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Department: Writing
Place of Birth: St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, England, UK
Birthday: June 05, 1947
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Gender: Male
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Overview: Joe Papp, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and, subsequently, The Public Theater—arguably the most important theatre in North America—is profiled in this documentary that neither sanctifies nor vilifies him. He brought us free Shakespeare in the Park, Hair and A Chorus Line, and nurtured many of America’s greatest playwrights, directors and actors. His complex personality and mercurial behavior are much in evidence and spoken of with frankness through interviews with some of America’s most celebrated artists, including Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Kevin Kline, and James Earl Jones.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-30
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Overview: Ralph Fiennes is joined in dress rehearsals as he discusses his involvement in and the themes relating to David Hare’s brand-new play Straight Line Crazy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-23
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Overview: Documentary charting the fascinating life and work of Lee Miller, a model for Vogue in 1920s New York who became the only female photojournalist to cover the Second World War. Having given up photography in later life and virtually disowned her own work, Miller's extraordinary archive of 40,000 negatives was only rediscovered after her death. George Melly, David Hare, friends, colleagues and her only son, Tony Penrose, trace the story of her unconventional life through her own remarkable pictures and photographs, as well as rarely seen archive footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-25
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Overview: British horror short from 1962.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Overview: British film-maker Alan Clarke was championed by the likes of Gary Oldman, Tim Roth and Ray Winstone - Stephen Frears even called him the best. And yet Clarke only ever made 3 feature films. This documentary explores the life and career of an exceptional director - Alan Clarke.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-18
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Overview: Griffin Dunne’s years-in-the-making documentary portrait of his aunt Joan Didion moves with the spirit of her uncannily lucid writing: the film simultaneously expands and zeroes in, covering a vast stretch of turbulent cultural history with elegance and candor.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-11
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Overview: Writer David Hare explores the reality of the wall separating Israel and Palestine.
Genres: Animation Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-25
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Overview: In this one-man Broadway production directed for the stage by Stephen Daldry, acclaimed screenwriter-playwright David Hare recounts his eye-opening journey to Israel and Palestine.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-15
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Overview: Nobel Lecture delivered on video by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature Harold Pinter (1930–2008), who was at the time hospitalised and unable to travel to Stockholm to deliver it in person.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-01
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Overview: This documentary celebrates one of Britain’s greatest actors, Dame Judi Dench, and looks back over her remarkable 60-year career.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-30
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Overview: Marking Play for Today’s 50th anniversary, Drama Out of a Crisis is a compelling exploration of the series, its origins, achievements, controversies and legacies. Featuring a rich and surprising range of archive extracts and original interviews with many who created the series, including producers Kenith Trodd, Margaret Matheson and Richard Eyre, and directors Mike Leigh, David Hare and Ken Loach.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-12
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Overview: A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and producers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-13
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