Packender Film nach einer wahren Geschichte über 300 Kinder, die den Holocaust überlebt haben und 1945 nach England gebracht werden. Dort wird ihnen Hoffnung auf ein neues Leben gegeben. Nach ihrer Befreiung aus den Konzentrationslagern werden die jüdischen Kinder an den Lake Windermere gebracht. Der deutsche Psychologe Oscar Friedmann betreut die Kinder dort einen Sommer lang, und sie lernen, mit ihren schlimmen Erfahrungen umzugehen.
Am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs kommt es in Frankreich zu der schicksalhaften Begegnung zwischen der 18jährigen Engländerin Susan und Lazar, einem britischen Geheimdienst-Offizier. Ihre Affäre ist heftig und voller Leidenschaft, aber von kurzer Dauer. 24 Stunden später trennen sich schon wieder ihre Wege. Lazar muss Hals über Kopf abreisen, und Susan kehrt auch bald wieder nach England zurück. Doch Susan findet keine Ruhe. Ihre Sehnsüchte und Gedanken sind bei ihren einstigen Genossen im Widerstand, und vor allem bei Lazar. Um diesen endlich zu vergessen, willigt sie in die Ehe mit Raymond, einem Diplomaten ein. Doch eines Tages holt sie die Vergangenheit wieder ein...
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 for rent in the house of Mrs. Beasley, her meek husband and their teenage daughter, Joyce. It's clear that Harold has a troubled past, but his future is about to get more perilous yet. Despite the rosy surface, Harold soon finds himself in a tawdry sexual tug-of-war that won't end well.
Clay Douglas’ jüngerer Bruder ist im Zweiten Weltkrieg als Soldat der britischen Streitkräfte ums Leben gekommen, die näheren Umstände seines Todes sind jedoch nicht bekannt. Also fährt Clay selber von Amerika nach England, um herauszufinden, wie sein Bruder starb. Bei seinen Erkundigungen stößt er auf massiven Widerstand. Dann erfährt er jedoch die erschütternde Wahrheit...
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 £5.10.0 job and a 30/- a week single-room flat. The newly-weds find money fearfully tight, the flat cramped, the neighbours a trial, and her parents always hovering. Can faith conquer all? Is there some way of getting rid of tea-leaves except down the sink?
Hitler escapes the war to London, where he lives as Mrs. Meitlemeihr, in this what-if black comedy from commercial director Graham Rose.
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 home to their families - but not the families they remember. Like so many other women, Peggy’s life has been transformed by the war. Living and working with good friends, she is happier than she has been for years. Yet Peggy’s life is not the only one changed by the war. Her daughter, Rusty, has just returned from the U.S., where she has been living as an evacuee for the last five years. After so long abroad, her home in England has become unrecognizable. Just as Peggy begins to restore normal family bonds, her husband returns from the war, damaged and desperate to make everything as it was before. Adapted from the novel by Michelle Magorian, author of Goodnight, Mister Tom, Back Home is the story of a family who struggle to make sense of their new lives in a world irrevocably altered by the far-reaching effects of war.
Radical resistance in the postwar British Caribbean community, from the 1948 Nationality Act to the 1958 Brixton riots.
Dover made over: this quirky and pointed public information film reveals how the heavily-bombed and shelled Kent town was being replanned after the war. The filmmakers cleverly and entertainintly capture our attention by opening on travelogue cliches that they quickly undercut. It's not white cliffs and rolling hills they want to tell us about. It's present-day Dover - remaking itself in the crisp freshness of a postwar spring.
A fascinating, unsettling study of immigration in 1960s English cities.
An African entourage makes a spectacular appearance in postwar London.