- HD 1080
- Runtime: 227m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United Kingdom
- Director: Jonathan Munby, Ross MacGibbon
- Stars: Ian McKellen, Sinéad Cusack, Danny Webb, Kirsty Bushell, James Corrigan
- keywords: tragedy, filmed theater
- Production_studio: National Theatre
- The National Theatre Live: King Lear is featured in the top rankings of 2018
- #32 in Top Drama Movies of 2018
Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, King Lear sees two ageing fathers – one a King, one his courtier – reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with bitter ends.