Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "home-guard"

1. Cold Mountain (2003)

R | 154 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart.

Director: Anthony Minghella | Stars: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins

Votes: 156,201 | Gross: $95.64M

2. Dad's Army (1968–1977)

30 min | Comedy, War

A ragtag group of Home Guard volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion during World War II.

Stars: Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn, John Laurie

Votes: 7,245

3. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

Not Rated | 163 min | Drama, Romance, War

From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.

Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, James McKechnie

Votes: 16,362

4. Dad's Army (2016)

Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, War

The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.

Director: Oliver Parker | Stars: Mark Tandy, Russell Balogh, Andrew Havill, Heinz

Votes: 8,526

5. Cartel Land (2015)

R | 100 min | Documentary

Filmmaker Matthew Heineman examines the state of the ongoing drug problem along the U.S.-Mexican border.

Director: Matthew Heineman | Stars: Tim Foley, José Manuel 'El Doctor' Mireles, Paco Valencia, Chaneque

Votes: 18,832 | Gross: $0.70M

6. Whisky Galore (2016)

TV-14 | 98 min | Comedy, Romance

Scottish islanders try to plunder cases of whisky from a stranded ship during WWII.

Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Naomi Battrick, Sean Biggerstaff, James Cosmo, Matt Costello

Votes: 1,976

7. Went the Day Well? (1942)

Approved | 92 min | Thriller, War

An English village is occupied by disguised German paratroopers as an advance post for a planned invasion.

Director: Alberto Cavalcanti | Stars: Leslie Banks, C.V. France, Valerie Taylor, Marie Lohr

Votes: 4,343 | Gross: $0.02M

8. Whisky Galore! (1949)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Crime

Scottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship.

Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Catherine Lacey, Bruce Seton

Votes: 6,657

9. A Canterbury Tale (1944)

Not Rated | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.

Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price, John Sweet

Votes: 6,495

10. This Above All (1942)

Approved | 110 min | Drama, Romance, War

Although she comes from an aristocratic family, beautiful Prudence Cathaway defies convention by joining the WAAFs and becoming romantically involved with an AWOL soldier.

Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Tyrone Power, Joan Fontaine, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Stephenson

Votes: 1,420

11. Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes (2019)

30 min | Comedy, War

Remakes of the three missing episodes of the original BBC comedy series Dad's Army (1968)

Stars: Kevin McNally, Robert Bathurst, Kevin Eldon, David Hayman

Votes: 264

12. Joe Maddison's War (2010 TV Movie)

85 min | Drama, War

Tyneside ship-builder Joe Maddison lost his faith in the trenches at the Somme in 1916. Now that World War II has begun, he is too old to enlist alongside his son and son-in-law, and is ... See full summary »

Director: Patrick Collerton | Stars: Sammy T. Dobson, James Atherton, Angela Lonsdale, James Baxter

Votes: 241

13. Det støver stadig (1962)

82 min | Comedy, Family

Comedy about the people in an apartment building. Sequel to "Støv på hjernen".

Director: Poul Bang | Stars: Helle Virkner, Søren Elung Jensen, Dirch Passer, Hanne Borchsenius

Votes: 662

14. Listen to Britain (1942)

Not Rated | 20 min | Documentary, Short

A depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the turmoil and privation caused by the war, all without narration.

Directors: Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister | Stars: Leonard Brockington, Joseph Macleod, Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen

Votes: 1,856

15. A Diary for Timothy (1945)

40 min | Documentary, Short

This brief documentary-style film presents the status of Great Britain near the end of the Second World War by means of a visual diary for a baby boy born in September, 1944. Narration ... See full summary »

Director: Humphrey Jennings | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Myra Hess, John Gielgud, Frederick Allen

Votes: 752

16. Doktor Mladen (1975)

102 min | Biography, Drama, War

At the beginning of the Second World War, a well respected doctor must lead the partisan resistance to save his people from genocide.

Directors: Midhat Mutapdzic, Milenko Strbac | Stars: Ljuba Tadic, Pavle Vuisic, Ljubisa Samardzic, Husein Cokic

Votes: 231

17. The Mysterious Doctor (1943)

Approved | 57 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

The citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which is haunting the local tin mine.

Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: John Loder, Eleanor Parker, Bruce Lester, Lester Matthews

Votes: 688

18. Get Cracking (1943)

96 min | Comedy, War

George Formby joins the home guard.

Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: George Formby, Edward Rigby, Frank Pettingell, Ronald Shiner

Votes: 174

19. Churchill's Island (1941)

TV-PG | 21 min | Documentary, War, Short

The people of Britain resist the German air force and navy with help from North America.

Director: Stuart Legg | Stars: Lorne Greene, Gérard Arthur, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler

Votes: 233

20. The First Days (1939)

23 min | Documentary, Short, War

Londoners prepare for war.

Directors: Pat Jackson, Humphrey Jennings, Harry Watt | Star: Robert Sinclair

Votes: 68

21. Without a Country (2017)

103 min | Adventure, Drama, History

"Without a Country" is the story of Will and Suzanne, farmers scratching out an existence on a small piece of land near Valle Crucis in the North Carolina mountains. When the Civil War ... See full summary »

Director: Brad Clark | Stars: Jake Bates, Emily Davis, Faith Owens, Mattilynn Sinclair

22. Lau og Laudrup (2017)

30 min | Short, Horror, Mystery

When a Bosnian orphan refugee drowns at the pool house and is whisked off to the hospital, his older brother who is also a refugee goes inquiring and looking for him, but this turns out to be in the midst of a horrifying viral outbreak.

Director: Charlotte Brodthagen | Stars: Oliver Jensen, Victor Skov Dahl Christiansen, Mikael Birkkjær, Petrine Agger

Votes: 10

23. The Home Guard (1941)

7 min | Animation, Short

Gandy Goose joins the home guard, a ramshackle bunch of barnyard creatures that mostly march and drill. At one point, Gandy is menaced by a fifth columnist, who travels in a literal fifth column from a porch.

Director: Mannie Davis | Star: Tom Morrison

Votes: 24

24. Men of Tomorrow (1942)

10 min | Documentary, Short, War

Propaganda short showing how boy scouts can help the war effort in Britain.

Director: Alfred Travers | Star: Staney Newton

Votes: 8

25. En borgerpligt (1953)

2 min | Short

The wife is unhappy that her husband has not registered with the Home Guard like the other men.

Director: Solveig Ersgaard | Stars: Lily Broberg, Carl Heger

26. The 1940's: Music, Memories & Milestones (1988 Video)

Documentary

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Director: Dave Flitton | Stars: Jerry O'Regan, Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, Leonard Cheshire

Votes: 22

27. London Terminus (1944)

16 min | Documentary, Short, War

Documentary depicting all the various different jobs that go to keep Waterloo Station running, illustrated via the device of one of the porters and his girl going to the local news cinema to watch a film about the station.

Director: George A. Cooper

Votes: 7

28. Blitzkrieg (1962)

28 min | Documentary, Short, War

April - November 1940. With devastating speed Germany takes Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg. Italy declares war.

Stars: Budd Knapp, Lord Athlone, Lord Beaverbrook, John Buchan

Votes: 20

29. Steel Goes to Sea (1941)

16 min | Documentary, Short

British Council short film about building ships from steel and the different trades involved. The story is told through the eyes of young David, the son of a journeyman steel fabricator. ... See full summary »

Director: John E. Lewis

Votes: 12

30. Country Town (1945)

17 min | Documentary, Short

Life and industry in a Lincolnshire town.

Director: Julian Wintle | Star: Philip Robinson

Votes: 5

31. London 1942 (1943)

14 min | Documentary, Short

Propaganda short about the capital's efforts to adapt to the third year of war.

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Robert Speaight, Bill Owen

Votes: 9

32. Foyle's War (2002–2015)
Episode: Fifty Ships (2003)

TV-14 | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After Foyle is a guest at a friend's home at a dinner for an important American industrialist, a suicide victim and German agent both are discovered near the house.

Director: Giles Foster | Stars: Honeysuckle Weeks, Rebecca Johnson, Steven O'Donnell, Marlene Sidaway

Votes: 776

33. Foyle's War (2002–2015)
Episode: War Games (2003)

TV-14 | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a British food corporation signs a secret agreement with the Nazis to provide essential food services to the enemy during wartime, murders result.

Director: Giles Foster | Stars: Ian Redford, Tim Preece, Caroline Faber, Laurence Fox

Votes: 768

34. Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1975)
Episode: The Beastly Hun (1974)

TV-14 | 52 min | Drama

The sinking of the Lusitania has Hudson on a tirade and his anti-German fervor pervade the servants hall. Upstairs, Richard is made Civil Lord of the Admiralty in the newly-formed coalition government.

Director: Bill Bain | Stars: Gordon Jackson, Lesley-Anne Down, Meg Wynn Owen, Jean Marsh

Votes: 89

35. The Thames: Britain's Great River with Tony Robinson (2019)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (2019)

44 min | Documentary, History

Tony begins his journey at the source of the Thames in Gloucestershire. He meets a professional crayfish catcher, investigates the cleanliness of the water and discovers the uses the Home Guard put the river to in WWII.

Director: Michael Massey | Star: Tony Robinson

Votes: 12

36. World War II in Colour (2009)
Episode: Britain at Bay (2009)

TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War

Germany makes critical errors during the bombing of Britain.

Stars: Robert Powell, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Erich Raeder

Votes: 311

37. Britain at War (1995)
Episode: The Long Years: 1942 - 1944 (1995)

Documentary, History, War

As the war entered its third year, fear of the Blitz receded. A period of retrenchment began with rationing, digging for victory, land girls and home guard exercises becoming part of everyday life.

Director: Sasha Upton | Stars: William Rushton, Eddie Cain, Justine Hodgkinson, Kit Nairne