Charles Crichton Movies

A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who is being interrogated by the Germans for vital information.

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

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 them to safety.

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

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 adopted by a childless couple. The adoptive parents' happiness is shattered when Inga reappears and insists on custody of her son.

The spaceship Altares, with a photon drive capable of accelerating it to the speed of light, leaves an Earth-orbiting space station. The Altares crew, two families of scientific specialists, journey at light speed with time-dilation to Alpha Centauri, where they launch several satellites to...

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

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

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 enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still...

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

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

A boy gets involved in a bank robbery

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.

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. Immediately, he goes back to his old life, providing for his expensive tastes by executing a series of daring burglaries

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

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

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

British war documentary

Ealing Studios short war documentary