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Films depicting the involvement of the Royal Navy in World War II (1939-1945). United Kingdom portal; Pages in category "Royal Navy in World War II films"
Royal Navy in World War II films (20 P) Pages in category "Films about the Royal Navy" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Set largely in the Pacific, Hunter stars as a Canadian sailor serving on a British warship who battles single-handedly to delay a German World War II warship long enough for the Royal Navy to bring it to battle. The film was released in the United States as Sailor of the King. It was filmed at Shepperton Studios near London and on location in ...
Royal Navy in World War II films (20 P) Pages in category "World War II naval films" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
We Dive at Dawn is a 1943 war film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring John Mills and Eric Portman as Royal Navy submariners in the Second World War. It was written by Val Valentine and J. B. Williams with uncredited assistance from Frank Launder. It was produced by Edward Black. The film's sets were designed by Walter Murton.
To date, it is the only film made that deals directly with the operations, chase and sinking of the battleship Bismarck by the Royal Navy during the Second World War. [5] Although war films were common in the 1960s, Sink the Bismarck! was seen as something of an anomaly, with much of its time devoted to the "unsung back-room planners as much as ...
Convoy is a 1940 British war film, produced by Ealing Studios, directed by Pen Tennyson and starring Clive Brook, John Clements and Edward Chapman. [2] Convoy was Tennyson's last film before he was killed in an aircraft crash, while serving in the Royal Navy .
Film production was shifted to California, however, because of the U.S. war situation following Pearl Harbor. [3] The original intention was that the film would be set in the Atlantic Ocean and be about the Royal Navy. After the U.S. entered World War II, the story was shifted to focus on the U.S. Navy in the Pacific.