National Theatre Movie Trailers
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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.
Hadestown: The Musical Trailer (2026)
23 July 2026
The tragic love of Orpheus and Eurydice is intertwined with the complex relationship of Hades and Persephone.
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: 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 Live: Golden Boy Trailer (2026)
05 November 2026
1930s New York, at the height of the Depression. Joe Bonaparte is a gifted young violinist with extraordinary talent and a future in music, until a chance at fame and fortune lures him into the brutal world of professional boxing.
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.
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.
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.
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 at Home: The Grapes of Wrath Trailer (2024)
06 December 2024
Forced to travel West in search of a promised land, the Joad family embark on an epic journey across America in the hope of finding work and a new life in California.
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.
National Theatre Live: The Other Place Trailer (2025)
20 March 2025
Two sisters reunite on the anniversary of the death of their father. Their uncle has remodelled their family home, in an attempt at a fresh start.
National Theatre Live: The Authenticator Trailer (2026)
30 June 2026
Soon after inheriting her family's stately home, eccentric artist Fenella Harford discovers a stash of hidden diaries and enlists a young academic, Marva, to confirm their authenticity.
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: 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.
National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire Trailer (2014)
16 September 2014
As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.
National Theatre at Home: London Road Trailer (2026)
14 July 2026
Autumn, 2006. The everyday life of the Suffolk town of Ipswich is shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women.
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: Inter Alia Trailer (2025)
25 September 2025
Jessica Parks is a smart Crown Court Judge at the top of her career. Behind the robe, she is a karaoke fiend, loving wife and a supportive parent.
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 at Home: Pride Trailer (2026)
01 November 2026
Summer 1984. The UK is in turmoil. With Thatcher battling to dismantle the coal industry, and a lethal pandemic on the rise, 24-year-old activist Mark Ashton founds an unlikely new alliance with the pit communities of South Wales: Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners.
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: 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: 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: Electra/Persona Trailer (2026)
23 September 2026
Electra: A daughter consumed by grief and rage, clinging to the idea of justice as her world comes apart.
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: 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: 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: Fleabag Trailer (2019)
12 September 2019
Fleabag may seem oversexed, emotionally unfiltered and self-obsessed, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.
National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes Trailer (2017)
26 September 2017
In 2008, as the Large Hadron Collider searches for the Higgs boson, tragedy throws two sisters together.
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 at Home: The Story Trailer (2026)
01 December 2026
When a white teacher is killed in a black neighbourhood, four journalists race to get the headline – at any cost.
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 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: Ballet Shoes Trailer (2025)
22 July 2025
In a crumbling house full of dinosaur bones and fossils, three adopted sisters – Pauline, Petrova and Posy – are learning who they are and what they want to be.
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: 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: Follies Trailer (2017)
16 November 2017
New York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic building will be demolished.
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 at Home: End Trailer (2026)
24 March 2026
Alfie and Julie must now write their ending. Heartwarming yet heartbreaking, David Eldridge's critically acclaimed play explores love and relationships.
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: Man and Boy Trailer (2026)
21 May 2026
Jazz, Broadway and the Great Depression. In 1930s New York City, international financier Gregor Antonescu's luck has finally run out.
National Theatre Live: Young Marx Trailer (2017)
07 December 2017
1850, and Europe’s most feared terrorist is hiding in Dean Street, Soho. Broke, restless and horny, the thirty-two-year-old revolutionary is a frothing combination of intellectual brilliance, invective, satiric wit, and child-like emotional illiteracy.