Screenplay: Nigel Williams

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Nigel Williams. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Shogun

2024 · Series · 60 min. · Canada

Direction Justin Marks · Rachel Kondo · Fred Toye · Charlotte Brändström

Cast Cosmo Jarvis · Hiroyuki Sanada · Anna Sawai · Tadanobu Asano

Synopsis In Shogun (2024), a bold English navigator shipwrecks in feudal Japan, plunging into a world of political intrigue and cultural clash. As warlords vie for power, he becomes entangled with a cunning daimyo and his mysterious translator. Loyalties blur amid...

7.6

10K votes

7.6

10K votes

Elizabeth I (TV Miniseries)

2005 · Series · 223 min. · United States

Direction Tom Hooper

Cast Helen Mirren · Jeremy Irons · Hugh Dancy · Patrick Malahide

Synopsis Emmy®-winner Helen Mirren and Oscar®-winner Jeremy Irons star in Elizabeth I, a two-part HBO Films miniseries event that explores the intersection of the private and public life of Elizabeth I (Mirren) in the latter half of her reign, offering a...

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6.8

637 votes

6.8

637 votes

Direction David Garfath · John Madden · Tony Smith · Paul Weiland

Cast Michael Gambon · Brian Henson · Mark Ashman · Frances Barber

Synopsis A storyteller in a labyrinth tells his dog the stories of Perseus and Medusa, Icarus and Daedalus, Theseus and the Minotaur, and Orpheus & Euridyce.

6.7

494 votes

6.7

494 votes

The Name of the Rose (TV Miniseries)

2019 · Series · 60 min. · Germany

Direction Giacomo Battiato

Cast John Turturro · Rupert Everett · Damian Hardung · Michael Emerson

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2019). 8 Episodes. A monk investigates a series of mysterious deaths at an abbey. Television adaptation of Umberto Eco's novel 'The Name of the Rose'.

5.8

433 votes

5.8

433 votes

Direction Philip Martin

Cast Helen Mirren · Jason Clarke · Joseph Quinn · Antonia Clarke

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2019). 4 Episodes. Story of the greatest tsarina, Catherine the Great (1729-1796) and the Hermitage.

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5.7

248 votes

5.7

248 votes

Moby Dick (TV Miniseries)

2010 · Series · 180 min. · Germany

Direction Mike Barker

Cast Ethan Hawke · William Hurt · Donald Sutherland · Gillian Anderson

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2010-2011). 2 Episodes. Nantucket. In 1850, this little island off the east coast of the United States is the capital of American whaling. Sailors, traders, harpooners – they all hope to make big money on land or sea...

5.3

173 votes

5.3

173 votes

Wodehouse in Exile (TV)

2013 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tim Fywell

Cast Tim Pigott-Smith · Zoe Wanamaker · Curran McKay · Simon Coury

Synopsis An all-star cast heads up this intimate film about how author, P.G.Wodehouse, came to face a charge of treason during the Second World War and how this quintessential Englishman, creator of Jeeves and Wooster, became an exile from his own...

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The Roof (S)

2016 · Movie · 10 min. · United Kingdom

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Bertie and Elizabeth (TV)

2002 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Giles Foster

Cast James Wilby · Alan Bates · Eileen Atkins · Dolly Wells

Synopsis A chronicle of the life of George VI, who was forced to become King following the abdication of his brother Edward VIII, and his relationship with his wife, Elizabeth.

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The First Kangaroos

1988 · Movie · 101 min. · Australia

Direction Frank Cvitanovich

Cast Dennis Waterman · Chris Haywood · Dominic Sweeney · Philip Quast

Synopsis The story of the Australian Rugby League's first visit to England.

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Direction Tristram Powell · Udayan Prasad · Christopher Morahan · Sandy Johnson

Cast Geoffrey Chater · Bernard Hill · Pete Postlethwaite · Patrick Godfrey

Synopsis (1985-2002). 10 seasons. Producer Kenith Trodd was part of a 1984 team brought together to study how the BBC should respond to Channel Four's pioneering efforts in making films for both television and theatrical release. The result was a transition...

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Madiba (TV Series)

2017 · Series · Canada

Direction Kevin Hooks

Cast Laurence Fishburne · Orlando Jones · David Harewood · Michael Nyqvist

Synopsis A landmark six-part miniseries on the life of Nelson Mandela.

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