British Ww2 Films 1939 - 1969

[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]

[Steve Crook]

name='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]

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

[hhhhancock]

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]

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]

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

[GRAEME]

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]

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]

name='Modestyblaise']

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

Why?

[MB]

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]

name='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]

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]

name='Modestyblaise']

Perhaps I will just open a sandwich shop or something.

Go for the sandwich shop.

[maturin]

name='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]

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.



TitleYear

2000 Women1944

49th Parallel1941

633 Squadron1964

Above Us the Waves1955

Adventures of Tartu1943

Against the Wind1948

Albert R.N.1953

An Angel for May2002

Angels One Five1952

Angry Hills ,The1959

Appointment in London1952

Appointment with Venus1951

Aryan Couple ,The2004

Attack on the Iron Coast1968

Aventure Malgache1944

Battle of Britain1969

Battle of the V-11958

Before Winter Comes1969

Bells Go Down ,The1943

Bent1997

Big Blockade ,The1940

Black Tent ,The1956

Blockhouse, The1973

Bon Voyage1944

Breaking the Code1996

Bridge on the River Kwai, The1957

British intelligence1940

Brylcream Boys, The1998

Cameleon1997

Camp on Blood Island ,The1958

Candlelight in Algeria1944

Canterbury Tale, A1944

Captain Corelli's Mandolin2001

Captive Heart ,The1946

Carve Her Name with Pride1958

Channel Incident1940

Charlotte Gray2001

Clouds Over Europe1939

Cockleshell Heroes, The1955

Colditz Story, The1955

Confirm or deny1941

Conspiracy2001

Conspiracy of Hearts1960

Contraband1940

Convoy1940

Cottage to Let1941

Count Five and Die1958

Court Martial of Major Keller1961

Cross of Iron1977

Cruel Sea, The1953

Dam Busters, The1955

Danger Within1959

Dangerous Moonlight1941

Dark Blue World2001

Day Will Dawn ,The1942

Desert Rats, The1953

Diary for Timothy, A1945

Dirty Dozen ,The1967

Divided Heart, The1954

Dunkirk1958

Eagle Has Landed ,The1976

Egares, Les2003

Enigma2001

Entrusted2003

Escape To Athena1979

Eye Of the Needle1981

First of the Few, The1942

Five Graves to Cairo1943

Flemish Farm1943

Flying Fortress1942

For Freedom1940

For Those in Peril1944

For Those In Peril1939

Force 10 from Navarone1978

Foreman Went to France, The1942

Foxhole in Cairo1961

Freedom Radio1941

Frieda1947

Friend or Foe1981

Gasbags1941

Gathering Storm, The2002

Gentle Sex, The1943

Ghost Train ,The1941

Glory At Sea1952

Goose Steps Out, The1942

Green for Danger1946

Guns of Navarone ,The1961

Hand, the1960

Hannibal Brooks1969

Hanover Street1979

Hasty Heart ,The1949

Hero2001

Heroes of Telemark ,The1965

Hill ,The1965

Hope and Glory1987

How I Won the War1967

Ice-Cold in Alex1958

Ill Met by Moonlight1957

In Which We Serve1942

Invasion Quartet1961

It Happened Here1966

Journey Together1946

Jungle Patrol1944

Key ,The1958

Killing Hitler2003

Lamp Still Burns, The1943

Land Girls ,The1998

Last Drop, The2005

Last Reunion, The1955

Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The1943

Lion Has Wings, The1939

Listen to Britain1942

Long and the Short and the Tall ,The1961

Long Day's Dying ,The1968

Malta Story1953

Man Called Intrepid, A1979

Man Who Never Was, The1956

Matter of Life and Death, A1946

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence1983

Miniver Story, The1950

Morning Departure1950

Mosquito Squadron1969

Murphy's War1971

My Childhood1972

New Lot, The1943

Next of Kin1942

Night My Number Came Up, the1955

Night of the Generals ,The1967

Night of the Fox, The1990

Night Train to Munich1940

Nine Men1943

No Time to Die1958

O.H.M.S.1937

Odette1950

On the Fiddle1961

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing1942

Operation Amsterdam1959

Operation Crossbow1965

Overlord1975

Passage ,The1979

Password Is Courage ,The1962

Piccadilly Incident1948

'Pimpernel' Smith1941

Play Dirty1968

Plenty1985

Purple Plain ,The1954

Reach for glory1963

Reach for the Sky1956

Red Beret ,The1953

Return from the River Kwai1989

Rogue Male1976

Sahara1943

Sailor of the King1953

San Demetrio, London1943

Sea of Sand1958

Sea Shall Not Have Them, The1954

Sea Wolves, The1980

Seagulls Over Sorrento1954

Secret Journey1940

Secret of Blood Island ,The1964

Seven Thunders1957

Shetlandsgjengen1954

Shine On Harvey Moon1982

Ship That Died of Shame ,The1955

Ships with Wings1942

Silent Enemy, The1958

Silent Village ,The1943

Silver Fleet ,The1943

Sink the Bismarck!1960

Spy in Black, The1939

Stalag Luft1993

Steel Bayonet ,The1957

Steel Tempest, The2000

Submarine X-11968

Tarnished Heroes1961

Tea with Mussolini1999

Ten Seconds to Hell1959

Theirs Is the Glory1946

They Were Not Divided1950

They Who Dare1953

Third Reich1982

This Happy Breed1944

Tomorrow We Live1943

Two Fathers1944

Two Men Went to War2002

Two-Headed Spy ,The1958

Underground1970

Unpublished Story1942

Varian's War2001

Very Important Person1961

Victors ,The1963

Volunteer, The1943

War Lover ,The1962

Waterloo Road1945

Way Ahead, The1944

Way to the Stars, The1945

Went the Day Well?1942

Western Approaches1943

Whisky Galore!1949

Wish You Were Here1987

Witness Against Hitler1996

Wooden Horse, The1950

Yesterday's Enemy1959

[MB]

name='batman']Go for the sandwich shop.

No! I will pursue my dream until the point where it becomes obvious that I have wasted most of my life doing it - like most other people.



Sorry about the typos - it seems I like to get blind drunk and post my innermost thoughts on the internet.

[bertie]

What a useful list that is, but like all lists one can always think of something to add. One film which I particularly like - maybe because I'm a fan of the novels of Nevil Shute - is Landfall (1949). Michael Denison is the star and not at all a bad war film it is too.

[batman]

name='Modestyblaise']No! I will pursue my dream until the point where it becomes obvious that I have wasted most of my life doing it - like most other people.

I didn't mean for you not to pursue your dream ..... what I meant was get yourself a stable financial base as well. You could regard the sarnies as a bit of a filler between scripts.

[Steve Crook]

name='maturin']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.



Contraband 1940

Contraband was set during WW1



Steve

[batman]

name='Steve Crook']Contraband was set during WW1



Steve

Not according to your IMDB summary.



"This is the tale of life in a British port in the first year of World War II. Spies and smugglers abound in the blackout and unreal shore life of the "phoney war" (before the shooting started). Written by Steve Crook."