Laurence Olivier Movies

Documentary with an affectionate look back at the classic Granada TV dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's famous novel "Brideshead Revisited".

Promotional short hosted by Laurence Olivier promoting the film "Othello."

Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence...

One Saturday evening Rosa Priore is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch for her family and their friends. By Sunday afternoon her life and marriage...

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at an exhibition of Da Vinci's drawings at Burlington House in London, marking the quincentenary of his...

An egocentric artillery captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress of the coast of Sweden...

During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of...

Towards the end of their lives, two men from very different worlds discover that one of them was in love with the other one's wife for more than...

A film about the life and work of the master comedy filmmaker, Charles Chaplin.

A documentary by Tony Palmer on English composer Sir William Walton (1902–1983), made shortly before his death. The film includes the only...

'Riviera. Professional co-respondents mistake one another for clients.' (British Film Catalogue)

In this television documentary, Laurence Oliver is interviewed by Kenneth Tynan about his Shakespearean films.

A brash young artist invades the secluded retirement of an elderly painter and finds that the great man lives with two young women in a tantalizingly...

A man tries to burgle his own safe on the same night that a professional criminal attempts it.

Tree of Life is a 1971 film directed by John Fernhout.

Television documentary on playwright, actor, composer, and film maker Noel Coward.

On a day in the summer of 1912, the family of retired matinee idol James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of Tyrone's wife Mary, the...