
7.2
The League of Gentlemen
IMDb: 7.2 1960 116 min
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the ...

6.5
Jet Storm
IMDb: 6.5 1959 99 min
Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.

7.1
I’m All Right Jack
IMDb: 7.1 1959 105 min
Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to ...

6.8
Danger Within
IMDb: 6.8 1959 101 min
Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a ...

6.4
The Man Upstairs
IMDb: 6.4 1958 88 min
The mental breakdown of a guilt-ridden man provides the drama in this fascinating psychological profile starring Richard Attenborough as a ...

7.1
Dunkirk
IMDb: 7.1 1958 134 min
A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain ...

6.7
Sea of Sand
IMDb: 6.7 1958 97 min
A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the ...

6.5
The Scamp
IMDb: 6.5 1957 87 min
Tod is a motherless boy, who is mistreated by his violent father. He eventually finds happiness with kindly foster parents.

6.4
Brothers in Law
IMDb: 6.4 1957 94 min
Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, ...

6.4
Private’s Progress
IMDb: 6.4 1956 97 min
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be ...

5.3
The Baby and the Battleship
IMDb: 5.3 1956 96 min
After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable ...

6.7
The Ship That Died of Shame
IMDb: 6.7 1955 95 min
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a ...

6.3
Gift Horse
IMDb: 6.3 1952 95 min
Compton Bennett’s war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come ...

5
Father’s Doing Fine
IMDb: 5 1952 80 min
Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give birth at home, and Gerda, Bicky and Catherine. ...

6.7
Eight O’Clock Walk
IMDb: 6.7 1954 87 min
Only a British cabdriver’s (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O’Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) believe him innocent of killing a ...

7
The Magic Box
IMDb: 7 1952 118 min
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name ...

7
Morning Departure
IMDb: 7 1950 102 min
The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?

6.1
Boys in Brown
IMDb: 6.1 1949 84 min
Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years ...

6.8
The Guinea Pig
IMDb: 6.8 1948 97 min
A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social ...

6.5
Dancing with Crime
IMDb: 6.5 1947 83 min
When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve themselves in the investigation and discover ...

7.3
Brighton Rock
IMDb: 7.3 1948 92 min
Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as ...

8
A Matter of Life and Death
IMDb: 8 1946 104 min
When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. ...

6.5
Journey Together
IMDb: 6.5 1945 95 min
Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.