Julius Caesar with Brian Cox

Brutus, a man of principle, is persuaded by the scheming Cassius that his friend Julius Caesar must die to save the Roman Republic from tyranny. On the Ides of March, the conspirators strike, but Mark Antony's funeral oration turns the mob against them, plunging Rome into civil war. As Brutus and Cassius face defeat at Philippi, the tragedy reveals how idealism can be corrupted and how assassination, even of a would-be dictator, solves nothing. Shakespeare's political thriller about the death of democracy.