Description: A film studio which makes eductional movies for broadcast, institutional, and home use.
Macmillan Films is an independent studio that produces films about art, thought and democracy. We have the largest catalog of ancient Greek plays available anywhere - for academic and personal use including all three plays of the Oresteia , The Bacchae , Lysistrata , Oedipus Rex and Prometheus Bound . Below - Orestes waits for the verdict at the end of the Oresteia:
We also produce thoughtful art films including the award winning feature True Drama which contrasts Greek Drama violence with the way violence is deployed in modern cinema.
And and we have just staged Cato by Joseph Addison - George Washington’s favorite play - about the last day of democracy in ancient Rome. Below - Sempronius sends the insurrection leader to death: