Benjamin Britten Movies

Tony Palmer directs this documentary exploring the life and work of the celebrated English composer, conductor and pianist. Britten is particularly...

Benjamin Britten's monumental anti-war oratorio from the Vladislav Hall of Prague Castle in memory of war veterans and victims. British composer...

The production of King George V's Silver Jubilee (1910-1935) special postage stamp, and a brief dramatised history of the development of the penny...

This TV production is from 1970 and the color picture is accordingly rich and beautiful. The sound however is below average for the era, but still...

Performed at Madrid's historic Teatro Real in 2018, Ivor Bolton conducts Benjamin Britten's opera based on Lytton Strachey's 1928 Elizabeth and...

This expository film shows the mood of European society on the eve of the Second World War while promoting the values of international cooperation....

An irreverent survey of British Music.

This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the...

The operatic version of the famous story about a governess who fears her two charges are possessed.

British educational documentary film about the principal instruments in the modern symphony orchestra, illustrated through Benjamin Britten's...

Benjamin Britten’s opera of the Henry James novel. An inexperienced governess is sent to a country house to care for two children, whom she is...

Benjamin Britten's opera as performed by the English National Opera, with Philip Langridge in the title role.

Tony Palmer's documentary about the staging of Britten's choral work.

A behind-the-scenes look at the Aldeburgh Festival and the opening by The Queen of the new concert hall at Snape.

In a remote country house, the newly-appointed governess arrives to take charge of the orphaned Flora and Miles. She must fight to protect them from...

Short campaigning documentary putting the case for "peace by reason" rather than through re-arming.

A family conflict ensues after Owen, the youngest of the proud military family Wingrave, expected to continue the family tradition and become a...

Britten's last opera, in two acts, presented by Teatro Real.

The story of a little boy named Sam, who is exploited by two evil chimney sweeps to clean narrow chimneys.

Phyllida Lloyd's acclaimed adaptation for film of the opera that Benjamin Britten wrote for the celebrations of the Queen's coronation in 1953, based...