Ballet Movies

The Bolshoi with Alexei Ratmansky, revive Shostakovich’s ballet

The Los Angeles-based Marat Daukayev School of Ballet gathers the resources, volunteers, and cast to put on The Nutcracker.

Many young girls dream of becoming ballerinas, but only very few are prepared to apply the all-out effort and make the sacrifices that this dream...

Manon’s brother Lescaut is offering her to the highest bidder when she meets Des Grieux and falls in love. They elope to Paris, but when...

A documentary about dancer Heinz Bosl who died in 1975 - aged 28.

During his birthday’s celebration, Prince Siegfried must choose a bride. Trying to escape reality, he dreams of a perfect love. His tutor tries...

Inspired by dark and gripping real life events, this Royal Ballet classic depicts the sexual and morbid obsessions of Crown Prince Rudolf leading to...

A group of women dressed up as Commedia dell'Arte characters dance together.

Based on a play about a female dancer who finds her inspiration in the dirt markets of Delhi

Joan Denise Moriarty doggedly followed her dream of bringing ballet to every corner of Ireland. A pioneer of early 20th century Irish dance, she...

Short film based upon a ballet by Yves Bonnat & Françoise Adret

The film traces Sam McKinlay’s early days as a punk skateboarder through his academic development as a conceptual artist into a highly esteemed...

Sir Peter Wright’s 1984 version of The Nutcracker for The Royal Ballet, still performed by the Company, stays close to Hoffmann’s...

George Balanchine's abstract ballet danced to existing pieces of music by composers Faure, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky. Each section represents a...

In Jacob Sutton’s film “Ascension”, two young dancers soar up from the darkness beneath the stage at Bastille to the sumptuous...

Live from the State Opera Under the Linden, Berlin 1999. Choreographed by Patrice Bart.

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake – The Royal Ballet

A dance film-fantasy, a tour of old and new Tallinn from its own unique angle - from the rooftops. First colour film of Eesti Telefilm.

Cinderella is helped to the ball by her fairy godmother in The Royal Ballet's version of the classic fairy tale, using Sergei Prokofiev's music and...