Leonard Bernstein: movies and TV shows
Leonard Bernstein has 183 credits in the archive: 161 films and 22 TV series, from 1948 to 2025. Highest rated: Bambi (9.0/10).
Career timeline
1948 – 2025 · busiest year: 1976 (12 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | West Side Story | Film | — | 106 | |
| 2025 | OSN: Musiche dall'America con Gianna Fratta e Alessandro Taverna | Film | — | 106 | |
| 2025 | The New York Philharmonic Orchestra in Pyongyang Great moments in music | Film | — | 106 | |
| 2024 | Beatles '64 | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.5 | 105 |
| 2024 | The Three Tenors - Birth of a Legend | Film | 8.0 | 105 | |
| 2024 | Bernstein & Gershwin - Two Americans in Paris | Film | — | 105 | |
| 2024 | Bernstein & Gershwin - Two Americans in Paris | Film | — | 105 | |
| 2024 | Beethoven's Nine: Ode to Humanity | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.0 | 105 |
| 2024 | Jonas Kaufmann: The Sound of Movies | Film | — | 105 | |
| 2024 | P-FACTOR Piano Musical Duels | Film | — | 105 | |
| 2023 | Maestro | Film | 6.3 | 104 | |
| 2023 | Candide | Film | — | 104 | |
| 2023 | Candide | Film | — | 104 | |
| 2023 | Gustavo Dudamel at the Paris Opera With artists from the Académie | Film | — | 104 | |
| 2023 | The Only Girl in the Orchestra | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 6.6 | 104 |
| 2023 | New Year Concert with the Orchestre National de France Conducted by Stéphane Denève | Film | — | 104 | |
| 2023 | Jonas Kaufmann: Arena di Verona 2023 | Film | — | 104 | |
| 2022 | Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.5 | 103 |
| 2022 | OSN: Il ballo al Cinema con John Axelrod | Film | — | 103 | |
| 2021 | West Side Story | Film | 6.9 | 102 | |
| 2021 | West Side Story | Film | 6.9 | 102 | |
| 2021 | West Side Story | Film | 6.9 | 102 | |
| 2021 | Bernstein's Wall | Self (archive footage) | Film | 1.0 | 102 |
| 2020 | Leonard Bernstein Mass | Film | — | 101 | |
| 2020 | Chita: A Legendary Celebration | Film | — | 101 | |
| 2018 | West Side Story, le hit de Leonard Bernstein | himself | Film | 6.0 | 99 |
| 2018 | Leonard Bernstein: A Genius Divided | self | Film | 9.8 | 99 |
| 2018 | Trouble in Tahiti | Film | — | 99 | |
| 2018 | Paris Opera Ballet: Tribute to Jerome Robbins 2 | Film | — | 99 | |
| 2018 | BBC Proms: Bernstein's On the Town | Film | 7.0 | 99 | |
| 2018 | New York Philharmonic New Year's Eve: Bernstein on Broadway | Film | — | 99 | |
| 2018 | Wonderful Town | Film | — | 99 | |
| 2017 | The Swingles con l'Orchestra Rai | Film | — | 98 | |
| 2017 | JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala | Self | Film | — | 98 |
| 2016 | West Side Stories: The Making of a Classic | Self | Film | 8.0 | 97 |
| 2016 | Leonard Bernstein: Larger Than Life | Himself | Film | — | 97 |
| 2014 | Copland, Bernstein | Film | — | 95 | |
| 2013 | Best of Bayreuth: Highlights from Three Decades | self | Film | 7.0 | 94 |
| 2012 | Leonard Bernstein Conducts Beethoven String Quartet No. 16 & Haydn Missa in Tempore Belli | Conductor | Film | — | 93 |
| 2012 | Leonard Bernstein conducts Stravinsky & Sibelius | Self - Conductor | Film | — | 93 |
| 2010 | Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 5 & 7 - Leonard Bernstein & Wiener Philharmoniker | Conductor | Film | — | 91 |
| 2010 | Bernstein's Mahler | Film | — | 91 | |
| 2009 | Haydn: The Creation (Bernstein) | Conductor | Film | 7.0 | 90 |
| 2009 | Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould | Self (archival footage) | Film | 6.9 | 90 |
| 2008 | Leonard Bernstein - Schubert: Symphony No. 9 / Schumann: Manfred Overture | Conductor | Film | — | 89 |
| 2008 | Bernstein in Rehearsal & Performance: Shostakovich Symphony No. 1 | Conductor | Film | — | 89 |
| 2008 | Bernstein conducts Bernstein | Conductor | Film | — | 89 |
| 2008 | Karajan: Beauty As I See It | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 89 |
| 2008 | Bernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 1,8,9 | Film | — | 89 | |
| 2008 | Schumann: The Symphonies - Leonard Bernstein | Conductor | Film | — | 89 |
| 2008 | Bernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 3,4,5 | Conductor | Film | 7.5 | 89 |
| 2008 | Bernstein | Beethoven Symphonies 2,6,7 | Conductor | Film | — | 89 |
| 2007 | Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 5 | Himself | Film | — | 88 |
| 2007 | Mozart: Requiem | Self - conductor | Film | — | 88 |
| 2007 | Candide | Film | — | 88 | |
| 2007 | Candide | Film | — | 88 | |
| 2007 | Rostropovich Life & Art | Self - Conductor | Film | 7.0 | 88 |
| 2007 | Cello Concertos Haydn and Schumann | Self - Conductor | Film | — | 88 |
| 2007 | Beethoven: The Piano Concertos | Film | — | 88 | |
| 2007 | Brahms Academic Festival, Tragic Overtures/ Variations on a Theme by Haydn/Serenade No. 2 | Himself | Film | — | 88 |
| 2006 | Bernstein in Paris: Berlioz Requiem | Conductor | Film | — | 87 |
| 2006 | Bernstein in London: Verdi Requiem | Conductor | Film | — | 87 |
| 2006 | Bernstein in London: Verdi Requiem | Film | — | 87 | |
| 2006 | Bernstein in Paris: The Ravel Concerts | Film | — | 87 | |
| 2006 | Mozart Great Mass in C Minor; Ave Verum Corpus; Exsultate Jubilate | Conductor | Film | — | 87 |
| 2005 | Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 9 & 10 / Das Lied von der Erde | Conductor | Film | 10.0 | 86 |
| 2005 | Candide | Film | 7.2 | 86 | |
| 2005 | Candide | Film | 7.2 | 86 | |
| 2004 | 20th Century Greats | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.0 | 85 |
| 2004 | Leonard Bernstein: Mass At The Vatican City | Film | — | 85 | |
| 2003 | Leonard Bernstein: Candide | Film | 7.0 | 84 | |
| 2002 | Wonderful Town | Film | — | 83 | |
| 2001 | Trouble in Tahiti | Film | 9.0 | 82 | |
| 2001 | Trouble in Tahiti | Film | 9.0 | 82 | |
| 2001 | Contender: Mastering the Method | Film | 7.0 | 82 | |
| 1998 | Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note | (archival footage) | Film | 6.0 | 79 |
| 1993 | On the Town | Film | — | 74 | |
| 1993 | Leonard Bernstein: The Gift of Music | Film | — | 74 | |
| 1993 | Glenn Gould: Extasis | Self (archival footage) | Film | — | 74 |
| 1993 | The Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past | Self (archive footage) | Film | 9.0 | 74 |
| 1992 | Bernstein in Japan | Self - Conductor | Film | — | 73 |
| 1992 | Bernstein in Australia: Tchaikovsky | Film | — | 73 | |
| 1991 | Debussy, Images pour orchestre | dirigent | Film | — | 72 |
| 1991 | Candide | Commentator | Film | 7.5 | 72 |
| 1991 | Candide | Film | 7.5 | 72 | |
| 1991 | Candide | Film | 7.5 | 72 | |
| 1991 | Candide | Film | 7.5 | 72 | |
| 1989 | Clive James' Postcard from | Self | TV | 7.0 | 70 |
| 1989 | Ode to Freedom | Self / Conductor | Film | — | 70 |
| 1989 | Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein - Candide | Self - Conductor | Film | — | 70 |
| 1989 | Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein - Candide | Film | — | 70 | |
| 1989 | Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein - Candide | Film | — | 70 | |
| 1988 | Candide | Film | 9.0 | 69 | |
| 1988 | Leonard Bernstein: The Rite of Spring in Rehearsal | Film | 7.0 | 69 | |
| 1986 | Candide | Film | 10.0 | 67 | |
| 1986 | Candide | Film | 10.0 | 67 | |
| 1986 | A Quiet Place | Film | 4.0 | 67 | |
| 1986 | A Quiet Place | Film | 4.0 | 67 | |
| 1986 | Beyond Picasso | Film | — | 67 | |
| 1985 | Night of 100 Stars II | Self | Film | 6.8 | 66 |
| 1985 | Tanglewood: So you want to be a conductor | Self | Film | — | 66 |
| 1985 | The Making Of West Side Story | Self / Conductor | Film | 8.5 | 66 |
| 1985 | The Making Of West Side Story | Film | 8.5 | 66 | |
| 1985 | Tanglewood: A Place for Music | Self | Film | — | 66 |
| 1985 | The Little Drummer Boy: An Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein | Self | Film | 8.0 | 66 |
| 1984 | Brahms The Piano Concertos | Conductor | Film | — | 65 |
| 1984 | Joseph Haydn Mass: In Tempore belli | dirigent | Film | — | 65 |
| 1984 | Bernstein Brahms Symphonies | Himself | Film | — | 65 |
| 1983 | The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala | Self - Conductor | Film | — | 64 |
| 1982 | Bernstein/Beethoven | Self | TV | 8.0 | 63 |
| 1981 | Leonard Bernstein's Mass | Film | — | 62 | |
| 1981 | Leonard Bernstein's Mass | Film | — | 62 | |
| 1981 | Wagner - Tristan Und Isolde | Film | — | 62 | |
| 1979 | Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was… | Himself | Film | — | 60 |
| 1978 | The Kennedy Center Honors | Self | TV | 7.4 | 59 |
| 1978 | Bernstein Beethoven Overtures | Conductor | Film | — | 59 |
| 1978 | Beethoven Fidelio | Conductor | Film | 9.5 | 59 |
| 1978 | Leonard Bernstein: Reflections | Self | Film | 2.0 | 59 |
| 1978 | Leonard Bernstein: Reflections | Film | 2.0 | 59 | |
| 1977 | Leonard Bernstein conducts Stravinsky & Bach | dirigent | Film | — | 58 |
| 1977 | Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms Symphony No's 1 & 2 | Self / Conductor | Film | 10.0 | 58 |
| 1976 | The Unanswered Question - Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein | Presenter | TV | — | 57 |
| 1976 | The Unanswered Question - Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein | TV | — | 57 | |
| 1976 | The Unanswered Question - Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein | TV | — | 57 | |
| 1976 | Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal | Self - Conductor | Film | 7.0 | 57 |
| 1976 | The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity | Himself | Film | 9.0 | 57 |
| 1976 | The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics | Himself | Film | 9.0 | 57 |
| 1976 | The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis | Himself | Film | 7.7 | 57 |
| 1976 | Bernstein Gerhswin & Ives | Himself | Film | — | 57 |
| 1976 | The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax | Himself | Film | 9.0 | 57 |
| 1976 | The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth | Himself | Film | 9.0 | 57 |
| 1976 | The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology | Himself | Film | 9.0 | 57 |
| 1976 | Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 | Conductor | Film | 10.0 | 57 |
| 1975 | The Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner | Film | — | 56 | |
| 1975 | Bernstein: Tchaikovsky: Symphonies No. 4 & 5 | Self - Conductor | Film | — | 56 |
| 1975 | Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 | Self | Film | — | 56 |
| 1973 | Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, “Resurrection” – Leonard Bernstein – Ely Cathedral | Film | — | 54 | |
| 1973 | Trouble in Tahiti | Film | — | 54 | |
| 1973 | Trouble in Tahiti | Film | — | 54 | |
| 1973 | Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 3 | Self - Conductor | Film | 10.0 | 54 |
| 1972 | Le Grand Échiquier | Self | TV | 8.0 | 53 |
| 1972 | Das Lied von der Erde: A Personal Introduction | Self (conductor and commentator) | Film | — | 53 |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Self | TV | 6.1 | 52 |
| 1970 | King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.3 | 51 |
| 1970 | Bernstein In Vienna: Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major | Self / Conductor / Pianist | Film | 10.0 | 51 |
| 1970 | Bernstein in Vienna: Beethoven, The Ninth Symphony | Self / Conductor | Film | 10.0 | 51 |
| 1970 | Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein | Self / Narrator | Film | 9.0 | 51 |
| 1970 | Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein | Film | 9.0 | 51 | |
| 1970 | Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein | Film | 9.0 | 51 | |
| 1970 | Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein | Film | 9.0 | 51 | |
| 1969 | Das Sonntagskonzert | Self | TV | — | 50 |
| 1968 | Čas slunce a růží | Film | 8.0 | 49 | |
| 1967 | Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution | Self | TV | — | 48 |
| 1967 | Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution | Self | Film | — | 48 |
| 1967 | Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution | Film | — | 48 | |
| 1966 | Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti | Self - Interviewee | Film | — | 47 |
| 1961 | West Side Story | Film | 7.2 | 42 | |
| 1960 | The Creative Performer | Film | 8.5 | 41 | |
| 1960 | The Creative Performer | Film | 8.5 | 41 | |
| 1959 | Startime | Self | TV | 6.8 | 40 |
| 1959 | Startime | TV | 6.8 | 40 | |
| 1958 | New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts | TV | — | 39 | |
| 1958 | New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts | TV | — | 39 | |
| 1958 | New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts | TV | — | 39 | |
| 1958 | Wonderful Town | Film | 7.0 | 39 | |
| 1958 | Wonderful Town | Film | 7.0 | 39 | |
| 1957 | The Lark | Film | — | 38 | |
| 1957 | Satchmo the Great | Film | 6.5 | 38 | |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Recipient | TV | — | 37 |
| 1954 | On the Waterfront | Film | 7.9 | 35 | |
| 1952 | Omnibus | TV | 6.3 | 33 | |
| 1949 | On the Town | Film | 7.0 | 30 | |
| 1949 | On the Town | Film | 7.0 | 30 | |
| 1949 | On the Town | Film | 7.0 | 30 | |
| 1948 | Bambi | Self | TV | 9.0 | 29 |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show | Self | TV | 6.8 | 29 |
| What Makes Music Symphonic? (Young People's Concert No. 4) | TV | — | — | ||
| What Makes Music Symphonic? (Young People's Concert No. 4) | TV | — | — | ||
| Mahler Bernstein Das Lied von Der Erde | Self (conductor) | Film | — | — | |
| Concerto Bernstein-Gershwin | Film | — | — | ||
| Joseph Haydn : Die Schopfung - Leonard Bernstein | Film | — | — | ||
| Mahler Symphony no. 3: Bernstein | Director | Film | — | — | |
| Bernstein | Mahler Lieder | Film | — | — |