Movies: Ben Williams

  • 1940
    The Thief of Bagdad

    The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

    The Thief of Bagdad

    7.11940HD

    When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess....

    The Thief of Bagdad
  • 1944
    The Way Ahead

    The Way Ahead (1944)

    The Way Ahead

    6.41944HD

    A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk....

    The Way Ahead
  • 1940
    Contraband

    Contraband (1940)

    Contraband

    6.91940HD

    When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operatin...

    Contraband
  • 1940
    Night Train to Munich

    Night Train to Munich (1940)

    Night Train to Munich

    7.21940HD

    Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry o...

    Night Train to Munich
  • 1938
    The Citadel

    The Citadel (1938)

    The Citadel

    6.31938HD

    Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he mov...

    The Citadel
  • 1936
    Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

    Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)

    Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

    5.41936HD

    It is England in the 1830s. London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in foreign lands. Sweeney Todd, a Fleet Street barber, awaits the arrival of men whose first port of call is for a good, close shave. For most...

    Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  • 1941
    'Pimpernel' Smith

    'Pimpernel' Smith (1941)

    'Pimpernel' Smith

    7.11941HD

    Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of th...

    'Pimpernel' Smith
  • 1955
    Storm Over the Nile

    Storm Over the Nile (1955)

    Storm Over the Nile

    6.11955HD

    In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his officer's commission in order to remain with his fiancée Mary Burroughs in England. His friends and fellow office...

    Storm Over the Nile
  • 1937
    Love from a Stranger

    Love from a Stranger (1937)

    Love from a Stranger

    5.91937HD

    Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winning a lottery. Swept off her feet by charming Basil Rathbone, Harding finds herself married before she is fully able to grasp the situation. Slowly bu...

    Love from a Stranger
  • 1950
    Waterfront

    Waterfront (1950)

    Waterfront

    6.51950HD

    When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing tr...

    Waterfront
  • 1937
    Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel

    Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937)

    Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel

    4.21937HD

    Sir Percy is forced to return to France one last time, to rescue his wife from the clutches of the sinister Robespierre. It's clearly a trap, but nothing will keep the good Pimpernel from carrying out his mission....

    Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
  • 1953
    The Final Test

    The Final Test (1953)

    The Final Test

    6.61953HD

    Legendary England cricketer Sam Palmer (Jack Warner) is due to bat in his final test match against Australia. He is desperate for his son Reggie (Ray Jackson) to see his final innings. But Reggie prefers poetry to cricket and when he is offered the o...

    The Final Test
  • 1941
    Cottage to Let

    Cottage to Let (1941)

    Cottage to Let

    6.51941HD

    Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight....

    Cottage to Let
  • 1943
    The Bells Go Down

    The Bells Go Down (1943)

    The Bells Go Down

    6.81943HD

    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....

    The Bells Go Down
  • 1940
    The Stars Look Down

    The Stars Look Down (1940)

    The Stars Look Down

    6.41940HD

    Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing...

    The Stars Look Down
  • 1945
    Waterloo Road

    Waterloo Road (1945)

    Waterloo Road

    61945HD

    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....

    Waterloo Road
  • 1943
    Undercover

    Undercover (1943)

    Undercover

    5.91943HD

    Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope to the people. But quislings and infiltrators are everywhere – and trusting the wrong person could e...

    Undercover
  • 1947
    Fame Is the Spur

    Fame Is the Spur (1947)

    Fame Is the Spur

    6.51947HD

    A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace....

    Fame Is the Spur
  • 1952
    Hindle Wakes

    Hindle Wakes (1952)

    Hindle Wakes

    51952HD

    During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to keep this a secret from her parents Jenny gets help from her friend Mary to pretend her whereabouts but disaster strikes during a boating accident. It ...

    Hindle Wakes
  • 1949
    The Hasty Heart

    The Hasty Heart (1949)

    The Hasty Heart

    6.71949HD

    In the final days of World War II, in a MASH unit in Burma, a severely wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a caring nurse and five remaining soldiers bring him solace....

    The Hasty Heart