I regret that my habitual dilatoriness has meant that most of the foreign-language plays at the Globe to Globe site (“Performances of the Globe Theatre’s season of Shakespeare plays interpreted by companies from around the world”) are no longer available, but you can still watch Cymbeline in Juba Arabic, The Two Gentlemen of Verona in Shona, and Pericles in Greek. (I had Measure for Measure in Russian already cued up in a tab from the other day, so I can still watch it, but you probably can’t.) Via MetaFilter.
Update (May 2026). I replaced the links with archived ones, and found to my astonishment that they still work! So I tried an earlier capture, and I found a working link for Henry VI Part II in Albanian. Alas, Richard III in Mandarin, Twelfth Night in Hindi, Julius Caesar in Italian, Richard II in Palestinian Arabic, The Tempest in Bangla, Henry IV Part I in Mexican Spanish, Henry IV Part II in Argentine Spanish, Romeo and Juliet in Portuguese, Henry VI Part I in Serbian, and Henry VI Part III in Macedonian are no longer available (at least clicking on them didn’t work for me). I got A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Korean to play at one point but now I can’t find a link that works. So try various captures of the site and maybe you’ll get lucky.
here is “Hamlet”s trailer, for a play, not a movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWHP9ufUhgs&feature=plcp
the voice is reading until “…. to be or not to be”
Talking of Pericles, Kings College in London have been performing a play in Ancient Greek since 1953, by the way. Next February it is the turn of Oedipus at Colonus.
http://alumni.kcl.ac.uk/greekplaysophoclesoedipusatcolonus
A friend of mine acted in a Tok Pisin version of MacBeth in the Piccadilly Theater in London in 1998.
See Update for news of working links — you can still watch Cymbeline in Juba Arabic, The Two Gentlemen of Verona in Shona, Pericles in Greek, and Henry VI Part II in Albanian.