Screenplay: John Prebble

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


Elizabeth R (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 510 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roderick Graham

Cast Glenda Jackson · Ronald Hines · Robert Hardy · Anthony Ainley

Plot When Elizabeth Tudor comes to the throne, her (male) advisors know she has to marry. Doesn't she? Thus starts a decades-long political/ matrimonial game, during an age of high passions...

7.0

90 votes

7.0

90 votes

The Six Wives of Henry VIII (TV) (TV Miniseries)

1970 · Series · 540 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Naomi Capon · John Glenister

Cast Keith Michell · Anthony Quayle · Patrick Troughton · Bernard Hepton

Plot A six-episode dramatization of Henry VIII's relationships with each of his six wives. Each episode is devoted to one wife, and is a complete play in itself.

6.9

119 votes

6.9

119 votes

Zulu

1964 · Movie · 138 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cy Endfield

Cast Stanley Baker · Michael Caine · Jack Hawkins · Ulla Jacobsson

Plot Based on an actual historic event, this is the story of a group of British soldiers stationed in Africa who are forced to defend their tiny outpost against an attack...

6.8

3K votes

6.8

3K votes

Mysterious Island

1961 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cy Endfield

Cast Michael Craig · Herbert Lom · Joan Greenwood · Gary Merrill

Plot In 1865 at the height of the American Civil War, a group of captured Union soldiers make an escape in a balloon. But the balloon is caught in a storm...

6.1

1K votes

6.1

1K votes

White Feather

1955 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Robert D. Webb

Cast Robert Wagner · John Lund · Debra Paget · Jeffrey Hunter

Plot The story of the peace mission from the US cavalry to the Cheyenne Indians in Wyoming during the 1870s. The mission is threatened when one the officers falls for the...

5.5

177 votes

5.5

177 votes

Sky West and Crooked

1966 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Mills

Cast Hayley Mills · Ian McShane · Annette Crosbie · Laurence Naismith

Plot A young, lonely, emotionally challenged teenage girl finds solace in burying dead animals after the sudden traumatic death of a childhood friend 10 years earlier.

Not rated

Not rated

Penmarric (TV Series)

1979 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tina Wakerell · Derek Martinus

Cast Annabel Leventon · Peter Blake · Thomas Ellice · Rupert Frazer

Plot Maud Penmar Castallack wages war on her cousin Giles for many years in her determination to secure Penmarric for her son, Mark. But Mark is a man of passion and...

Not rated

Not rated

Studio 57 (TV Series)

1954 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Herschel Daugherty · Richard Irving · John English · Don Weis

Cast Tim Graham · Jean Byron · Marguerite Chapman · Robert Armstrong

Plot This dramatic anthology series went into open syndication when the DuMont Television Network ceased operations.

Not rated

Not rated

The Borgias (TV Miniseries)

1981 · Movie · 1981 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Brian Farnham

Cast Oliver Cotton · Maurice O'Connell · Louis Selwyn · Adolfo Celi

Plot 10 episodes. Historical story of the ruthless Rodrigo Borgia a man who intends to become Pope and who will not let anything stand in his way.

Not rated

Not rated

The Three Hostages (TV)

1977 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Clive Donner

Cast Barry Foster · Diana Quick · John Castle · Peter Blythe

Plot A film adaptation of the the fourth installment if John Buchan's Richard Hannay series.

Not rated

Not rated