John Gielgud Movies

Special introducing William Shakespeare to young people through sketches, readings and music.

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

These six video segments (10 minutes each) were originally developed for broadcast on Channel 4 as the second installment in the larger, never...

John Middleton Murry visits France to finalize the publication of a collection of his late wife, Katherine Mansfield's, letters and journals. The...

Ancient Greece, contrasted with modern Greece.

The Grand Inquisitor from Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov produced by the Open University.

A study of heredity in man, showing how both good and bad characteristics are passed on from one generation to the next.

BBC Play of the Month adaptation of Shakespeare's tragic love story.

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

Adapted from their letters and journals, this is a portrayal of the unique 25-year friendship shared by Dame Laurentia McLachlan (Benedictine nun),...

When a Rolls Royce damages a scooter, the furious owner goes to seek redress, and finds herself face to face with a millionaire capitalist.

Directed by Thorold Dickinson.

One of the greatest Hamlets of the 20th century Sir John Gielgud reflects on the play and its title character with which he used to be intimately...

Len Lye made this experiment in animating poetry circa 1953 utilising a clip of Sir John Gielgud reciting a passage from The Tempest.