Movies

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian...

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space...

A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench...

British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia he...

A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife,...

The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to...

A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might...

Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans,...

Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope...

British World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the French Resistance and the Nazi tactic of taking and...

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

Candlelight in Algeria is a 1944 British war film directed by George King and starring James Mason, Carla Lehmann and Raymond Lovell. This drama...

A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.

Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity...

People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city

A young man's passions are stirred by a beautiful Sicilian after his physician-wife is called away on an emergency.

When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth, the populace try to organise a local government...

English-language version or remake of the German film, TRUXA (1937).

Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade...