George Bernard Shaw

Five-time Olivier Award-winner Imelda Staunton (The Crown) joins forces with her real-life daughter Bessie Carter (Bridgerton) for the very first time...

Higgins, a professor of phonetics, makes a bet that he will transform a child of the street - a poor flower seller named Lisa - into a real lady. Howe...

A film made in honor of the families of this world with great phrases from great people.

A young billionaire of South Asian descent is bound by the conditions set by his beloved, deceased father in order to get married.

Award-winning Irish actor Gabriel Byrne explores the life, works and passions of George Bernard Shaw, a giant of world literature, and - like Byrne - ...

Josie Rourke directs Gemma Arterton as Joan of Arc in Bernard Shaw's electrifying classic. Performed at the Donmar Warehouse, and part of the NT Live ...

Academy Award® nominee Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, Schindler’s List, Oedipus at the National Theatre) plays Jack Tanner in this exhilarating r...

Stratford Shakespeare Festival presents: Caesar and Cleopatra. Shaw's legendary wit turns political drama into sparkling comedy when veteran strategis...

“The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. As...

The protagonists of this classic are Anabela, in the role of “Eliza Doolitle”, and Carlos Quintas, who plays the demanding professor “Henry Higgins”, ...

First produced on the London stage in 1894, "Arms and the Man" immediately established Shaw's reputation as one of the greatest wits in London drama. ...

Retelling of G .B. Shaw's Pygmalion set in Zagreb in the beginning of the 20th century.

Shaw turned to the classic Victorian melodrama to focus on the insincerity of much that his audience held dear, especially family and marriage. In 177...

The action in this lavishly produced film takes place at an oddly ark-shaped mansion during World War I, and in spirit (although not in story) it refl...

Shaw used the traditional fable of Andocles to focus on the integrity of religious belief. Androcles, a christian fleeing persecution in Rome, is capt...

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training,...

Adaptation of the play by Bernard Shaw.

Candida is the wife of a famous clergyman, the Reverend James Mavor Morell. Morell is a Christian Socialist, popular in the Church of England, but Can...

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training,...

One of Shaw's "pleasant plays", The Man of Destiny is a one-act lighthearted comedy of egos and social hypocrisy. Set in 1796 in northern Italy, it fe...

Adaptation of the play by George Bernard Shaw. (Synopsis) Richard Briers tries to woo Judi Dench in this play by George Bernard Shaw.

Dutch television adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play "Saint Joan".

Captain Shotover, a retired seafarer, is reluctantly hosting a weekend house party for his two daughters and their bohemian friends. As they indulge i...

The film ballet based on the play by Bernard Shaw "Pygmalion" to the music of Timur Kogan. For the first time, an attempt was made to translate the pl...

Two friends, Harry and William, meet the respectable Mr. Sartorius and his lovely daughter Blanche on the trip. Harry falls in love with Blanche and p...

In heaven there is faith, and love. Only in hell there is justice. Everyone here gets the part that suits them best. Therefore, hell is the place for ...

September evening, an unusual ark house, resembling a ship in shape, for its owner, the gray-haired old man, captain Châtover, sailed the whole life t...

Shaw's comedy of ideologies looks forty years to the future at the impossibility of government as the British cabinet and monarchy face a day of "cris...

Teleplay by the Vakhtangov Theater based on B. Shaw's play of the same name.

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training,...

Performed in 1902, after being banned by the censor for eight years, Shaw's indictment of the hypocrisy surrounding prostitution still shocked its aud...

One of Shaw's later plays, The Millionairess explores his fascination with the machinations of capitalism. Epifania is glamorous, clever... and also t...

Rome at the time of the persecution of Christians: Androclus, a poor tailor, frees a lion in the forest from terrible pain caused by a thorn in his pa...

An interesting mixture of filmed scenes with Belmondo and archival footage regarding cultural aspects of all kind around Paris, starting at the end of...

When British Capt. Charles Edstaston arrives at the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg, Russia, he is stunned by the palace's disorderly c...

Can Professor Higgins teach a working-class flower girl to speak like a duchess?

A television adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play about the life, battles and subsequent trial of Joan of Arc, based on the kept records from her ...

The story of Androcles, the simple-hearted Christian tailor whose friendship with a lion saves himself and his friends from martyrdom in the Roman Col...

A television adaptation of a short comedy of the same name by George Bernard Shaw.

A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

Can Professor Higgins transform cockney flower girl Eliza Dolittle into a lady by teaching her to speak properly?

The third act of George Bernard Shaw's philosophical comedy Man and Superman. This dream episode depicts a lively debate between Don Juan, the Devil, ...

When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in l...

A titled Englishwoman proves more than a match for the fearsome Captain Brassbound.

In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Re...

The burglar Karl Kilian Ledig tries to get his somewhat reluctant son Carl Gustaf interested in his "profession". He bring him along one evening to th...

Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.

1865: Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group's attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he l...

Phonetics professor Mr. Higgins decided to prove that he could, thanks to his knowledge and teaching skills, turn Eliza - a simple street flower girl ...

In 1456, French King Charles VII recalls the story of how he met the 17-year-old peasant girl Joan of Arc, entrusted her with the command of the Frenc...

Young poet Henry Epjohn is passionately in love with Aurora, the wife of aristocrat Teddy Bompas. Aurora suspects that her husband has gotten hold of ...

George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared...

Documentary filmmaker Védrès' first semi-fictional feature was released in France in 1949 as La Vie Commence Demain. The film made it to the U.S. in 1...

Compilation film about a very German first half of the 20th century.

As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at its halfway point. Utilizing the archives of severa...

Can Professor Higgins transform flower-girl Eliza Dolittle into a great lady?

The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.

Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvat...

Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvat...

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeche...

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training,...

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training,...

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training,...

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

Which soldier will the naive, impressionable Raina choose to love - the unromantic, hard-nosed, tough Bluntschli, or the handsome, dashing, reckless (...

'Rich man suspects wife loves poet.' (British Film Catalogue)

An impression of the state of the world in 1929, contrasting similarities and differences in religion, customs, art and entertainment from all over th...

Famous author George Bernard Shaw's monologue to an audience on a variety of topics, including his impression of Mussolini's stern facial expressions....

An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.

A showgirl's baby has an adventure with brigands.