Movies: Ian McKellen

Acting legend Ian McKellen discusses his impressive range of Shakespearean performances. Since playing Malvolio in Twelfth Night at 12 years old, Ian McKellen has acted in more than half of Shakespeare’s canon on stages worldwide and screens large an...

Short that was shown during the "2002 MTV Movie Awards (2002)" which spoofs "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)". In it, the Council of Elrond debates about the One Ring - which, unfortunately, was made into a genital piercing b...

Pip, a street kid just turning 18, receives his grandfather's World War II-era memoirs and discovers parallels to his own life....

When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organised under Xavier's former ally, Magneto....

Built upon a 14 hour interview, McKellen: Playing the Part is a unique journey through the key landmarks of McKellen's life, from early childhood into a demanding career that placed him in the public eye for the best part of his lifetime. Using an ab...

Zina, the daughter of Leon Trotsky by his first wife, is undergoing freudian analysis in Berlin in the 'thirties. Meanwhile Trotsky is in exile in Prinkipo having been driven from power by Stalin. The Nazis rise to power in Germany and Austria and Zi...

In a story weaving the past and present together, Emile seeks redemption from the family he abandoned....

Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany caused by Hitler's invasion of Poland....

Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join their usual nemeses—Magneto and Mystique—to unhinge Stryker's sc...

Intimate documentary exploring how Paul O'Grady's creation, Lily Savage, took mainstream TV by storm. Unravel the real story of Lily with insights from Paul's daughter and famous pals....

This unique and cheeky documentary explores Britain and what makes our country great from our traditions to our self-deprecating sense of humour....

A documentary from Universal about the movie "The Invisible Man" (1933) directed by James Whale....

Saint of 9/11 presents the turbulent, restless, spiritual and remarkable journey of Father Mychal Judge. Compassionate champion of the needy and forgotten, a beloved Fire Department Chaplain, rousing Irish-American balladeer and iconoclast, Father wr...

A four part documentary on the making of the first X-Men film, from pre-production, to principal photography, to post-production, and reflections on the film before production commenced on the sequel....

Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the British Museum, becomes pregnant after a brief affair with a television newsreader. Against the advice of her best friend, Lydia, Rosamund chooses to keep ...

Sir Ian McKellen reads the poetry, Michael Wood traces the journey on the ground. Together they conjure up the extraordinary life, times and words of China’s greatest poet, Du Fu. In this film, the first to ever be made about Du Fu in the west, Micha...

Looking for Lowry is an entertaining documentary film about the life and work of the much loved British artist L.S. Lowry (1887 – 1976). This contemporary new film illuminates Lowry’s extraordinary vision for the first time in high definition, as we ...

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

Anthony Hopkins has confirmed that his wife is working on a documentary about his life....

Profile of the life, work and ethos behind one of Britain's most controversial and prolific human rights campaigner: gay UK activist Peter Tatchell....