Charles Crichton Movies

A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all conditions picking up downed pilots and taking...

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

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...

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.

When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin, does not find out...

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

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

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...

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

A feature length documentary on the making of A Fish Called Wanda

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

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

Ealing Studios short war documentary

British war documentary

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

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

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.