Jonathan Miller Movies

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...

The jealous King Leontes falsely accuse his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and she dies. Leontes exiles his newborn daughter...

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...

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

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

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

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

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

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...

Originally staged (with these actors) in 1986 at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theater (appearing first on Showtime cable television in April 1987, and...

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

Live from La Scala Sunday 03 February 1991

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

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.

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

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

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