Charles Crichton Movies

A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a...

Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

During World War II, a German woman, Inga, goes missing and is presumed dead. Her infant son is placed in an orphanage where, years later, he's...

A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to...

Peter Rayston, has been in and out of prison most of his life. At 30, he is released for the eighth time, after serving a sentence for housebreaking....

A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all conditions picking up downed pilots and taking...

A man framed for murder escapes from prison during a flood and helps a young woman in distress.

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place,...

The story of the men and women who produced a series of film comedies that were so original and funny that they put Ealing on the map.

Documentary about the British film studio. First appeared on the BBC television programme Omnibus.

Deals with the training of Fleet Air Arm pilots and crew during World War II.

Ealing Studios short war documentary

This 1986 documentary features interviews with director Alexander Mackendrick, actor Burt Lancaster, producer James Hill, and others.

A feature length documentary on the making of A Fish Called Wanda

In this modest drama, set during World War II, two rival boat families battle it out for supremacy.

The spaceship Altares, with a photon drive capable of accelerating it to the speed of light, leaves an Earth-orbiting space station. The Altares...

The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.

British war documentary