Ian McKellen Movies
- 1988
Scarfe's Follies
Scarfe's Follies01988HD
Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe looks at that most English of things - the folly.
- 1979
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour01979HD
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour is a stage play by Tom Stoppard with music by André Previn. It was first performed in 1977. The play criticizes...
- 2015
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC02015HD
The BBC delves into its archives to discover British acting greats as they take their first tentative steps on the road to success. Long before they...
- 2005
The Hobart Shakespeareans
The Hobart Shakespeareans42005HD
Rafe Esquith, 1992 American Teacher of the Year and National Medal of Arts recipient, teaches 5th-grade children whose parents don't speak English at...
- 1970
Schadenfreude
Schadenfreude01970HD
Jeremy O'Reilly, the self-important presenter of a TV news show, returns to a clueless East End community where a prank leads to the murder of a...
- 1993
Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up
Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up01993HD
An affectionate portrait of San Francisco, and of the man whose Tales of the City have inspired thousands to go there. Maupin relates a life story...
- 1970
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary01970HD
Anthony Hopkins has confirmed that his wife is working on a documentary about his life.
- 1992
Gladio
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In three programmes shown over consecutive weeks in BBC2's Timewatch strand, Allan Francovich interviewed key Gladio players such as Propaganda Due...
- 2025
Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness02025HD
A star-studded documentary revealing the private man behind one of Britain’s greatest comic geniuses, using home movies and extracts from...
- 2007
The Art of Breaking Character
The Art of Breaking Character02007HD
The cast of Extras talking about corpsing on set.
- 2014
Miss in Her Teens
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An adaptation of David Garrick's 1747 afterpiece, this lighthearted comedy follows Miss Biddy Bellair as she pits her suitors against eachother in...
- 1997
Surviving Friendly Fire
Surviving Friendly Fire11997HD
In the early 90's seventy youth from a Hollywood homeless shelter started a theatre project encouraging them to tell their stories.. The youth ran...
- 2013
The Egg Trick
The Egg Trick62013HD
Do you know the joke about the broken egg?
- 2016
Shakespeare on Film
Shakespeare on Film62016HD
Ian McKellen and Richard Loncraine in conversation about Richard III.
- 1997
A Bit Of Scarlet
A Bit Of Scarlet4.61997HD
A Bit of Scarlet excavates clips from Britain's cinema archives to create a moving and humorous testament to the closeted gay and lesbian images from...
- 2017
How a Kite Flies
How a Kite Flies02017HD
Sir Ian McKellen voices an alcoholic kite. A down-and-out who prefers to hang around his dingy local strip joint rather than get out into the blue...
- 2017
Edmund the Magnificent
Edmund the Magnificent7.22017HD
When news breaks that the county pig fete's being revived, the once-legendary Farmer decides to make one final roll of the dice - and invest his life...
- 2016
Play the Devil: Making Richard III
Play the Devil: Making Richard III02016HD
Sir Ian McKellen and Richard Loncraine talking about making the film.
- 2009
Theatreland
Theatreland02009HD
8 part series behind the scenes at the famous Theatre Royal, Haymarket, with a focus on a production Waiting for Godot featuring Ian McKellen,...
- 2020
Ian McKellen on Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and YOU
Ian McKellen on Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and YOU62020HD
One-man stage performance by English stage and screen actor Sir Ian McKellen. McKellen reprises roles over his career in the theatre (such as the...