Back in 2020, Sir Sam Mendes released his World War 1 epic 1917 in the UK. The Oscar-winning movie, nominated for 10 Academy Awards, follows two British soldiers (led by George MacKay) on a mission to ...
The celebrated prisoner of war epic set in Japanese-occupied Burma with Alec Guinness as the British ... a great action movie, this enduring classic won seven Oscars, including Best Picture ...
Based on the best-selling 1951 novel by naval ... the 1953 film is a documentary-style account of life on a British Royal Navy warship during World War 2. The focus is from the viewpoint of ...
Historian and writer Simon Heffer discusses British military films made in the 1950s, celebrating their individual qualities and their depiction of the changing world of post-war Britain ...