Laurence Olivier Movies

A play version of Daphne du Maurier’s book starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier

An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her.

Ukrainian bishop Kiril Lakota, a political prisoner in a Soviet gulag for twenty years, is unexpectedly released and sent to the Vatican, where, upon...

Intellectually precocious teenager Lauren King lives in Paris with her somewhat ditzy mother. On a movie set, she strikes up a friendship with...

A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.

Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud....

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur leads a Korean War campaign, and the war tests a married couple's relationship.

In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister...

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

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the five boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench...

An Edwardian take on the Shakespeare play starring Laurence Olivier.

A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.

Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for...

In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by...

A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy...

BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen...

A documentary on the film director William Wyler (1902-1981), this feature was conceived by his daughter, Catherine, as a loving tribute. Utilizing a...

Sir Alexander Korda, one of the world's most flamboyant movie tycoons, rose from obscurity in rural Hungary to become a legendary filmmaker. With him...