Legend has it that Winston Churchill asked Laurence Olivier to make a film version of Shakespeare’s Henry V to help raise British morale during the worst days of World War II. It was not an entirely ...

The movies have produced one of their rare great works of art. When Laurence Olivier’s magnificent screen production of Shakespeare’s Henry V was first disclosed to a group of Oxford’s impassive ...

In the inspired Olivier concept, Shakespeare's play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre, shifting in broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V, who had developed from a dissolute ...