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1.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
Paul Scofield
(2008)
Documentary
A tribute to one of Britain's most acclaimed actors.
Director: David M. Thompson | Stars: Paul Scofield, Juliet Stevenson, Eileen Atkins, Michael Billington
Votes: 47
2. The John Thaw Story (2002 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary, Biography
Tribute to the much-missed actor John Thaw, featuring reminiscences from his family, friends and colleagues about both his private life and his public work.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Sally Alexander, Richard Attenborough, Richard Bates, Richard Briers
Votes: 55
3.
Britain's Finest (2003– )
Episode:
Actresses
(2005)
90 min | Documentary
Director: Kenny Scott | Stars: Simon Callow, Michael Angelis, Michael Billington, Alan Bleasdale
Votes: 67
4. Sir Peter Hall Remembered (2017 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, Biography
Director: Sally Norris | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Peter Hall, Alan Ayckbourn, Janet Baker
Votes: 32
5. The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Not Rated | 128 min | Musical
Live performances of operas from New York's Metropolitan Opera.
Stars: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Renée Fleming
Votes: 172
6. Britain's Finest (2003– )
70 min | Documentary
Stars: Carenza Lewis, Loyd Grossman, Bill Paterson, Peter Hall
Votes: 74
7. The Royal Opera House: La Traviata (2016)
204 min | Drama, Music
Director: Matt Woodward | Stars: Yves Abel, Simon Callow, Daniel Dooner, David Galea
Votes: 14
8. Fifty Years on Stage (2013 TV Movie)
151 min | Comedy, Drama
The Royal National Theatre celebrates 50 years of excellent theatre, with extracts of some of the best plays of the last five decades, peformed by the countries best performers.
Directors: Nicholas Hytner, Tim Van Someren, Howard Davies, Rufus Norris, Alex Sims | Stars: Roger Allam, Samuel Anderson, Alan Ayckbourn, Jonathan Bailey
Votes: 280
9. 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
10. La traviata (2019 Video)
140 min | Music
Director: Ross MacGibbon | Stars: Ermonela Jaho, Aigul Akhmetshina, Jeremy White, Germán E. Alcántara
Votes: 6
11.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Bizet: Carmen
(2010)
Not Rated | 188 min | Musical
It's a familiar story: Act 1, boy meets girl, goes to jail for her. Act 2, boy is out of jail, girl rewards him with special favors. Act 3, girl is bored already, moving on. Act 4, boy kills girl for ruining his life. We've all been there.
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Renée Fleming, Trevor Scheunemann, Barbara Frittoli
Votes: 85
12. La Traviata (2009 TV Movie)
135 min | Drama, Music
Director: Rhodri Huw | Stars: Renée Fleming, Joseph Calleja, Thomas Hampson, Eddie Wade
Votes: 26
13.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
(2014)
Not Rated | 216 min | Musical
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: James Levine, Renée Fleming, Ildar Abdrazakov, Marlis Petersen
Votes: 33
14. The Hollow Crown (2012–2016)
TV-14 | 150 min | Drama, History, War
A mini-series of adaptations of Shakespeare's history plays: Richard II, Henry IV: Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V.
Stars: Anton Lesser, Simon Russell Beale, Tom Georgeson, John Mackay
Votes: 7,324
15.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
Comedians
(1979)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
Six wannabe stand-up comedians attend an evening class run by Eddie Waters. Eddie is a professional comic and he's determined to teach them that comedy is much more than just jokes.
Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Bill Fraser, Jonathan Pryce, David Burke, Linal Haft
Votes: 66
16.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
Waterloo Sunset
(1979)
77 min | Comedy, Drama
Grace Dwyer, a 70-year-old woman, leaves an old people's home to return to her birthplace in Lambeth. She discovers a world that initially looks different, but is in fact all too familiar.
Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Queenie Watts, Larrington Walker, Floella Benjamin, Tony Caunter
Votes: 16
17.
The Hollow Crown (2012–2016)
Episode:
Henry IV, Part 1
(2012)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, History, War
1403: Henry IV finds himself facing uprisings from the Welsh chieftain Owen Glendower and impetuous young Harry "Hotspur" Percy, son of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, angry with the ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Alun Armstrong, Joe Armstrong, John Ashton, Will Attenborough
Votes: 1,502
18.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Bizet: Carmen
(2014)
Not Rated | 202 min | Musical
Director: Matthew Diamond | Stars: Pablo Heras-Casado, Joyce DiDonato, John Moore, Anita Hartig
Votes: 16
19.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Bizet: Carmen
(2019)
Not Rated | Musical
Stars: Louis Langrée, Ailyn Pérez, Alexey Lavrov, Aleksandra Kurzak
Votes: 25
20. Everyman (1977– )
50 min | Documentary
Long-running BBC documentary series, often focussing on issues of a religious nature.
Stars: Peter France, Vanya Kewley, Jenni Murray, David Jessel
Votes: 33
21.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
Cries from a Watchtower
(1979)
71 min | Comedy, Drama
A watchmaker finds his livelihood is threatened by cheaply imported digital watches.
Director: Giles Foster | Stars: Paul Copley, Anita Carey, Betty Alberge, Bernard Strother
Votes: 16
22. Past Caring (1985 TV Movie)
77 min | Drama
67 year-old Victor is forced to move into an old people's home but he prefers to grow old disgracefully.
Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Denholm Elliott, Emlyn Williams, Connie Booth, Joan Greenwood
Votes: 22
23.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
Just a Boys' Game
(1979)
71 min | Comedy, Drama
Jake lives in the shadow of his dying grandfather, who was once the town's toughest hard man. Despite their hatred of each other, Jake's sole aim is to be as tough as the old man was. One ... See full summary »
Director: John Mackenzie | Stars: Frankie Miller, Ken Hutchison, Jean Taylor Smith, Hector Nicol
Votes: 247
24.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Massenet: Werther
(2014)
Not Rated | 166 min | Musical
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Alain Altinoglu, Patricia Racette, Sophie Koch, Lisette Oropesa
Votes: 27
25. 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: 901
26. V. (1987 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 40 min | Documentary
Visualisation of Tony Harrison's poem "v.". v. is about the multiple meanings of the letter - victory, versus, verses, etc. Starting from an incident in a Leeds' graveyard where the poet's ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Eyre | Star: Tony Harrison
Votes: 25
27.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
The Imitation Game
(1980)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
A young woman involved in secret work during World War II finds herself in difficulties, and maybe even danger - from her own side.
Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Harriet Walter, Lorna Yabsley, Bernard Gallagher, Gillian Martell
Votes: 35
28.
The Hollow Crown (2012–2016)
Episode:
Henry IV, Part 2
(2012)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, History, War
Northumberland swears revenge for his son's death and gathers his allies to fight the ailing king. Meanwhile, the Lord Chief Justice having rebuked Falstaff for being a bad influence on Hal... See full summary »
Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Alun Armstrong, Will Attenborough, Conrad Asquith, David Bamber
Votes: 1,131
29.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
The National Theatre: Part Two - War and Peace
(2013)
Documentary
Peter Hall, Richard Eyre, Trevor Nunn and Nicholas Hytner talk about running the new National Theatre from its opening in 1976 to the fulfilment of Olivier's original dream.
Director: Adam Low | Stars: Penelope Wilton, Alan Ayckbourn, Alan Bennett, Michael Blakemore
Votes: 9
30. Atonement (2007)
R | 123 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Director: Joe Wright | Stars: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Brenda Blethyn, Saoirse Ronan
Votes: 300,164 | Gross: $50.93M
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: 395
32. Cameron Mackintosh: The First 50 Years (2021 TV Special)
Documentary
Cameron Mackintosh is the most prolific, successful and famous musical theatre producer in the world today. This film will be his personal story, told in his own words, and those of the ... See full summary »
Director: George Scott | Stars: Michael Ball, Alain Boublil, Matthew Bourne, Paule Constable
Votes: 6
33.
The Windsors: A Royal Dynasty (2020)
Episode:
The Princess, the Prince and the Press
(2020)
42 min | Documentary
In the fifth installment of the series, the marriage between Prince Charles and Princess Diana starts to fall apart as the Queen faces the greatest challenges of her reign.
Directors: Nicola Seare, Justin Hardy | Stars: Rosamund Pike, Anne Allan, Charles Anson, Gyles Brandreth
Votes: 27
34. Arena (1975– )
60 min | Documentary
Wide-ranging arts program.
Stars: Gavin Millar, Kenneth Tynan, John Walters, Jonathan Miller
Votes: 320
35. Charlie Rose (1991–2017)
60 min | News, Talk-Show
Charlie Rose interviews noteworthy people in fields including politics and government, business and economics, science and technology, media, sports and the arts.
Stars: Charlie Rose, Mark Halperin, Al Hunt, Thomas Friedman
Votes: 1,166
36. The Windsors: A Royal Dynasty (2020)
60 min | Documentary
The Windsors: Inside the Royal Dynasty. The series tells the incredible, dramatic and emotional tale of the British Royal Family known as The Windsors. Using stunning archive and interviews... See full summary »
Stars: Rosamund Pike, Kate Williams, Ed Owens, Sally Bedell Smith
Votes: 194
37. The Book Show (2006–2013)
Talk-Show
Stars: Mariella Frostrup, Alexander McCall Smith, Jenny Colgan, Anthony Horowitz
Votes: 18
38. Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today (2020 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
Celebrating 'Play for Today', the acclaimed series of controversial single dramas broadcast on BBC One between 1970 and 1984.
Director: John Wyver | Stars: Martina Laird, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, Tony Garnett
Votes: 30
39.
Performance (1991–1998)
Episode:
King Lear
(1998)
Not Rated | 150 min | Drama
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Paul Rhys, Finbar Lynch, Timothy West, David Burke
Votes: 284
40.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
Long Distance Information
(1979)
62 min | Comedy, Drama
Life at a local radio station on the night of Elvis Presley's death.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Neville Smith, Pauline Collins, Malcolm Terris, Ann Zelda
Votes: 17
41.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Puccini: Manon Lescaut
(2016)
Not Rated | 171 min | Musical
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Fabio Luisi, Deborah Voigt, Zach Borichevsky, Roberto Alagna
Votes: 13
42. Notes on a Scandal (2006)
R | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her fifteen-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond a platonic friendship.
Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Andrew Simpson, Tom Georgeson
Votes: 84,650 | Gross: $17.51M
43. Notes on a Scandal: The Story of Two Obsessions (2007 Video)
12 min | Documentary, Short
Stars: Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Richard Eyre, Zoë Heller
Votes: 15
44.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
The Absence of War
(1995)
TV-14 | 90 min | Drama
Adapted by David Hare from his own play, this British TV movie stars John Thaw as politician George Jones. Going against the grain of his bosses during a tough political contest, Jones ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: John Thaw, Richard Pasco, Nicholas Day, Michael Bryant
Votes: 34
45. Richard III (1995)
R | 110 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, War
The classic Shakespearean play about the murderously scheming 15th-century king is reimagined in an alternative setting of 1930s England as clouds of fascism gather.
Director: Richard Loncraine | Stars: Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Christopher Bowen, Edward Jewesbury
Votes: 15,582 | Gross: $2.60M
46. Rude Britannia (2010)
60 min | Documentary
A history of how the depiction of the vulgar has been a vital part of English satire,starting with the artwork of Hogarth in the eighteenth century and Gay's 'Beggar's Opera',the first ... See full summary »
Stars: Julian Rhind-Tutt, Martin Rowson, Steve Bell, Simon Callow
Votes: 14
47.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
The Insurance Man
(1986)
TV-14 | 76 min | Drama
Franz, a young man, works in a dye factory in Prague. One day he notices a skin-rash, like eczema, growing on his hands. All attempts to treat it with ointment fail, and the rash gradually ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Trevor Peacock, Alan MacNaughtan, Robert Hines, Diana Rayworth
Votes: 118
48.
10 Minute Tales (2009)
Episode:
The Three Kings
(2009)
TV-PG | 9 min | Comedy, Drama
"The Three Kings" tells the tale of when three soldiers slip through the desert at night, searching for a downed helicopter.
Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Chukwudi Iwuji, Daniel Kaluuya, Andrew Simpson, Riz Ahmed
Votes: 15
49. The 56th Annual Tony Awards (2002 TV Special)
News
Tony Award is the popular name of award, annually awarded for achievements in area of the American theatre, including a musical theatre. Complete official name of bonus - "Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre".
Director: Glenn Weiss | Stars: Bernadette Peters, Gregory Hines, Edward Albee, Rob Ashford
Votes: 117
50. Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood (2016 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary, Biography
A profile of the late director and producer, whose career spanned the Royal Court Theatre, BBC dramas and Hollywood films. With contributions from friends and colleagues including Robert Carlyle and Kay Mellor.
Director: Susan Kemp | Stars: Antonia Bird, Ronan Bennett, Ruth Caleb, Robert Carlyle
Votes: 12