Laurence Olivier Movies

Talented and enduring Academy Award-winning star, Gregory Peck, tells how it was when studios ruled and a shy boy from a broken family could rise to...

The body of Marilyn Monroe is recreated in a futuristic mortuary. We explore the body to find out what effect it had on her life as she became one of...

This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such...

This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.

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

Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.

A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors. Compiled from...

Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great...

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...

Adaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival.

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

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

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...

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

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human...

General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.

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

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

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...

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