Research Guides: IDS 101: Hamlet: Videos

Hamlet Videos in the Hatfield Library

Hamlet (1948)
Call Number: HAT AV Video (DVD) PR2807 .A23 2006

Laurence Olivier
Also available Online .
Hamlet (1964)
Call Number: HAT AV Video PR2807 .A23 1995

Richard Burton
Also available Online .
Hamlet (1969)
Call Number: HAT AV Video PR2807 .A23 1988a

Nicol Williamson
Hamlet (1980)
Call Number: HAT AV Video PR2807 .A23 1979

Derek Jacobi
Also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays .
Hamlet (1990)
Call Number: HAT AV Video (DVD) PR2807 .A23 2004

Mel Gibson
Hamlet (1996)
Call Number: HAT AV Video (DVD) PR2807 .A23 2007

Kenneth Branagh
Hamlet (2000)
Call Number: HAT AV Video (DVD) PR2807 .A23 2007a

Ethan Hawke
Hamlet (2010)
Call Number: HAT AV Video (DVD) PR2807 .A23 2010

David Tennant
Also available online in the Academic Videos Online .
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (1990)
Call Number: HAT AV Video (DVD) PN1995.9.C55 R72 2005

Also available Online .

Discovering Hamlet
Call Number: HAT AV Video (DVD) PR2807.A23 D57 2010

Follows the week-by-week progress of the Company preparing to stage a production of Hamlet.

BBC Shakespeare Plays
Provides streaming access to the 37 Shakespeare plays that the BBC produced. Also included on this site are Shakespeare in Italy and Shakespeare: The Animated Tales., including Hamlet.
Academic Video Online
Provides videos with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, etc.. Has seven performances of Hamlet, including Australian and French productions, and much more.
Digital Theatre Plus
Recently launched, expanding streaming video resource divided into 5 categories: recent British theatrical productions (Shakespeare, ... ), making theater, study guides, teaching support, and collections.

Hamlet with David Tennant, in Shakespeare Uncovered
David Tennant meets fellow actors who've taken on Hamlet and compares notes on how to play a character that's been played, probably, a million different ways.
The Making of a Monologue: Robert Wilson's Hamlet
Provides a fascinating picture of how Robert Wilson created his unique one-man performance of Hamlet.

Hamlet (1920) by Asta Nielsen.
Call Number: HAT AV Video (DVD) PN1995.9.S5 A15 2011

This Hamlet remains one of the least known partly because the title role is played by a woman and the plot also borrows from Danish legends and a German play. For reasons of state the heiress to the throne has been brought up as a boy, and she has conceived a hopeless passion for Horatio.
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Call Number: HAT AV Video (DVD) PN1995.91.J3 W278 2006

A young executive hunts down his father's killer. A tale about corruption in the boardrooms of postwar corporate Japan as seen through the rising executive eyes.
Ye Yan = The Banquet (2006)
Call Number: HAT AV Video (DVD) PN1995.91.C5 Y282 2006

A loose adaptation of Hamlet by William Shakespeare. A lavish Chinese epic, set in the Age of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, tells the story of a royal court in turmoil: forbidden love, deceit, revenge, overpowering beauty, and greed.

Hamlet: The Drama of Revenge (Gade, 1920)
Released in 1920, Svend Gade’s Hamlet: The Drama of Revenge stars Danish actress Asta Nielsen in the title role. Made in Germany, this 78 minute black and white silent film with English subtitles presents us with a Hamlet who, though actually a woman, is raised as a young man.
Hamlet - Laurence Olivier (1948)
Classic version (with Portuguese subtitles)
Global Hamlets
Links to 91 international performances and film versions of Hamlet from MIT Global Shakespeares: Video and Performance Archive.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (1990)

The Prince of Denmark: A Story vaguely Inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet (2016)
In this comically dark retelling of William Shakespeare's great tragedy, young Hamlet returns home from university to find his uncle Claude’s feet well and truly under the table at his family’s pub.
Gilligan's Island Hamlet
The castaways create a musical version of Hamlet
Ghosts, Murder, and More Murder - Hamlet Part 1
John Green teaches you about Hamlet, William Shakespeare's longest and most-performed play.
Ophelia, Gertrude, and Regicide - Hamlet Part 2