Shakespeare Resources

Films For The Humanities & Sciences, 1944, 1 hour 13 minutes
Director: Laurence Olivier
Performers: Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Renee Asherson, Leo Genn, Max Adrian, George Robey

Creative Arts Television, 1957, 26 minutes
Director: Clay Yurdin
"Scenes from Shakespeare's "Henry V", showing stages in the maturing of Hal. Performed by Robert Lansing (Henry V, Prince Hal), James Coco, Frank Groseclose, Arthur Malet, Joseph Ruskin, Richard Shephard, Paul Sparer and Wayne Tippit. 1957."

BBC TV, 1979, 2 hours, 44 minutes
Director: David Giles
Performers: John Abineri, Robert Ashby, Trevor Baxter, David Gwillim

Royal Shakespeare Company, 2015, 2 hours 42 minutes
Director: Robin Lough
Performers: Oliver Ford Davies, Alex Hassell, Dale Mathurin, Daniel Abbott, Jim Hooper, Nicholas Gerard-Martin, Sean Chapman, Andrew Westfield, Christopher Middleton, Keith Osborne, Simon Yadoo, Obioma Ugoala, Joshua Richards, Antony Byrne, Simon Thorp, Jane Lapotaire, Jennifer Kirby, Leigh Quinn, Sam Marks, Evelyn Miller, Robert Gilbert

Criterion Collection. Originally issued as a motion picture in 1944.
Director: Laurence Olivier
Performers: Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks, Renee Asherson, Leo Genn, Harcourt Williams, Russell Thorndike, Francis Lister, Max Adrian, Esmond Knight.
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by William Shakespeare ; Samuel Goldwyn Company ; Orion Pictures ; Renaissance Films PLC presents ; in association with the BBC and Curzon Film Distributors Ltd. ; adapted for the screen by Kenneth Branagh ; produced by Bruce Sharman ; directed by Kenneth Branagh.
Performers: Christian Bale (Boy), Kenneth Branagh (Henry V), Brian Blessed (Exeter), Richard Briers (Bardolph), Robbie Coltrane (Falstaff), Judi Dench (Mistress Quickly), Richard Easton (Constable), Ian Holm (Fluellen), Geoffrey Hutchings (Nym), Derek Jacobi (Chorus), Charles Kay (Canterbury), Alec McGowen (Ely), Geraldine McEwan (Alice), Michael Maloney (Dauphin), Paul Scofield (French King), John Sessions (Macmorris), Robert Stephens (Pistol), Emma Thompson (Katherine), Daniel Webb (Gower), Michael Williams (Williams), Jimmy Yuill (Yamy).
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produced by BBC & Time-Life Films
"A dramatization of five of Shakespeare's historic plays, featuring some of Britain's most distinguished theatrical talent."
Contents: Henry IV part I (147 min.) -- Henry IV part II (151 min.) -- Henry V (163 min.) -- Richard II (157 min.) -- Richard III (228 min.).
Performers: Jon Finch, Anthony Quayle, David Gwillim (Henry IV parts I and II); David Gwillim, Rod Edwards, Julian Glover (Henry V); Derek Jacobi, Sir John Gielgud, Charles Gray, John Finch, Dame Wendy Hiller (Richard II); Michael Byrne, Brian Protheroe (Richard III).
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Criterion Collection/Janus Films, 1966, 117 minutes
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Adapted by Orson Welles from William Shakespeare's plays (Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, Henry V, Richard II, and The Merry Wives of Windsor).
"The crowning achievement of Orson Welles's extraordinary film career, Chimes at Midnight was the culmination of the filmmaker's lifelong obsession with Shakespeare's ultimate rapscallion, Sir John Falstaff. Usually a comic supporting figure, Falstaff--the loyal, often soused friend of King Henry IV's wayward son Prince Hal--here becomes the focus: a robustly funny and ultimately tragic screen antihero played by Welles with looming, lumbering grace."

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Contains an introduction, continuity script of the film, an interview with Welles, reviews, and commentaries. Includes filmography and bibliographical references.

BBC, 2012, 52 minutes
Shakespeare Uncovered, Series I
"He will give the devil his due. Jeremy Irons researches Shakespeare's history plays as well as the differences between the real history and the father-son drama that Shakespeare creates."