Nothing Like a Dame

Nothing Like a Dame (2018) is a BBC Arena documentary you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Roger Michell. Four dames of British stage and screen — Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins and Joan Plowright — sit together on camera for the first time.

The weekend was filmed at Joan Plowright's country house, the same place she once shared with Sir Laurence Olivier. Over two days the four women talk through careers spanning six decades, long-dead co-stars, directors who weren't easy to work with, and each other's most embarrassing stories. Eighty minutes, no narration, no dramatic reconstruction — just four remarkable women, candid and at ease with one another. The kind of conversation most documentaries try to script but cannot replicate. Stream Nothing Like a Dame online on iFILM.