Michael Balcon Movies

  • 1941
    Ships with Wings

    Ships with Wings

    Ships with Wings

    41941HD

    Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade...

    Ships with Wings
  • 1941
    Yellow Caesar

    Yellow Caesar

    Yellow Caesar

    5.81941HD

    Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

    Yellow Caesar
  • 1944
    They Came to a City

    They Came to a City

    They Came to a City

    61944HD

    People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city

    They Came to a City
  • 1935
    Oh, Daddy!

    Oh, Daddy!

    Oh, Daddy!

    51935HD

    Member of a village Purity League branch find things much livelier on a trip to London.

    Oh, Daddy!
  • 1949
    A Run for Your Money

    A Run for Your Money

    A Run for Your Money

    5.91949HD

    Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their...

    A Run for Your Money
  • 1926
    The Mountain Eagle

    The Mountain Eagle

    The Mountain Eagle

    2.81926HD

    In the Kentucky hills a store keeper tries to win the love of an innocent schoolteacher. She runs away and seeks refuge with a hermit. A lost film.

    The Mountain Eagle
  • 1940
    Now You're Talking

    Now You're Talking

    Now You're Talking

    01940HD

    Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant...

    Now You're Talking
  • 1954
    West of Zanzibar

    West of Zanzibar

    West of Zanzibar

    4.51954HD

    Game warden Bob Payton (Anthony Steel) tracks a ivory smuggling ring through some of the most treacherous passages of the Zanzibar territory.

    West of Zanzibar
  • 1932
    Rome Express

    Rome Express

    Rome Express

    6.21932HD

    The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.

    Rome Express
  • 1940
    Spare a Copper

    Spare a Copper

    Spare a Copper

    6.81940HD

    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...

    Spare a Copper
  • 1942
    The Goose Steps Out

    The Goose Steps Out

    The Goose Steps Out

    6.41942HD

    Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new...

    The Goose Steps Out
  • 1943
    Nine Men

    Nine Men

    Nine Men

    6.11943HD

    The Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African campaign. The Men must defend the fort against the...

    Nine Men
  • 1942
    The Big Blockade

    The Big Blockade

    The Big Blockade

    6.51942HD

    Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

    The Big Blockade
  • 1933
    The Good Companions

    The Good Companions

    The Good Companions

    5.81933HD

    Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

    The Good Companions
  • 1928
    Balaclava

    Balaclava

    Balaclava

    01928HD

    A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as Private to take part in the Crimean War. He succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy which...

    Balaclava
  • 1943
    Undercover

    Undercover

    Undercover

    5.81943HD

    Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope...

    Undercover
  • 1936
    Where There's a Will

    Where There's a Will

    Where There's a Will

    6.61936HD

    Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with...

    Where There's a Will
  • 1928
    The Vortex

    The Vortex

    The Vortex

    61928HD

    A young man is shocked to discover that his fiancé is the mistress of his mother's lover.

    The Vortex
  • 1932
    There Goes the Bride

    There Goes the Bride

    There Goes the Bride

    6.41932HD

    A businessman's daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the victim of a...

    There Goes the Bride
  • 1944
    Champagne Charlie

    Champagne Charlie

    Champagne Charlie

    5.21944HD

    A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the...

    Champagne Charlie