Charles Crichton Movies

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.

A boy gets involved in a bank robbery

Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to...

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...

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

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...

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

An alien princess aids people stranded on out-of-orbit Moonbase Alpha.

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

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

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

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

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 feature length documentary on the making of A Fish Called Wanda

A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.

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.

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

Ealing Studios short war documentary

British war documentary