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- DirectorDonald TaylorStarsJoss AmblerAdrian BoultWarwick BraithwaiteA docu-drama about the troubles of the London Philharmonic Orchestra during World War II.
- DirectorRonald HainesStarsJohn SlaterCecile ChevreauMolly Hamley-CliffordA murderous twin gets his comeuppance.
- DirectorHarold FrenchStarsMargaret LockwoodMichael WildingCelia JohnsonMembers of a well-to-do family reunite for Golden Wedding celebrations.
- DirectorGermain BurgerStarsBarbara JamesJohn LongdenWally PatchTwo police officers investigate the crime scene of a suspected murder by cyanide.
- DirectorFrank DormandStarsEve BeckeLouis BradfieldRobert ChisholmThe story of a Variety Theatre, illustrated by performers from its past.
- DirectorLance ComfortVictor HanburyStarsEric PortmanAnn DvorakKarel StepanekJoan Grahame (Ann Dvorak), an English teacher in Denmark, appears to be working for the Axis but is really a double-agent doing her duty for the Allies. The Nazis send her to England on a spying mission to learn the invasion plans of the Allies. She is trailed and exposed by Arthur Lawrence (Eric Portman), an unconventional British secret agent, that puts her between a rock and a hard place.
- DirectorHumphrey JenningsStarsPhilip DicksonGeorge GravettFred GriffithsA tale of firefighters in London during the Blitz.
- DirectorMarcel VarnelStarsGeorge FormbyEdward RigbyFrank PettingellGeorge Formby joins the home guard.
- DirectorPhilip BrandonStarsHarry KorrisRobbie VincentCecil FredericksMr Lovejoy, a struggling actor-manager returns to a small provincial town with plans to put on a show.
- DirectorJohn HarlowStarsDavid FarrarAnne CrawfordJohn StuartA crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.
- DirectorMaclean RogersStarsRichard BirdLesley BrookPercy MarmontJohn (Bird) & Anne (Brook) meet through music but are separated by war.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsTommy HandleyGreta GyntJack TrainCon man local mayor gambles municipal treasury in a poker game and wins a broken down theatre.
- DirectorSidney GilliatFrank LaunderStarsPatricia RocEric PortmanGordon JacksonA young woman called into service at a factory during World War II falls in love with a member of the RAF.
- DirectorVal GuestStarsArthur AskeyEvelyn DallAnne SheltonTerry Arden (Evelyn Dall) travels to England to take over her half of her late father's dating service run by Arthur Bowman (Arthur Askey). An enjoyable musical comedy.
- DirectorBasil DeardenWill HayStarsWill HayClaude HulbertMervyn JohnsAn insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Fitch is on the list, and co-opts Claude Babbington to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end.
- DirectorHarry WattStarsJack LambertGrant SutherlandGordon JacksonThe Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African campaign. The Men must defend the fort against the Italian and German troops until they cam be relieved.
- DirectorOswald MitchellStarsArthur LucanKitty McShaneMorris HarveyMrs. Riley is tricked out of her licence for a pub and joins her daughter in Portugal.
- DirectorLance ComfortStarsArthur LucanKitty McShaneIvan BrandtOld Mother Riley does her bit for the war effort by going undercover to foil a gang of black marketeers.
- DirectorHarold BaimStarsKay CavendishGlenn MorleyScott Sanders
- DirectorGordon WellesleyStarsVera LynnPeter Murray-HillJulien MitchellPatriotic musical romance. After her school is closed, teacher Ann tries to join up. However, she is persuaded to organise a nursery for a munitions factory.
- DirectorCharles FrendRobert HamerStarsArthur YoungWalter FitzgeraldRalph MichaelRescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire in the middle of the Atlantic by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer and then had been abandoned.
- DirectorKarel LamacStarsLloyd PearsonMaggie RennieJulien Mitchell
- DirectorMaclean RogersStarsFrank RandleGeorge DoonanSuzette Tarri
- DirectorJohn E. BlakeleyStarsFrank RandleHarry KorrisDan YoungWealthy Private Roy Desmond takes his soldier friends to his palatial home to help him get his dream girl, who happens to be adopted.
- DirectorLance ComfortStarsEric PortmanAnn DvorakWalter FitzgeraldEquipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players cigarettes, a German agent is parachuted into occupied Belgium to create anti-British propaganda. Unfortunately for him, he chooses a night when the Belgian resistance are smuggling the crew of a British bomber home across the channel. Before he knows it, he is landing on the south coast of England. With MI5 hot on his trail, the fugitive tries to contact his old German émigré friends in London. But they have all been interned on the Isle of Man. How will he escape back to Germany ?
- DirectorHarold S. BucquetStarsRobert DonatValerie HobsonWalter RillaIn 1940. Captain Terence Stevenson is with the British Army in the bomb disposal unit in London, his primary job is to defuse them. Despite having no experience as a spy, he is asked by his superiors, because of his academic background as a chemical engineer and being fluent in Romanian and German, to lead a spy mission deep in the Nazi occupied territory. The Nazis have near perfected a formula for a new poisonous gas to use in chemical warfare, Stevenson's mission is to infiltrate the gas plant near Pilsen in the occupied Czechoslovakia where it is being mass produced. He must steal the formula to bring back to Britain, and blow up the plant before the Nazis are able to distribute the gas for their war efforts. He is to assume the identity of chemical engineer Jan Tartu of the Romanian Iron Guard. The real Tartu has been killed but the Nazis are unaware of it. To carry out his mission, Stevenson will require the assistance of the Czech underground and is given the name of a contact through which he is to work. Stevenson needs to improvise, most specifically because his contact is arrested. In this light, he has to learn who he can and cannot trust, especially among those with whom he is assigned to live: Anna and Pavla Palacek, the owner of the house and her daughter who works at the ammunition plant; Otto Vogel, an inspector the Nazis have assigned to be his guide; and Marushka Lanova, a beautiful young woman who has a sense of entitlement and who uses her feminine wiles to get what she wants, most specifically from Nazi officers such as Vogel who is in love with her. Conversely, those secretly working for the Allied cause may have to figure out if "Tartu" is really on their side.
- DirectorBasil DeardenStarsTommy TrinderJames MasonPhilip FriendComedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service), the dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.
- DirectorLeslie S. HiscottStarsRichard HearneFrancis L. SullivanJudy Kelly1943. Comedy. Directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Stars Richard Hearne, Ronald Shiner & Hermione Gingold. In debt to gamblers Rodney (Richard Hearne) agrees to pass as a butler at a gambling party.
- DirectorJohn HarlowStarsBen LyonAnne CrawfordDavid FarrarA struggling circus finds salvation in the form of an exciting new twist on their high-wire act.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsLaurence OlivierPenelope Dudley-WardMarjorie FieldingIvan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships. Naive about British people, and convinced by hearsay that they are shallow and hypocritical, Ivan is both bemused and amused by them. He is blunt in his opinions about Britons, and at first this puts off his hosts, including the lovely Ann Tisdall, whose grandfather runs the shipbuilding firm that will make use of Ivan's propeller. The longer Ivan stays, however, the more he comes to understand the humor, warmth, strength, and conviction of the British people, and the more they come to see him as a friend, rather than merely a suspicious Russian. As a romantic bond grows between Ivan and Ann, a cultural bond begins to grow as well, particularly as the war begins, and Russia is attacked by Germany.
- DirectorOswald MitchellStarsJack WarnerClaude HulbertG.H. MulcasterA ventriloquist is murdered, leaving a show to be done. So, a midget goes undercover as the dummy. But, he always needs to find the criminal!
- DirectorLeslie HowardMaurice ElveyStarsJoan GatesJean GillieJoan GreenwoodThis film tells the stories of seven 'gentle' British girls who decide to "do their bit" and help out during World War II.
- DirectorJeffrey DellStarsClive BrookClifford EvansJane BaxterWartime commando story based on fact. Allied airman risks return (on the ground) to occupied Belgium for the honour of his regiment.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyLeslie HowardStarsRosamund JohnStewart GrangerGodfrey TearleA tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsRoger LiveseyDeborah KerrAnton WalbrookFrom the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.
- DirectorLeslie ArlissStarsMargaret LockwoodJames MasonPhyllis CalvertAfter a brutish, hedonistic Marquis marries a pretty young Clarissa to act as a 'brood sow,' he begins an affair with her friend who plots to take her place.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsEric AmblerIvor BarnardRobert DonatDuring World War II, five civilians from different backgrounds become reluctant conscripts in the British Army.
- DirectorHerbert MasonStarsAnne CrawfordDavid FarrarCarl JaffeAn English agent parachutes into occupied Holland during World War II to retrieve some important papers. He poses as an American newspaperman and a Gestapo officer during his adventures. He then meets and falls for a Dutch baroness who appears to be sympathetic to the British.
- DirectorVernon SewellGordon WellesleyStarsRalph RichardsonGoogie WithersEsmond KnightJaap van Leyden (Sir Ralph Richardson) is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later, a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Germans without endangering his wife and fellow workers?
- DirectorJohn BaxterStarsClive BrookMorland GrahamNell BallantyneA generation of shipbuilders is nearly wiped out by the Great Depression, but a second Great War gets them back to work.
- DirectorJohn BaxterStarsBud FlanaganChesney AllenPeggy DexterThough the manager from a famed theatrical family is broke and wants to close his theatre, his staff loyally stands by him, and put together their own show to keep it from falling into a rival producer's hands.
- DirectorKarel LamacStarsJames MasonJoyce HowardTom WallsDuring WW2, a Royal Navy Commander stumbles upon a murdered woman and discovers a network of Nazi spies and Fifth-Columnists.
- DirectorRodney AcklandStarsSally Ann HowesWilfrid LawsonKathleen O'ReganFamily tensions arise after a schoolgirl becomes a successful child actor.
- DirectorGeorge KingStarsJohn ClementsGodfrey TearleHugh SinclairA mayor's daughter poses as collaborator to help British agent escape to England with vital information to help the allied war effort.
- DirectorSergei NolbandovStarsJohn ClementsTom WallsRachel ThomasA World War II film made by Ealing Studios on the Yugoslav guerrilla resistance movement in German-occupied Yugoslavia.
- DirectorPhilip BrandonStarsEthel RevnellGracie WestLesley OsmondLand girls unmask black marketeers.
- DirectorMaclean RogersStarsReginald PurdellLesley BrookEllis Irving1943. Musical. Kit (Ellis Irving) and Joe Swann (Reginald Purdell) are variety stars. Kits' son is killed in the First World War but the grandson revives the music hall and joins the RAF musical.
- DirectorLawrence HuntingtonStarsGordon HarkerRaymond LovellFinlay CurrieDuring the war, Nazi agents devise a plan to kidnap British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. They will have an agent pose as Lord Buckley, who owns a large estate that Churchill frequently visits to "get away from it all", abduct Churchill with the help of Nazi agents and sympathizers already in England and take him back to Germany.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsJohn MillsLouis BradfieldRonald MillarAll leave is cancelled so that a British submarine can be sent after a new German warship. They chase it so far that they have no fuel to get home.
- DirectorPhilip BrandonStarsVera LynnGeraldoPatricia RocA young dancer trying to make it in London during World War II discovers that people like her singing voice too. Although she's at first reluctant to sing, she finally does and becomes a star. She hooks up with a young musician who composes classical music and turns his nose up at this vulgar "popular" music, but she believes he can be a success at it and sets out to turn him around.
- DirectorLance ComfortStarsSydney HowardRaymond HuntleyOlga LindoThe Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers are old friends gathered to celebrate their silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer.
- DirectorLawrence HuntingtonStarsRobertson HareAlfred DraytonPolly WardFarce: Two business partners and their hardworking wives become heroes when they capture some fifth columnists.
- DirectorHerbert WilcoxStarsAnna NeagleRichard GreeneNova PilbeamA woman wrongfully accused of being a Nazi sympathizer is forced to move to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- DirectorJames E. RogersStarsRobert Speaight
- DirectorLou BuninBury the Axis was directed and animated by American Lou Bunin It was part of a British plan to showcase the enemies of Britain as truly evil in the eyes of the public in order to continue the war effort. Kenneth Clark, as head of the Films Division of the Ministry of information that was re-established at the start of the war, argued in 1940 that the public must be convinced of German brutality, stating 'we should emphasise wherever possible the wickedness and evil perpetrated in the occupied countries. The film uses stop-motion animation in order to portray its story. This includes clay puppet models of Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito. It begins with Hitler singing a little song about how he's taken over several countries and will do more...that is, until he gets to Moscow. The, similar sorts of songs are then sung by Mussolini and Hirohito.
- DirectorRoy BoultingDavid MacDonaldStarsHarold AlexanderWinston ChurchillAdolf HitlerThe Allied campaign to drive Germany and Italy from North Africa is analysed, with the major portion of the film examining the battles at El Alamein, including a re-enactment.
- DirectorCharles Hasse
- DirectorLeslie FentonStarsRalph MichaelLouise HamptonAllan JeayesParents of airman killed returning from raid on Germany visit his Wing Commander, who convinces them that the tragedy was one of the chances of war.
- DirectorHumphrey JenningsStarsVillagers of CwmgieddArwel MichaelThe true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.
- DirectorJack LeeDocudrama about a British submarine on a North Sea patrol during World War II.
- DirectorMichael HankinsonThis documentary short film describes the events in the lives of anti-Nazi German and Austrian concentration camp escapees who fled to England and joined the British army.
- DirectorJ.B. HolmesStarsRoger HunterCharles Norman LewisRalph ReaderDocumentary style presentation of the work of RAF Coastal Command. Shows their work in protecting convoys and attacking enemy aircraft, ships and U-boats, all done by the actual men & women of the RAF.
- DirectorWidgey R. NewmanStarsWally PatchMabel PoultonHal Walters
- DirectorCharles De la TourStarsBill OwenA portrait of leisure during wartime.
- DirectorFranciszka ThemersonStefan ThemersonAnti-German propaganda short film made jointly by Poland and Britain during WWII.
- DirectorRalph KeeneStarsFrederick Grisewood
- DirectorAlan OsbistonDylan ThomasStarsBryan HerbertJames McKechnieDocumentary about the nazi leaders responsible for the war and terror in Europe, voiced in English in the words of Dylan Thomas.
- StarsLeslie Howard
- DirectorJulian SpiroJohn FordA short documentary style film it depicts the story of The British obtaining a special tool from America to help with the building of a tank.
- DirectorJoy BatchelorJohn Halas
- DirectorJoy BatchelorJohn HalasA short animated commercial for Kellog's Corn Flakes, as being a good way for the British to start their day.
- DirectorJirí Weiss
- DirectorAlberto Cavalcanti
- StarsRaymond GlendenningHarold AlexanderTeddy AshwoodThis short showcases the work of the cameramen who filmed the battles of WWI and early WWII. We also get to see the faces of many of the men who took the pictures. This includes director D.W. Griffith, who shot newsreels in the trenches of WWI.
- DirectorLouise Birt
- DirectorMary FieldA brisk visual summary of the changing faces of the English town throughout the ages, from the ancients and their hill-forts to the Second World War -- enlivened by the appearance of ghostly denizens to defend their eras against the narrator's various strictures!
- DirectorAlfred TraversThe story of the formation in war-time Britain of the Royal Netherlands Brigade. Made on behalf of the Rijksvoorlichtingsdienst (the London-based Dutch government in exile) to appeal to Dutch nationals to resist German occupation.
- DirectorHorace ShepherdStarsShirley LennerHarry Parry
- DirectorHorace ShepherdStarsHarry ParryJohnny GreenPrimrose Hayes
- Theatrically released advertisement for Rinso.
- DirectorPhil OakesStarsArthur DulayAlvar LiddellPianist Arthur Dulay plays the music of Chopin, Moskowski, Sinding and Rachmaninoff.
- Documentary of wooden shipbuilding during World War Two, including minesweepers for the British Navy and fishing boats.
- DirectorJack Raymond
- DirectorJack Raymond
- DirectorJack RaymondStarsHarry Tate Jr.
- DirectorJack Raymond
- DirectorJack Raymond
- StarsRalph RichardsonBritish riposte to the 1940 Nazi propaganda film Feuertaufe (aka Baptism of Fire).
- DirectorRonald HainesStarsCarol O'ConnorTwo observational tests for amateur detectives: the crooked billet murder and the back stage murder.
- DirectorRalph KeeneA look at the rural farming community during WWII and how farmers help stop food shortages during the war.
- DirectorMax AndersonInformation on the different groups and organizations that are there to help the population during wartime.
- DirectorKay Mander
- DirectorBrian Desmond HurstA Letter From Ulster (1943). Northern Ireland's greatest film director Brian Desmond Hurst directed the film and his assistant director was fellow Ulsterman William (Bill) MacQuitty who went on to make the ultimate Titanic film A Night to Remember. The script was written by Terence Young who went on to direct the early Bond films. All the components were in place for a fine film and this short (32 minute) by the Crown Film Unit remains an important part of Ulster and America's cultural history. As the opening credit says "This film is dedicated to those members of the US Forces Who are our guests in these islands". The film shows American soldiers landing in Northern Ireland and settling into their new camps. The arrival of mail from 'back home' helps camp moral, however, two brothers receive none. Their commander realises that the two brothers have not sent any letters back to their parents and gives the order to write a letter home- A Letter From Ulster. The scene is set for the men to discover more about the people in Ulster and the surrounding countryside. They visit St Marys church in Belfast, Strabane, Carrickfergus Castle and Roaring Meg the canon on the historic walls of Derry/Londonderry. The canvas painted is now a historic record of this important time in Ulster's history and the hospitality extended the US troops. We see them singing, attending parties, playing baseball with the local children and taking tea breaks. The reality of their stay is also brought sharply into focus as we also see them in their barracks and undertaking tank and other exercises across the rolling landscape of Northern Ireland prior to the men taking part in D Day and subsequent actions.
- DirectorKay ManderStarsEvelyn ClarkAngus MacDonaldAlex Mackenzie
- DirectorGilbert GunnStarsAlf SimpsonAlan ThompsonW. CrabtreeThe war-time activity of Tyneside shipyards and the problem of securing labour.
- DirectorDuncan RossStarsStanley Holloway
- DirectorRichard MassinghamStarsRichard MassinghamAnn StephensSesu StrasserA witch tries to dissuade a child from the health measures it should take, but is chased away by children.
- StarsMargaret Simpson