Wartime drama with a musical score by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. As Hitler's Blitzkrieg sweeps across the Low Countries in 1940, a squadron of Belgian pilots takes temporary shelter on a Flemish Farm. There, wounded pilot Fernard Matagne (Philip Friend) is nursed by farmer's daughter Trescha (Jane Baxter), and the two fall in love. But their relationship is doomed as Hitler's occupying forces advance and the squadron is ordered to return to England.

Wartime spy thriller. Richard Greene stars as war correspondent Bob Randall, who returns from Dunkirk to report on Nazi atrocities committed during the Blitzkrieg, and to deliver a stark warning about the traitors who aided the Germans in their conquest of Europe. He is outraged to discover that the 'People for Peace Society' in England are campaigning to appease the Germans, and tries to expose them for the fools they are - only to have his newspaper stories censored by Home Security. As the Blitz rages in London, Randall and fellow journalist Carol Bennett (Valerie Hobson) uncover an even more sinister side to the Society. Do they have advance knowledge of German bombing raids? And who is really controlling them?

World War Two drama starring James Mason. When four intelligence officers arrive in occupied France on a mission to determine the strength of the German forces, they know full well that they are on a suicide mission. But once they penetrate the Nazi headquarters, can they survive long enough to get their information to the British troops? Roland Culver, Michael Wilding and Hugh Williams co-star.

John Mills stars as a British submarine commander in this Second World War drama. The crew of the Sea Tiger have their leave cut short when they are ordered to pursue and sink a new German battleship known as the Brandenburg. The crew's captain (Mills) is tasked with destroying the ship before it enters the Kiel Canal but he soon discovers that the battleship is heavily defended and is further away than first thought. Along the way the Sea Tiger enters German controlled seas knowing that once they succeed in their mission they may not have enough fuel to return home.

American Second World War drama. In England 1943, the American Army become increasingly frustrated with their ineffective night-time bombing missions. As a result, an ambitious new plan put forward by Colonel Greg Brandon (Christopher George) is put into action by his superiors to fly 1000 bombers over Germany to attack in broad daylight. Tensions increase as he tries to get his troops ready for the mission and as the date draws nearer the colonel even begins to lose faith in the likelihood of success.

Paul Greengrass directs this Iraq war thriller loosely based on the book 'Imperial Life in the Emerald City' by Washington Post journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran. Matt Damon stars as Chief Army Warrant Officer Roy Miller, a specialist soldier who joins forces with Wall Street reporter Lawrie Dayne (Amy Ryan) to expose the hotbed of covert and faulty intelligence surrounding the search for Iraq's cache of weapons of mass destruction. Greg Kinnear and Brendan Gleeson co-star.

Gene Tierney, Bruce Cabot and George Sanders star in this early 1940s war drama set in a tiny, isolated British outpost in East Africa. Officers at the outpost enlist the help of Zia (Tierney), a mysterious and exotic woman living among the natives, in their bid to fend off an impending onslaught from Nazi soldiers.

Late 1960s European war drama. A renegade band of five German commandos sets out across the African desert in an ambitious plot to assassinate the 'Big Three' Allied leaders - Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin - as they prepare to meet at the Casablanca Conference at the height of the Second World War.

The fifth in a series of documentaries charting the events of World War II year by year, using unique archive footage to take you back in time to see what actually happened when the world went to war. This film focuses on 1943.

The fourth in a series of documentaries charting the events of World War II year by year, using unique archive footage to take you back in time to see what actually happened when the world went to war. This film focuses on 1942.

The second in a series of documentaries charting the events of World War II year by year, using unique archive footage to take you back in time to see what actually happened when the world went to war. This film focuses on 1940.

The third in a series of documentaries charting the events of World War II year by year, using unique archive footage to take you back in time to see what actually happened when the world went to war. This film focuses on 1941.

Noel Coward co-directed, wrote and starred in this patriotic World War II drama about a destroyer, told through flashbacks and the reminiscences of the surviving crew after their beloved ship is torpedoed. Coward was awarded a Special Oscar for 'outstanding production achievement'. Also included is a 'making of' documentary.

John Sturges' adaptation of Jack Higgins' semi-factual novel using an all-star cast. In 1943, a group of Nazi soldiers parachute into Norfolk and infiltrate a small village near the holiday retreat of Winston Churchill. Their plan is to assassinate the British Prime Minister but the villagers are not without initiative and, as their plans get protracted, they find themselves facing moral and practical dilemmas.

Narrated by Robert Powell, this is the third in a series of documentaries covering all the major wars of the 20th Century. Over four episodes, this volume looks at the rise of the Axis powers in the 1920s and 1930s, and the march to war in 1939. Episodes are 'Enter the Dictators: 1920-1935', 'The War Clouds Gather: 1935-1939', 'Blitzkreig: 1939-1940' and 'Britain Stands Alone: 1940-1941'.

Box set featuring 'D-Day: Assault on Fortress Europe', 'Battle of Britain: The Fight for the Sky' and 'Dunkirk: Battle for France'. 'D-Day: Assault on Fortress Europe' presents an historic account of the 1944 Allied invasion of Normandy using archive footage. 'Battle of Britain: The Fight for the Sky' looks at the Battle of Britain in1940, where the threat of invasion from Germany was extremely high, and women and children were forced to leave the cities for the countryside, in the case of a major bomb attack. This was a battle Britain had to win, even if they were unprepared for what was to come. But one man had the strategy to hold off the Luftwaffe attack, Air Chief Marshall Sir Hugh Dowling. Finally 'Dunkirk: Battle for France' presents an historic account of the famous strategic withdrawal.

The Battle of Crete was a success for Germany, but was very arduous. This is a collection of archive footage taken from before the battle began and up to the time before the fall of Yugoslavia and Greece, as well as interviews with two of the German commanders and the soliders who took part.

War action drama based on real events in the Second World War. The film tells the story of the Pathfinders, a volunteer unit of American paratroopers who are given the deadly mission to parachute into Nazi-held territory 30 minutes before the Normandy invasion. The soldiers must then locate and mark strategic 'drop zones' and set up the top-secret navigation equipment needed to guide the primary airborne assault on D-Day, while concealing themselves from the enemy until the invasion gets underway.

John Wayne went against the tide of public opinion to both direct and star in a war epic that seeks to justify America's involvement in Vietnam. A commander (Wayne) is sent onto the battlefield to lead a regiment on a mission to kidnap a Vietcong general. As events unfold, a pacifist journalist (David Janssen) covering the sorti is gradually persuaded to accept the justness of the war.

Seven-part docudrama series exploring the history and horrors of World War 2 from an American perspective, recounting the personal experiences of citizens of four American towns.

In 1944, twelve Death Row convicts are selected by Major Reisman (Lee Marvin) for a suicide mission. With the aid of his assistant, Sergeant Bowren (Richard Jaeckel), Reisman gradually moulds his gang of murderers, rapists, thieves and psychotics into a tough fighting unit. He leads them into occupied France in an attempt to infiltrate a chateau where the Nazi top brass are holding a summit. Telly Savalas, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes and a then-unknown Donald Sutherland are among the dozen.

In Second World War France, German Colonel von Waldheim (Paul Scofield) orders the railway transfer of priceless works of art from the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris to the Fatherland. The French Resistance are determined to stop the cargo ever reaching Germany, and enrol railway inspector Labiche (Burt Lancaster) to help them in their cause. Franklin Coen and Frank Davis's script was nominated for an Oscar.

Period-piece documentary originally made for the 1939 New York World's Fair ('The World of Tomorrow'), with a newly-recorded music score by Aaron Copland. The film, scripted by city planner Lewis Mumford, advocates the benefits of garden city planning and presents suburbia as an idyllic alternative to gritty urban life.