Ian McKellen Movies

This making-of piece focuses on the quartet playing these characters at different ages: Sir Patrick Stewart, Sir Ian McKellen, James McAvoy and...

This fascinating documentary unfolds in reverse telling the story of Mandela from the old man to the rural child. With contributions from...

A powerful and moving piece documenting the lesbian, gay and bisexual movement in the early 1990s, A Simple Matter of Justice expresses all the...

Making of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

Adaptation of the play by Henrik Ibsen.

A record of McKellen's one-man Broadway show about the Bard.

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...

Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe looks at that most English of things - the folly.

David Masterman is an artist and a teacher who has the pleasure of teaching an art class to a group of lovely young women. Three in particular are of...

Exploring Michael Mann's 1983 film adapted from the F. Paul Wilson novel and its impact.

A documentary about the making of 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'.

Do you know the joke about the broken egg?

1846 and another ship crashes on the rocks of an almost deserted island in Scotland. Three sailors survive the wreck and make it to shore where the...

A child is born. We see underwater swimmers representing this. He is young, in a jungle setting, with two fanciful "instincts" guiding him as...

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...

Dame Judi Dench is joined by her great friend for tea and a warm, candid conversation about their extraordinary lives both on stage and off. From...

Age of Dissent captures the yearlong battle to change British legislation about the gay age of consent. It includes a visit to Russia, where...

'Cubism' is a 2007 DVD of a Pet Shop Boys concert from their Fundamental-Tour. It was filmed on 14 November 2006 at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico...

This documentary celebrates one of Britain’s greatest actors, Dame Judi Dench, and looks back over her remarkable 60-year career.

'For the Love of God' is the wickedly irreverent tale of Graham (Coogan); an over-grown man-child still living at home under the suffocating glare of...