Charles Crichton Movies

A man framed for murder escapes from prison during a flood and helps a young woman in distress.

This 1986 documentary features interviews with director Alexander Mackendrick, actor Burt Lancaster, producer James Hill, and others.

In India, Toomai, a young mahout, helps lead the British on a large expedition to round up wild elephants.

Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.

A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to...

The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself....

Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Unusual at the time, the film tells its...

A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a...

Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to...

The spaceship Altares, with a photon drive capable of accelerating it to the speed of light, leaves an Earth-orbiting space station. The Altares...

British war documentary

Deals with the training of Fleet Air Arm pilots and crew during World War II.

Earth's Moon is the site of Moonbase Alpha, a scientific research colony nestled in the crater Plato. Staffed by over 300 men and women from Earth,...

In this modest drama, set during World War II, two rival boat families battle it out for supremacy.

The story of the men and women who produced a series of film comedies that were so original and funny that they put Ealing on the map.

Documentary about the British film studio. First appeared on the BBC television programme Omnibus.

Ealing Studios short war documentary

The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.