WWII Films - British made

AIR
Target for Tonight (1941)
Ships with Wings (1941)
The First of the Few (1942)
The Way to the Stars (1945)
Angels One Five (1952)
Appointment in London (1952)
The Dam Busters (1954)
Reach for the Sky (1956)
633 Squadron (1964)
Battle of Britain (1969)
Dark Blue World (2002 - Czech)

SEA
Convoy (1940)
For Freedom (1940)
Neutral Port (1941)
In Which We Serve (1942)
We Dive at Dawn (1943)
San Demetrio-London (1943)
Western Approaches (1944)
The Cruel Sea (1953)
Above Us the Waves (1955)
The Battle of the River Plate (1956)
Yangste Incident (1957)
The Key (1958)
Sink the Bismark (1960)

DESERT
Desert Victory (1943)
The Way Ahead (1944)
They Were Not Divided (1950)
The Steel Bayonet (1957)
Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
I was Monty’s Double (1958)
Play Dirty (1969)

EUROPE
Men of Arnhem (documentary 1944)
The Gift Horse (1952)
The Malta Story (1953)
The Red Beret (1953)
Dunkirk (1958)
The Victors (1963)
The Long Day’s Dying (1968)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)

FAR EAST
Yesterday’s Enemy (1959)
The Long, the Short and the Tall (1961)

ESPIONAGE/SABOTAGE
The Spy in black (1939)
Let George Do It (1940)
Night Train to Munich (1940)
Pimpernell Smith (1941)
The Day Will Dawn (1942)
The Big Blockade (1942)
The Foreman Went to France (1942)
The Goose Steps Out (1942)
Secret Misson (1942)
Unpublished Story (1942)
Undercover (1943)
Odette (1950)
Appointment with Venus (1951)
Cockleshell Heroes (1956)
The Man Who Never Was (1956)
Carve Her Name with Pride (1958)
Orders to Kill (1958)
Circle of Deception (1960)
Foxhole in Cairo (1960)
Operation Amsterdam (1960)
The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
The Eagle has landed (1976)

POW/ESCAPE/SURVIVAL
Forty-Ninth Parallell (1941)
One of our aircraft is missing (1941)
The Captive Heart (1946)
The Wooden Horse (1950)
But Not in Vain (1950)
Albert RN (1953)
The Colditz Story (1955)
The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1955)
A Town Like Alice (1956)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Danger Within (1958)
Camp on Blood Island (1958)
No Time to Die (1958)
The Password is Courage (1962)
The Hill (1965)
King Rat (1965)
The McKenzie Break (1970)

HOME FRONT/CIVILIAN
London Can Take It (1940)
Gasbags (1940)
The Ghost Train (1941)
Went the Day Well (1942)
Swinging the Lambeth Walk - nazi style (1942)
The Bells go Down (1943)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Millions Like Us (1943)
The Lamp Still Burns (1943)
Get Cracking (1943)
The Gentle Sex (1943)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Waterloo Road (1945)
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
Light Up the Sky (1960)
Reach for Glory (1962)
It happened here (1963)
Hope and Glory (1987)


No.9

[ 11. November 2003, 06:12 PM: Message edited by: No.9 ]

 

Excellent number 9..thats my evening taken care of...Im getting on wifes nerves anyway...sprained knee...leg up on chair..get me some coffee woman..Ive got sites to visit...Works every time..

 

Mon pleasure! Is an evening enough? I find I look at a cast list, spot an actor I'd forgotten, then start digging-up other films they've been in, then spot another actor in the cast, then......

I'm sure we can find more to add. Whether or not they're worth mentioning?

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One immediately comes to mind - similar 'documentary style' to San Demetrio - and that's ' Western Approaches ' . Notable because it used no professional actors ; they were all serving Merchant Seamen.

 

Your right...Ill never finish it..Going to try though..Just been through some of my fave ones...and thinking as I looked at em..bet hes forgotten one..didnt look too hard just kept reading...going back to a lot later..then damit..it was there...The Hill....superb.

 

Great thread--many of my favorites are here.

 

Thank you gentlemen, we'll winkle 'em all out eventually. The good, the bad and the John MacEnroe's.

Thank's for 'Western Approaches' Martin. Now added with quite a good link.

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More additions including some comedies.

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Damn....I thought when you said some comedies..you were going to start including some USA stuff like Peal Harbor.. ....I'll leave the room quickly...

 

Well--from your list--ive seen 21 of them--some are my absolute favs--like: Where Eagles Dare, Dunkirk, The Password is Courage, Battle of Britain and The Heros of Telemark for examples.

 

Was that the one about the Japanese member of the KKK who went out and attacked Pearl Bailey?


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That is an excellent list No.9. It did make me think of why the British have not made any movies of the Falklands War. If they have I missed seeing it promoted anywhere. Seems like it would be a good subject for a film to me.

 

TA, there was an excellent, in my view, drama based on the initial invasion and the naval party and governors fight around Stanley and govt house...by the BBC...

With much emphasis on Brit forces sense of humour and typical Brit stiff upper lip stuff from the governor which really I suppose he did display...

"Im not surrendering to any bloody Argies..."

small Naval pary in local drill hall...knowing invasion forces outnmumber them and thinking casualties would be high...."Time to earn our money"...

Dont know if BBC put it up for sale, but Ill try and find name and let you know..The action scenes are pretty good.

 

Thanks URGH. I would like to see something done on the Falklands on film. I have a book on the airwar but it was just mediocre for information and pictures.

 

An Ungentlemanly Act...Just found the tape and got me watching it again now..cheers..anniversary of invasion this month by the way.

 

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0134178

 

Thank you for your sentiment TA152, and I agree there is a film or two there. However, I would say overall the ‘message’ whispered down the line from Whitehall was not to crow about the matter or rub Argentina’s nose in it. All in the interests of restoring relations thereafter.

There’s the drama urqh mentions and there have been a number of documentaries and programmes dealing with Simon Weston who emerged as a figurehead casualty.

There’s also Tumbledown, but this is not the ‘kick-ass’ type film that Hollywood would have turned out.

The conflict was, accurately, the Battle for the Falklands, as opposed to Britain v Argentina. If the latter were the case, we would have attacked Argentina with a view to conquering it etc. Equally Argentina would have attacked Britain. Quite how this would have been done I don’t know? But obviously we could have mounted missile strikes.

If you make a war film it’s going to get shown here and in Argentina, and people will see scenes of friends and family dying, it can’t be avoided. The filmmaker is then going to have to decide how this is portrayed. If everyone is neatly killed unavoidably and at a distance, it’s going to be nonsense. Then again, if they delve into accuracy, there’s going to be a lot of lawsuits flying about an a lot of enraged MP’s and newspaper campaigns. A friend of a friend was an officer on the Sir Galahad when it was hit with the troops still on board. What went on, I understand, and the official sequence of events do not quite coincide. But that’s all that can be said on the subject.

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Fuss??? As evidenced with some parts of the British media when Tumbledown was released...The news papers got the order from above it would seem and the degeneration of that dramamentuary..was ridiculously over the top....

Suddenly it was unpatriotic to question, even if you were wounded or family.

On Simon Weston 9...I was with him in Chessington remedial centre over a period of time..And I can assure everyone..what you see is what you get with that guy...

We were actually told by staff sgt in remidial gym, that this badly injured guy was coming in, and we were not to engage him in banter ete, let him get to know us quitely, and not to stare etc...

We all working away on our treatments...in he walks...and sorry but bollocks..he was welcomed as any other injured guy..playing cards within and hour...hands were pretty bad...still had gauze or some sort of dressings he had done every day hanging off what didnt look like hands..Managed to play though with help...All went quiet for a few secs though when he swore, and said he was throwing his hand in...Meant the cards...but think we all got the message.

When it came time for victory parade in Guildhall..all 6 gyms were given afternoon off..all round tvs in barrack type wards..not hospital type..watching the parade and meal with Maggie...Only she forgot something....like the Falklands wounded guys that were all in Chessington that were not invited at that time..and bloody angry they were too.

 

Hijacked your thread now 9, sorry, one last thing from me on Falklands..

http://radio.weblogs.com/0114370/

Read from bottome upwards...Also a good link to sama, south atlantic medal association on that site...with an equally good rememberance site included to dead.

 

I had kinda wondered if you guys in the U.K. had ever made any movies about the Falklands too--thanks for the ones listed.