Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Their finest hour : 5 British WWII classics ; Dunkirk ; The dam busters ; Ice cold in Alex ; The Colditz story ; Went the day well? / Film Movement classics ; Studiocanal.

Edition:

Fullscreen.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : Film Movement Classics ; Studiocanal, [2020]

Description:

5 videodiscs (575 minutes) : mono. sound ; black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

mono

optical

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

Went the day well? (1942; directed by Alberto Cavalcanti): Based on the story of Graham Greene, this Ealing Studios wartime production tells the story of a quiet English village that has been infiltrated by disguised German soldiers.

The Colditz story (1955; directed by Guy Hamilton): Nazi Germany believed that no man could escape from Colditz Castle, but a group of Allied prisoners of war were determined to prove them wrong.

The dam busters (1955; directed by Michael Anderson): Against all odds, an RAF squadron destroys German dams with "bouncing bombs." Based on true events and the inspiration for Star Wars' Death Star attack sequence.

Dunkirk (1958; directed by Leslie Norman): John Mills and Richard Attenborough star in the first cinematic retelling of the 1940 evacuation of Dunkirk, code-named Operation Dynamo.

Ice cold in Alex (1958; directed by J. Lee Thompson) Captain Anson (John Mills) of the Royal Army Service Corps dreams of an ice cold beer but first he must lead his medical unit to safety across the perilous North African desert.

Target Audience Note:

NR.

Subjects:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Drama.

Genre:

War films.

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Thrillers (Motion pictures)

Other Author:

Banks, Leslie, 1890-1952, actor.

France, C. V. (Charles V.), 1868-1949, actor.