Laurence Olivier

Olivier’s performance, viewed as the greatest of his career, charges Richard with magnetic malevolence as he steals his brother Edward’s crown through a murderous set of machinations.

A documentary series that gives a historical account of the events of World War II, from its roots in the 1920s to the aftermath and the lives it profoundly influenced.

In the midst of the Hundred Years’ War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in this adaptation of Shakespeare’s play.

Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not to kill his treacherous uncle in this acclaimed adaptation starring and directed by Sir Laurence Olivier.

A third-rate vaudevillian uses liquor and young women to escape the pressures of changing times.

Oh! What a Lovely War features a stellar cast, and by fusing the surreal with the factual, and juxtaposing savagely funny satire with quiet sorrow, Richard Attenborough has created the oddest and most outstanding film ever made about the “game” that became World War One.

As Carrie, the smalltown girl come to Chicago, Jennifer Jones "seems to have stepped out of the pages of the book" (Time). And Laurence Olivier gives one of his finest portrayals as love-doomed Hurstwood.

Sir Laurence Olivier as an imprisoned highwayman who relates his exploits in the form of a comic opera. Brook's feature film debut is a production with romantic exuberance and wit.

A priest becomes a martyr in post-revolution Mexico for risking his life by having Catholic Mass services in secret while being chased by the law.

The aging founder of an auto company comes out of retirement to develop a fuel-efficient automobile named after his daughter, Betsy.

A dull Englishman abruptly abandons his middle-class life, his family and his duties to follow his dreams of becoming a painter in the South Seas.

Stanley Kubrick directs Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier and Jean Simmons in this Academy Award-winning classic story of a bold gladiator slave who takes on Imperial Rome.

An innocent graduate student encounters a fugitive Nazi war criminal searching for a hidden caché of diamonds.

Stranded in Canada, a German WW2 U-boat crew with a fanatical Nazi captain aims to avoid capture by reaching the border to enter the still-neutral US.

The socially conscious Mrs. Bennet (Mary Boland), with the begrudging help of her husband (Edmund Gwenn), sets out to find suitable--and suitably rich--husbands for her five daughters. The already difficult project becomes even more complicated when Mrs. Bennet's strongest-willed daughter, Elizabeth (Garson), decides to pursue rich and handsome, but cynical and boorish, Mr. Darcy (Olivier).

Naval hero Lord Nelson defies convention to court a married woman of common birth.

A Nazi-hunter chases infamous Dr. Josef Mengele, who has escaped to Paraguay to revive the Third Reich

In the 1880s, a British-commanded Egyptian army is tasked with defending the capital of Sudan from an invading army comprised of Muslim zealots.

A Scotland Yard investigator’s case concerning a missing four-year-old takes a baffling turn when he fails to find evidence that she ever existed.

A divorce lawyer thinks the woman who spent the night in his hotel room is the wife of his new client.