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- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsEric PortmanSheila SimDennis PriceThree modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
- DirectorHerbert WynneStarsRobert GriffithGerald PringBilly 'Uke' ScottA British playboy, who just happens to be in possession of an ancient sarcophagus (it's sitting in his mansion living room), discovers there's a 3000-year old Egyptian princess inside--alive! She pops out one evening and the two of them go out on the town for an unforgettable night of romance and song.
- DirectorVal GuestStarsArthur AskeyAnne SheltonPeter GravesDuring World War II, a plane crashes on an island full of dominating women.
- DirectorMarcel VarnelStarsGeorge FormbyAnne FirthReginald PurdellNazi spies are out to destroy a new submarine killer, the "Firefly", being developed by the British navy. A hapless waiter named George, after being rejected for military service three times, finally joins up when, during an air raid, he is mistaken for a real sailor. He soon unwittingly stumbles into the secret hideout of the Nazi spies trying to destroy the Firefly. Complications ensue.
- DirectorGeorge KingStarsJames MasonCarla LehmannRaymond LovellAn American sculptress in wartime Algiers gets mixed up with a British agent and a Nazi spy who knows that a top-secret meeting of Allied military leaders will be taking place in Algeria--and that the British agent has a camera that has photographs of the meeting place.
- DirectorJohn HarlowStarsEliot MakehamBeatrix LehmannJohn SalewA rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he has left his estate to a beautiful young actress whom the other relatives didn't know was related to him. Several attempts on her life are thwarted by a detective, who sets out to discover who's behind the scheme to kill her.
- DirectorAlberto CavalcantiStarsTommy TrinderStanley HollowayBetty WarrenThe story of a 19th century English music hall (vaudeville) performer and life behind the scenes.
- DirectorJohn E. BlakeleyStarsNorman EvansNat JackleyDan YoungDemobbed from the army Nat, Norman and Dan get new jobs, solve a crime and stage a concert party.
- DirectorJeffrey DellStarsRichard BirdEdward RigbyEsma CannonThe castle ghost helps the lady and the lawyer beat off developers.
- DirectorJohn BaxterStarsBud FlanaganChesney AllenHazel CourtA soldier is knocked unconscious during a train journey and has a series of bizarre dreams.
- DirectorHarold FrenchStarsMichael WildingMargaret RutherfordPenelope Dudley-WardWhile bird-fancier Lady Christabel Beauclark (Dame Margaret Rutherford) scurries around demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is falling in love with the family's butler, Tom Gilbey (Michael Wilding). The birds are forgotten when war breaks out, and Gilbey now finds himself in love with the niece whose love was previously unrequited.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsPhyllis CalvertJames MasonWilfrid LawsonFanny's father dies in a fight. Her family runs a brothel. Her real father is a politician. She falls for his advisor Harry. Lord Manderstoke's interference causes conflicts between classes. Tragic events occur due to the Lord's schemes.
- DirectorHarry WattStarsTommy TrinderFrances DaySonnie HaleA pair of Jolly Jack Tars on shore leave take a Wren (lady sailor) to Stonehenge and get caught in a time warp finishing up in ancient Rome.
- DirectorCharles CrichtonStarsDavid FarrarRalph MichaelRobert WyndhamAn RAF officer wishes to fly, but isn't allowed and is posted to the RAF Air Sea Rescue operating in the English Channel.
- DirectorVal GuestStarsMargaret LockwoodVic OliverPeter GravesA young man falls in with a society whose principle is a complete disregard for work, and chaos ensues when the society decides to help run the hotel of his father.
- DirectorMaclean RogersStarsWill FyffeLeni LynnAustin TrevorAfter Joan's father remarries, she goes to Paris, where her uncle arranges singing lessons for her.
- DirectorLance ComfortMutz GreenbaumVictor HanburyStarsJames MasonLucie MannheimRaymond LovellA hunt for a spy, in an hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.
- DirectorKarel LamacStarsRobert BeattyBarbara WhiteMarjorie RhodesSweet innocent Moya arrives in Liverpool from her native Cork and immediately gets mixed up with handsome-but-dodgy Canadian seaman Tom. Both the rozzers and the bad guys are after him. Will true love prevail?
- DirectorHerbert MasonStarsElsie WatersDoris WatersErnest ButcherGert and Daisy attempt to retrieve an old dress containing £2,000. They have to impersonate two thespians, and bring all sorts of trouble to a stage-play.
- DirectorLeslie ArlissStarsMargaret LockwoodStewart GrangerTom WallsAfter concert pianist Lissa Campbell learns that she has a serious heart problem. she vows to enjoy what time she has left. On taking her first holiday she meets Kit Firth, a pilot on leave whose vision has been impaired due to a bomb explosion while he was on active service. Kit is searching for a rare mineral Britian needs in the war effort. Following an explosion at the local tin mine, Kit and several others are trapped, but due to his knowledge of the mine workings, he leads the others to safety. But his greatest challenge is to come, when he has to undergo an operation, that hopefully may keep him from going blind. This operation has a slim chance of being successful. This video is available in VHS PAL format under the series named, "The Margaret Lockwood Collection".
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsGodfrey TearleJeanne De CasalisMorland GrahamA retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.
- DirectorHarold FrenchStarsFelix AylmerGreta GyntWalter RillaAn elderly Jew travels from Britain to pre-war Nazi Germany to find out what's really going on.
- DirectorTeddy BairdStarsHarry RéeJacqueline NearneTeddy BairdDocudrama showing the work of British agents with the French "resistance" during the war, acted by actual agents. Includes details of their training, tactics and sabotage activities.
- DirectorClive BrookStarsClive BrookBeatrice LillieGoogie WithersTwo wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away with her for a month to see if they are compatible, the fireworks begin.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsVera LynnDonald StewartMary ClareA young singer meets a man who is the victim of a kidnap plot, and is assumed by the gang to be his girlfriend.
- DirectorVictor M. GoverStarsThe Boswell TwinsVera BradleyChappie d'AmatoVariety show comprising musical and dance acts.
- DirectorDenis KavanaghStarsBonar ColleanoBeryl DavisHarry DavisBrian Michie introduces various musical and comedy acts in the form of a dress rehearsal for a stage review, interspersed with comedy routines featuring Bonar Colleano.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsWilliam HartnellCarol RayeWalter FitzgeraldA farmer marries a beautiful city girl and tries to help her become more settled on the farm by buying her a calf to look after. She begins to spend their money so fast that the farmer goes broke, Then she runs away on her horse.
- DirectorBernard MilesCharles SaundersStarsBernard MilesRosamund JohnNiall MacGinnisJimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and his nurse Hazel Broome, come across a pair of rare birds nestling in a field. After a run-in with the army and a couple of thieves, they, with the cooperation of the village people and the Ornithology Society, help the eggs to hatch. A wonderful look at life in a small village during World War II.
- DirectorJoy BatchelorJohn Halas
- DirectorLaurence OlivierStarsLaurence OlivierRobert NewtonLeslie BanksIn the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
- DirectorBasil DeardenAlberto CavalcantiStarsMervyn JohnsGlynis JohnsTom WallsA group of travellers, all with something to hide in their past, take shelter from a storm in an old inn. The inn-keeper seems a little mysterious...
- DirectorBrian Desmond HurstStarsAnne CrawfordDavid FarrarFrederick LeisterAn accountant is forced by circumstances to take a job at the racetrack. He is working at the betting window when he is drawn into a gang of criminals and their illegal schemes.
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsRalph RichardsonPat McGrathAnna NeagleAfter a masterful performance as Othello in a London theater, Ralph Richardson is asked for an autograph by Fred, his dresser. A short while later, Fred has joined the Fleet Air Arm (Fly Navy) and has become a hero, rescuing a pilot from his burning plane. When Fred goes to Buckingham Palace, it's Ralph's turn to ask for an autograph.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsDavid NivenStanley HollowayJames DonaldWorld War II drama that follows a group of British draftees, starting with their rigorous basic training, and ending with their deployment in North Africa.
- DirectorBasil DeardenStarsJohn ClementsGoogie WithersRaymond HuntleyAdapted from a J.B. Priestley play with many of the original actors. The tale of various people who have come to live in an "ideal" city and their hopes and reasons for doing so.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsRobert NewtonCelia JohnsonJohn MillsJust after World War I, the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. They live an ordinary life throughout the years, but everything changes when World War II breaks out.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsTommy HandleyEvelyn DallGeorge MoonA minor music hall star uses a professor's time machine to travel back to the Elizabethan era.
- DirectorFrank LaunderStarsPhyllis CalvertFlora RobsonPatricia RocWomen in a French internment camp conceal downed British airmen from German soldiers, and try to help them escape. Produced by Edward Black. Written and directed by Frank Launder.
- DirectorLeslie S. HiscottStarsBarbara MullenDonald StewartPeggy CumminsTwo penniless sisters decide to let part of their inherited estate be used as an airbase for the U.S. military.
- DirectorJirí WeissA dramatized account of Norwegian fishermen outwitting occupational forces during World War
- DirectorJack ClaytonThe capture of Naples, the first great European city to be liberated, revealed the magnitude of the tasks involved in re-creating the means of livelihood and the machinery of government in a devastated, starving and disease-ridden city.
- StarsConnie AntiaStephanie AntiaPropaganda film showing how happily black children blend into English schools, with one even being crowned Queen of the May. Made to encourage more people to come from the West Indies and Africa, who could then be used as cheap labour.
- DirectorRalph KeeneStarsTom ClarkeProfile of the Heart of England shires of Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Rutland, and Warwickshire, and their important roles in feeding the nation.
- DirectorTom GurrStarsPeter FinchJ.H. AdamsE. BarmbyEight Australian soldiers in New Guinea attack a Japanese stronghold.
- DirectorHenry CassStarsJimmy HanleyFrederick PiperDinah SheridanScraps of information are gathered and pieced together by an enemy who lurks in the shadows, proving that nowhere is safe to discuss sensitive wartime information on the home front.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsPaul BonifasPaul ClarusJean DattasWhile preparing backstage, an actor tells his castmates about an adventure he had during World War II in the Axis-controlled French colony of Madagascar working for the Resistance and clashing with the collaborationist local police chief.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJohn BlytheJanique JoelleA young Scottish R. A. F. Gunner is debriefed by French officials about his escape from occupied territory, and in particular one person who may or may not have been a German Agent.
- DirectorHumphrey JenningsStarsMarius GoringLucie MannheimPat HughesHow Lili Marlene became the signature tune for the British army in North Africa.
- DirectorRalph KeeneStarsBruce BelfrageRobert McDermottA song of praise to the park spaces and woodlands on the outskirts of London, which provided therapeutic value to wartime city residents.
- DirectorGeorge Hoellering
- British documentary short made to describe the attacks made on England by Hitler's V-1 bombs and the successful destruction of many of these bombs before they could fall on their targets.
- DirectorCastleton KnightStarsE.V.H. EmmettFrederick Alfred Pile
- DirectorJill CraigieStarsDiana BeaumontKenneth ClarkWilliam Reid DickDocumentary about modern art, featuring the work of Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland and Stanley Spencer.
- DirectorAlexander ShawStarsTed HollidayDavid SimeRosamund JohnLife aboard merchant ships with the Maritime Regiment of the Royal Artillery.
- DirectorHumphrey JenningsStarsEdward R. MurrowThis film is structured around British attempts to prevent the V1 missiles from getting through to their targets. Gunners, pilots and barrage balloons are the layers of National Defence, layers of defence that can't be entirely successful.
- DirectorHumphrey JenningsStarsFletcher Markle
- DirectorGeorge HoelleringStarsWilliam Temple
- DirectorFrank Hurley
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsPaul BonifasEverley GreggDavid KeirAn Englishman and Frenchman sharing a hotel room discover their children are fighting on the same side, French Resistance and R.A.F.
- DirectorBudge CooperA study of child delinquency in Scotland
- DirectorKay Mander
- DirectorLewis GilbertStarsPeter Byrne
- DirectorJack LeeDocumentary showing the varied activities of the Royal Corps of Marines in the invasion of Normandy.
- DirectorMargaret Thomson
- DirectorMary Francis
- DirectorKenneth VilliersCauses and effect of soil erosion in India and the work of the Forestry Department to repair the damage.
- British, French and American air crews join forces for final assaults on Germany and Italy.
- DirectorCompton BennettStarsBrefni O'RorkeJulian SomersMargaret WithersDrama-documentary celebrating 100 years of Co-operative shops
- DirectorDonald TaylorStarsJohn MartinJenny LairdArthur Hambling
- DirectorJessie MatthewsStarsFrederick CooperDulcie GrayVincent HolmanPropaganda short encouraging women to contribute to the war effort by investing in war loans through National Savings.
- DirectorJ.B. Napier-Bell
- DirectorWidgey R. NewmanStarsFrederick AllenCommentary on all kinds and sizes of dog through the fictional eyes of a Pekinese.
- RAF Serviceman 'Orace MacPuddle returns to his home village of Mud in the Marsh with his glamorous new fiancé. However, is the bride to be all that she seem?
- DirectorRonald HainesStarsMax EarleMaurice RhodesClarence BiggeAudience are invited to solve the cases of the stolen boy and the hairless boarder
- DirectorHarold BaimStarsLaidman BrowneAn educational travelogue around William Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford-On-Avon, detouring into the surrounding beautiful Cotswold villages.
- DirectorKay ManderAlexander ShawStarsValentine Dyall
- DirectorGeorge A. CooperDocumentary 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.
- DirectorJohn EldridgeStarsBen WilliamsNell HallamAllan Jeayes
- DirectorRobin Carruthers
- DirectorFrank Sainsbury
- DirectorRichard MassinghamStarsJack BuchananJohn SweetThorley WaltersAn American soldier and a British soldier argue about the relative toughness of rugby and American football.
- DirectorJoy BatchelorJohn Halas
- DirectorRoger MacDougallTraining and duties of a British policeman.
- DirectorCharles De la Tour
- DirectorKenneth Villiers
- DirectorRichard MassinghamStarsJohn Carol
- DirectorJames E. RogersStarsNorman ShelleyAlvar Liddell
- DirectorMary Field
- StarsFrank HarveyCompilation on failure of German invasion.
- Theatrical advertisement for National Savings Stamps.