Jonathan Miller Movies

A historical adaptation of John Gay's 18th Century ballad opera, exuberantly performed for BBC television.

Documentary charting the history of the supernatural on British TV, revisiting classic ghost stories and controversial shows. Contributors include...

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...

Jonathan Miller set his well-known production of The Mikado, staged for the English National Opera, in a British seaside resort of the 1920s. The...

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

Candide falls in love with the beautiful but materialistic Cunegonde. Her barron father doesn't approve of the affair so Candide wanders, meeting all...

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...

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

Live from La Scala Sunday 03 February 1991

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

A chance to see director Jonathan Miller at work on his acclaimed staging of Gilbert and Sullivan's famous comic opera.

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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