A number of films in this chart are wartime propaganda jobs, knocked up in times of crisis for a quick sentimental fix,...
Always ‘the Master’. Along with the indefatigable Emeric Pressburger, his films defined an era of robust British gentility, without which we surely...
War reporter William Holden shacks up with Jennifer ‘Barratts of Wimpole Street’ Jones in Hong Kong, to much of-its-time interracial hoo-hah. As...
And to accompany it, here’s The Longest Film. Lots of star turns here but we can’t help feeling that it’s all a...
The Fox of which this title speaks is of course General Rommel, this being the story of the his North African campaign,...
“The Great Love Story of The Great War”. Now, we always thought it was the First World War that got called the...
By David Pirie. Charles Dance is an army captain in 1940, investigating civilian morale in a remote village, and finding suspicion, hate...
By Alan Clews. 1940: The lives of UK-dwelling Italians and Germans are disrupted when Italy joins the war and ‘unfriendly’ immigrants are...
By Roger Mulner. Richard Briers plays a commander on the merchant navy Russian convoy of WWII who purposely disobeys an order to...
July 1945, shortly after the election, and aristocratic Kentish brewing dynasty the Carlions are gathering for a christening...
Stewart Parker’s raucous, wry satire of the macho, infantile depths a gang of men can drag themselves down to, the fictional old...
By Ian McEwan. In late 1940, 19-year-old Cathy Raine (Harriet Walter), lives a dull, stifling lower middle class existence in Frinton with...
A wartime countryside idyll (closely modelled, of course, on Dennis Potter’s Forest of Dean domain) is populated by seven-year-old children playing in...
In 1941, in a remote country house near Wendelsham, somewhere in southern England, nineteen-year-old upper class girl Anna Seaton (Kate Nelligan) arrives...
Jewish wartime misfittery.
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