Laurence Olivier Movies

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.

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version...

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

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

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

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

In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.

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

An all-star tribute to Natalie Wood by some of her friends and co-workers.

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

Julien Temple's second documentary profiling punk rock pioneers the Sex Pistols is an enlightening, entertaining trip back to a time when the punk...

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

Hopkins’ career has spanned several decades, which is why we will also use many interviews that he gave throughout his life, allowing us to put...

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...

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

In the late 1890s, the ambitious, innocent Carrie arrives in Chicago’s South Side and stays with her nagging, dullish married sister. She then...

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 deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer...

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

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