British Ww2 Films 1939 - 1969 - Britmovie

hhhhancock · 15-05-2008, 12:06 PM

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I collect British made WW2 films made or released between 1939 and 1969. The films I am interested in are not only the conventional action films but those that are peripherably involved with WW2, like This Happy Breed. Films that show something of the conditions on the home front and the emotions of the people that are seeing friends and relatives going to war.

I am finding it quite difficult to compile a definitive list of these films, as soon as I think I'm there some more films come along. Does anyone know where I can go for information, or can anyone let me have a list of these films. Alternatively, I can email them of a list of the films that I think cover this category and perhaps they can tell me what I have missing./B]

Steve Crook · 15-05-2008, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by hhhhancock

I collect British made WW2 films made or released between 1939 and 1969. The films I am interested in are not only the conventional action films but those that are peripherably involved with WW2, like This Happy Breed. Films that show something of the conditions on the home front and the emotions of the people that are seeing friends and relatives going to war.

I am finding it quite difficult to compile a definitive list of these films, as soon as I think I'm there some more films come along. Does anyone know where I can go for information, or can anyone let me have a list of these films. Alternatively, I can email them of a list of the films that I think cover this category and perhaps they can tell me what I have missing.

Check all the Powell & Pressburger films made during the war. One of the many unusual things about their war films is that they hardly ever really mention the war. They're more interested in the people than all the actual shooting

Steve

Arthur Linden-Jones · 15-05-2008, 09:23 PM

Probably wouldn't take long to compile a comprehensive list from the contents of this existing thread http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/br...wwii-film.html

hhhhancock · 16-05-2008, 08:10 AM

Many thanks for that information. I do have a list of P and P films but unfortunately some, such as Squadron Leader X, seem to be lost and untraceable.

hhhhancock · 16-05-2008, 08:12 AM

Thanks for the information and the link. This has provided me with some useful additions but the titles listed are missing an awful lot of films, I have some 75+ films that are not shown.

CaptainWaggett · 16-05-2008, 08:39 AM

Why not post your list? I'm sure we'd all be interested.

GRAEME · 16-05-2008, 03:06 PM

I have to ask: why do you curtail your interest at 1969? I mean there have been one or two fantastic WWII films made after that date - not least A Bridge Too Far.

Is it arbitary or is there something significant about '69?

MB · 16-05-2008, 08:42 PM

I've seen a few past that date that were worth watching - I enjoyed Yanks (probably because I'm a girly) - but my favourite WW2 film is actually German..(am I allowed to say that here) 'Das Boot' made in 1981 I think. Everyone should watch it - thoughtful, compelling direction and a genuinely surprising take on the war from the German point of view (not Nazi - the ordinary Germans..)
I found it fascinating and I think girlies are not supposed to...

batman · 16-05-2008, 09:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Modestyblaise

I found it fascinating and I think girlies are not supposed to...

Why?

MB · 16-05-2008, 11:08 PM

Cos girls are meant to like films where people cry a lot and meet handsome men - or so Hollywood would have us believe..

Steve Crook · 16-05-2008, 11:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Modestyblaise

Cos girls are meant to like films where people cry a lot and meet handsome men - or so Hollywood would have us believe..

And you want to be a Hollywood scriptwriter and write films like that?

Or are you planning to subvert the system from the inside?

Steve

MB · 17-05-2008, 07:25 AM

Yes, well this is the idea..I was actually empolyed for about as a scriptwriter for a regional tv company. Afterwards the Drama dept closed down and the TV programme I was about to write for..I think I might have accidentally subverted the system for
the inside there too..
That was a few years ago, but I'm thinking of having another crack..long way to Hollywood though and a lot of nepotism to get past.

Perhaps I will just open a sandwich shop or something.

batman · 17-05-2008, 07:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Modestyblaise

Perhaps I will just open a sandwich shop or something.

Go for the sandwich shop.

maturin · 17-05-2008, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by hhhhancock

[b]
I collect British made WW2 films made or released between 1939 and 1969. The films I am interested in are not only the conventional action films but those that are peripherably involved with WW2, like This Happy Breed. Films that show something of the conditions on the home front and the emotions of the people that are seeing friends and relatives going to war.

I am finding it quite difficult to compile a definitive list of these films, as soon as I think I'm there some more films come along. Does anyone know where I can go for information, or can anyone let me have a list of these films. Alternatively, I can email them of a list of the films that I think cover this category and perhaps they can tell me what I have missing./B]

I had a go at producing a list of UK WW2 related films fom many sources and ended up also fathering a list of non-UK WW2 films including lots of Eastern European titles which looked really interesting. A couple of forum members have added titles I'd missed. Both lists are very much works in progress, but if anyone is interested I can send them the lists by email as Excel workbooks. Each list has dates, director, leading actor and a very brief comment or synopsis.
I'd be happy to post the UK list here if no-one objects, but it's very long.

Actually now I look at it, the UK list is only 200 films, including some modern ones.

Cheers,
Richard

maturin · 17-05-2008, 10:20 AM

As the list pruned of non-UK isn't as long as I thought, I'll chance posting it. As I said - a work very much in progress and one which probably includes some non-WW2 and errors. I have included a few co-productions and I may not have cut all the non-UK. Feel free to add, subtract and comment.

Title Year
2000 Women 1944
49th Parallel 1941
633 Squadron 1964
Above Us the Waves 1955
Adventures of Tartu 1943
Against the Wind 1948
Albert R.N. 1953
An Angel for May 2002
Angels One Five 1952
Angry Hills ,The 1959
Appointment in London 1952
Appointment with Venus 1951
Aryan Couple ,The 2004
Attack on the Iron Coast 1968
Aventure Malgache 1944
Battle of Britain 1969
Battle of the V-1 1958
Before Winter Comes 1969
Bells Go Down ,The 1943
Bent 1997
Big Blockade ,The 1940
Black Tent ,The 1956
Blockhouse, The 1973
Bon Voyage 1944
Breaking the Code 1996
Bridge on the River Kwai, The 1957
British intelligence 1940
Brylcream Boys, The 1998
Cameleon 1997
Camp on Blood Island ,The 1958
Candlelight in Algeria 1944
Canterbury Tale, A 1944
Captain Corelli's Mandolin 2001
Captive Heart ,The 1946
Carve Her Name with Pride 1958
Channel Incident 1940
Charlotte Gray 2001
Clouds Over Europe 1939
Cockleshell Heroes, The 1955
Colditz Story, The 1955
Confirm or deny 1941
Conspiracy 2001
Conspiracy of Hearts 1960
Contraband 1940
Convoy 1940
Cottage to Let 1941
Count Five and Die 1958
Court Martial of Major Keller 1961
Cross of Iron 1977
Cruel Sea, The 1953
Dam Busters, The 1955
Danger Within 1959
Dangerous Moonlight 1941
Dark Blue World 2001
Day Will Dawn ,The 1942
Desert Rats, The 1953
Diary for Timothy, A 1945
Dirty Dozen ,The 1967
Divided Heart, The 1954
Dunkirk 1958
Eagle Has Landed ,The 1976
Egares, Les 2003
Enigma 2001
Entrusted 2003
Escape To Athena 1979
Eye Of the Needle 1981
First of the Few, The 1942
Five Graves to Cairo 1943
Flemish Farm 1943
Flying Fortress 1942
For Freedom 1940
For Those in Peril 1944
For Those In Peril 1939
Force 10 from Navarone 1978
Foreman Went to France, The 1942
Foxhole in Cairo 1961
Freedom Radio 1941
Frieda 1947
Friend or Foe 1981
Gasbags 1941
Gathering Storm, The 2002
Gentle Sex, The 1943
Ghost Train ,The 1941
Glory At Sea 1952
Goose Steps Out, The 1942
Green for Danger 1946
Guns of Navarone ,The 1961
Hand, the 1960
Hannibal Brooks 1969
Hanover Street 1979
Hasty Heart ,The 1949
Hero 2001
Heroes of Telemark ,The 1965
Hill ,The 1965
Hope and Glory 1987
How I Won the War 1967
Ice-Cold in Alex 1958
Ill Met by Moonlight 1957
In Which We Serve 1942
Invasion Quartet 1961
It Happened Here 1966
Journey Together 1946
Jungle Patrol 1944
Key ,The 1958
Killing Hitler 2003
Lamp Still Burns, The 1943
Land Girls ,The 1998
Last Drop, The 2005
Last Reunion, The 1955
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The 1943
Lion Has Wings, The 1939
Listen to Britain 1942
Long and the Short and the Tall ,The 1961
Long Day's Dying ,The 1968
Malta Story 1953
Man Called Intrepid, A 1979
Man Who Never Was, The 1956
Matter of Life and Death, A 1946
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence 1983
Miniver Story, The 1950
Morning Departure 1950
Mosquito Squadron 1969
Murphy's War 1971
My Childhood 1972
New Lot, The 1943
Next of Kin 1942
Night My Number Came Up, the 1955
Night of the Generals ,The 1967
Night of the Fox, The 1990
Night Train to Munich 1940
Nine Men 1943
No Time to Die 1958
O.H.M.S. 1937
Odette 1950
On the Fiddle 1961
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing 1942
Operation Amsterdam 1959
Operation Crossbow 1965
Overlord 1975
Passage ,The 1979
Password Is Courage ,The 1962
Piccadilly Incident 1948
'Pimpernel' Smith 1941
Play Dirty 1968
Plenty 1985
Purple Plain ,The 1954
Reach for glory 1963
Reach for the Sky 1956
Red Beret ,The 1953
Return from the River Kwai 1989
Rogue Male 1976
Sahara 1943
Sailor of the King 1953
San Demetrio, London 1943
Sea of Sand 1958
Sea Shall Not Have Them, The 1954
Sea Wolves, The 1980
Seagulls Over Sorrento 1954
Secret Journey 1940
Secret of Blood Island ,The 1964
Seven Thunders 1957
Shetlandsgjengen 1954
Shine On Harvey Moon 1982
Ship That Died of Shame ,The 1955
Ships with Wings 1942
Silent Enemy, The 1958
Silent Village ,The 1943
Silver Fleet ,The 1943
Sink the Bismarck! 1960
Spy in Black, The 1939
Stalag Luft 1993
Steel Bayonet ,The 1957
Steel Tempest, The 2000
Submarine X-1 1968
Tarnished Heroes 1961
Tea with Mussolini 1999
Ten Seconds to Hell 1959
Theirs Is the Glory 1946
They Were Not Divided 1950
They Who Dare 1953
Third Reich 1982
This Happy Breed 1944
Tomorrow We Live 1943
Two Fathers 1944
Two Men Went to War 2002
Two-Headed Spy ,The 1958
Underground 1970
Unpublished Story 1942
Varian's War 2001
Very Important Person 1961
Victors ,The 1963
Volunteer, The 1943
War Lover ,The 1962
Waterloo Road 1945
Way Ahead, The 1944
Way to the Stars, The 1945
Went the Day Well? 1942
Western Approaches 1943
Whisky Galore! 1949
Wish You Were Here 1987
Witness Against Hitler 1996
Wooden Horse, The 1950
Yesterday's Enemy 1959

15-05-2008, 12:06 PM	#1
hhhhancock has no status. Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: London Posts: 15 Country: iTrader: (1)	British Ww2 Films 1939 - 1969 [b] I collect British made WW2 films made or released between 1939 and 1969. The films I am interested in are not only the conventional action films but those that are peripherably involved with WW2, like This Happy Breed. Films that show something of the conditions on the home front and the emotions of the people that are seeing friends and relatives going to war. I am finding it quite difficult to compile a definitive list of these films, as soon as I think I'm there some more films come along. Does anyone know where I can go for information, or can anyone let me have a list of these films. Alternatively, I can email them of a list of the films that I think cover this category and perhaps they can tell me what I have missing./B] Last edited by hhhhancock; 15-05-2008 at 12:07 PM. Reason: Grammatical cock up

15-05-2008, 09:23 PM	#3
Arthur Linden-Jones has no status. Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: sydney Posts: 145 Country: iTrader: (0)	Probably wouldn't take long to compile a comprehensive list from the contents of this existing thread http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/br...wwii-film.html __________________ Snorkers! Good oh!

16-05-2008, 03:06 PM	#7
GRAEME is evil with frillies Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Coventry Posts: 914 Country: iTrader: (0)	I have to ask: why do you curtail your interest at 1969? I mean there have been one or two fantastic WWII films made after that date - not least A Bridge Too Far. Is it arbitary or is there something significant about '69? __________________ I was a 4-stone apology; now I am 2 separate gorillas!

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16-05-2008, 08:10 AM	#4
hhhhancock has no status. Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: London Posts: 15 Country: iTrader: (1)	Many thanks for that information. I do have a list of P and P films but unfortunately some, such as Squadron Leader X, seem to be lost and untraceable.

16-05-2008, 08:12 AM	#5
hhhhancock has no status. Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: London Posts: 15 Country: iTrader: (1)	Thanks for the information and the link. This has provided me with some useful additions but the titles listed are missing an awful lot of films, I have some 75+ films that are not shown.

16-05-2008, 08:39 AM	#6
CaptainWaggett is poised for action like a caged panther Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: London Posts: 3,357 Country: iTrader: (0)	Why not post your list? I'm sure we'd all be interested.

16-05-2008, 08:42 PM	#8
MB is incapable of not creating faux pas... Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: UK Posts: 161 My Mood: Country: iTrader: (0)	I've seen a few past that date that were worth watching - I enjoyed Yanks (probably because I'm a girly) - but my favourite WW2 film is actually German..(am I allowed to say that here) 'Das Boot' made in 1981 I think. Everyone should watch it - thoughtful, compelling direction and a genuinely surprising take on the war from the German point of view (not Nazi - the ordinary Germans..) I found it fascinating and I think girlies are not supposed to...

16-05-2008, 11:08 PM	#10
MB is incapable of not creating faux pas... Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: UK Posts: 161 My Mood: Country: iTrader: (0)	Cos girls are meant to like films where people cry a lot and meet handsome men - or so Hollywood would have us believe..

17-05-2008, 07:25 AM	#12
MB is incapable of not creating faux pas... Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: UK Posts: 161 My Mood: Country: iTrader: (0)	Yes, well this is the idea..I was actually empolyed for about as a scriptwriter for a regional tv company. Afterwards the Drama dept closed down and the TV programme I was about to write for..I think I might have accidentally subverted the system for the inside there too.. That was a few years ago, but I'm thinking of having another crack..long way to Hollywood though and a lot of nepotism to get past. Perhaps I will just open a sandwich shop or something.

17-05-2008, 10:20 AM	#15
maturin is a statusless person Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Bangkok Posts: 344 Country: iTrader: (12)	As the list pruned of non-UK isn't as long as I thought, I'll chance posting it. As I said - a work very much in progress and one which probably includes some non-WW2 and errors. I have included a few co-productions and I may not have cut all the non-UK. Feel free to add, subtract and comment. Title Year 2000 Women 1944 49th Parallel 1941 633 Squadron 1964 Above Us the Waves 1955 Adventures of Tartu 1943 Against the Wind 1948 Albert R.N. 1953 An Angel for May 2002 Angels One Five 1952 Angry Hills ,The 1959 Appointment in London 1952 Appointment with Venus 1951 Aryan Couple ,The 2004 Attack on the Iron Coast 1968 Aventure Malgache 1944 Battle of Britain 1969 Battle of the V-1 1958 Before Winter Comes 1969 Bells Go Down ,The 1943 Bent 1997 Big Blockade ,The 1940 Black Tent ,The 1956 Blockhouse, The 1973 Bon Voyage 1944 Breaking the Code 1996 Bridge on the River Kwai, The 1957 British intelligence 1940 Brylcream Boys, The 1998 Cameleon 1997 Camp on Blood Island ,The 1958 Candlelight in Algeria 1944 Canterbury Tale, A 1944 Captain Corelli's Mandolin 2001 Captive Heart ,The 1946 Carve Her Name with Pride 1958 Channel Incident 1940 Charlotte Gray 2001 Clouds Over Europe 1939 Cockleshell Heroes, The 1955 Colditz Story, The 1955 Confirm or deny 1941 Conspiracy 2001 Conspiracy of Hearts 1960 Contraband 1940 Convoy 1940 Cottage to Let 1941 Count Five and Die 1958 Court Martial of Major Keller 1961 Cross of Iron 1977 Cruel Sea, The 1953 Dam Busters, The 1955 Danger Within 1959 Dangerous Moonlight 1941 Dark Blue World 2001 Day Will Dawn ,The 1942 Desert Rats, The 1953 Diary for Timothy, A 1945 Dirty Dozen ,The 1967 Divided Heart, The 1954 Dunkirk 1958 Eagle Has Landed ,The 1976 Egares, Les 2003 Enigma 2001 Entrusted 2003 Escape To Athena 1979 Eye Of the Needle 1981 First of the Few, The 1942 Five Graves to Cairo 1943 Flemish Farm 1943 Flying Fortress 1942 For Freedom 1940 For Those in Peril 1944 For Those In Peril 1939 Force 10 from Navarone 1978 Foreman Went to France, The 1942 Foxhole in Cairo 1961 Freedom Radio 1941 Frieda 1947 Friend or Foe 1981 Gasbags 1941 Gathering Storm, The 2002 Gentle Sex, The 1943 Ghost Train ,The 1941 Glory At Sea 1952 Goose Steps Out, The 1942 Green for Danger 1946 Guns of Navarone ,The 1961 Hand, the 1960 Hannibal Brooks 1969 Hanover Street 1979 Hasty Heart ,The 1949 Hero 2001 Heroes of Telemark ,The 1965 Hill ,The 1965 Hope and Glory 1987 How I Won the War 1967 Ice-Cold in Alex 1958 Ill Met by Moonlight 1957 In Which We Serve 1942 Invasion Quartet 1961 It Happened Here 1966 Journey Together 1946 Jungle Patrol 1944 Key ,The 1958 Killing Hitler 2003 Lamp Still Burns, The 1943 Land Girls ,The 1998 Last Drop, The 2005 Last Reunion, The 1955 Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The 1943 Lion Has Wings, The 1939 Listen to Britain 1942 Long and the Short and the Tall ,The 1961 Long Day's Dying ,The 1968 Malta Story 1953 Man Called Intrepid, A 1979 Man Who Never Was, The 1956 Matter of Life and Death, A 1946 Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence 1983 Miniver Story, The 1950 Morning Departure 1950 Mosquito Squadron 1969 Murphy's War 1971 My Childhood 1972 New Lot, The 1943 Next of Kin 1942 Night My Number Came Up, the 1955 Night of the Generals ,The 1967 Night of the Fox, The 1990 Night Train to Munich 1940 Nine Men 1943 No Time to Die 1958 O.H.M.S. 1937 Odette 1950 On the Fiddle 1961 One of Our Aircraft Is Missing 1942 Operation Amsterdam 1959 Operation Crossbow 1965 Overlord 1975 Passage ,The 1979 Password Is Courage ,The 1962 Piccadilly Incident 1948 'Pimpernel' Smith 1941 Play Dirty 1968 Plenty 1985 Purple Plain ,The 1954 Reach for glory 1963 Reach for the Sky 1956 Red Beret ,The 1953 Return from the River Kwai 1989 Rogue Male 1976 Sahara 1943 Sailor of the King 1953 San Demetrio, London 1943 Sea of Sand 1958 Sea Shall Not Have Them, The 1954 Sea Wolves, The 1980 Seagulls Over Sorrento 1954 Secret Journey 1940 Secret of Blood Island ,The 1964 Seven Thunders 1957 Shetlandsgjengen 1954 Shine On Harvey Moon 1982 Ship That Died of Shame ,The 1955 Ships with Wings 1942 Silent Enemy, The 1958 Silent Village ,The 1943 Silver Fleet ,The 1943 Sink the Bismarck! 1960 Spy in Black, The 1939 Stalag Luft 1993 Steel Bayonet ,The 1957 Steel Tempest, The 2000 Submarine X-1 1968 Tarnished Heroes 1961 Tea with Mussolini 1999 Ten Seconds to Hell 1959 Theirs Is the Glory 1946 They Were Not Divided 1950 They Who Dare 1953 Third Reich 1982 This Happy Breed 1944 Tomorrow We Live 1943 Two Fathers 1944 Two Men Went to War 2002 Two-Headed Spy ,The 1958 Underground 1970 Unpublished Story 1942 Varian's War 2001 Very Important Person 1961 Victors ,The 1963 Volunteer, The 1943 War Lover ,The 1962 Waterloo Road 1945 Way Ahead, The 1944 Way to the Stars, The 1945 Went the Day Well? 1942 Western Approaches 1943 Whisky Galore! 1949 Wish You Were Here 1987 Witness Against Hitler 1996 Wooden Horse, The 1950 Yesterday's Enemy 1959