Jonathan Miller Movies

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

Veteran radio, theatre, television and film actor Christopher Plummer has played a thousand parts, but beneath that elegant stage presence lies the...

Live from La Scala Sunday 03 February 1991

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

Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a...

A documentary about the life of British satirist and founder of 'Private Eye' Peter Cook.

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

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

A study of absurdity in a suburban family: father recreates the Old Bailey in the living room while the son teaches speak-your-weight machines to...

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

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.