Richard Attenborough

A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the ...

Tod is a motherless boy, who is mistreated by his violent father. He eventually finds happiness with kindly foster parents.

Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, ...

Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be ...

After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable ...

After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a ...

Compton Bennett’s war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come ...

Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give birth at home, and Gerda, Bicky and Catherine. ...

Only a British cabdriver’s (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O’Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) believe him innocent of killing a ...

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name ...

The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?

Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years ...

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 ...

When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve themselves in the investigation and discover ...

Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as ...

When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. ...

Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.