Jonathan Miller Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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