Laurence Olivier Movies

A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him,...

An indictment of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The film tries to give a reconstruction of the events during the students' uprising in...

A famed mystery writer and her doctor ex-lover solve her daughter-in-law's murder.

This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother...

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...

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

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

World War II propaganda film.

One Saturday evening Rosa Priore is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch for her family and their friends. By Sunday afternoon her life and marriage...

A documentary by Tony Palmer on English composer Sir William Walton (1902–1983), made shortly before his death. The film includes the only...

In the best play of 1912, the conventional morals and manners of a North England mill town are overthrown by a young woman with ideas far ahead of...

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

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...

Short WW II documentary

Towards the end of their lives, two old friends discover that one of them was in love with the other one's wife for more than thirty years.

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