An insight that's less about the generational model of history and more about history itself: Everyone chooses what version of the story they want to hear, and adjust what they include or exclude to fit, as well as they can.

Branagh's: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116477/

Olivier's: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040416/

Someone else’s complaint about the fourth act soliloquy in Branagh

https://www.shakespeareflix.net/2015/04/the-hills-are-alive-and-spur-my-dull.html

Check back to Episode 20: Bob Newhart, JFK, and Hamlet for another version of how Hamlet could be viewed.