The present invention adequately provides a bend alignment mode liquid crystal cell with an optical compensation to provide high contrast and excellent viewing angle characteristic, and thereby provides a liquid crystal having capability of displaying excellent images with suppressed tone reversal. Therefore, the liquid crystal display contains at least a pair of polarizing films, a liquid crystal cell placed between the pair of polarizing films and a optical compensatory film, which contains at least a first optically anisotropic layer and a second optically anisotropic layer, placed between any one of the polarizing films, and a voltage applied to the liquid crystal cell, which is a bend alignment mode cell, in white displaying state is 1V or less.