Jonathan Miller Movies

Octavius Caesar (later renamed Augustus Caesar, son of the murdered Julius Caesar), Marc Antony, and Lepidus form the triumvirate, the three rulers...

Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great...

Live from La Scala Sunday 03 February 1991

Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller,...

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

The bitter Trojan War drags on - the Greeks blame Achilles' apathy for low morale, while Troy's hero Hector challenges one of the enemy to a personal...

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

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

In a programme first broadcast in 1969, some of the four million people evacuated as children from British cities during the Second World War look...

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

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 university professor, confident that everything which occurs in life has a rational explanation, finds his beliefs severely challenged when, during...

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...

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

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

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

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

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