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Goodbye, Mr Chips (1939)
Director: Sam Wood
Starring: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Paul Henreid
A moving and much-loved drama, Goodbye Mr Chips earned Robert Donat the 1940 Academy Award for Best Actor. Charles Chipping, a retired English schoolm... Read more
Dunkirk (1958)
Director: Leslie Norman
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee, John Mills, Robert Urquhart, Meredith Edwards
This realistic account of the evacuation of more than 350, 000 trapped British and Allied troops from Dunkirk is a well-staged recreation of the actua... Read more
I Was Monty's Double (1958)
Director: John Guillermin
Starring: Clifton James, John Mills, Cecil Parker, Marius Goring, John Le Mesurier
If official documentation didn't exist, we'd never believe a fantastic yarn like this. Actor M.E. Clifton James plays himself, a British stock-company... Read more
The Ruling Class (1972)
Director: Peter Medak
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe
Outrageously funny satire features an Oscar-nominated performance by Peter O'Toole as a British earl who thinks he's Jesus Christ. Wicked barbs are th... Read more
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981)
Director: Alan J W Bell
Starring: Simon Jones, David Dixon, Sandra Dickinson, Mark Wing-Davey, Peter Jones
This is the story of 'The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy'. Perhaps the most remarkable - certainly the most successful - book ever to come out of the... Read more
The Man In The White Suit (1951)
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Starring: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker
Alec Guinness plays an unassuming lab assistant who invents a miracle fabric that can be woven into indestructible cloth. Few films have chastised ind... Read more
Hope and Glory (1987)
Director: John Boorman
Starring: Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Derrick O'Connor
John Boorman's critically acclaimed memory of childhood - moving, funny, bittersweet. The main character, Bill, is a seven year old boy, Sarah Miles h... Read more
The Wicker Man (1973)
Director: Robin Hardy
Starring: Britt Ekland, Christopher Lee, Edward Woodward, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt
A British police officer goes to a small island off Scotland to find a missing girl, only to discover that the islanders practice a Celtic religion wh... Read more
When the Wind Blows (1986)
Director: Jimmy T Murakami
Starring: Peggy Ashcroft, John Mills, Voices Of, Robin Houston
An enormous success in England, based on the best-selling book by Raymond Briggs, this is the powerful, unforgettable story of the consequences of nuc... Read more
On the Black Hill (1987)
Director: Andrew Grieve
Starring: Bob Peck, Mike Gwilym, Robert Gwilym, Gemma Jones
A rare, lovingly crafted film set in Wales and spanning 85 years in the life of a farming family. Twins are born to a Welsh farmer (Bob Peck) and his... Read more