On Playwrights, Poets, Actors, Authors …

Chinua Achebe: Africa's Voice / Films for the Humanities and Sciences, a Films Media Group Company. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2004. DVD

Edward Albee / Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1995.VHS (52 min)

Jane Austen's life, society, works / produced by Artsmagic Ltd.; research & script, Sue Hosler; directed by Liam Dale. BFS Video, c2001. DVD 156 min

James Baldwin: the price of the ticket / California Newsreel, 1990. VHS (87 min)

Kenneth Branagh and Shakespeare / Charlie Rose Show (PBS) 1993

Willa Cather: the road is all / a co-production of Thirteen/WNET New York and NET Television ; producer/writer Christine Lesiak ; producer/director Joel Geyer.  PBS Home Video, c2005. DVD (90 min.)

The drama of creation: writers on writing / writer/director, Mike Wood. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2006. DVD (46 min.)

Ralph Ellison: an American journey / New Images Productions, Inc., /WNET New. California Newsreel, 2001.VHS (87 min)

Hamlet's soliloquies: perfecting perfection / a Films Media Group Company.  Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2004.  DVD (65 min.)

Zora Neale Hurston: a heart with room for every joy / Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2005. DVD  (42 min.)

Looking for Langston / Sankofa Films & Video; directed and written by Isaac Julien. Water Bearer Films, 1992. VHS (45 min)

Herman Melville: Moby Dick / Bride Howland Productions; directed by James H. Bride II. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1990. DVD (41 min.)

Toni Morrison: Profile of a Writer / directed by Alan Benson.Public Media Home Vision, 1987.  VHS (52 min.)

In Search of Shakespeare / Written and presented by Michael Wood w/ The Royal Shakespeare Company, director Gregory Doran. PBS Home Video, 2004.  2 DVDs

Shakespeare behind bars / a film by Hank Rogerson and Jilann Spitzmiller. Shout! Factory, LLC, 2006. DVD (93 min.)

William Styron/Rita Dove / The Charlie Rose Show, 1993.VHS.

Mark Twain tonight / Vining Productions, Inc. ; directed by Paul Bogart.  Kultur International Films, [199-?] DVD (90 min.)

Mark Twain / a film directed by Ken Burns. Paramount Home Entertainment, 2004, 2002. DVD (225 min.)

Richard Wright: black boy / Mississippi Educational Television and the BBC; written, produced, directed by Madison Davis Lacy. California Newsreel, c1994. VHS (86 min)

 

 

 

and Literature

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn: understanding a classic / Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2004. DVD (34 min.)

The drama of creation: writers on writing / writer/director, Mike Wood.  Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2006. DVD  (46 min.)

The experimental novel in the modern world / lecture by: Professor William Chace.  Stanford University, 1988. VHS (60 min)

In context: To kill a mockingbird / Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2001. DVD

Native son / Discovery Channel School. Discovery Communications, Inc., 2003. DVD (60 min.)

Pride and Prejudice  / Discovery University Production. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2004.  DVD (52 min.)

Voices & Visions. Program 4. T.S. Eliot / New York Center for Visual History, Inc.; written & directed by Lawrence Pitkethly. Intellimation, c1988. VHS (60 min)

World: Stories from a small planet / WGBH/Boston; reported by Lowell Bergman.  PBS Video, 2005. DVD (60 min.)

Wuthering heights: a critical guide / a Films Media Group company. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2004.  DVD (52 min.)

 

 

Linguistics

Do you speak American?: with Robert MacNeil / a MacNeil/Lehrer & Paladin InVision production.  Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2005. DVD (60 min. each)

The language you cry in: the story of a Mende song / California Newsreel, 1998.VHS (52 min)

 

 

Shakespeare

As you like it /   BBC and Time-Life Videos. Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc., 1987. DVD (150 min)

The complete works of William Shakespeare / the Reduced Shakespeare Company ; written by Jess Winfield, Adam Long, and Daniel Singer.  Acorn Media, 2003. DVD (90 min.)

Hamlet / Janus Films; directed by Laurence Olivier. Janus Film, [2000], c1948. DVD (153 min)

Hamlet / directed by Rodney Bennett.  New York : Ambrose, 1981.DVD (222 min)

Hamlet / produced by BBC and Time-Life Video. Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc., 1987.
DVD (222 min.)

Hamlet / Warner Brothers & Nelson Entertainment; directed by Franco Zeffirelli. Warner Home Video, c1990. VHS (135 min)

Hamlet with Kevin Kline / New York Shakespeare Festival 1990.  DVD (173 min)

Hamlet / Paul Brownstein Productions; directed by Bill Colleran, John Gieldgud; Image Entertainment, c1995. DVD (191 min)

Hamlet / Castle Rock Entertainment; directed by Kenneth Branagh  Burbank, CA: Columbia TriStar Home Video, c1997.DVD (242 min)

Hamlet / Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1998. DVD (31 min.)

Hamlet/ double A Films; written and directed by Michael Almereyda. Walt Disney Home Video: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [c2001] DVD  (113 min.)

Hamlet / Hallmark Entertainment presents a Spare Room production. Hallmark Home Entertainment, 2001. DVD (190 min.)

Hamlet / Video, c2004. DVD  (135 min.)

Hamlet's soliloquies: perfecting perfection / a Films Media Group Company.  Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2004.  DVD (65 min.)

The Great Hamlets: program II / producer, Joseph Wisby ; director, Derke Eailey; analysis of the play and its title character by Trevor Nunn. Films for the Humanitites and Sciences, 1996. VHS (57 min)

Henry IV. Part One / Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc., 1987. VHS

Henry V / directed by Laurence Olivier. Paramount, 1945.VHS (137 min)

Henry V / directed by Kenneth Branagh: CBS/Fox, 1989. VHS (138 min)

King Lear / a BBC Television production; directed by Richard Eyr   WGBH Boston Video, 2005.  DVD (190 min.)

King Lear / directed by Peter Brook.  Orion Pictures, 1970. VHS (138 min)

King Lear / BBC & Time-Life Television: Time-Life Video, 1982.  VHS (186 min)

King Lear / Kultur, c1984. (158 mins)

King Lear / directed by Tony Davenall. HBO, 1988.  VHS (110 min)

King Lear / Bard Productions, Ltd; directed by Alan Cooke. Kultur, [2001] DVD (182 min.)

Julius Caesar / directed & screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. MGM,1953.VHS (121 min)

Julius Caesar / BBC & Time-Life Video.  Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc., 1987.  DVD (161 min)

Macbeth / Republic Pictures Home Video; directed by Orson Welles. Republic Pictures Corp., 1948. VHS (112 min)

Macbeth / directed by Roman Polanski.  RCA/Columbia Pictures, 1971. VHS (139 min)

Macbeth / produced by Trevor Nunn. HBO, c1978.  VHS (146 min)

Macbeth / BBC & Time-Life Video. Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc., 1987. DVD (148 min)

Macbeth / directed by Trevor Nunn. Thames International, 1987. VHS (148 min)

Macbeth / directed by Jack Gold. VHS (148 min)

Macbeth / The Royal Shakespeare Company; produced by Trevor Nunn; directed by Philip Casson. A & E Home Video, c2004. DVD (146 min.)

Macbeth and Twelfth night / Chicago, Ill.: Home Vision Cinema, 2005.  DVD (190 min)

The merchant of Venice / by William Shakespear ; directed by Trevor Nunn. Image Entertainment, Inc., 2004.  DVD (141 min.)

A Midsummer Night's Dream / Films for the Humanities. DVD (165 min)

A Midsummer Night's Dream / directed by Michael Hoffman. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 1999. DVD (120 min)

A Midsummer Night's Dream / BBC and Time-Life Films. Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc., 1987. DVD (112 min)

Othello / Image Entertainment, Inc., 1952. DVD (93 min)

Othello / directed by Jonathan Miller. Ambrose, 1981. VHS (208 min)

Otello / directed by Franco Zeffirelli.  Italy : Kultur, 1986. VHS (123 min)

Otello / directed by Brian Large.Pioneer, 1987.  VHS (146 min)

Othello  / Othello Productions & Focus Films in association with Portobello; director, Janet Suzman. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1988. DVD (187 min.)

Othello / BBC & Time-Life Video. Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc., 1987.  DVD (208 min)

Othello / directed by Trevor Nunn.  Chatsworth, CA: Image Entertainment, Inc., 1990. DVD (205 min.)

Otello  / BBC-TV; Covent Garden Pioneer; The Royal Opera House; director, Brian Large; stage director, Elijah Moshinsky. Kultur, [2000].  DVD (146 min)

O / Lions Gate Entertainment; directed by Tim Blake Nelson; screenplay Brad Kaaya..  Trimark Home Entertainment, c2002. DVD (94 min.)

Romeo and Juliet / directed by Franco Zeffirelli. Paramount, 1968. DVD (138 min)

Romeo and Juliet / directed by Alvin Rakoff. Ambrose, 1981. DVD (167 min)

Romeo and Juliet / directed by Joan Kemp Welch ; written by William Shakespeare.  New York, NY : A & E Home Video, 2005. DVD (186 min.)

Romeo & Juliet / BBC & Time-Life Videos. Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc., 1987. DVD (167 min)

Romeo & Juliet / Twentieth Century Fox; directed by Baz Luhrmann. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 1997.DVD  (120 mins)

The taming of the shrew / RCA/Columbia Pictures, 1967. VHS (122 mins)

The taming of the shrew / by William Shakespeare; BBC and Time-Life Videos. Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc., 1987. DVD (127 min)

The tempest / BBC and Time-Life Videos. Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc., 1987.  DVD (150 min)

Twelfth night / Fine Line Features; Renaissance Film; directed by Trevor Nunn; screenplay by Trevor Nunn. New Horizons Home Video, c1996. VHS (133 min)

Twelfth night: or, what you will / Thames Television; a Renaissance Theatre production by Kenneth Branagh; director, Paul Kafno. Films for the Humanities, c1991. VHS (165 min)

 

 

Austen

Emma / BBC; produced by Martin Lisemore; directed by John Glenister. Warner Home Video, Inc., c2004. DVD (270 min.)

Emma / United Film & Television; directed by Diarmuid Lawrence. A&E Home Video, c1999. DVD (107 min)

Mansfield Park  / BBC; produced by Betty Willingale; directed by David Giles. Warner Home Video, Inc., 2004. DVD(312 min.)

Mansfield Park  / written & directed by Patricia Rozema. Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2000.  DVD (112 min)

Northanger Abbey / BBC; produced by Louis Marks; directed by Giles Foster. Warner Home Video, Inc., c2004.  DVD(90 min)

Northanger Abbey  / BBC; ;director, Giles Foster ; screenplay, Maggie Wadey.BFS Video, c2000. DVD (90 min)

Persuasion / BBC; produced and directed by Howard Baker. Warner Home Video, Inc., 2004. DVD (225 min.)

Persuasion / BBC Films; WGBH/Mobil Masterpiece Theatre, directed by Roger Columbia Tristar Home Video, 1999, p1995. DVD (104 min)

Pride and prejudice / director, Robert Z. Leonard; producer, Hunt Stromberg; screenplay, Aldous Huxley, Jane Murfin. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1940. DVD

Pride & Prejudice / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., 1967.  VHS (118 min)

Pride and prejudice / BBC; director, Simon Langton;. A&E Home Video c2001. DVD (300 min)

Pride and prejudice / BBC; produced by Jonathon Powell; directed by Cyril. Warner Home Video, Inc., c2004.  DVD(265 min.)

Sense and sensibility / BBC; produced by Barry Letts; directed by Rodney. Warner Home Video, Inc., c2004. DVD (174 min.)

Sense and sensibility  / directed by Ang Lee. Columbia Pictures, 1999. DVD (136 min)

 

 

Dickens

A Christmas Carol / directed by Brian Desmond Hurst. United Artists, c1951, 1987. VHS (86 min)

David Copperfield  / BBC America & WGBH/Boston; screenplay by Adrian Hodges; directed by Simon Curtis. WGBH Boston Video, c2000. DVD (210 min)

David Copperfield / directed by George Cukor.MGM/UA, 1935, 1982. VHS (131 min)

Great expectations / BBC America & WGBH/Boston; directed by Julian Jarrold; adapted by Tony Marchant. Anchor Bay Entertainment, c1999.  VHS (180 min)

Nicholas Nickleby / directed by Stephen Whittaker; adapted by Martyn Hesford. Acorn Media, c2002. DVD (200 min)

Nicholas Nickleby / A BBC/Time Life co-production; directed by Christopher Barry; screenplay by Hugh Leonard. KOCH Entertainment, c2006. DVD (325 min.)

The old curiosity shop / directed by Julian Amyes; written by William Trevor. BBC Video c2006. DVD  (265 min.)

Oliver / Columbia Pictures directed by Carol Reed; screenplay by Vernon Harris. Columbia TriStar Home Video, [1998] DVD (153 min)

The Pickwick papers / directed by Brian Lighthill; adaptation by Jack Davies. BBC Video, 2006. DVD  (350 min.)  in.

A tale of two cities / Granada Television of England & Dune of Paris in association with WGBH/Boston: director, Phillipe Monnie ;
Video Treasures:, 1997, c1989.VHS (240 min)

 

 

 

Turning Plays into Movies…

Angels in America  / Avenue Pictures production; a Mike Nichols film.: Home Box Office, 2004. DVD (352 min)

Beckett on Film:  19 Films x 19 Directors/ Blue Angel Films/Tyrone Productions, 2001.  4 DVDs

Butley / (American Film Theatre Collection) by Simon Gray, directed by Harold Pinter.   With Alan Bates, Jessica Tand., 1974 DVD (129 min)

Death of a salesman / CBS Television Network ; directed by Alex Segal; written by Arthur Miller. Kultur, 2002.  DVD (107 min)

A Delicate Balance / (American Film Theatre Collection)  by Edward Albee, directed by Tony Richardson.  With Katherine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick.  1973 DVD (1973).

The Iceman Cometh / (American Film Theatre Collection)  by Eugene O’Neill, directed by John Frankenheimer.  With Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Jeff Bridges. 1973 DVD (239 min.).

The Importance of being Earnest / J. Arthur Rank Organisation; British Film Makers, Ltd; directed by Anthony Asquith. Paramount Home Video, 1988, c1952. VHS  (95 min)

The importance of being earnest / Miramax Films; directed by Oliver Parker. Miramax Home Entertainment: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2002. DVD (94 min)

In Celebration / (American Film Theatre Collection) by David Storey, directed by Lindsay Anderson.  With Alan Bates, Brian Cox.   1975 DVD (130 min).

The Little Foxes / Samuel Goldwyn Studios ; produced by Samuel Goldwyn ; directed by William Wyler ; written by Alan Campbell, Arthur Kober, Dorothy Parker. Embassy Home Entertainment, 1985, c1941. DVD (116 min)

Long day's journey into night / Republic Pictures Corp., c1962. DVD (178 min)

Long day's journey into night / Rhombus Media Production. MCA Home Video Canada, 1996. DVD (177 min)

Long day's journey into night / written by Eugene O'Neill ; directed by Jonathan Miller. Image Entertainment, 2005. DVD (170 min.)

Luther / (American Film Theatre Collection) by John Osborne, directed by Guy Green.  With Stacy Keach, Judi Dench.  1974 DVD (111 min).

The Maids/(American Film Theatre Collection), by Jean Genet, directed by Christopher Miles.  With Glenda Jackson, Susannah York, Vivien Merchant, 1974 DVD (94 min).

The Man in the Glass Booth / (American Film Theatre Collection) by Edward Anhalt, directed by Arthur Hiller.  With Maximillian Schell.   1975 DVD (117 min).

Our town / Showtime and ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre; the Westport Country Playhouse Production;  by Thornton Wilder; directed by James Naughton: PBS Home Video, 2003.  DVD (120 min.)

A Raisin in the sun / Columbia Pictures; director, Daniel Petrie.  RCA/Columbia, 1961. DVD (129 min)

Rhinoceros / (American Film Theatre Collection) by Eugene Ionesco, directed by Tom O’Horgan.  With Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Karen Black.  1974 DVD (104 mins).

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead / written and directed by Tom Stoppard. Image Entertainment, 2005. DVD (117 min.)

Three Sisters / (American Film Theatre Collection) by Anton Checkov, directed by Laurence Olivier.  With Alan Bates, Lawrence Olivier, Joan Plowright, 1970 DVD (162 mins).

 

 

Play Collections

Beckett on film: 19 films x 19 directors / Blue Angel Films/Tyrone Productions, 2001.  4 DVDs (10 hrs., 48 min)

            Act Without Words I, directed by Karel Reisz

            Act Without Words II, directed by Enda Hughes

            Breath, directed by Damien Hirst

            Catastrophe, directed by David Mamet

            Come and Go, directed by John Crowley

            Endgame, directed by Conor McPherson

            Footfalls, directed by Walter Asmus

            Happy Days, directed by Patricia Razemma

            Krapp’s Last Tape, directed by Atom Egoyan

            Not I, directed by Neil Jordan

            Ohio Impromptu, directed by Charles Sturridge

            Play, directed by Anthony Minghella

            A Piece of Monologue, directed by Robin Lefevre

            Rockaby, directed by Richard Eyre

            Rough for Theatre I, directed by Kieron J. Walsh

            Rough for Theatre II, directed by Katie Mitchell

            That Time, directed by Charles Garrad

            Waiting for Godot, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg

            What Where, directed by Damien O’Donnell

           

American Film Theatre Collection / New York, NY : Kino on Video, 2003.10 DVD) (677 min)

            Butley, by Simon Gray, directed by Harold Pinter

            A Delicate Balance, by Edward Albee, directed by Tony Richardson

            The Iceman Cometh, by Eugene O’Neill, directed by John Frenkenheimer

            In Celebration, by David Storey, directed by Lindsay Anderson

            Luther, by John Osborne, directed by Guy Green

            The Maids, by Jean Genet, directed by Christopher Miles

            The Man in the Glass Booth, by Edward Anhalt, directed by Arthur Hiller

            Rhinoceros, by Eugene Ionesco, directed by Tom O’Horgan

            Three Sisters, by Anton Checkov, directed by Laurence Olivier

 

 

…and Turning Classics into Movies

The Age of Innocence / a Cappa/De Fina production ; directed by Martin Scorsese;
Columbia Pictures, 1993. VHS

Becket / E & M Enterprise, c1964..  DVD 151 min.

Becket / written by Edward Anhalt ; directed by Peter Glenville.  MPI Home Video, c1996. DVD (150 min.

Beowulf : Benjamin Bagby, Voice and Anglo-Saxon Harp / Jon Aaron & Charlie Morrow present, recorded live at Dunkers Kulturus, Helsingborg, Sweden (January 2006).  Charles Morrow Productions, LLC, 2006.  DVD (98 min.)

Billy Budd / directed by Peter Ustinov. Key Video, c2002. VHS (123 min)

Billy Budd / by Benjamin Britten; libretto by E. M. Forster adn Eric Crozie; directed for the stage by Tim Albery; a BBC-TV/RM Arts co-production. Image Entertainment, 1988. DVD (157 min.)

Candide / produced by Iris Merlis, Jay Good; directed by Lonny Price.  Image Entertainment, 2005.  DVD (116 min.)

Cousin Bette / produced by Martin Lisemore ; directed by Gareth Davies ; written by Ray Lawler.  Acorn Media, 2007. DVD (220 min.)

East of Eden / produced and directed by Elia Kazan ; screenplay by Paul Osborn.  Warner Home Video, 2005.  DVD (118 min.)

Jane Eyre / a co-production of BBC and WGBH Boston.  WGBH Educational Foundation, 2007. DVD (228 min.)

Jane Eyre / BBC Enterprises; directed by Julian Amye ; dramatized by Alexander Baron. BBC Video, 2005.  DVD 330 min.

Jane Eyre / A&E Television Networks;  director, Robert Young;.A & E Home Video, c1999.DVD 100 min.

Jane Eyre / directed by Julian Aymes. CBS/Fox, 1983. 2 VHS (239 min)

Jude the obscure / BBC; dramatised by Harry Green; directed by Hugh David. Koch Vision, 2006. DVD (262 min.)

The Last of the Mohicans / directed by Michael Mann ; written by John L. Balderston, ... [et al.].Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 1999.  DVD (117 min.)

The Last of the Mohicans / KOCH Entertainment LP, 1996. DVD (344 min.)

The odyssey / Discovery Channel School.  Discovery Communications, Inc., 2003.  DVD (60 min.)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / a film by Joseph Strick. Image Entertainment, Inc., 1977.  DVD (92 min)

The Scarlet Letter / Majestics Pictures Corporation; directed by Robert G. Vignola ; written by Leonard Fields, David Silverstein. Image Entertainment, 2006. DVD (73 min.)

Sons & Lovers / a Company Pictures production. KOCH Entertainment LP, 2007.  DVD (193 min.)

Tristram Shandy: a Cock & Bull Story / directed by Michael Winterbottom; written by Frank Cottrell Boyce. HBO Home Video, 2006. DVD (94 min.)

Wuthering Heights / directed by William Wyler. Nelson, 1939. VHS (104 min)

Wuthering Heights / London Weekend Television & WGBH Boston. WGBH Boston, 2005. DVD (114 min.)