National Theatre Live: Nye

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

Runtime

3h 9m

Director

Oliver Stone

Cast

Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S...

Runtime

3h 11m

Director

Stanley Kramer

Cast

Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil th...

Runtime

2h 42m

Director

David Lean

Cast

William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins

Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.

Runtime

1h 44m

Director

Robert Zemeckis

Cast

Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Runtime

2h 5m

Director

Charlie Chaplin

Cast

Jack Oakie, Paulette Goddard