Shakespeare: Shakespeare on DVD

Ian Charleson, Angela Down, Celia Johnson.

Jane Lapotaire and Colin Blakely

Helen Mirren, Brian Stirner, Richard Pasco

Cyril Cusack, Charles Gray, Roger Daltrey.

Alan Howard and Irene Worth.

Claire Bloom, Helen Mirren, Richard Johnson.

Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Patrick Stewart, Lalla Ward.

Anthony Quayle, Jon Finch, David Gwillim, Tim Pigott-Smith.

Jon Finch, David Gwillim, Anthony Quayle.

Rob Edwards, Julian Glover, David Gwillim, Martin Neil.

Peter Benson, Trevor Peacock.

Peter Benson, Trevor Peacock, Julia Foster.

Peter Benson, Brian Deacon, Julia Foster, Bernard Hill.

Clarie Bloom, John Stride, Julian Glover.

Richard Pasco, Keith Mitchell and Charles Gray as Caesar.

Leonard Rossiter, Claire Bloom, Mary Morris.

Michael Hordern and John Shrapnel,

Jonathan Kent, David Warner, Maureen Lipman, Jenny Agutter.

Nicol Williamson and Jane Lapotaire.

Kate Nelligan, Tim Pigott-Smith, Christopher Strauli.

John Rhys-Davies, Gemma Jones, Warren Mitchell.

Richard Griffiths, Nigel Terry, Judy Davis, Prunella Scales, Ron Cook, Ben Kingsley.

Nigel Davenport, Pippa Guard, Brian Glover, Phil Daniels, Helen Mirren, Peter McEnery.

Cherie Lunghi, Robert Lindsay.

Bob Hoskins, Anthony Hopkins, Penelope Wilton.

Mike Gwilym, Juliet Stevenson, Amanda Redman, Trevor Peacock.

Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud, Jon Finch, Wendy Hiller, Charles Gray.

Peter Benson, Ron Cook, Julia Foster, Patsy Kensit, Brian Protheroe, Zoë Wanamaker.

Patrick Ryecart, Rebecca Saire, Anthony Andrews, Alan Rickman, John Gielgud.

Sarah Badel and John Cleese.

Michael Hordern, Nigel Hawthorne, Pippa Guard.

Jonathan Pryce, Norman Rodway, John Shrapnel.

Eileen Atkins and Trevor Peacock.

Anton Lesser and Suzanne Burden.

Alec McCowen, Felicity Kendal, Sinéad Cusack, Trevor Peacock, Clive Arrindell.

Tyler Butterworth, John Hudson, Joanne Pearce.

Jeremy Kemp, Anna Calder-Marshall, Margaret Tyzack, Debbie Farrington.

"When An Age of Kings was first broadcast, it was the most conceptually ambitious Shakespeare project ever attempted for either film or television. Its fifteen parts encompassed Richard II, both parts of Henry IV, Henry V, all three parts of Henry VI and Richard III, effectively presenting a chronological history of British royalty from 1377 to 1485. An Age of Kings' adapter Eric Crozier cut the text into schedule-friendly 60 and 75 minute episodes. These mostly comprised half a complete play, though Henry VI Part I was reduced to a single hour-long episode."--British FiIm Institute.

Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut, Coriolanus, scripted by John Logan, updates one of Shakespeare's more difficult plays without sacrificing the Bard's original dialogue.

Kenneth Branagh, Julie Christie, Billy Crystal, Gerard Depardieu, Charlton Heston, Derek Jacobi, Jack Lemmon, Rufus Sewell, Robin Williams, Kate Winslet

The Criterion Collection edition of a classic film starring: Laurence Olivier, Basil Sydney, Eileen Herlie, Norman Wooland, Felix Aylmer, Terence Morgan, Jean Simmons, Peter Cushing, Anthony Quayle.

Stars include: Kenneth Branagh, Brian Blessed, Robbie Coltrane, Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Derek Jacobi, Paul Scofield, Emma Thompson and Christian Bale.

A telling of one of Shakespeare's classic plays, made to boost morale of British soldiers during World War II.

Patrick Magee, Ronald Radd, Patrick Mower, Beth Harris, Ann Lynn, Wendy Allnut

Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, John Woodvine, Ian McDiarmid, Bob Peck. Directed by Trevor Nunn.

Directed by Roman Polanski. Starring: Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Nicholas Selby, Martin Shaw, Terence Bayler, John Stride, Stephen Chase, Paul Shelly.

Director Michael Hoffman has assembled a cast of leading stage and screen actors for this whimsical film version of one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies.

Ian Richardson, Judi Dench, Ian Holm, David Warner, Diana Rigg, Helen Mirren.

Actor Kenneth Branagh made his directorial debut with a rousing screen adaptation of William Shakespeare's Henry V. Four years later, he returns to the bard's work with this lively version of one of Shakespeare's best comedies.

Ian McKellen, Imogen Stubbs, Willard White, Michael Grandage, Clive Swift.

The Criterion collection edition of a classic film starring: Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, Mary Kerridge, Paul Huson, Claire Bloom.

Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Alan Cumming, Colm Feore, James Frain, Laura Fraser, Harry Lennix, Angus MacFadyen, Matthew Rhys, Jonathan Rhys Meyers

One of Shakespeare's most popular and enduring comedies--TWELFTH NIGHT--gets the full treatment in this acclaimed production by the Renaissance Theatre Company and acclaimed director Kenneth Branagh.

A science fiction take on "The Tempest". The far-off star Altair-IV, occupied by two lone inhabitants and Robby the Robot, is visited by a search party from Earth. Stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens.

Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of Mabeth.

The camera follows the cast and crew throughout rehearsals, eavesdropping on the behind-the-scenes process that goes into creating characters and mounting a production. Cast: Penelope Allen, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Conway, Al Pacino, Estelle Parsons, Aidan Quinn, Winona Ryder, Kevin Spacey, Harris Yulin.

This Japanese film is Akira Kurosawa's classic adaptation of King Lear.

A comedy about the greatest love story almost never told.

Six episodes combine history, biography, iconic performances, new analysis and the personal passion of its celebrated hosts — Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi, Trevor Nunn, Joely Richardson and David Tennant — to tell the story behind the stories of Shakespeare’s greatest plays.

Update of "The Twelfth Night" starring Amanda Bynes, Channing Tatum, Laura Ramsey, Vinnie Jones, Robert Hoffman, Alex Breckenridge, Julie Hagerty, David Cross

From the A&E Biography series.

Thirty-six lectures of thirty minutes each by Professor Peter Saccio, Leon D. Black Professor of Shakespearean Studies at Dartmouth College.