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poster
The Roku Channel
79
7.4
/25745/
71
/523/
69
/428/
3.7
/26790/
95
/43/
81
/349/
89
/18/

Foreign Correspondent (1940)
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
7.1
/3706/
72
/139/
67
/88/
3.6
/4015/
90
/20/
73
/96/
88
/8/

Overlord (1975)
During World War II, a young man is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-Day, June 6th, 1944.
poster
78
7.3
/15785/
72
/271/
69
/210/
3.7
/8183/
96
/28/
82
/243/
86
/15/
cc age 12+

Hope and Glory (1987)
A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.
poster
76
7.1
/3992/
72
/74/
66
/47/
3.5
/1987/
84
/38/
86
/81/
cc age 14+

Let Him Have It (1991)
In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek's friendship leads to their involvement in the true case which would forever shake England's belief in capital punishment.
poster
73
6.8
/22086/
72
/1440/
65
/433/
3.3
/12999/
90
/168/
72
/209/
76
/30/
cc age 15+

Their Finest (2017)
During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.
poster
Disney Plus
71
6.9
/454448/
72
/18192/
71
/11273/
3.6
/929878/
76
/216/
61
/1896342/
75
/39/
cc age 9+

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, they discover a charming, once peaceful kingdom that has been plunged into eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Aided by the wise and magnificent lion, Aslan, the children lead Narnia into a spectacular, climactic battle to be free of the Witch's glacial powers forever.
poster
70
7.1
/1384/
72
/31/
61
/25/
3.6
/1372/
67
/27/
66
/28/

The Spirit of '45 (2013)
How the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society.
poster
MGM Plus
70
7.1
/178694/
73
/10409/
68
/4699/
3.3
/103114/
60
/256/
64
/884/
60
/44/
cc age 17+

Allied (2016)
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
poster
Apple TV
69
6.2
/18322/
64
/1230/
59
/231/
3.0
/58910/
81
/185/
81
/20/
71
/53/
cc age 13+

Blitz (2024)
In World War II London, nine-year-old George is evacuated to the countryside by his mother, Rita, to escape the bombings. Defiant and determined to return to his family, George embarks on an epic, perilous journey back home as Rita searches for him.
poster
69
7.0
/17063/
68
/213/
66
/226/
3.3
/3774/
68
/142/
72
/1031/
71
/36/
cc age 16+

Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005)
Recently widowed well-to-do Laura Henderson purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. After starting an innovative continuous variety review, which is copied by other theaters, they begin to lose money. Mrs Henderson suggests they add risqué burlesque acts similar to the Moulin Rouge in Paris.
poster
74
67
7.8
/5571/
75
/168/
69
/72/
3.6
/6908/
81

Goodnight, Mister Tom (1998)
A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a close bond.
poster
Criterion Channel
67
7.0
/25330/
68
/314/
65
/259/
3.4
/11086/
66
/65/
74
/444/
65
/32/
cc age 16+

The End of the Affair (1999)
On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his own jealousy and arranges to have her followed.
poster
YouTube TV
66
60
6.6
/6088/
70
/166/
67
/112/
3.2
/1867/
75
/8/
54
/54/
70
/4/

Operation Crossbow (1965)
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.
poster
59
6.7
/111901/
67
/2389/
63
/1253/
3.2
/33152/
56
/172/
51
/7889/
61
/33/
cc age 17+

The Good Shepherd (2006)
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.
poster
70
54
7.4
/3415/
65
/31/
68
/44/
3.5
/1847/
73
/438/

Waterloo Bridge (1931)
In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy, a naive young American who enlisted in the Canadian army. After they fall for each other, Roy tricks Myra into visiting his family, who live in a country estate outside London, his mother having remarried to a retired British Major. Myra is reluctant to continue the relationship with Roy, he not aware of her past.
poster
fuboTV
62
51
6.2
/3202/
62
/65/
61
/66/
3.1
/3136/
86
/7/
39
/47/

The Return of the Vampire (1943)
In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster. He reclaims the soul of his wolfman ex-servant, and assuming the identity of a scientist who has just escaped from a concentration camp, he starts out on a plan to get revenge upon the family.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
69
49
7.1
/3645/
68
/39/
63
/41/
3.5
/2694/

The Locket (1946)
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
poster
The Roku Channel
68
38
7.2
/2043/
64
/27/
58
/27/
3.5
/598/
77
/291/

Carve Her Name with Pride (1958)
London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses the German enemy lines as a secret agent to aid a French Resistance group.
poster
The Roku Channel
74
38
7.2
/679/
68
/19/
63
/22/
3.6
/467/
88
/8/
82
/11/
77
/5/

London: The Modern Babylon (2012)
London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown.
poster
64
29
6.6
/1543/
61
/10/
67
/19/
3.3
/450/
60
/89/

This Above All (1942)
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
poster
68
26
7.1
/1715/
70
/15/
66
/24/
3.5
/921/
63
/6/

Perfect Strangers (1945)
After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.
poster
The Roku Channel
61
25
6.4
/1315/
67
/56/
58
/42/
3.2
/798/
53
/2/

The Night Watch (2011)
Four Londoners are inseparably linked by their wartime experiences. In a time when the barriers of sexuality and social convention have been broken down, they enjoy a freedom never experienced before.
poster
Kanopy
67
24
7.0
/757/
67
/15/
66
/24/
3.4
/901/

London Can Take It! (1940)
A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.
poster
52
21
5.9
/1871/
56
/30/
52
/28/
3.1
/381/
35
/16/

D-Day the Sixth of June (1956)
En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.
poster
62
19
6.5
/744/
68
/5/
59
/18/
3.3
/264/
41
/292/

Waterloo Road (1945)
During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.
poster
58
18
6.3
/696/
57
/8/
59
/12/
3.2
/282/
50

The Brighton Strangler (1945)
After suffering a head injury during the London Blitz, theatre actor John Loder comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.
poster
62
17
6.2
/551/
70
/24/
73
/14/
47
/19/

Till Death Us Do Part (1969)
Based on the hit sitcom of the same name; racist, anti-Socialist Tory Alf Garnett and his long-suffering wife Else raise their daughter Rita during the Blitz.
poster
61
16
6.5
/367/
70
/1/
71
/11/
40
/42/

The Bells Go Down (1943)
Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.
poster
56
16
6.3
/1263/
70
/10/
51
/18/
3.2
/636/
35
/4/

Tonight and Every Night (1945)
An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
59
14
7.1
/781/
56
/13/
59
/8/
50
/16/

Bertie and Elizabeth (2002)
The life of England’s George VI, who was forced to become King following the abdication of his brother, and his relationship with his wife, Elizabeth.
poster
The Roku Channel
56
13
5.8
/782/
57
/25/
49
/13/
61
/9/

Tears in the Rain (1988)
When Casey Cantrell's mother died, her last wish was that her daughter would give a letter to Lord Richard Bredon, living in the UK. When Casey arrives in London, Lord Bredon denies ever having known her mother.
poster
62
12
6.5
/836/
61
/14/
61
/11/
3.1
/256/

The Beginning or the End (1947)
The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama.
poster
64
?
6.6
/2245/
65
/35/
3.1
/583/

Murder on the Home Front (2013)
At the height of the London blitz, Dr Lennox Collins, pioneer of the new forensic science, is enlisted by DI Wilkins after prostitute Mary Williams is strangled and a swastika carved on her tongue.
poster
Pluto TV
?
6.5
/29/
20
/1/
42
/2/

Gangster No. 1 (2019)
Attached to almost every unsolved gangland murder in London over the last 50 years, Freddie Foreman is "The Godfather". In this special documentary, Foreman reveals the audacious details of the heists, double crossings, shootouts, murders and betrayals he was involved in and what has made him Gangster No. 1.
poster
?
6.9
/32/
15
/2/
22
/4/

It's Not Unusual: A Lesbian and Gay History (1997)
Archival footage and interviews with 22 lesbians and gay men give an overview of gay history in the UK from the 1920's. Clause 28, the Well of Lonliness, AIDS, the Pet shop Boys, it's all there in some form or another.
poster
54
?
6.5
/316/
45
/4/
52
/5/

Aunt Clara (1954)
A wealthy old man dies and leaves his holdings--including a brothel and a gambling den, racing greyhounds and a sleazy bar--to his eccentric Aunt Clara. Clara vows to "clean up" her new establishments, but complications ensue when she visits the crooked gambling den--just as it's being raided by the police.
poster
?
6.6
/31/

In the Heart of the Thunderstorm (1948)
This documentary about WW II, composed of clandestine Allied film takes and German Wochenschaubilder, focuses on the French Resistance, especially the heroic but disastrous battle of the Vercors plateau in July 1944, where German troops mercilessly slaughtered the Maquis and the inhabitants.
poster
?
5.9
/58/
10
/1/
42
/4/

Vive la France (1974)
Feature-film director Michel Audiard tackles what he believes to be the mistakenly heroic status given to Charles De Gaulle. In this documentary film, he uses humor, among other things, to demythologize him.
poster
76
?
5.7
/18/
88
/7/
3.9
/682/

An Englishman's Home (1940)
A German spy is dispatched to Britain to search out targets for a planned invasion.
poster
?
7.4
/22/
70
/3/
80
/1/

Attack of the Zeppelins (2013)
Engineer Dr Hugh Hunt revisits the little-known story of the First World War's Blitz, when the Zeppelin waged an 18-month terror campaign on the people of London.
poster
65
?
6.8
/167/
61
/11/
66
/7/

Christmas Under Fire (1940)
How Britain coped with a Christmas during the war.
poster
60
?
6.3
/459/
70
/4/
48
/9/

Passport to Destiny (1944)
An English charwoman, believing herself protected by a magic eye amulet, travels to Nazi Germany to personally assassinate Adolf Hitler.
poster
62
?
6.9
/108/
54
/7/
63
/3/

The Finest Hours (1964)
A biography of Winston Churchill, shown through re-creations and actual film footage and told by Orson Welles.
poster
65
?
6.5
/274/
63
/3/
63
/5/

Unpublished Story (1942)
Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
poster
61
?
6.4
/226/
70
/1/
50
/2/

Nightmare (1942)
An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs.
poster
52
?
5.9
/381/
50
/1/
50
/5/

Born to Love (1931)
A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed in France, marries a wealthy aristocrat so her child will have a father.
poster
Kanopy
70
?
6.8
/128/
70
/12/
73
/3/

Our Queen at War (2020)
Learn how the longest reigning monarch in British history was shaped by World War II. Princess Elizabeth’s experiences during the war mirrored those of the public and helped shape her into the Queen she is today.
poster
69
?
7.4
/259/
75
/2/
57
/3/

Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today (1948)
How, in November 1945, after the end of the World War II and the fall of the Third Reich, the international prosecutors participating in the first Nuremberg trial —formally, the International Military Tribunal— built their case against the top Nazi war criminals using the films and records produced by the own regime, obsessed with documenting everything in its long path of infamy and crime.


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