Michael Balcon Movies
- 1947
Frieda
Frieda5.31947HD
An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who...
- 1942
The Big Blockade
The Big Blockade6.51942HD
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.
- 1942
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
The Black Sheep of Whitehall7.21942HD
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and...
- 1948
Another Shore
Another Shore5.11948HD
A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.
- 1943
Undercover
Undercover5.91943HD
Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope...
- 1946
The Overlanders
The Overlanders5.71946HD
It's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a "scorched earth"...
- 1948
Against the Wind
Against the Wind5.81948HD
A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to...
- 1957
The Man in the Sky
The Man in the Sky7.21957HD
The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself....
- 1935
Car of Dreams
Car of Dreams5.61935HD
Produced by the highly acclaimed Michael Balcon, the story revolves around Robert, the son of the owner of a musical instrument factory. He is in...
- 1931
The Ghost Train
The Ghost Train01931HD
The story, about the social interaction of a group of railway passengers who have been stranded at a remote rural station overnight who are...
- 1935
Things Are Looking Up
Things Are Looking Up61935HD
Scatterbrain circus lady has to cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.
- 1956
Who Done It?
Who Done It?5.21956HD
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private...
- 1948
Saraband for Dead Lovers
Saraband for Dead Lovers5.91948HD
Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of...
- 1934
My Song for You
My Song for You5.51934HD
In this opera-oriented musical, Riccardo Gatti, an Italian young tenor in Venice, meets a young woman who sneaks into the opera house to try and get...
- 1944
Fiddlers Three
Fiddlers Three8.21944HD
Two British soldiers and a WREN take refuge at Stonehenge during a thunderstorm, they are struck by lightning and transported back to ancient Rome.
- 1940
Convoy
Convoy5.41940HD
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
- 1931
Hindle Wakes
Hindle Wakes01931HD
A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.
- 1954
Lease of Life
Lease of Life7.41954HD
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
- 1940
Spare a Copper
Spare a Copper71940HD
George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned...
- 1943
San Demetrio London
San Demetrio London6.71943HD
British drama documentary from 1943, based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had...