Soundtrack: Malcolm Arnold

Direction David Lean

Cast William Holden · Alec Guinness · Jack Hawkins · James Donald

Plot British POWs in Burma are employed by the Japanese to build a bridge; meanwhile, British agents seek to destroy it. After surrendering his unit to the Japanese. Colonel Nicholson demands...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Montgomery Clift · Katharine Hepburn · Albert Dekker

Plot In 1937 New Orleans, Dr. John Cukrowicz, working at the state run Lion's View Mental Institution, is experimenting with a radical new treatment for hopeless cases of lunacy: lobotomy. Lion's...

Direction David Lean

Cast Charles Laughton · John Mills · Brenda De Banzie · Daphne Anderson

Plot David Lean backs up vicious wit with tender romance in this thrilling adaptation of Harold Brighouse's play. As Henry Hobson, a tyrannical bootshop owner, Charles Laughton (Mutiny on the Bounty)...

Direction Bryan Forbes

Cast Hayley Mills · Bernard Lee · Alan Bates · Norman Bird

Plot In England's north country, three children find an escaped and wounded murderer in a barn and convince themselves, through something he mutters, that he is the re-incarnation of Jesus Christ....

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Edmond O'Brien · Jan Sterling · Michael Redgrave · Donald Pleasence

Plot In a futuristic, state-run society controlled by "Big Brother" in which love is outlawed, employee of the state Winston Smith falls for Julia, and is tortured and brainwashed for his...

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Alec Guinness · John Mills · Dennis Price · Kay Walsh

Plot Major Jock Sinclair has been in this Highland regiment since he joined as a boy piper. During the Second World War, as Second-in-Command, he was made acting Commanding Officer. Now...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Curd Jürgens · Robert Donat · Michael David

Plot All her life Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to...

Direction Joseph Losey

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Alexis Smith · Alexander Knox · Hugh Griffith

Plot A thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist, who captures him. In exchange for his freedom, the thief agrees to become a guinea pig for the doctor's rehabilitation theories...

Direction Laurent Bouzereau

Cast David Lean · Alec Guinness · William Holden · Eddie Fowlie

Plot This documentary, included with the film's DVD release treats movie fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Bridge on the River Kwai, about the determination of a...

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Burt Lancaster · Tony Curtis · Gina Lollobrigida · Katy Jurado

Plot Former circus aerialist Burt Lancaster was the logical choice to star in the Technicolor drama Trapeze. Lancaster plays a crippled acrobat, disabled after attempting to perform a dangerous triple mid-air...

Direction Guy Green

Cast Richard Attenborough · Pier Angeli · Michael Craig · Bernard Lee

Plot The right of every individual to be different from his fellow men is the theme behind this internationally-hailed, British production. The story tells of a man's dilemma when he refused...

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Deborah Kerr · Hayley Mills · Edith Evans · John Mills

Plot A grandmother seeks a governess for her 16 year old granddaughter, Laurel, who manages to drive away each and every one so far by exposing their past, with a record...

Direction Leslie Norman

Cast John Mills · Robert Urquhart · Ray Jackson · Meredith Edwards

Plot One of the most significant moments in the history of British warfare (in both the best and worst sense) is given reverent but reserved treatment in Dunkirk. The film takes...

Direction Andrew Marton

Cast Keir Dullea · Jack Warden · James Philbrook · Bob Kanter

Plot Dark tale of one man's determination to survive his tour of duty. Separated from his new wife after only eight days of marriage, private Doll suddenly decides that he will...

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Kirk Douglas · Richard Harris · Michael Redgrave · Mervyn Johns

Plot During WW2 Norway was occupied by Germany. In the clear deep fjords they tried to produce "heavy" water; a vital component in the making of an atomic bomb. A weapon...

Direction David Lean

Cast Ralph Richardson · Ann Todd · Nigel Patrick · Denholm Elliott

Plot Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight. Tony successful fighter pilot during World War II marries into the family of a wealthy oil magnate who...

Direction Henry Koster

Cast James Stewart · Marlene Dietrich · Glynis Johns · Jack Hawkins

Plot Theodore Honey is an aeronautical engineer being sent to Labrador from London to examine the wreckage of a new passenger plane designed by his company. His theory is that the...

Direction Carol Reed

Cast William Holden · Sophia Loren · Trevor Howard · Oskar Homolka

Plot In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He's...

Direction Ken Hughes

Cast Arlene Dahl · Phil Carey · Herbert Marshall · Michael Goodliffe

Plot A poor but beautiful woman sets her sights on rising to the top, and lets nothing stand in her way - including murder.

Direction King Vidor

Cast Yul Brynner · Gina Lollobrigida · George Sanders · Marisa Pavan

Plot Shortly before his death in ancient Israel, King David has a vision from God telling him that his younger son Solomon should succeed him as king. His other son Adonijah...