William Shakespeare Movies

The 1914 Italian version of William Shakespeare's Othello.

Satirical silent movie based on the play Macbeth written in 1916 by Peter Pan creator and playwright J. M. Barrie as a parody of the American...

Two family clans have always been enemies; they spend their time hating and killing each other. The daughter of the Campos family and the son of the...

The court of Navarre: the King and his three Lords vow to stay away from wine, women and luxury; but when the princess and her ladies from France...

A horror take on Shakespeare's classic comedy about several subplots revolving around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta.

Prospero, the true Duke of Milan is now living on an enchanted island with his daughter Miranda, the savage Caliban and Ariel, a spirit of the air....

Cleopatra, the alluring and fascinatingly ambiguous Queen of Egypt, has bewitched the great Mark Antony, soldier, campaigner and now one of the three...

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and...

Prince Hamlet is the son of the late king. He hears from a ghost that the current king, Claudius, has murdered his father. Hamlet is unsure if this...

Baritone Michael Volle stars as the caddish knight Falstaff, gleefully tormented by a trio of clever women who deliver his comeuppance, in...

Basing his plot on a farce by Plautus, Shakespeare caps the mayhem of his Roman original to build up a hectic tale of violent cross-purposes, furious...

Texts by W. Shakespeare Preserved and digitized by the National Film and Business Archive

Based on the play by William Shakespeare.

Goblin Gang's take on the opening brawl of William Shakespeare's: Romeo and Juliet

After over a century out of the Met’s repertoire, audiences were thrilled to discover just what a sensational evening in the theater...

Production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night with an all male cast.

A banished nobleman returns to usurp the throne of England when the king seizes all his property.

Shakespeare's tragedy of two young people who fall desperately in love despite the ancient feud between their two families. A lost film.

The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.

An adaptation directed by Claude Whatham for the BBC's Theatre 625 slot. Essentially a recording of John Barton's acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company...