National Theatre Movie Trailers

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: 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: Of Mice and Men Trailer (2014)

06 November 2014

A powerful portrait of the American spirit and a heartbreaking testament to the bonds of friendship.

National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren's Profession Trailer (2025)

23 October 2025

Vivie Warren is a woman ahead of her time. Her mother, however, is a product of that old patriarchal order.

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt Trailer (2022)

27 January 2022

At the beginning of the 20th century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, Austria.

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: The House of Bernarda Alba Trailer (2024)

22 March 2024

In the domain of Bernarda Alba, a daughter who disobeys is no longer a daughter. Forced to live under their mother’s tight grip as they mourn their father’s death, can five sisters survive when young Adela dares for passion and freedom?

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 at Home: The Land of the Living Trailer (2025)

16 December 2025

'All my life – all your life – I've struggled with this: was what I did "wrong"?' Germany, 1945. Thomas, one of thousands of children stolen by the Nazis from Eastern Europe during WWII, is under the care of Ruth, a UN relief worker. Should she try to find his parents or leave him with those he's grown up with?

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 at Home: War Horse Trailer (2026)

22 October 2026

At the outbreak of the First World War, young Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the cavalry and shipped to France.

National Theatre Live: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead Trailer (2017)

20 April 2017

Against the backdrop of Hamlet, two hapless minor characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, take centre stage.

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: 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: 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 at Home: The Little Big Things Trailer (2024)

09 May 2024

When one moment changes everything, Henry's family are split between a past they no longer recognise, and a future they could never foresee.

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: Straight Line Crazy Trailer (2022)

26 May 2022

Ralph Fiennes leads the cast in David Hare’s blazing account of the most powerful man in New York, a master manipulator whose legacy changed the city forever.

National Theatre Live: Death of England: Closing Time Trailer (2024)

30 July 2024

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: All My Sons Trailer (2019)

14 May 2019

America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even harder knocks, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. They have built a home, raised two sons and established a thriving business.

National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra Trailer (2018)

06 December 2018

Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome.

National Theatre Live: LOVE Trailer (2018)

08 December 2018

In the communal area of a block of temporary accommodation, the residents go about their day-to-day routines in the run-up to Christmas.

National Theatre Live: Good Trailer (2023)

20 April 2023

As the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences.

National Theatre Live: The Last of the Haussmans Trailer (2012)

11 October 2012

Anarchic, feisty but growing old, high society drop-out Judy Haussman remains in spirit with the Ashrams of the 1960s while holding court in her dilapidated Art Deco house on the Devon coast.

National Theatre Live: Skylight Trailer (2014)

24 July 2014

On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant, a successful and charismatic restaurateur whose wife has recently died.

National Theatre Live: Les Blancs Trailer (2019)

01 September 2019

An African country teeters on the edge of civil war. A society prepares to drive out its colonial present and claim an independent future.

National Theatre Live: She Stoops to Conquer Trailer (2012)

29 March 2012

Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward yo acquainting his daughter with his old pal's son with a view to marriage.

National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy Trailer (2019)

25 July 2019

On a cold September morning in 1844 a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside. Dreaming of a new life in the new world.

National Theatre Live: After Life Trailer (2021)

25 November 2021

A group of strangers grapple with this impossible question as they find themselves in a bureaucratic waiting room between life and death.

National Theatre Live: Oliver Twist Trailer (2022)

22 February 2022

An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.

National Theatre Live: Trouble in Mind Trailer (2021)

15 December 2021

In 1950s America, protests for racial equality erupt in the face of voter suppression. On Broadway, Wiletta Mayer, a talented black actress, begins rehearsals for a new play about racism – written and directed by two white men.

National Theatre Live: Underdog: The Other Other Brontë Trailer (2024)

09 August 2024

Reader, I think you know who is most quotable. Charlotte Brontë has a confession about how one sister became an idol, and the other became known as the third sister.

National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Trailer (2017)

18 May 2017

In the early hours of the morning on the campus of an American college, Martha, much to her husband George’s displeasure, has invited the new professor and his wife to their home for some after-party drinks.

National Theatre at Home: A Tupperware of Ashes Trailer (2025)

08 July 2025

An ambitious Michelin-Star chef, Queenie is used to having the last word. But when her children notice gaps in her memory and her grip on reality loosening, they are faced with an impossible choice.

National Theatre Live: Obsession Trailer (2017)

11 May 2017

Gino is a drifter, down-at-heel and magnetically handsome. At a road side restaurant he encounters husband and wife, Joseph and Hanna.

National Theatre Live: Everyman Trailer (2015)

16 July 2015

Everyman is successful, popular and riding high when Death comes calling. He is forced to abandon the life he has built and embark on a last, frantic search to recruit a friend, anyone, to speak in his defence.

National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler Trailer (2017)

09 March 2017

Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control those around her, only to see her own world unravel.

National Theatre Live: No Man's Land Trailer (2016)

15 December 2016

One summer's evening, two ageing writers, Hirst and Spooner, meet in a Hampstead pub and continue their drinking into the night at Hirst's stately house nearby.

National Theatre Live: Allelujah! Trailer (2018)

01 November 2018

Filmed live at London’s Bridge Theatre during its limited run. The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town in Yorkshire, is threatened with closure as part of an efficiency drive.

National Theatre Live: One Man, Two Guvnors Trailer (2011)

15 September 2011

Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect £6,000 from his fiancée’s dad.

National Theatre Live: The Seagull Trailer (2022)

03 November 2022

Emilia Clarke makes her West End debut as Nina in Anya Reiss’ unique 21st century modernisation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, with direction by Jamie Lloyd.

National Theatre Live: London Assurance Trailer (2010)

24 June 2010

Grace has agreed to marry Sir Harcourt in return for his financial support of her family. At a house party in her father's place, Harcourt's son Charles also falls in love with Grace.

National Theatre Collection: Translations Trailer (2018)

31 July 2018

Owen, the prodigal son, returns to rural Donegal from Dublin. With him are two British army officers.

National Theatre Live: Othello Trailer (2023)

23 February 2023

Farewell the tranquil mind. A bright, headstrong daughter of a senator; elevated by her status but stifled by its expectations.

National Theatre Live: Antigone Trailer (2012)

31 December 2012

In the unstable aftermath of a civil war, Creon, the new King of Thebes, asserts his authority by forbidding anyone from honouring the death of the traitor Polyneices.