Antony Sher Movies

A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.

Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.

A group of American executives making a film about World War II decide that since their lead is rather unglamorous, they will draft in an American...

Director Tony Palmer tells the incredible life story of Athol Fugard, the prolific playwright, novelist, and director who exposed the horrors of...

PRIMO was adapted by Antony Sher from Primo Levi's monumental account of his year spent in Auschwitz, IF THIS IS A MAN. When it opened in September...

Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.

A passionately committed young dancer is forced to re-examine his career and life when faced with death, finding hope through an older man who...

Joseph Mnwana arrives at Heathrow on a flight from Johannesburg and asks for political asylum. But what is he fleeing from? The authorities are...

Several guests who are lesbian or gay go to a home for Christmas.

Anthony Sher and Harriet Walter star in a highly-acclaimed screen version of William Shakespeare's classic story of tyranny and ambition. On the...

Government officials practice their response and decisions in a simulated escalation of nuclear threat.

The ostensibly calm and courteous Gerald Ballantyne lives in and embodies modern suburbia. But he is haunted by the memory of a recent car crash and...

A young man discovers that not only does he have the ability to read minds, but that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the...

Shakespeare's tale of manic jealousy and redemption was hailed by critics and played to packed houses for its entire run. Captured just before its...

The life of Charles Dickens recreated using puppets, live action and animation. An experimental visualisation by Chris Newby of a pre-recorded radio...

Spring 1917: the privileged world of Sorn Castle is upside down, its stately rooms full of amputees from the Western Front. While the local...

A beautiful Chilean exile called Tina is stranded in a new country.

A self-made man finds his building firm in trouble as a new office block nears completion.