Movies: George Bernard Shaw

Stratford Shakespeare Festival presents: Caesar and Cleopatra. Shaw's legendary wit turns political drama into sparkling comedy when veteran strategist Julius Caesar becomes mentor to the enchanting teenage queen of Roman-occupied Egypt. Their first ...

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

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 proposes to her. But it suddenly turns out that Sartorius made his entire fortune through fraud. What...

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 poems composed by Henry and dedicated to her, so she asks Henry to lie to Teddy about it. However, H...

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 1952 as Life Begins Tomorrow. Made in cooperation with UNESCO, the film speculates on the future of m...

Phonetics professor Mr. Higgins decided to prove that he could, thanks to his knowledge and teaching skills, turn Eliza - a simple street flower girl with terrifying speech and manners - into a socialite and introduce her to guests as a duchess....

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 learns that he's got the wrong ammunition for his cannon and has to flee. His flight leads him right ...

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

Performed in 1902, after being banned by the censor for eight years, Shaw's indictment of the hypocrisy surrounding prostitution still shocked its audiences. Mrs. Warren has graduated from prostitution to opening and operating a chain of brothels thr...

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

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her ri...

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

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

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

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

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 paw. The two meet again by chance when the devout Christian is about to be thrown to wild animals in t...

Shaw turned to the classic Victorian melodrama to focus on the insincerity of much that his audience held dear, especially family and marriage. In 1777 as the American War of Independence rages, Dick Dudgeon returns to the family he revolted against ...

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

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