John Gielgud
Birthday: 1904-04-14
Place of Birth: London, England
Biography: Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH, was an English actor, director, and producer. A descendant of the renowned Terry acting family, he achieved early international acclaim for his youthful, emotionally expressive Hamlet which broke box office records on Broadway in 1937. He was known for his beautiful speaking of verse and particularly for his warm and expressive voice, which his colleague Sir Alec Guinness likened to a silver trumpet muffled in silk. Gielgud is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.
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Chimes at Midnight
Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a reb...
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Gandhi
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
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Frankenstein
A scientist who is obsessed with creating life finally does it, with tragic results....
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Frankenstein: The True Story
Victor Frankenstein witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his associate, Dr...
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To Be Hamlet
Documentary examination of the role of Hamlet, in which ten prominent actors who have played the par...
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Hamlet: The Actor's View
One of the greatest Hamlets of the 20th century Sir John Gielgud reflects on the play and its title ...
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The Elephant Man
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...
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David
A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rou...
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Secret Agent
During World War I, a novelist declared dead is recruited by British intelligence and sent to Switze...
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Murder on the Orient Express
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a mu...
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Appointment with Death
Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a seco...
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Les Misérables
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...
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Elizabeth
The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endle...
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Prospero's Books
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and ...
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Oh! What a Lovely War
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the five boys of th...
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First Knight
The timeless tale of King Arthur and the legend of Camelot are retold in this passionate period dram...
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James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents inte...
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The Formula
While investigating the death of a friend and fellow cop, Los Angeles police officer Barney Caine st...
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Shining Through
Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic ...
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DragonHeart
In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes...
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Chariots of Fire
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners tr...
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Caligula
After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...
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The Whistle Blower
A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for...
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Arthur 2: On the Rocks
Arthur loses his fortune for staying with Linda, right as the two were preparing to adopt a child. A...
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Lion of the Desert
This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conq...
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Murder by Decree
Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper, who is killing prostitutes in London's Ea...
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Arthur
Arthur is a 30-year-old child who will inherit $750 million if he complies with his family's demands...
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The Power of One
PK, an English orphan terrorized for his family's political beliefs in Africa, turns to his only fri...
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Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lew...
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Plenty
David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war l...
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by t...
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Julius Caesar
All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which port...
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Richard III
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, ...
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Becket
Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding w...
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Aces High
The first World War is in its third year and aerial combat above the Western Front is consuming the ...
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The Scarlet and the Black
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped pris...
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The Loved One
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment...
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Time After Time
'Oh I was naughty. And I'm still naughty so take care.' And so Leda was, all those years ago when sh...
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Sphinx
Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land ...
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The Canterville Ghost
A young American couple inherits an English castle, only to find that it is haunted by the spirit of...
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The Human Factor
When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, a security ...
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The Leopard Son
The true story of the birth, growth and coming of age of a leopard cub in Africa's Serengeti plain. ...
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Julius Caesar
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassi...
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Gold
Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles acro...
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Haunted
Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the ...
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Priest of Love
Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, m...
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Quest for Camelot
During the times of King Arthur, Kayley is a brave girl who dreams of following her late father as a...
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmer...
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The Grand Inquisitor
The Grand Inquisitor from Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov produced by the Open University....
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Catastrophe
An autocratic Director (Harold Pinter) and his Assistant (Rebecca Pidgeon) put the final touches to ...
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Providence
On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sle...
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Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
When two mysterious deaths mar an otherwise pleasant weekend in the English countryside, unflappable...
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William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
Special introducing William Shakespeare to young people through sketches, readings and music....
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Romeo and Juliet
In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have h...
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The Shooting Party
1913, shortly before the outbreak of WWI. A group of aristocrats gathers at the estate of Sir Randol...
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Lost Horizon
While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued a...
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The Good Companions
Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failin...
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Quartermaine's Terms
TV adaptation of the play set in a Cambridge School of English for Foreigners in 1962. St John Quart...
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The Cherry Orchard
Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estat...
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Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
This intriguing story is set in the 1930s at a country house, where two amateur sleuths, Bobby Jones...
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Saint Joan
In 1456, French King Charles VII recalls the story of how he met the 17-year-old peasant girl Joan o...
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Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York. It was deliberately st...
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The Wicked Lady
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara sedu...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Bosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Daedelus, growing up in Ireland in the early part of th...
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A Diary for Timothy
A narrator recounts the state of Great Britain near the end of WWII via a visual diary for the titul...
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To Die in Madrid
Morir en Madrid brings together several papers on the Spanish Civil War and integrates capturing dif...
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Assignment to Kill
A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of delibe...
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The Master of Ballantrae
The Master of Ballantrae is a 1984 TV movie based on the 1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.[2] It...
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A Man for All Seasons
Story of Sir Thomas More, who refused to accept the spiritual leadership of Henry VIII, and faces de...
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Scandalous
An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder,...
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No Man's Land
'No Man's Land' is a play by Harold Pinter written in 1974 and first performed in 1975. In this 1978...
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Director Sidney Franklin's 1957 remake of his own 1934 film, about the romance of poets Elizabeth Ba...
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Galileo
Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and di...
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Camille
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval....
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Eagle in a Cage
1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon...
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Probe
That hipster ring that special agent Hugh Lockwood wears? It's a camera, transmitting image and soun...
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Joseph Andrews
Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye...
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Discovering Hamlet
Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and d...
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An Airman's Letter to His Mother
A Royal Air Force (RAF) airman who dies during a mission has left a letter to be sent to his mother ...
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The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
On his wedding day, in the few remaining hours of his bachelorhood, Barney Kempinski goes off to tou...
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The Critic
Mr. Puff, a foppish, would-be playwright-critic, invites his literary-minded associates to see a pro...
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A Summer Day's Dream
Adaptation of the play by J B Priestley. After a nuclear war, the nations have combined to set up a ...
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Revisiting Brideshead
Documentary with an affectionate look back at the classic Granada TV dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's...
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Swan Song
An aging actor remembers his past stage triumphs and contemplates a dim future on the stage of an em...
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The Best of Friends
Adapted from their letters and journals, this is a portrayal of the unique 25-year friendship shared...
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Ages of Man
Performance of extracts from The Ages of Man is a one-man show performed by John Gielgud featuring a...
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Invitation to the Wedding
An American student arrives in England for the wedding of his room-mate's sister....
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11 Harrowhouse
A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large f...
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Richard II
Richard II, who ascended the throne as a child, is a regal and stately monarch. He believes he is th...
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Romance on the Orient Express
Lily, an American travelling on the famous Orient Express train from Venice, Italy to Paris, France,...
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Looking for Richard
Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world t...
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Hamlet
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the ...
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Home
David Storey's adaptation of his award winning play for the BBC's Play for Today series....
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Sebastian
Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British Int...
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The Prime Minister
A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Min...
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The Strauss Dynasty
A dramatisation of two generations of the Strauss family of Vienna, whose dance music and operettas ...
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Getting It Right
Gavin is 31 years old and still lives with his parents. He is awfully shy but before he knows it the...
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The Portrait of a Lady
Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhe...
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A Walk Through Prospero's Library
A short made for TV with director Peter Greenaway discussing the dazzling 3.5 minute opening sequenc...
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Insult
'Africa. Half-caste Legionnaire dies to save governor, the son of major who hates him.' (British Fi...
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Shine
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns t...
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The Mayfly and the Frog
When a Rolls Royce damages a scooter, the furious owner goes to seek redress, and finds herself face...
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The Conductor
A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a vi...
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Heredity in Man
A study of heredity in man, showing how both good and bad characteristics are passed on from one gen...
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A TV Dante
A TV Dante is an experimental mini-series directed by Tom Phillips and legendary filmmaker Peter Gre...
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Leave All Fair
John Middleton Murry visits France to finalize the publication of a collection of his late wife, Ka...
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The Shoes of the Fisherman
Ukrainian bishop Kiril Lakota, a political prisoner in a Soviet gulag for twenty years, is unexpecte...
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Around the World in 80 Days
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the wor...
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Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film
A compilation of scenes from Shakespeare adaptations made in the earliest days of cinema, including ...
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Strike It Rich
A London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever....
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his ...
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Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
An all-star cast lead by Richard Dreyfus perform sketches celebrating the bicentennial of the U.S. C...
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Who Is the Man?
Daniel Arnault an impecunious sculptor, is in love with the beautiful Genevieve. Spurred on by her m...
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Romeo and Juliet
Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge br...
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The Tichborne Claimant
Based on a true story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in E...
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Heartbreak House
Captain Shotover, a retired seafarer, is reluctantly hosting a weekend house party for his two daugh...
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Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that th...
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Theban Plays: Antigone
In a final battle for the control of Thebes, Oedipus's two sons kill each other. Creon issues an ord...
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Peter Pan
Peter Pan is a 1976 musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up,...
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October Revolution
French director Frederic Rossif presents this historical documentary that coincided with the 50th an...
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director O...
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The Thomas The Tank Engine Man
Semi-Biographical film documenting the life of The Reverend Wilbert Awdry, creator of the beloved Th...
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Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
Tony Palmer tells the life story of Sergei Rachmaninoff through the use of home movies, concert foot...
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A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)
These six video segments (10 minutes each) were originally developed for broadcast on Channel 4 as t...
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In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
Tony Palmer's award-winning feature-length documentary profile of Richard Burton....
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Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
The life and career of two-time Oscar winner Vivien Leigh, who battled tuberculosis and manic-depres...
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Nothing Like a Dame
BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atki...
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Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five
Len Lye made this experiment in animating poetry circa 1953 utilising a clip of Sir John Gielgud rec...
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Rabbit Ears - The Emperor's New Clothes
Like everyone else in the kingdom, two clever swindlers understand the king's passion for new clothe...
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Barbablù, Barbablù
An old patriarch at the gates of death, who has been married five times, reunites his family and ind...
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Behind The Scenes of Caligula
Extra from The Imperial Edition featuring extensive behind the scenes look at the production and set...
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Laurence Olivier: a life
A multi-award winning biography covering the life and career of legendary screen and stage actor/dir...
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Ivanov
A play by Chekhov, starring Vivien Leigh and John Gielgud, it marked Leigh’s final performance befor...
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From Chekhov with Love
Based on Anton Chekhov's short story, "About Love". Starring John Gielgud as Chekhov....
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film compa...
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