Keyword Post War England
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2020
The Windermere Children
The Windermere Children7.50 2020 HD
The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere.
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1985
Plenty
Plenty5.70 1985 HD
David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.
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1951
Circle of Danger
Circle of Danger6.50 1951 HD
An American comes to Britain to investigate the murky circumstances of his brother's death that occurred during a WW2 commando raid.
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1996
Intimate Relations
Intimate Relations5.50 1996 HD
In 1950s England, sailor Harold Guppy arrives in a small seaside town looking for his estranged brother. After a brief reunion, Harold finds a room...
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1981
Riots and Rumours of Riots
Riots and Rumours of Riots1 1981 HD
Radical resistance in the postwar British Caribbean community, from the 1948 Nationality Act to the 1958 Brixton riots.
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1954
For Better, for Worse
For Better, for Worse5.60 1954 HD
In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a...
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2002
Mrs. Meitlemeihr
Mrs. Meitlemeihr6.00 2002 HD
Hitler escapes the war to London, where he lives as Mrs. Meitlemeihr, in this what-if black comedy from commercial director Graham Rose.
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1965
Immigrants
Immigrants1 1965 HD
A fascinating, unsettling study of immigration in 1960s English cities.
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2001
Back Home
Back Home6.00 2001 HD
The war in Europe is over, but the one at home has only just begun. The Second World War is ending and throughout Britain, evacuees are returning...
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1947
Dover, Spring 1947
Dover, Spring 19471 1947 HD
Dover made over: this quirky and pointed public information film reveals how the heavily-bombed and shelled Kent town was being replanned after the...
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1949
African Visitors to the Tower of London
African Visitors to the Tower of London1 1949 HD
An African entourage makes a spectacular appearance in postwar London.
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1984
Diana
Diana5.00 1984 HD
The very different lives of Jan Leigh, a poor but studious young country lad, and Diana Gayelorde-Sutton, the equally single minded daughter of a...