David Hare has written over thirty stage plays and thirty screenplays for film and television. The plays include
Plenty, Pravda (with Howard Brenton),
The Secret Rapture, Racing Demon, Skylight, Amy's View, The Blue Room, Via Dolorosa, Stuff Happens, The Absence of War, The Judas Kiss, The Red Barn, The Moderate Soprano, I'm Not Running and
Beat the Devil. For cinema, he has written
The Hours, The Reader, Damage, Denial, Wetherby and
The White Crow among others, while his television films include
Licking Hitler, the
Worricker Trilogy, Collateral and
Roadkill. In a millennial poll of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, five of the top hundred were his.