Soundtrack: John Greenwood

Direction Robert J. Flaherty

Plot Robert J. Flaherty’s award-winning Man of Aran uses stunning location photography and brilliant montage editing to build a forceful drama of life on the Aran Islands. Situated among the frequent...

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast David Farrar · Glynis Johns · Mai Zetterling · Flora Robson

Plot An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped...

Direction Michael Powell

Cast Conrad Veidt · Valerie Hobson · Hay Petrie · Joss Ambler

Plot Early in World War II, Danish sea captain Andersen, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.

Direction Leslie Howard

Cast Leslie Howard · Francis L. Sullivan · Mary Morris · Hugh McDermott

Plot It is mid-1939 and both Germany and England are preparing for an inevitable conflict. Professor Horatio Smith, an effete academic, asks his students to come with him to the continent...

Direction Irving Rapper

Cast Bette Davis · Gary Merrill · Emlyn Williams · Anthony Steel

Plot Mystery writer Janet Frobisher lives alone in a dark English country house, when she's not philandering with her secretary's fiancée. At an extremely awkward moment, she has an unwelcome visitor:...

Direction Ken Annakin · Harold French

Cast James Hayter · Kathleen Harrison · Felix Aylmer · Lana Morris

Plot Three short playlets are presented in this omnibus feature. "The Verger" focuses on a church verger who loses his position when it is discovered that he can neither read nor...

Direction Leslie Howard · Maurice Elvey

Cast Joan Gates · Jean Gillie · Joan Greenwood · Joyce Howard

Plot This film tells the stories of seven 'gentle' British girls who decide to "do their bit" and help out during World War II.

Direction Basil Dean

Cast Vivien Leigh · Leslie Banks · Laurence Olivier · Francis L. Sullivan

Direction Zoltan Korda

Cast Sabu · Raymond Massey · Roger Livesey · Valerie Hobson

Plot Set in the India of the British Raj. All the Indians are portrayed as untrustworthy, plotting to overthrow their British masters. The only 'loyal' Indian is Prince Azim who tries...

Direction Robert J. Flaherty · Zoltan Korda

Cast Sabu · W.E. Holloway · Walter Hudd · Allan Jeayes

Plot This black and white movie is based on Rudyard Kipling's "Toomai, of the Elephants", in which a small native lad claims he knows the congregating place of the elephant hordes.

Direction Leslie S. Hiscott

Cast Arthur Wontner · Ian Fleming · Minnie Rayner · Norman McKinnel

Plot First of five movies with Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes. Card cheat Ronald Adair hears a disembodied voice coming from a painting of cardinal threatening him with exposure and disgrace...

Direction Basil Dean

Cast Brian Aherne · Victoria Hopper · Leonora Corbett · Lyn Harding

Direction Humphrey Jennings

Cast Michael Goodliffe

Plot In preparation for the celebration of the 1951 Festival of Britain, this short film was released to assure British citizens of their nation's place in the world and of their...

Direction Albert de Courville

Cast Edmund Lowe · Constance Cummings · Thomy Bourdelle · Henry Oscar

Plot US private eye sorts out European crime wave. With female sidekick in tow, wisecracking private eye follows a trail of corpses around Europe, shaking up a sinister criminal network which...

Direction Leslie S. Hiscott

Cast Austin Trevor · Franklin Dyall · Elizabeth Allan · J.H. Roberts

Direction Maurice Elvey

Cast Rosamund John · Stewart Granger · Godfrey Tearle · Sophie Stewart

Plot A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.

Direction Muriel Box · Bernard Knowles

Cast Dennis Price · Mai Zetterling · Richard Attenborough · Siobhan McKenna

Plot Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees (displaced persons) in this theatre, prior to returning...

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast John Mills · Dirk Bogarde · Robert Beatty · Elizabeth Sellars

Plot IRA member Terry modifies his violent views after working undercover in wartime London. When his co-conspirators are arrested, he ensures that his brother Matt escapes back to Ireland. Terry follows...

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Arthur Young · Walter Fitzgerald · Ralph Michael · Neville Mapp

Plot The San Demetrio of the title is a British merchant ship in an Atlantic convoy in 1940. Disabled and left to the mercy of patrolling U-boats the crew must keep...

Direction Brian Desmond Hurst

Cast Margaret Lockwood · Dennis Price · Cecil Parker · Dermot Walsh

Plot Much to the consternation of the local townsfolk, the very rich Copper John Brodrick begins to develop a copper mine on Hungry Hill. He imports Cornish workers hoping to eventually...