A portrait of Britain's most revered naval figure, offering a vivid account of Nelson's life, from his childhood and early career at sea--to gripping accounts of his greatest sea battles.[...]
Laurence Olivier is a complex and unexpected portrait of a man tormented by his own ruthless genius and everlasting guilt. It is the story of a High Church clergyman's son who became a West End matinee idol, and only at the age of twenty-eight determined to make himself a great Shakespearean actor, [...]