Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today

October. 12,2020      
Rating:
7.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Martina Laird as  Narrator
Roy Battersby as  Himself
Richard Eyre as  Himself
David Hare as  Himself
Mike Leigh as  Himself
Ken Loach as  Himself
Kenith Trodd as  Himself

Similar titles

Up Close & Personal
Up Close & Personal
Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news itself. Yet, each breaking story, every videotaped crisis that brings them together, also threatens to drive them apart...
Up Close & Personal 1996
Tomorrow Never Dies
Prime Video
Tomorrow Never Dies
A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.
Tomorrow Never Dies 1997
Chacrinha: Eu Vim para Confundir e Não para Explicar
Chacrinha: Eu Vim para Confundir e Não para Explicar
Chacrinha: Eu Vim para Confundir e Não para Explicar 2021
The Kentucky Fried Movie
Prime Video
The Kentucky Fried Movie
A series of loosely connected skits that spoof news programs, commercials, porno films, kung-fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films, mafia films, and the fear that somebody is watching you on the other side of the TV.
The Kentucky Fried Movie 1977
Play It Again, Sam
Play It Again, Sam
A neurotic film critic obsessed with the movie Casablanca (1942) attempts to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married couple and his illusory idol, Humphrey Bogart.
Play It Again, Sam 1972
Milestone No. 2
Milestone No. 2
A documentary showcasing a family as they pack up their home of twelve years and begin looking towards the future.
Milestone No. 2 2020
Stardust Memories
Max
Stardust Memories
While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
Stardust Memories 1980
Bowfinger
Max
Bowfinger
On the verge of bankruptcy and desperate for his big break, aspiring filmmaker Bobby Bowfinger concocts a crazy plan to make his ultimate dream movie. Rallying a ragtag team that includes a starry-eyed ingenue, a has-been diva and a film studio gofer, he sets out to shoot a blockbuster featuring the biggest star in Hollywood, Kit Ramsey -- only without letting Ramsey know he's in the picture.
Bowfinger 1999
Quiz Show
Quiz Show
Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, 'Twenty-One.' However, when the show introduces the highly skilled contestant Charles Van Doren to replace Stempel, it compels Stempel to let out his frustrations and call out the show as rigged. Lawyer Richard Goodwin steps in and attempts to uncover the orchestrated deception behind the scenes.
Quiz Show 1994
Frost/Nixon
Prime Video
Frost/Nixon
For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions of his time in office and the Watergate scandal that ended his presidency. Nixon surprised everyone in selecting Frost as his televised confessor, intending to easily outfox the breezy British showman and secure a place in the hearts and minds of Americans. Likewise, Frost's team harboured doubts about their boss's ability to hold his own. But as the cameras rolled, a charged battle of wits resulted.
Frost/Nixon 2008

Reviews

Wordiezett
2020/10/12

So much average

... more
Greenes
2020/10/13

Please don't spend money on this.

... more
Mjeteconer
2020/10/14

Just perfect...

... more
Moustroll
2020/10/15

Good movie but grossly overrated

... more