Soundtrack: William Walton

Direction Laurence Olivier

Cast Laurence Olivier · Jean Simmons · Basil Sydney · Eileen Herlie

Synopsis William Shakespeare's tale of tragedy of murder and revenge in the royal halls of medieval Denmark. Claudius, brother to the King, conniving with the Queen, poisons the monarch and seizes the throne, taking the widowed Gertrude for his bride. Hamlet,...

Direction Laurence Olivier

Cast Laurence Olivier · Ralph Richardson · John Gielgud · Claire Bloom

Synopsis The third and final entry in Laurence Olivier's Shakespeare triptych, Richard III (1954) is an audacious portrait of a man determined to prove himself a villain. As the personification of evil impudence, Olivier portrays the Duke of Gloucester with such...

Direction Laurence Olivier

Cast Laurence Olivier · Robert Newton · Leslie Banks · Felix Aylmer

Synopsis In the inspired Olivier concept, Shakespeare's play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre, shifting in broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V, who had developed from a dissolute youth to a purposeful monarch. Proving his...

Direction Alberto Cavalcanti

Cast Leslie Banks · C.V. France · Valerie Taylor · Marie Lohr

Synopsis During the Second World War a group of British soldiers arrive in the small, fictitious English village of "Bramley End". At first they are welcomed by the villagers, until doubts begin to grow about their true identity and purpose. When...

Direction Guy Hamilton

Cast Harry Andrews · Michael Caine · Trevor Howard · Curd Jürgens

Synopsis There's something about this film that's so irresistible, despite its grandiose manipulation. Maybe because it recounts the greatest air battle in history, achieving the greatest aerial battle in film history. Maybe because it has such a terrific cast (Harry Andrews,...

Direction Laurence Olivier · John Sichel

Cast Joan Plowright · Jeanne Watts · Louise Purnell · Derek Jacobi

Synopsis In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their brother Andrei live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is charming and stimulating...

Direction Leslie Howard

Cast Leslie Howard · David Niven · Rosamund John · Roland Culver

Synopsis By the late 1920's aircraft designer R.J. Mitchell feels he has achieved all he wants with his revolutionary mono-planes winning trophy after trophy. But a holiday in Germany shortly after Hitler assumes power convinces him that it is vital to...

Direction Gabriel Pascal · David Lean · Harold French

Cast Wendy Hiller · Rex Harrison · Robert Morley · Robert Newton

Synopsis Filmed in London in 1941, during the Blitz, Major Barbara emerged from a troubled production to become a major success for George Bernard Shaw and producer-director Gabriel Pascal. Pygmalion’s Wendy Hiller returns, this time as one of Shaw’s most memorable...

Direction Paul Czinner

Cast Elisabeth Bergner · Henry Ainley · Felix Aylmer · Laurence Olivier

Synopsis A duke usurps his brother's land and power, banishing him and his retinue into the forest of Arden. The banished duke's daughter, Rosalind, remains with her cousin Celia. She has fallen in love with Orlando, but he has his own...

Direction Paul Czinner

Cast Elisabeth Bergner · Hugh Sinclair · Griffith Jones · Penelope Dudley-Ward

Synopsis Drama based on the play of Margaret Kennedy. Sanger composer is torn between love for two women. Although he married Gemma, a young defenseless, who is secretly loves Fenella, his brother's wife Caryl.

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Tommy Trinder · Constance Cummings · Clifford Evans · Robert Morley

Synopsis Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.

Direction Paul Czinner

Cast Elisabeth Bergner · Raymond Massey · Romney Brent · Joyce Bland

Direction Paul Czinner

Cast Elisabeth Bergner · Michael Redgrave · Wilfrid Lawson · Mabel Terry-Lewis

Direction Thorold Dickinson

Cast Mervyn Johns · John Chandos · Nova Pilbeam · Reginald Tate

Synopsis Wartime propaganda piece giving the warning "Be like Dad, Keep Mum". A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi spy.