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 how violence is deployed in modern cinema.
And we have just staged Cato by Joseph Addison - George Washington’s favorite play tells the story of the last day of democracy in ancient Rome. As foundational research for The Forge—our feature script detailing Washington’s historic 1778 staging at Valley Forge—we produced the entire two-hour tragedy using marionettes.
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Educational Mission
MacMillan Films is dedicated to producing thoughtful educational programming that instructs and inspires. Our mission is to produce programs that showcase democratic values and the benefits of a pluralist society. Many of our titles are Greek dramas and documentaries about philosophy and democracy. We produce a lot on ancient Greek culture and art because so much of modern thought stems from the “golden era” of 5th-century democratic Athens.