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- DirectorBrian Desmond HurstStarsMargaret LockwoodHugh SinclairJames MasonA bar hostess (Lockwood) is used by a killer to obtain an alibi.
- DirectorOswald MitchellStarsMax MillerCarole LynneMark LesterA London fishmonger takes up bookmaking to make ends meet, and also helps a young woman evade her unwanted upcoming marriage by pretending to be her fiance, a big game hunter from Africa.
- DirectorHerbert MasonStarsArthur AskeyMoore MarriottGraham MoffattA lowly BBC employee pulls a prank at the studio and finds himself transferred to an isolated island where he is to set up a weather station at a lighthouse. As if in a fantasy, a ship carrying a bevy of beautiful models is shipwrecked off the coast and the models wind up on the island. However, when the models begin disappearing, the "back-room boy" investigates and finds a sinister scheme involving spies and Nazi battleships.
- DirectorWalter C. MycroftStarsRobertson HareAlfred DraytonIsabel JeansWhen Susie Long appears, together with her 20 year old son, Pink and Pound are thrown into confusion that one of them could be his father.
- DirectorBasil DeardenWill HayStarsWill HayJohn MillsBasil SydneyProfessor Davis, who teaches at a correspondence school, discovers that a Nazi Agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America. The agent is posing as an economics expert seconded to the trade delegation. The professor must find the real economist and expose the agent.
- DirectorOswald MitchellStarsAlbert ModleyJean ColinGeorge BoltonComedy that follows the adventures of enthusiastic members of the Home Guard.
- DirectorHarold HuthRoland PertweeStarsClive BrookJudy CampbellC.V. FrancePeter Conway is a playwright and his new play is having its first night. At the party afterwards, Peter is kissed by a woman he claims not to know. The woman is Pamela. At first, she persuades him but then produces some letters where he declared his undying love for her and she sues him for Breach of Promise. But Peter has a nice scheme to defeat her plan - he marries her. She then does her best to bankrupt him. But why does she want to destroy him?
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsRichard GreeneCarla LehmannBetty StockfeldWartime drama of bomber crews based in England.
- DirectorMaclean RogersStarsGerald RexLeslie FullerJohn SingerA gang of boys, working as page-boys in a hotel, bring a crooked manager to book.
- DirectorMaclean RogersStarsElsie WatersDoris WatersIris VandeleurTwo friends set about trying to run a restaurant and bringing a gang of black marketeers to justice during the Second World War.
- DirectorMaclean RogersStarsElsie WatersDoris WatersIris VandeleurThe story focuses on Gert and Daisy volunteering to escort evacuee children from war-torn London to the countryside. Their suitcase gets mixed up with a seaman's containing jewels, attracting thieves.
- DirectorNorman WalkerStarsWilfrid LawsonBetty StockfeldGeorge CarneyA ruthless steelworks foreman alienates his workers and indirectly causes the death of one of his men.
- DirectorLance ComfortStarsRobert NewtonJames MasonDeborah KerrJames Brodie (Robert Newton) is the only hatter in a small area in Scotland. Ruthless in business as well as at home, he is a tyrant to his family and intimidating to everyone he knows. But, when his mistress convinces him to give her "step-brother" Denis (former boyfriend) a job at the hat shop, tragedy starts creeping towards all involved with Brodie.
- DirectorNoël CowardStarsNoël CowardJohn MillsBernard MilesThis "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.
- DirectorZoltan KordaStarsSabuJoseph CalleiaJohn QualenA boy raised by wild animals tries to adapt to human village life.
- DirectorMarcel VarnelStarsArthur AskeyEvelyn DallAnne SheltonArthur King joins the army, and soon starts fantasising about King Arthur and his knights.
- DirectorLeslie S. HiscottStarsFrancis L. SullivanJane CarrMartita HuntWishing to acquire the Mona Lisa, a South American racketeer makes a deal with the Nazis for the famous portrait.
- DirectorJohn BaxterStarsAlastair SimFred EmneyEdward RigbyA Czech political exile and a washed-up music hall comedian form an unlikely partnership to try and save a town's concert hall from the planners, businessmen, and bureaucrats.
- DirectorMarcel VarnelStarsGeorge FormbyKathleen HarrisonHilda BayleyA handyman and amateur artist gets into trouble when nude female bodies are added to the heads he has drawn of prominent ladies, and are sold as soap adverts.
- StarsH Victor Weske
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsGodfrey TearleEric PortmanHugh WilliamsDuring a raid on Germany a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland and are aided by Dutch civilians.
- DirectorLance ComfortStarsClifford EvansDeborah KerrDennis ArundellWilliam Penn's heroic deeds, on the European and American continents, are told in this portrait of the founding father of both the Quakers and the Pennsylvania colony. Based on C.E. Vulliamy's biography "William Penn."
- DirectorGermain BurgerStarsJohn LongdenLesley BrookAngela GlynnePaddy, an Irish singer heads to America to seek fame and fortune. Once successful he returns home to search for his family. He joins The Royal Air Force.
- DirectorLeslie S. HiscottStarsDavid HutchesonMargaretta ScottJane CarrThe captain of a cargo ship shanghais saboteurs unaware that the daughter of the ship's owner is among them.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsEdward RigbyMabel ConstandurosJimmy HanleyBunting (Edward Rigby) is sacked in 1938 but when war breaks out in 1939 he is reinstated and also becomes an air raid warden. His two sons enlist in the war, leaving Bunting and his wife looking after their baby grandson.
- DirectorHarold FrenchStarsHugh WilliamsJames MasonCarla LehmannThree British spies and a French resistance fighter sneak into occupied France to gather information about the German forces for a planned invasion.
- DirectorJohn E. BlakeleyStarsHarry KorrisFrank RandleRobbie VincentArmy buddies help Private Trevor court the daughter of their commanding officer.
- DirectorLawrence HuntingtonStarsClifford EvansPatricia RocDavid FarrarThe mastermind behind money stolen from an American bank takes it to London. He is then pursued by the gangsters he tried to cheat and have convicted Stateside, as well as by the Met Police.
- DirectorHarold FrenchPaul L. SteinStarsCarla LehmannHugh WilliamsJoyce HowardWhile yachting and flirting on the Riviera, a woman with a past meets a shy, retiring young researcher from the Far East and, against her better judgment, marries him. When he runs across some scandalous gossip touching her past, her younger sister steps in claiming she is the subject of the notoriety.
- DirectorRedd DavisStarsEthel RevnellGracie WestRonald ShinerBalloon unit WAAFs catch German spies.
- DirectorCharles FrendStarsWill HayBernard MilesJohn StuartWartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.
- DirectorHarold FrenchStarsHugh WilliamsGriffith JonesDeborah KerrOn the eve of WWII, a British journalist is sent to neutral Norway to report on the possible Nazi intentions there; later he's tasked with a secret combat mission after Germany invades that country.
- DirectorLeslie HowardStarsLeslie HowardDavid NivenRosamund JohnAircraft designer/patriot R. J. Mitchell, alarmed at growing German militarism, works to perfect a defense against the German Messerschmidt at the cost of his health.
- DirectorCharles FrendStarsTommy TrinderConstance CummingsClifford EvansIn 1940, a British engineer goes to France to retrieve specialized armaments machinery, loaned to the French, before the invading Nazi armies can capture it.
- DirectorBasil DeardenWill HayStarsWill HayCharles HawtreyPeter CroftA bumbling teacher turns out to be the double of a German general. He is flown into Germany to impersonate the general and cause chaos and hilarity in a Hitler Youth college.
- DirectorNorman WalkerStarsWilfrid LawsonElizabeth AllanMalcolm KeenA lavish period drama produced in 1942 by Lord Rank's G.H.W. Productions Ltd.
- DirectorPhilip BrandonStarsLinden TraversJohn WarwickPatricia HilliardA millionaire disappears after a blackmail attempt by criminal, The Panda. His sister tries to help the police find him and deal with an aftermath of murder and mystery.
- DirectorThorold DickinsonStarsMervyn JohnsJohn ChandosNova PilbeamWartime propaganda piece giving the warning "Be like Dad, Keep Mum". A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi spy.
- DirectorLeslie ArlissStarsJames MasonWilfrid LawsonMary ClareA pair of young teachers look into the disappearance of their friend in the Yorkshire Moors. They soon run across the man they suspect is the murderer, and have to sit out a storm with him.
- DirectorLeslie S. HiscottStarsAustin TrevorLinden TraversJohn StuartSurvivors from a torpedoed passenger vessel are rescued by a lighthouse crew. Ironically, the German captain responsible for the attack is also rescued and held prisoner, but a spy among the survivors plans to help him escape.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsRobert DonatGeoffrey AtkinsJean CadellThis biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of twenty-four.
- DirectorHerbert WilcoxStarsAnna NeagleRobert NewtonEdward ChapmanThe story of flyer Amy Johnson who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.
- DirectorJohn HarlowStarsAnn DvorakBen LyonGriffith JonesOn the eve of the Nazi occupation, spies in Paris try to outguess each other
- DirectorLance ComfortStarsShirley LennerJeanne De CasalisPercy MarmontAt the outbreak of World War II, cockney evacuee boys are moved from the slums of London to the country home of an earl.
- DirectorRoy BoultingStarsMichael RedgraveJames MasonBarbara MullenCynical, embittered newspaperman David Charleston (Michael Redgrave) is tormented, then inspired, by visions he keeps having of people who have drowned.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsEric PortmanPhyllis CalvertGriffith JonesDuring the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the people. They are so effective that the Nazis offer a reward for the capture of the paper's staff, although they don't know their identities. One of them is a well-known entertainer, and when his jealous partner hears of the reward, he turns him in. The paper's publishers escape capture, but their staff doesn't. The paper's founders must find not only a way to keep from getting captured by the Nazis but keep their newspaper going and get their staff released.
- DirectorHarold FrenchStarsRichard GreeneValerie HobsonBasil RadfordA journalist investigates a network of German fifth columnists operating in the midst of the Blitz.
- DirectorJohn MonckStarsColin WillsThe WWII Libyan campaign of 1940-1941 is chronicled, where British forces commanded by General Wavell defeated the Italian attack on Egypt.
- DirectorJohn BaxterStarsBud FlanaganChesney AllenMeinhart MaurNazi spies infiltrate a British film studio with the intention of sending coded messages in the films they produce.
- DirectorAlberto CavalcantiStarsLeslie BanksC.V. FranceValerie TaylorAn English village is occupied by disguised German paratroopers as an advance post for a planned invasion.
- DirectorHumphrey JenningsStewart McAllisterStarsLeonard BrockingtonJoseph MacleodBud FlanaganA depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the turmoil and privation caused by the war, all without narration.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsWill HayThora HirdMuriel GeorgeMinistry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs
- DirectorClifford HornbyStarsFrederick Grisewood
- DirectorMargaret ThomsonStarsRoy HayArthur Deighton
- DirectorGilbert GunnThis British Ministry of Information film from 1942 shows the assembly of an Infantry Mk III Valentine Tank.
- DirectorSidney GilliatFrank LaunderStarsFrederick BurtwellNoel DaintonVera FrancesA parallel is drawn between a housewife's dealings with her butcher, and a burglar and his fence (receiver).
- A training film from August 1942 for Allied forces on how to correctly identify armoured vehicles.
- DirectorHarold FrenchStarsBert BatchelorWalter HuddBrefni O'RorkeA British factory is inefficient because of pre-war rules and red tape. A Soviet trades union representative shows workers and management the value of unity.
- DirectorLen Lye
- DirectorAnthony Havelock-AllanStarsJ. JohnstonW. AtkinsonR. GilbertMembers of three Commonwealth armies, an Aussie, a Canadian, and a New Zealander meet actor Leslie Howard who buys them a beer and makes them understand why they're fighting.
- DirectorPat JacksonA short film about how builders help contribute to the war effort.
- DirectorPat JacksonAn account of the Air Transport Auxiliary which provides personnel to fly newly completed aircraft from factory to service airfield.
- StarsEdward R. MurrowFletcherJohnstonDocumentary short featuring a visit by American newsman Edward R. Murrow to the English town of Dover during the Second World War.
- DirectorGarson KaninStarsDanny KayeKate SmithDocumentary short film depicting the work in a British armaments plant in which the night shift consists of women workers.
- DirectorLen LyeStarsMarius Goring
- DirectorEugeniusz CekalskiDerrick De MarneyStarsBessie LoveBasil RadfordLeslie MitchellA short film about London during the Second World War.
- DirectorEugeniusz CekalskiDerrick De MarneyStarsLaurence OlivierEpic British wartime documentary film on Malta's role in WW2. The film was produced to coincide with Britain's award of the George Cross to the Maltese and their defenders in April 1942.
- DirectorHarry Watt
- DirectorEugeniusz CekalskiStarsEugeniusz CekalskiZbigniew GrabowskiLeslie HowardAn Oscar-nominated British documentary about the Polish people who escaped Poland and were living in England during World War II, both civilians and soldiers.
- DirectorJoy BatchelorJohn HalasThe film is designed to encourage recycling - which was a key part of the war effort.
- DirectorJoy BatchelorJohn HalasThis World War II propaganda short encourages British people to "dig for victory," by planting vegetable gardens.
- DirectorJirí WeissStarsClaudia NikolayevaViktor Talalikhin
- DirectorJirí Weiss
- DirectorJirí Weiss
- DirectorJirí Weiss
- DirectorAlberto Cavalcanti
- DirectorJohn Lewis CurthoysStarsJoseph Macleod
- DirectorDarrell CatlingStarsE.V.H. Emmett
- DirectorTerry BishopStarsGordon McLeodHay PetrieStory of the Co-operative movement in Scotland.
- DirectorJ.B. HolmesJack LeeStarsRobert Gordon MenziesDocumentary about an average day during the Blitz.
- DirectorJack EllittStarsJoseph MacleodValentine DyallMarjorie FieldingA short documentary to demonstrate what can be done with Technicolor film and to show various other colourful products. Aimed at advertisers, there are a lot of shots of paint being spilled from cans and mixing to show a range of colours. It was part sponsored by I.C.I. (Imperial Chemical Industries) who, among other things, made paint as well as the dyes and coloured plastics that are also seen. An early demonstration of the skills of cinematographer Jack Cardiff.
- DirectorJohn EldridgeStarsJohn SnaggeFrank PhillipsLaidman BrowneFascinating documentary about the lighthouses on Great Britains shores.
- DirectorMargaret Thomson
- Battle training for Canadian soldiers.
- DirectorGilbert GunnStarsG.H. Mulcaster
- DirectorAlfred TraversStarsStaney NewtonPropaganda short showing how boy scouts can help the war effort in Britain.
- DirectorMichal Waszynski
- DirectorEugeniusz Cekalski
- Theatrically shown advertisement for Rinso laundry soap.
- DirectorHenry CassStarsGerard HeinzHugh McDermottPropaganda short demonstrating that whatever the apparent surface differences between the four chief members of the United Nations, they are united by more profound similarities.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsPeggy AshcroftEsma CannonJoyce CareyTraining film for officers of the ATS, encouraging compassion and understanding for the young woman in their charge.
- DirectorLouise Birt
- DirectorWalter TennysonStarsRichard GooldenGillian MaudeJulian VedeyA would-be comic is sweet-talked into selling a producer the last tickets on a flight and loses his job. He sets off to avail himself of the promises made by the impresario, but on arrival at the airport is mistaken for a shy millionaire.
- DirectorKay Mander
- DirectorKay ManderProcedures for the National Fire Service to direct the deployment of all Britain's fire-fighting equipment.