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The first six programmes from the seminal 26-part series first shown in 1974, preceded by a programme on the making of the series. 1 THE MAKING OF THE WORLD AT WAR - The story behind the production process...
1 DESERT - THE WAR IN NORTH AFRICA 1940-1943 - North Africa, the battle of El Alamein and Operation Torch (producer/writer Peter Batty). 2: Stalingrad, the symbol of the Soviet Union’s stubborn resistance,...
Part 1: The Anglo-American advance from Sicily as the Big Three meet (producer Ben Shephard, writer David Wheeler). Part 2: The Burma campaign. Depicts the differing Japanese and Western attitudes towards...
Part 1: The Russians from the east and the Allies from the west, drive Hitler’s armies back across the German borders and beyond (producer/writer Peter Batty). Part 2: The fate of 6 million Jews under...
A feature film version of the play by Anton Chekhov, translated by Moura Budberg, with music by William Walton, based on the 1967 National Theatre production of the play. Two fantasy sequences are added for...
A feature film adaptation, much cut, and aimed at a mainstream, young audience. Beautifully photographed and costumed, the film was a huge box office success and a forerunner of the ‘teen movie’.
In 1880s Sudan, thousands of British-led Egyptian troops are massacred by the forces of Arab fanatic Muhammad Ahmad (Laurence Olivier), who believes he is the Mahdi, and nothing less than Mohammed’s chosen...
A recording of the National Theatre production, directed by John Dexter, restyled somewhat for film, but retaining much of its ‘staginess’, Olivier doing little to adapt his towering and extravagant...
Laurence Olivier introduces a featurette about the making of OTHELLO (1965).
A film tribute to William Shakespeare, made for the Overseas Departments in connection with the quartercentenary celebrations. Spoken extracts from Shakespeare works (read by Stephen Murray) are blended with...
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