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Produced by the Directorate for Army Welfare (DAK) in India from 1944 to 1946, Calling Blighty was a series of ten-minute films which featured members of the British Armed Forces stationed in India and Southeast Asia speaking a personal message direct to camera. These films were shown back in the UK to a specially invited audience in a cinema ...
A British Army bulldozer pushes bodies into a mass grave at Belsen, 19 April 1945. The film explores the importance of film as a medium for documenting warfare, focusing on the work of the Allied cameramen who, in 1944 and 1945, filmed the liberation of the prison, labor, and extermination camps run by the Nazis and their allies in Germany and eastern Europe.
The modern British Army traces back to 1707, with an antecedent in the English Army that was created during the Restoration in 1660. Pages in category "Films about the British Army" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
According to trade papers, the film was a "notable box office attraction" at British cinemas. [5] According to Kinematograph Weekly the 'biggest winner' at the box office in 1946 Britain was The Wicked Lady, with "runners up" being The Bells of St Marys, Piccadilly Incident, The Road to Utopia, Tomorrow is Forever, Brief Encounter, Wonder Man, Anchors Away, Kitty, The Captive Heart, The Corn ...
Khartoum is a 1966 British epic war film written by Robert Ardrey and directed by Basil Dearden.It stars Charlton Heston as British General Charles "Chinese" Gordon and Laurence Olivier as Muhammad Ahmed (a Sudanese leader whose devotees proclaimed him the Mahdi), with a supporting cast that includes Richard Johnson and Ralph Richardson. [4]
Credit to director Harold French for keeping the pace brisk, but this is unremarkable fare"; [5] and 20/20 Movie Reviews wrote, "the writers of the 1980s British comedy show Allo Allo must have seen Secret Mission at some point because the similarities are just too numerous to be coincidental.
The driving force behind the film was David Niven, a 1930 graduate of Sandhurst, who at the time was a major in the British Army working with the Army Film Unit and later served in Normandy with GHQ Liaison Regiment. Niven was the executive producer on The Way Ahead. [4] The last scene in The Way Ahead shows the soldiers advancing in a counter ...
Films about the British Army (38 P) F. Films about British special operations forces (1 C) R. Films about the Royal Air Force (15 P) Films about the Royal Navy (2 C, 8 P)