)
197 min | Comedy, Music
Director: Humphrey Burton | Stars: Judith Howarth, Louis Otey, Bonaventura Bottone, Nancy Gustafson
Votes: 53
28. The Switched-on Symphony (1970 TV Special)
60 min | Music
Director: Marty Pasetta | Stars: Takako Asakawa, Jack Benny, Ray Charles, Los Angeles Master Chorale
29. TV Hell (1992– )
300 min
5-hour theme night looking at the worst that British television has to offer.
Stars: Victor Lewis-Smith, Paul Sparks, John Peel, Mark Lawson
Votes: 27
30. Lulu (1996 TV Movie)
181 min | Crime, Drama, Music
Based on a pair of once-banned plays by the fin de siècle satirist Frank Wedekind, Alban Berg's operatic swan song charts the rise and fall of a femme fatale, a serial seductress, from life... See full summary »
Director: Humphrey Burton | Stars: Christine Schäfer, Kathryn Harries, Patricia Bardon, Jonathan Veira
Votes: 35
31. The Marriage of Figaro (1974 TV Movie)
180 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Director: Dave Heather | Stars: Knut Skram, Ileana Cotrubas, Benjamin Luxon, Kiri Te Kanawa
Votes: 33
32. The Opera House (2017)
111 min | Documentary
Fathom Events and The Metropolitan Opera present a special two-day event, The Opera House, a new film by award-winning documentary filmmaker Susan Froemke, on January 13 and 17 only. The ... See full summary »
Director: Susan Froemke | Stars: Humphrey Burton, Leontyne Price
Votes: 92
33. The Media Show (1987–1991)
60 min | Documentary
Stars: Emma Freud, Muriel Gray, John Hegarty, Judith Williamson
Votes: 30
34. Bernstein/Beethoven (1982– )
90 min | Documentary, Music
A mini-series showcasing complete performances of all nine Beethoven symphonies, as well as the complete "Missa Solemnis", a string quartet arranged for the full string section of the Vienna Philharmonic, and several of Beethoven's overtures.
Stars: Leonard Bernstein, Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest, Edda Moser, Kurt Moll
Votes: 28
35. Gala of Stars 1986 (1986 TV Special)
180 min | Documentary, Music
Seventh annual PBS fund-raising Gala of Stars, featuring well known artists from the concert, opera and ballet worlds.
Director: Humphrey Burton | Stars: James Levine, Francisco Araiza, Agnes Baltsa, Kathleen Battle
36. Shelagh Delaney's Salford (1960 TV Short)
15 min | Short, Documentary
About the writer Shelagh Delaney, whose 1958 play "A Taste of Honey" is one of the National Theatre's 100 Plays of the Century.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Joe Delaney, Shelagh Delaney
Votes: 54
37. Requiem Mass (1991 TV Special)
Not Rated | 72 min | Documentary, Music
Concert of the 'Requiem', marking the 200th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, record live at St. Stephens Cathedral, Vienna, Austria.
Directors: Humphrey Burton, Michael Weinmann | Stars: Georg Solti, Arleen Augér, Cecilia Bartoli, Vinson Cole
Votes: 21
38. Sunday Night (1965–1968)
Documentary
Stars: Tony Church, Leo McKern, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Roddy Maude-Roxby
39. Filmstar Karajan (2008 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
Director: Georg Wübbolt | Stars: Herbert von Karajan, Hugo Niebeling, Herbert G. Kloiber, Fritz Buttenstedt
Votes: 13
40. The Love of Three Orchestras (1993 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary, Music
In a ninety minute interview with excerpts from rehearsals and concerts, Leonard Bernstein reminisces about the beginning of his career as a conductor and his experiences with the New York ... See full summary »
Director: Humphrey Burton | Stars: Leonard Bernstein, Humphrey Burton
Votes: 10
41. Four Ways to Say Farewell (1971 TV Movie)
85 min | Music
Directors: Humphrey Burton, Tony Palmer | Stars: Leonard Bernstein, Wiener Philharmoniker
42. The Burning Fiery Furnace (1967 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
A fly-on-the-wall documentary on the recording of the Decca LP of Benjamin Britten's church parable "The Burning Fiery Furnace".
Directors: Humphrey Burton, Tony Palmer | Stars: Benjamin Britten, Stafford Dean, Bryan Drake, Peter Leeming
43. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem (1988 TV Special)
69 min | Music
Director: Humphrey Burton | Stars: Maria Ewing, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Leonard Bernstein, Jerry Hadley
Votes: 16
44. Peter Grimes (1981 TV Movie)
155 min | Musical
Director: John Vernon | Stars: Jon Vickers, Norman Bailey, Heather Harper, John Tomlinson
Votes: 24
45. The Berlin Celebration Concert (1989 TV Special)
90 min | Documentary, Music
A performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, in commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The word "Joy" in the "Ode to Joy" (sung in German), has been replaced by "Freedom".
Director: Humphrey Burton | Stars: Leonard Bernstein, June Anderson, Sarah Walker, Klaus Konig
Votes: 28
46. Gustav Mahler: Symphonie Nr. 8 (1975 TV Special)
77 min | Music
Director: Humphrey Burton | Stars: Edda Moser, Judith Blegen, Gerti Zeumer, Ingrid Mayr
Votes: 9
47. NET Festival (1966– )
Documentary, Biography, Drama
Stars: Andrew Duncan, Roland Penrose, Roman Polanski, Alan Alda
48. IX. Symphonie von Ludwig van Beethoven (1977 TV Special)
70 min | Music
Herbert von Karajan conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker orchestra in a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
Director: Humphrey Burton | Stars: Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Agnes Baltsa, René Kollo, José van Dam
Votes: 28
49. Bernstein on Beethoven: A Celebration in Vienna (1970 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary, Music
This program is a 125 Minute documentary in four chapters that celebrated the 200th birthday of the famous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven. Presented by the famous composer and ... See full summary »
Director: Humphrey Burton | Stars: Leonard Bernstein, Theo Adam, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Franz Crass
Votes: 25
50. Ludwig van Beethoven: IV. Symphonie (1983 TV Movie)
36 min | Music
Director: Humphrey Burton | Stars: Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest, Carlos Kleiber