1939-04-20
Overview: A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
Genres: Adventure Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-20
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1940-01-22
Overview: Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-22
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1941-11-10
Overview: Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-10
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1941-04-01
Overview: Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the staff. Hay, assisted by Claude Hulbert and Charles Hawtrey, has to unravel the mystery before he becomes the next victim.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-01
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1938-03-01
Overview: Adapted from the novel by Elizabeth Craik it tells the story of John Halifax who, despite humble beginnings, becomes a highly respected local businessman. As partner in a mill he weathers the turbulent economic times of the early 1800s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-01
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1937-08-11
Overview: A couple of lonesome wives, Marion Carter and Diana Cheswick fall for philanderer Leonard Drummon, and arrange to get their husbands, Geoffrey Carter and Morgan Cheswick, off to Paris so they can be free for one night of fun and frolic. The husbands are all for this as they think it will cure their wives of being infatuated with this man-about-town. And they might run into some fun in Paris. Actually, the philanderer is the one who put the idea in their heads to go away so the coast will be clear for his marauding raid party, with no intentions of curing anybody of anything.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-11
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1948-10-26
Overview: A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-26
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