Shakespeare Resources

BBC TV, 1980, 2 hours, 9 minutes
Director: John Gorrie
Performers: Alec McCowen, Robert Hardy, Felicity Kendal, Annette Crosbie, Sinéad Cusack, Trevor Peacock, Robert Lindsay

Films For The Humanities & Sciences, 1988, 1 hour 17 minutes
Directors: Kenneth Branagh, Paul Kafno
Performers: Richard Briers, Carole Belanger, Christopher Ravenscroft, James Saxon

Originally released as a motion picture in 1996.
Director: Trevor Nunn
Performers: Helena Bonham Carter, Richard E. Grant, Nigel Hawthorne, Ben Kingsley, Mel Smith.
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"Series produced in Russia and Wales. Christmas Films with S4C in association with BBC Wales, Home Box Office and Fujisankei."
Disc 1: Tempest / directed by Stanislav Sokolov (25 min.) -- Midsummer night's dream / directed, designed and animated by Robert Saakiants (25 min.)-- As you like it / directed by Alexei Karayev (25 min.) -- Disc 2: Hamlet / directed by Natalia Orlova (25 min.) -- Julius Caesar / directed by Yuri Kulakov -- Richard III / directed by Natasha Orlova (25 min.) -- Disc 3: Romeo and Juliet / directed by Efim Gambourg (25 min.) -- Othello / directed and designed by Nikolai Serebriakov (25 min.) -- Winter's tale / directed by Stanislav Sokolov (25 mn.) -- Disc 4: Macbeth / directed by Nikolai Serebriakov (25 min.) -- Taming of the shrew / directed by Aida Ziablikova (25 min.) -- Twelfth night / directed by Maria Muat (25 min.).
Featuring the voice talents of Antony Sher, Joss Ackland, Jenny Agutter, with others.

Based on the play: Twelfth night. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2006.
"Viola becomes furious when she learns that her high school, Cornwall, has just cut the girl's soccer team. So furious, in fact, that she takes advantage of her twin brother Sebastian skipping town for a few weeks to take his place at his school, Illyria, so she can join the soccer team there. But her disguise as her brother leads to major complications when she falls in love with her soccer-playing roommate and the girl he's in love with falls in love with "Sebastian.""
Director: Andy Fickman
Performers: Amanda Bynes, Channing Tatum, Laura Ramsey, Vinnie Jones, Jonathan Sadowski, Robert Hoffman, Robert Torti, James Snyder, Alex Breckenridge, Amanda Crew, Jessica Lucas, James Kirk, Julie Hagerty, David Cross.
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Shakespeare Uncovered, Series I, 2013, 53 minutes
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. Joely Richardson looks into a pair of cross-dressing comedies, with their missing twins, mistaken identities, and characters in disguise: Shakespeare's As You Like It and Twelfth Night."

Films For The Humanities & Sciences, 2004, 1 hour 17 minutes
"This program features excerpts from four Royal Shakespeare Company productions : King Lear, Twelfth night, A midsummer night's dream, and Coriolanus. Each segment of the program includes key scenes from the play intertwined with interviews and explanations of the play with both actors and directors."