Great British Theatre - Season 1 Episode 3 -

Benedict Cumberbatch, Ciarán Hinds, Sian Brooke and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith in Shakespeare’s famous tragedy filmed live in London. As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father’s death but paralysed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.