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A young, Scottish RAF gunner is debriefed by French officials about his escape from Nazi-occupied territory. They are particularly interested in one...

Genre: War

Cast: John Blythe

A former leader of the French Resistance finds that one of his fellow actors looks like a detestable official he knew in Madagascar during the war....

Genre: War

Cast: Paul Bonifas

On the 29th September 1945, the incomplete rough cut of a brilliant documentary about concentration camps was viewed at the MOI in London. For five...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Trevor Howard

A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen. It opens as the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Leslie Banks

Members of three Commonwealth armies, an Aussie, a Canadian, and a New Zealander meet actor Leslie Howard who buys them a beer and makes them...

Genre: Drama

Cast: J. Johnston

Coventry prepares to rise from the ashes of WWII in this docu-drama written by Dylan Thomas.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James McKechnie

Short WW II documentary

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laurence Olivier

Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Hay

World War II propaganda film.

Genre: War

Cast: Ralph Richardson

An uncredited Anthony Asquith is one of the directors of this WWII film (a joint UK/US production) which aims to explain British culture and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Burgess Meredith

A doctor talks about the number of injuries and deaths resulting from automobile accidents.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alfie Bass

A 1941 Ministry of Information propaganda film set to the tune of The Lambeth Walk, a popular song from the musical Me and My Girl.

Genre: Music

Cast: Adolf Hitler

Ever seen a snake with a moustache? The Middle East was as much an ideological as a physical battleground in the Second World War. In the midst of...

Genre: Animation

Cast:

Sheffield stands in as 'Smokedale', an industrial Everytown, in this stirring call for "new schools, new hospitals, new roads, new life", after WWII.

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Quentin Reynolds

A parallel is drawn between a housewife's dealings with her butcher, and a burglar and his fence (receiver).

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frederick Burtwell

A Letter From Ulster (1943). Northern Ireland's greatest film director Brian Desmond Hurst directed the film and his assistant director was fellow...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

Surrealism, avant-garde sound montage, and irreverent wit might be the last thing you'd expect from a government-sponsored film about wartime...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Valerie Forrest

A brief documentary about the history of the Royal Mail.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Massingham