The Sound Barrier / Hobson's Choice
(1953) [PG]

Hobson's Choice: Henry Horatio Hobson (Charles Laughton) is a tyrannical, drunken widowed bootmaker responsible for the wellbeing of his three unruly daughters. His rule is challenged by eldest daughter Maggie (Brenda de Banzie) who marries his star bootmaker and sets up a rival shop. But will...  More

Gandhi
(1982) [M]

Epic and unforgettable, Gandhi swept the 1983 Oscars, winning eight awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Ben Kingsley), Best Screenplay and Best Director for Richard Attenborough. The awe-inspiring story of Mahatma Gandhi, the diminutive lawyer who stood up to the British in India and...  More

Tiger Bay
(1959) [PG]

In director J.Lee Thompson's classic thriller Tiger Bay, Polish sailor Korchinsky (Horst Buchholz) is furious to discover his lover has left him for another man and shoots her. The crime is witnessed by 10-year-old Gillie (Hayley Mills in her breakthrough role) who steals the gun. Investigating...  More

Scott Of The Antarctic
(1948) [G]

John Mills stars as Commander Scott, the leader of the ill-fated and famed 1911 expedition to be the first to discover the South Pole. The British were up against the Norwegians in the Arctic quest for fame and honor which was won by Norway.  More

The Colditz Story
(1954) [G]

One German maximum security prison was more famous than any other during World War II - Colditz Castle in Saxony. Although Colditz was considered escape proof, its boundaries were challenged many times by Allied prisoners of war with fatal results. On 15 October 1942, a group of British...  More

This Happy Breed
(1944) [G]

'This Happy Breed' is a splendidly acted classic portraying how an ordinary British family lived between the wars. Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. The inhabitants of 17 Sycamore Road are ordinary people, with their irritable in-laws, their just-plain-folks...  More

Great Expectations
(1946) [G]

David Lean directed this stylish film presentation of Charles Dickens' heart warming story of a young man befriending an escaped convict who becomes his unknown benefactor, and of the young man trials as he establishes himself in the world.  More

Above Us The Waves
(1955) [G]

The dramatic World War 2 story of Britain's heroic attempts to sink the monster German battleship Tirpitz in a Norwegian fjord using midget submarines. In this adventure of unsurpassed courage, the crews of the Navy become human torpedoes  More

In Which We Serve
(1942) [G]

This is the story of a Royal Navy destroyer - based on Lord Louis Mountbatten's sailing career during the war - which is dive-bombed in the battle of Crete. As survivors cling to the life rafts, the story of the ship and its crew unfolds from the perspective of the Captain (Noel Coward), Petty...  More

Sea of Sand
(1958) [PG]

This is the story of a lone patrol. The men of the Long Range Desert Group (Special Air Service - The Elite S.A.S.), are charged with a mission of crucial importance. It is the eve of the Battle of El Alamein: two officers, lead an expedition to destroy a huge German fuel dump. This task is only...  More