National Theatre Live: Hamlet

Directed by Robin Lough and Lyndsey Turner

With Benedict Cumberbatch, Ciarán Hinds, Anastasia Hille, Sian Brooke and Jim Norton

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.