Laurence Olivier Movies

Documentary examination of the role of Hamlet, in which ten prominent actors who have played the part discuss Hamlet's personality, Shakespeare's...

This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from...

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

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

British Army captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito. Sangrito, however, is well aware of the...

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...

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

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...

Producer Robert Evans dominates with his trademark promotional style, but Schlesinger gets a short time on camera (one of his few available...

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...

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

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

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

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...

'A good-looking chauffeur, employed by an aristocratic married lady is tempted to misconduct. His indifference arouses her wrath and he is charged...

Short WW II documentary

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

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