Movies: Post war england

The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere....

David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations....

An American comes to Britain to investigate the murky circumstances of his brother's death that occurred during a WW2 commando raid....

In 1950s England, sailor Harold Guppy arrives in a small seaside town looking for his estranged brother. After a brief reunion, Harold finds a room for rent in the house of Mrs. Beasley, her meek husband and their teenage daughter, Joyce. It's clear ...

In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.10.0 job and a 30/- a week single-room flat. The newly-weds find money fearfully tight, the flat cram...

Hitler escapes the war to London, where he lives as Mrs. Meitlemeihr, in this what-if black comedy from commercial director Graham Rose....

The war in Europe is over, but the one at home has only just begun. The Second World War is ending and throughout Britain, evacuees are returning home to their families - but not the families they remember. Like so many other women, Peggy’s life has ...

A fascinating, unsettling study of immigration in 1960s English cities....

Radical resistance in the postwar British Caribbean community, from the 1948 Nationality Act to the 1958 Brixton riots....

Dover made over: this quirky and pointed public information film reveals how the heavily-bombed and shelled Kent town was being replanned after the war. The filmmakers cleverly and entertainintly capture our attention by opening on travelogue cliches...

An African entourage makes a spectacular appearance in postwar London....