Laurence Olivier Movies

A London barrister believes the woman who spent the night in his hotel suite is the erring wife of his newest client.

An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé....

A dramatized retelling of Colin Clark's experience on the 1957 film The Prince and the Showgirl, based on the diary he kept throughout production as...

Eve Arnold remembers her relationship and work with Mariln Monroe in this documentary.

A portrait of the 30 year relationship between Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. With comments by their friends and family.

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.

In "Gone with the Wind" she was an unforgettable Scarlett O'Hara. Beauty, two-time Oscar winner, celebrated Hollywood star and great Shakespearean...

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the...

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...

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...

In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. With the support of Queen Elizabeth I, British sea raiders such as Sir...

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

Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of the one she loves.

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...

Winston Churchill understood the power of films, but the true extent of his use of cinema as a propaganda tool is rarely explored. In 1934, one of...

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...

Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to perform his duties while eluding a police lieutenant...

A play by Noël Coward recorded for radio starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier.

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.