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1. Hope and Glory (1987)
PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Bill, a young boy living on the outskirts of London experiences the exhilaration of World War II. During this period, Bill learns about sex, death, love, hypocrisy, and the faults of adults as he prowls the ruins of bombed houses.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Geraldine Muir
Votes: 14,729 | Gross: $10.02M
2. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
PG | 143 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
While playing, Lucy and her siblings find a wardrobe that lands them in a mystical place called Narnia. Here they realize that it was fated and they must now unite with Aslan to defeat an evil queen.
Director: Andrew Adamson | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Georgie Henley, William Moseley, Skandar Keynes
Votes: 429,433 | Gross: $291.71M
3. Allied (2016)
R | 124 min | Action, Drama, Romance
In 1942, a Canadian 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.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris, Vincent Ebrahim
Votes: 170,456 | Gross: $40.10M
4. The Good Shepherd (2006)
R | 167 min | Drama, History, Thriller
The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life.
Director: Robert De Niro | Stars: Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro, Alec Baldwin
Votes: 108,753 | Gross: $59.95M
5. Goodnight Sweetheart (1993– )
Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
British sitcom in which an unhappily married man discovers he can time travel back to 1940s war-torn London where he masquerades as an MI5 agent and part-time songwriter whilst courting the local barmaid.
Stars: Nicholas Lyndhurst, Victor McGuire, Christopher Ettridge, Elizabeth Carling
Votes: 3,359
6. Their Finest (2016)
R | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A former secretary, newly appointed as a scriptwriter for propaganda films, joins the cast and crew of a major production while the Blitz rages around them.
Director: Lone Scherfig | Stars: Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy, Richard E. Grant
Votes: 21,357 | Gross: $3.60M
7. Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Passed | 120 min | Action, Romance, Thriller
On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders
Votes: 23,824 | Gross: $3.48M
8. Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Laura Henderson (Dame Judi Dench) buys an old London theater and opens it up as the Windmill, a performance hall which goes down in history for, amongst other things, its all-nude revues.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Christopher Guest, Will Young
Votes: 16,473 | Gross: $11.03M
9. Goodnight Mr Tom (1998 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Family, War
A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a close bond.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: John Thaw, Nick Robinson, Annabelle Apsion, Thomas Orange
Votes: 4,936
10. The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (2014)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrives, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.
Director: Tom Harper | Stars: Helen McCrory, Jeremy Irvine, Phoebe Fox, Leanne Best
Votes: 29,627 | Gross: $26.50M
11. Operation Crossbow (1965)
PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Drama, War
Allied agents attempt to infiltrate a German rocket research site.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills
Votes: 5,522
12. Bertie and Elizabeth (2002 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 99 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A chronicle of the life of George VI, who was forced to become King following the abdication of his brother Edward VIII, and his relationship with his wife, Elizabeth.
Director: Giles Foster | Stars: James Wilby, Alan Bates, Eileen Atkins, Dolly Wells
Votes: 708
13. The Night Watch (2011 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 89 min | Drama, Romance, War
In post-war London, Viv Pearce is dating Reggie and runs a dating bureau with Helen Giniver, who lives with her older lover, authoress Julia Standing. Viv's younger brother Duncan, a gay ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Laxton | Stars: Jenna Augen, Neal Barry, Claudie Blakley, Lucy Briers
Votes: 1,253
14. Ethel & Ernest (2016)
Not Rated | 94 min | Animation, Drama, History
The life and times of the parents of the hailed British graphic novelist Raymond Briggs.
Director: Roger Mainwood | Stars: Jim Broadbent, Brenda Blethyn, Luke Treadaway, Macready Massey
Votes: 3,948
15. Let Him Have It (1991)
R | 115 min | Crime, Drama, History
This drama reveals the controversial postwar 1950's London murder trial that sent an intellectually challenged young man to the gallows for a murder he did not commit.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Tom Courtenay, Christopher Eccleston, Eileen Atkins, Rebecca Eccleston
Votes: 3,812
16. Colditz (2005)
R | 120 min | Drama, War
While WWII Allied officer Jack Rose is held prisoner in Germany's notorious Colditz Castle, he recruits a band of fellow escape artists in the ultimate break-out only to discover that the greatest betrayal awaits him on safe ground.
Stars: Damian Lewis, Sophia Myles, Tom Hardy, Laurence Fox
Votes: 2,867
17. This Above All (1942)
Approved | 110 min | Drama, Romance, War
Although she comes from an aristocratic family, beautiful Prudence Cathaway defies convention by joining the WAAFs and becoming romantically involved with an AWOL soldier.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Tyrone Power, Joan Fontaine, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Stephenson
Votes: 1,423
18. Waterloo Bridge (1931)
81 min | Drama, Romance
A prostitute's self-loathing makes her reluctant to marry an idealistic soldier during World War I.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Mae Clarke, Douglass Montgomery, Doris Lloyd, Frederick Kerr
Votes: 3,176
19. The Return of the Vampire (1943)
Not Rated | 69 min | Drama, Horror
When an errant bomb unearths the coffin of a vampire during the London Blitz, a gravedigger unknowingly reanimates the monster by removing the stake from his heart
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Frieda Inescort, Nina Foch, Roland Varno
Votes: 2,758 | Gross: $1.09M
20. Vacation from Marriage (1945)
Passed | 102 min | Drama, Romance
A dull married couple, separated by their enlistment during World War II, reunite after three years to find that they have become very different people.
Director: Alexander Korda | Stars: Robert Donat, Deborah Kerr, Glynis Johns, Ann Todd
Votes: 1,534
21. Tonight and Every Night (1945)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, Musical, War
The theater in which this film is set was called The Windmill and performers there refused to be deterred by the blitz that was leveling much of London at the time.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Lee Bowman, Janet Blair, Marc Platt
Votes: 1,154
22. The Locket (1946)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Just before a wedding, the bridegroom hears a complex tale painting his lovely bride as devilish and unbalanced.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Laraine Day, Robert Mitchum, Brian Aherne, Gene Raymond
Votes: 3,071
23. Murder on the Home Front (2013 TV Movie)
91 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Set during the London Blitz of 1940, this is a world where people live life in the moment. It is also a world where criminals can use the blackout and devastation to hide their darkest activities.
Director: Geoffrey Sax | Stars: Patrick Kennedy, Tamzin Merchant, Emerald Fennell, James Fleet
Votes: 2,197
24. The Beginning or the End (1947)
Passed | 112 min | Biography, Drama, History
A docudrama detailing the research, development and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Robert Walker, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler
Votes: 752 | Gross: $2.66M
25. The Spirit of '45 (2013)
94 min | Documentary, History
A documentary on how the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Eileen Thompson, Julian Tudor Hart, Dai Walters, Sam Watts
Votes: 1,310
26. Tears in the Rain (1988 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama, Romance, War
Casey's mother's dying wish was to deliver a letter to an English lord who Casey knows nothing about. While fulfilling her duty, Casey meets the Lord's son, who immediately falls for the American visitor.
Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Sharon Stone, Christopher Cazenove, Leigh Lawson, Paul Daneman
Votes: 685
27. Nürnberg und seine Lehre (1948)
Approved | 78 min | Documentary
The official U.S. government film about the 1st Nuremberg trial (The Trial of the Major Nazi War Criminals) which lasted from November 20, 1945 to October 1, 1946.
Director: Stuart Schulberg | Stars: Francis Biddle, Karl Dönitz, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick
Votes: 201
28. Waterloo Road (1945)
76 min | Drama, Romance, War
A drama set during World War II. A tale of adultery and desertion.
Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: John Mills, Stewart Granger, Alastair Sim, Joy Shelton
Votes: 692
29. Alf 'n' Family (1968)
PG | 96 min | Comedy, War
The film version of Till Death Us Do Part (1965) tells the story of Alf Garnett and his family living through the London Blitz.
Director: Norman Cohen | Stars: Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols, Anthony Booth, Una Stubbs
Votes: 520
30. Aunt Clara (1954)
84 min | Comedy, Family
A wealthy old man dies and leaves his holdings--including a brothel, a gambling den, racing greyhounds, and a sleazy bar--to his eccentric niece Clara Hilton (Dame Margaret Rutherford). ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Kimmins | Stars: Ronald Shiner, Margaret Rutherford, A.E. Matthews, Fay Compton
Votes: 281
31. Far into the Night (1943)
TV-G | 90 min | Drama, War
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.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Tommy Trinder, James Mason, Philip Friend, Mervyn Johns
Votes: 268
32. BioShock 2: Minerva's Den (2010 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Horror
Big Daddy Subject Sigma journey's into Rapture Central Computing to retrieve the Thinker, a hyper-intelligent supercomputer, and bring it to the surface while simultaneously discovering his missing past.
Directors: Steve Gaynor, Michael Csurics | Stars: Carl Lumbly, Tijuana Ricks, Keith Szarabajka, Anne Bobby
Votes: 1,221
33. Titanic: Adventure Out of Time (1996 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Mystery
A video game about a british espionage agent sent back in time to a failed mission aboard Titanic. At stake: The fate of the entire world!
Stars: Kevin Garrett, Erik Sigvard Quist, Stephanie Quist, Lona Livingston
Votes: 328
34. Nightmare (1942)
Approved | 81 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance
An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs.
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Diana Barrymore, Brian Donlevy, Henry Daniell, Eustace Wyatt
Votes: 196
35. The Brighton Strangler (1945)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, an actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.
Director: Max Nosseck | Stars: John Loder, June Duprez, Michael St. Angel, Miles Mander
Votes: 540
36. Gangster No 1: The Freddie Foreman Story (2019)
90 min | Documentary
Attached to almost every unsolved gangland murder in London over the last 50 years - to Britain's criminal underworld Freddie Foreman is "The Godfather". In this special documentary, ... See full summary »
Director: Trevor Drane | Stars: Freddie Foreman, Bernard O'Mahoney, Walter Norval, Maureen Flanagan
Votes: 24
37. London: The Modern Babylon (2012)
Not Rated | 125 min | Documentary, History, Music
London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown.
Director: Julien Temple | Stars: Keith Allen, Michael Gambon, Steve Jones, Bill Nighy
Votes: 657
38. Mad Men of Europe (1940)
73 min | Drama, War
Director: Albert de Courville | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Mary Maguire, Paul Henreid, Geoffrey Toone
Votes: 14
39. Passport to Destiny (1944)
Passed | 65 min | Comedy, War
A British cleaning woman believes a glass eye has magical powers that will protect her from harm. She travels from London to Berlin and manages to obtain a job as a cleaning woman at Hitler's headquarters. However, her assassination plan is foiled. But, she and other secret agents manage to escape to London during RAF bombing raid of the Reich Chancery.
Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Elsa Lanchester, Gordon Oliver, Lenore Aubert, Lionel Royce
Votes: 365
40. Born to Love (1931)
Passed | 81 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A war officer who is thought dead returns to the woman he loves, only to find she has remarried.
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, Paul Cavanagh, Frederick Kerr
Votes: 328
41. Unpublished Story (1942)
92 min | Drama, War
A journalist investigates a network of German fifth columnists operating in the midst of the Blitz.
Director: Harold French | Stars: Richard Greene, Valerie Hobson, Basil Radford, Roland Culver
Votes: 265
42. London Can Take It! (1940)
Approved | 9 min | Documentary, War, Short
A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.
Directors: Humphrey Jennings, Harry Watt | Stars: Quentin Reynolds, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Votes: 711
43. Story of Queen Elizabeth II (2002)
108 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Queen Elizabeth has witnessed some of the most radical changes in British society's long history, but still remains a much-loved and respected monarch with an incredible story to tell, as ... See full summary »
Director: Mont Tombleson | Stars: Jennie Bond, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, King George VI
Votes: 7
44. Vive la France (1974)
84 min | Documentary
Director: Michel Audiard | Stars: Michel Audiard, Andrex, Josephine Baker, Léon Blum
Votes: 54
45. Our Queen at War (2020 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Our Queen at War reveals Princess Elizabeth's extraordinary teenage life; from broadcasting to the children of the Empire, to putting on pantomimes for the war effort.
Director: Christopher Bruce | Stars: Ron Batchelor, Winston Churchill, Marion Crawford, Jane Dismore
Votes: 123
46. The Blitz: Days That Changed WWII (2020 TV Special)
44 min | Documentary, History, War
From Black Saturday in the East End, to the ruins of Coventry Cathedral, to the all-out assault on St. Pauls, they filmed the Blitz and the everyday people who defied it.
Stars: Gavin Brocker, Stephan Bachenheimer, Robert Bass, Richard Cotton
47. Attack of the Zeppelins (2013 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
Dr Hugh Hunt explores the unknown story of the German blitz on London with zeppelins. Which took place in World War I.
Director: Ian Duncan | Stars: Chris Sandford, Eric Grove, Ian Castle, Andy Elson
Votes: 18
48. Christmas Under Fire (1940)
10 min | Documentary, Short, War
How Britain coped with a Christmas during the war.
Directors: Charles Hasse, Harry Watt | Star: Quentin Reynolds
Votes: 144
49. Blitz on London (2014 Video)
Documentary, History, War
A documentary which documents the massive bombing raids on Britain's capital city by the Luftwaffe during 1940 and 1941.
Director: Robert Garofalo | Stars: Roy Ward, Kai-Shek Chiang, Winston Churchill, Hugh Dowding
50. The Blitz on the Midlands (2001 Video)
56 min | Documentary, History, War
This is a powerful account of the German bombing raids on the central towns and airfields of England, including the terrible blitz on Coventry and the smaller raids on the airfields of Lincolnshire and East Anglia.
Director: Stanley Joseph | Stars: Don Burbridge, Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler, King George VI
Votes: 6