08/29/2026
If you're looking for a beautifully acted, beautifully set film with a choral theme, check out "The Choral," a 2025 British film streaming on Netflix. It tells the story (fictional, but inspired by an actual chorus) of a community chorus in a Northern England mill town in 1916. The Great War is ever-present, the director is suspect because he has just spent a long period of time in Germany, and the prospect of being called up to the Front hangs over every young man in the village. Nevertheless, these dedicated amateurs unite to produce a performance of Elgar's "The Dream of Gerontius" for their neighbors and friends. Singing in hard times never gets old.