National Theatre Movie Trailers
Most Popular National Theatre Trailers
Total trailers found: 201
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth Trailer (2012)
31 October 2012
From Boris Karloff to Mel Brooks - Frankenstein has fired the imagination of generations of artists who have created their own interpretation of this Gothic masterpiece.
National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers Trailer (2015)
12 March 2015
India is surging with global ambition. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport lies a makeshift slum, full of people with plans of their own.
The Hour Trailer (2020)
19 August 2020
The hour before actors go on stage at the National Theatre in London is a performance in and of itself.
National Theatre Live: This House Trailer (2013)
15 May 2013
It's February 1974. Ted Heath's Conservative government has been ousted. But only just. In the hung Parliament, Labour manages to form a minority government by sending its whips out wheeling and dealing with the Liberals, Scottish Nationalists and Northern Irish politicians.
National Theatre Collection: The Winter's Tale Trailer (2018)
28 February 2018
Perdita is a brave, intelligent and much-loved girl, but something is not quite right in her world. Join her on a journey through magic and mayhem as she uncovers her story – the girl who was once lost and then found.
The Show Must Go On! - Live at the Palace Theatre Trailer (2021)
06 June 2021
Presented by Theatre Support Fund+, The Shows Must Go On! and National Theatre Live, the world’s most iconic musicals return to the West End stage with a stunning concert performance live from the Palace Theatre.
National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part Two: Perestroika Trailer (2017)
27 July 2017
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell.
National Theatre Live: Macbeth Trailer (2018)
10 May 2018
The ruined aftermath of a bloody civil war. Ruthlessly fighting to survive, the Macbeths are propelled towards the crown by forces of elemental darkness.
National Theatre Live: Coriolanus Trailer (2014)
29 January 2014
When an old adversary threatens Rome, the city calls once more on her hero and defender: Coriolanus. But he has enemies at home too.
National Theatre Live: Much Ado About Nothing Trailer (2022)
08 September 2022
Since the 1930s, the legendary family-run Hotel Messina has been visited by artists, celebrities and royalty.
National Theatre Collection: Romeo and Juliet Trailer (2017)
18 September 2017
A new version for younger audiences by Bijan Sheibani and Ben Power. Originally staged as part of the National Theatre’s Shakespeare for younger audiences programme.
National Theatre Live: People Trailer (2013)
21 March 2013
People spoil things; there are so many of them and the last thing one wants is them traipsing through one’s house.
National Theatre: My Fair Lady Trailer (2005)
11 August 2005
Eliza Doolittle is a young flower seller with an unmistakable Cockney accent which keeps her in the lower rungs of Edwardian society.
She Stoops to Conquer Trailer (2003)
08 April 2003
Oliver Goldsmith's classic comedy of manners tells of the clever schemes and comic ruses that unfold one night at a country house.
National Theatre Live: Othello Trailer (2013)
26 September 2013
The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue Trailer (2024)
21 March 2024
In 1964, Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under Sir John Gielgud’s exacting direction.
The History Boys Trailer (2006)
02 October 2006
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge.
Hadestown: The Musical Trailer (2026)
24 July 2026
The tragic love of Orpheus and Eurydice is intertwined with the complex relationship of Hades and Persephone.
National Theatre Live: The Crucible Trailer (2023)
26 January 2023
A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller's captivating parable of power with Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Brendan Cowell (Yerma).
National Theatre Live: Henry V Trailer (2022)
21 April 2022
Fresh to the throne, King Henry V launches England into a bloody war with France. When his campaign encounters resistance, this inexperienced new ruler must prove he is fit to guide a country into war.
National Theatre Live: Macbeth Trailer (2013)
19 July 2013
Performing from within the walls of a deconsecrated Manchester church, Kenneth Branagh takes the lead role in this ambitious production of William Shakespeare's tragic tale of ambition and treachery.
National Theatre Live: The Book of Dust — La Belle Sauvage Trailer (2022)
17 February 2022
Two young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt.
National Theatre Live: Amadeus Trailer (2017)
02 February 2017
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna, the music capital of the world – and he’s determined to make a splash.
National Theatre Live: All My Sons Trailer (2026)
16 April 2026
One family, the heart of the American dream. When wartime delivers profits for Joe Heller, it comes at a price when his partner is charged with criminal manufacturing deals, and his eldest son goes missing in action.
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood Trailer (2021)
16 June 2021
A community is sleeping. If you listen closely, you can hear their dreams. The retired sea captain yearning for his lost love.
National Theatre Live: Salomé Trailer (2017)
22 June 2017
An occupied desert nation. A radical from the wilderness on hunger strike. A girl whose mysterious dance will change the course of the world.
National Theatre Live: The Misanthrope Trailer (2026)
22 September 2026
Alice, a brilliant novelist, despises the hollow contemporary mantras of kindness and respect. But the bolder she becomes in speaking out, the more colleagues avoid her, and the more her personal relationships begin to fracture.
National Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet Trailer (2021)
28 September 2021
An adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy set in modern-day Italy where two young lovers strive to transcend a violent world where Catholic and secular values clash.
National Theatre at Home: Summerfolk Trailer (2026)
07 July 2026
It's a hot, beautiful summer in 1905, and Russia's elite retreat to the countryside to swim, sip champagne and start affairs.
National Theatre Live: A Disappearing Number Trailer (2010)
14 October 2010
The innovative interweaving of romance and math was conceived. The 2008 Olivier Award winner for Best New Play, it has toured the world and was recently performed in New York as part of the Lincoln Center Festival.
National Theatre Live: King Lear Trailer (2011)
03 February 2011
An ageing monarch. A kingdom divided. A child’s love rejected. As Lear’s world descends into chaos, all that he once believed is brought into question.
National Theatre Live: Hangmen Trailer (2016)
03 March 2016
In his small pub in the northern English town of Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what's the second-best hangman in England to do on the day they've abolished hanging? Amongst the cub reporters and pub regulars dying to hear Harry's reaction to the news, his old assistant Syd and the peculiar Mooney lurk with very different motives for their visit.
National Theatre Live: A View from the Bridge Trailer (2015)
26 March 2015
The great Arthur Miller confronts the American dream in this dark and passionate tale. In Brooklyn, longshoreman Eddie Carbone welcomes his Sicilian cousins to the land of freedom.
National Theatre Live: King Lear Trailer (2018)
27 September 2018
Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, King Lear sees two ageing fathers – one a King, one his courtier – reject the children who truly love them.
National Theatre Live: As You Like It Trailer (2016)
30 March 2016
With her father the Duke banished and in exile, Rosalind and her cousin Celia leave their lives in the court behind them and journey into the Forest of Arden.
National Theatre Live: London Tide Trailer (2024)
17 October 2024
A storm rages and, in the darkest part of the night, a body is pulled from the swirling river. Across the city, two young women confront an uncertain future.
National Theatre Live: Paradise Trailer (2021)
02 September 2021
When a young soldier appears, his hope of escape comes with suspicion. And as an old enemy also emerges, he is faced with an even greater temptation: revenge.
National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest Trailer (2025)
20 February 2025
Being sensible can be excessively boring. At least Jack thinks so. While assuming the role of dutiful guardian in the country, he lets loose in town under a false identity.
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses Trailer (2026)
25 June 2026
A new staging of Christopher Hampton's celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin.
National Theatre Live: Three Sisters Trailer (2019)
01 December 2019
Owerri, 1967, on the brink of the Biafran Civil War. Lolo, Nne Chukwu and Udo are grieving the loss of their father.
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage Trailer (2013)
02 November 2013
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, bringing together the best British actors for a unique evening of unforgettable performances, broadcast live from London to cinemas around the world.
National Theatre Live: War Horse Trailer (2014)
27 February 2014
Based on Michael Morpurgo's novel and adapted for the stage by Nick Stafford, War Horse takes audiences on an extraordinary journey from the fields of rural Devon to the trenches of First World War France.
National Theatre Live: The Audience Trailer (2013)
12 June 2013
For sixty years, Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace, a meeting like no other in British public life, it is private.
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein Trailer (2011)
17 March 2011
Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker.
National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World Trailer (2026)
28 May 2026
Pegeen Flaherty’s life is turned upside down when a young man walks into her pub claiming that he’s killed his father.
National Theatre Live: Death of England: Delroy Trailer (2025)
09 January 2025
Unapologetically upwardly mobile and working as a bailiff, Delroy’s life spirals out of control on one surreal day as he races to get to the hospital where his girlfriend Carly is about to give birth.
National Theatre Live: Collaborators Trailer (2011)
01 December 2011
John Hodge's Collaborators centers on an imaginary encounter between Joseph Stalin and the playwright Mikhail Bulgakov.
Othello Trailer (1965)
15 December 1965
General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.
National Theatre Live: John Trailer (2014)
09 December 2014
Lloyd Newson interviewed more than 50 men asking them frank questions, initially about love and sex. One of those men was John.
National Theatre Live: Hamlet Trailer (2015)
15 October 2015
As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father's death but paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.
National Theatre Live: Phèdre Trailer (2009)
25 June 2009
A new English adaptation of the classic French tragedy Phèdre by Jean Racine (1639-1699). It retells the ancient Greek tale of the wife of the Atenian King Theseus, who conceived a forbidden love for his son (by an earlier wife) Hyppolytus.
National Theatre Live: Life of Pi Trailer (2023)
30 March 2023
Puppetry, magic and storytelling combine in a unique, Olivier Award-winning stage adaptation of the best-selling novel.
National Theatre Live: All About Eve Trailer (2019)
11 March 2019
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing.
National Theatre Live: Death of England: Closing Time Trailer (2025)
09 January 2025
Grieving the loss of the family shop and their dreams destroyed, Denise and daughter-in-law Carly are left to pick up the pieces of their relatives' mistakes.
National Theatre Live: Small Island Trailer (2019)
27 June 2019
Embark on a journey from Jamaica to Britain, through the Second World War to 1948 – the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury, England.
National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part One: Millennium Approaches Trailer (2017)
20 July 2017
The National Theatre's live theatrical production of Tony Kushner's two-part play 'Angels In America' about New Yorkers grappling with the AIDS crisis during the mid-1980s.
National Theatre Live: Hamlet Trailer (2026)
22 January 2026
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Are you watching closely? Trapped between duty and doubt, surrounded by power and privilege, young Prince Hamlet dares to ask the ultimate question—you know the one.
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar Trailer (2018)
22 March 2018
Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the educated élite conspire to bring him down.
National Theatre Live: Prima Facie Trailer (2022)
21 July 2022
Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. From working class origins, she has reached the top of her game.
National Theatre Live: The Fifth Step Trailer (2025)
27 November 2025
After years in the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, James becomes a sponsor to newcomer Luka. The pair bond over black coffee, trade stories and build a fragile friendship out of their shared experiences.
