A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years.
Casts David Tennant, Nigel Lindsay, Michael Pennington, Oliver Ford Davies, Antony Byrne, Emma Hamilton, Oliver Rix, Sean Chapman, Jim Hooper, Jane Lapotaire
MOVIE COMMENTS
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Black Terror
National Theatre Live: Good
National Theatre Live: Cyrano de Bergerac
Me
National Theatre Live: All of Us
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
Awake and Sing!
Aniara
SIX: The Musical Live!
National Theatre Live: Skylight
As You Like It
The Black Arrow
Chimes at Midnight
Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway
Hamlet
Much Ado About Nothing
Newsies
Hamlet
Sensibility and Sense
Into the Woods
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IMDB 0 | Nov , 2025
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IMDB 8.5 | Apr , 2023
As the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences.National Theatre Live: Cyrano de Bergerac
IMDB 8.4 | Feb , 2020
Fierce with a pen and notorious in combat, Cyrano almost has it all - if only he could win the heart of his true love Roxane. There’s just one big problem: he has a nose as huge as his heart. Will a society engulfed by narcissism get the better of Cyrano - or can his mastery of language set Roxane’s world alight?Me
IMDB 0 | Nov , 1973
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IMDB 8 | Jul , 2022
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IMDB 9 | May , 2018
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IMDB 0 | Mar , 1972
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IMDB 0 | Aug , 1986
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 1984
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IMDB 6.9 | May , 1993
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IMDB 8 | Feb , 2017
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 1990
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IMDB 8.1 | Mar , 1991
In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.