Wartime Archives | Memorable TV

Relief of Belsen, The (Channel 2007, Iain Glen, Tobias Menzies)

A heart breaking subject tackled with care and skill and a quality cast including Iain Glen, Corin and Jemma Redgrave (the first time they’ve starred together),...

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Twelve O’Clock High (TCF 1949, Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe)

Compelling WWII drama Twelve O’Clock High focuses on the emotional effects the fear and anxiety of war have on fighting men. When a compassionate bomber-squadron leader...

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Hurricane (2018, Iwan Rheon, Stefanie Martini)

World War II drama Hurricane tells the story of the Polish fliers who found themselves fighting for the freedom of their own country in foreign skies....

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Long Voyage Home, The (United Artists 1940, John Wayne, Barry Fitzgerald)

The Long Voyage Home sees four one-acts by Eugene O’Neill add up to a gripping account of men thrown together by war facing danger from the...

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I Was Monty’s Double (1958, M.E. Clifton James, John Mills)

The gripping film version of one of the most extraordinary real-life stories to emerge from World War II. Wrote the Financial Times : ‘To the British...

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A Town Like Alice (1956, Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch)

Nevil Shute’s novel A Town Like Alice, from which this film was made, was based to a degree on fact – after the fall of Malaya to...

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Cockleshell Heroes, The (1955, Trevor Howard, José Ferrer)

In The Cockleshell Heroes, after negotiating with Captain Thompson (Trevor Howard) over methodology, Major Stringer (José Ferrer) trains ten marines to paddle cockleshell canoes to Bordeaux...

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Hasty Heart, The (1949, Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal)

Hollywood filmmaker Victor Sherman came to Britain to produce and direct Ranald MacDougall’s skilful screen adaptation of John Patrick’s West End and Broadway stage hit. Ronald...

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Dam Busters, The (1955, Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave)

Based on fact, Michael Anderson’s Oscar-nominated film The Dam Busters tells the tale of an extraordinary genius and a group of extremely brave men. At the height of...

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Operation Amsterdam (1960, Peter Finch, Tony Britton)

‘Michael McCarthy’s considerable experience in the documentary field is well in evidence in this semi-factual war melodrama set in Nazi-occupied Holland,’ wrote Monthly Film Bulletin of...

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Relief of Belsen, The (Channel 2007, Iain Glen, Tobias Menzies)

Twelve O’Clock High (TCF 1949, Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe)

Hurricane (2018, Iwan Rheon, Stefanie Martini)

Long Voyage Home, The (United Artists 1940, John Wayne, Barry Fitzgerald)

I Was Monty’s Double (1958, M.E. Clifton James, John Mills)

A Town Like Alice (1956, Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch)

Cockleshell Heroes, The (1955, Trevor Howard, José Ferrer)

Hasty Heart, The (1949, Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal)

Dam Busters, The (1955, Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave)

Operation Amsterdam (1960, Peter Finch, Tony Britton)

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