McKellen: Playing the Part (2018)
• May 25th, 2018 • 1h 32min
Documentary, History
Overview
Built upon a 14 hour interview, McKellen: Playing the Part is a unique journey through the key landmarks of McKellen's life, from early childhood into a demanding career that placed him in the public eye for the best part of his lifetime. Using an abundance of photography from McKellen's private albums and cinematically reconstructed scenes, a raw talent shines through in the intensity, variety and devotion to that moment in the light.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
Released on: 2017-06-12
Documentary, Music
A documentary on Queercore, the cultural and social movement that began as an offshoot of punk and w...
100 Men
Released on: 2017-07-08
Documentary
Over the course of four decades, filmmaker Paul Oremland documented his romantic and sexual encounte...
Gingers
Released on: 2013-12-12
Documentary
Redheads. Fire crotches… This film collects samples of their testimonials and their body hair and sk...
Prayers for Bobby
Released on: 2009-01-24
Drama, History, TV Movie
Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply r...
A Season in Hell
Released on: 1971-09-10
Drama, History
The tumultuous life of Arthur Rimbaud, the cursed poet, who completed his masterwork at the age of t...
The Krays
Released on: 1990-04-27
Drama, Crime, History
The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray,...
Mr. Gay Syria
Released on: 2018-09-06
Documentary
In focusing his attention on the competitors of Mr Gay Syria, director Ayse Toprak shatters the one-...
Bent
Released on: 1997-11-26
Drama, History, Romance
Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for h...
Secrets of the Gay Sauna
Released on: 2016-03-02
Documentary
Gay saunas are places where men meet strangers to have sex. With exclusive access to one Nottingham ...
Caravaggio
Released on: 1986-08-29
Drama, History, Romance
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Carava...
Taboo
Released on: 1999-12-18
Drama, History, Thriller
Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors ar...
In Cold Blood
Released on: 1967-12-15
Crime, Drama, Thriller, History
After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, i...
The Lion in Winter
Released on: 1968-08-20
Drama, History
Henry II and his estranged queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, battle over the choice of an heir.
Make Me Famous
Released on: 2023-02-17
Documentary
An investigation of Edward Brezinski, an ambitious, charismatic Lower East Side painter hell-bent on...
Outrage
Released on: 2009-04-24
Documentary
An indictment of closeted politicians who lobby for anti-gay legislation in the US.
Vanilla
Released on: 2017-04-08
Documentary
Look around. Everything you see and touch can taste like vanilla.
Hockney
Released on: 2014-11-25
Documentary
A documentary about the work and personality of artist David Hockney.
Home Movies
Released on: 2017-07-09
Documentary, Romance
In this home movie collection of gay men, memory serves as an act of hope, power, and above all, res...
No Goodbyes
Released on: 2021-06-01
Documentary, Drama
Love in a concentration camp. A young Jewish gay man, Otto, is protected by a "kapo" (a fellow priso...
Gie
Released on: 2005-07-13
Drama, History
Indonesian activist Soe Hok Gie experiences a political awakening during the tumultuous regimes of S...