Family drama The Railway Children takes us back to 1905 when, following the imprisoning of their father on trumped up spy charges, a trio of siblings...
Big-budget action drama based on an actual incident in which the Japanese sunk an American gunboat when they invaded China. Primarily remembered for Steve McQueen’s fine...
It seems as if an entire regiment of movie notables appears in this expensive and expansive epic based on Cornelius Ryan’s best-seller about a disastrous Allied...
Anthony Hopkins stars in creepy psychological thriller Magic as a ventriloquist who slowly loses his grip on reality. Failed stage magician Corky Withers (Hopkins) tries one...
Richard Attenborough’s first movie as director is an uneven yet inspired antiwar movie, based on the highly popular 1963 Joan Littlewood stage production, set to music...
In this compelling war film, Richard Attenborough stars as Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale, stationed in a British colony in Africa. After the colony claims independence from...
Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh), son of the King of Denmark, is summoned home for his father’s funeral and his mother Gertrude’s (Julie Christie) wedding to his hated...
Prisoner-of-war escape movies have held a constant fascination for British filmmakers. Many of the best took their inspiration from real-life experiences and incidents. This highly enjoyable...
A strong contender for the best British movie ever made, this devastating fantasy has ceded little impact and continues to champion the merits of the Archers’...
In surreal movie The Magic Christian a homeless man (Ringo Starr) is adopted by the world’s richest man, Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers). When they set...
Described by The News of the World as ‘a great and stirring British war film’, The Gift Horse follows a ship and her crew from the...
The Guinea Pig was inspired by the Fleming Committee, which in 1944 appointed by the President of the Board of Education, recommended that public school education...
Said the Manchester Guardian of Sea Of Sand, an authoritative tribute to the Second World War’s Long Range Desert Group, it is: ‘a fine, small British...
John Mills and Richard Attenborough were ideally cast and were at their lower-decks best as sailors who go ashore when their battleship puts in at Naples....
Having gently attacked institutions as diverse as the Army ( Private’s Progress ), the Foreign Office ( Carlton-Browne of the FO ) and the legal profession...