Disclosed is a broadband reflection type brightness enhancement polarizer,
which includes a cholesteric liquid crystal film laminate having a
broadband selective reflecting wavelength range in which a plurality of
cholesteric liquid crystal films having selective reflecting wavelength
ranges different from each other by having different mixture ratios of a
curable nematic liquid crystal compound expressed by the chemical formula
1 and a curable chiral compound expressed by the chemical formula 2 are
laminated; and a film having 1/4.lamda. phase difference laminated on one
surface of the cholesteric liquid crystal film laminate. This polarizer
has wide selective reflecting wavelength ranges of the cholesteric liquid
crystal films composing the polarizer, so the entire visible ray range
can be covered just by laminating several cholesteric liquid crystal
films. Accordingly, the polarizer may be manufactured relatively thinner,
so the brightness can be greatly improved when the polarizer is applied
to a liquid crystal display.