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Thursday
20/06/2024
16:30
Yangtse Incident
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst (1957)
The true story of HMS Ameythst, a British frigate "captured" by Chinese communists during the Chinese revolution and whose dash to freedom under shellfire captured the imagination of the world.
Thursday
20/06/2024
19:00
Cromwell
Cromwell (1970)
Richard Harris's aggressive warts-and-all Oliver Cromwell and Alec Guinness's unyielding Charles I make this historical double act very watchable. They bring past politics to vivid life and put paid to the idea that...
Thursday
20/06/2024
20:00
Cromwell
Cromwell (1970)
Richard Harris's aggressive warts-and-all Oliver Cromwell and Alec Guinness's unyielding Charles I make this historical double act very watchable. They bring past politics to vivid life and put paid to the idea that...
Thursday
20/06/2024
20:07
Cromwell
Cromwell (1970)
Richard Harris's aggressive warts-and-all Oliver Cromwell and Alec Guinness's unyielding Charles I make this historical double act very watchable. They bring past politics to vivid life and put paid to the idea that...
Thursday
20/06/2024
21:07
Cromwell
Cromwell (1970)
Richard Harris's aggressive warts-and-all Oliver Cromwell and Alec Guinness's unyielding Charles I make this historical double act very watchable. They bring past politics to vivid life and put paid to the idea that...
Thursday
20/06/2024
21:45
Cold Mountain
Cold Mountain (2003)
Inman, a wounded confederate soldier, is on a perilous journey home to his mountain community, hoping to reunite with his prewar sweetheart, Ada.
Thursday
20/06/2024
22:00
The Great Escaper
The Great Escaper (2023)
In the summer of 2014, a World War II veteran sneaks out of his care home to attend the 70th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day landings in Normandy.
Thursday
20/06/2024
23:00
The Codebreaker Who Hacked Hitler
Bletchley Park: Code-Breaking's Forgotten Genius (2015)
Gordon Welchman was a British codebreaker who played a crucial role in undermining Nazi communications in WWII. Welchman’s legacy is significant: his pioneering work led to the modern secret surveillance state, and to...
Friday
21/06/2024
00:25
Six Minutes to Midnight
Six Minutes to Midnight (2020)
Eddie Izzard and Judi Dench star in this spy thriller set on the cusp of WWII, inspired by real events. An English finishing school for German girls is embroiled in a Nazi conspiracy that could defeat Britain before...
Friday
21/06/2024
01:30
Force 10 from Navarone
Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
During World War II, several oddly assorted military experts are teamed in a mission to raid and destroy a bridge vital to enemy strategy.
Friday
21/06/2024
01:45
Path to War
Path to War (2002)
A portrayal of the Johnson presidency and its spiraling descent into the Vietnam War. Acting on often conflicting advice from his Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara and other advisers, President Johnson finds his...
Friday
21/06/2024
01:50
The Pentagon Wars
The Pentagon Wars (1998)
Air Force Lt. Col. John Burton was assigned to evaluate the usefulness of the Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle, an Army troop carrier/scout vehicle that, in its final redesign, was effectively a deathtrap for its...
Friday
21/06/2024
06:50
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
13 Hours (2016)
During an attack on a U.S. compound in Libya, a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
Friday
21/06/2024
07:50
Friend or Foe
Friend or Foe (1982)
Two evacuated children in wartime rural England find two German airmen hiding out in the woods. An adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's 1977 novel from writer/director John Krish .
Friday
21/06/2024
13:00
The Bells Go Down
The Bells Go Down (1943)
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.