The legendary Flying Scotsman provides the setting for this early British thriller. The driver of the famous steam engine, one day before his retirement, is forced to report his stoker for being drunk on duty. The stoker is promptly fired, but sneaks aboard the train the next day to exact his revenge. Also amongst the passengers is the driver's daughter, whose relationship with the new stoker sets off a disastrous chain of events.

Classic Ealing comedy about a group of villagers who, angered by British Rail's decision to close down their local branch line, make a bid to run the service themselves, making use of an antique locomotive liberated from a local museum.

Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas and Richard Attenborough star in this classic British comedy which takes a satirical look at trade unions and labour relations. Upon leaving the army, upper-class twit Stanley Windrush Carmichael takes a job in a missile factory. Before long he has inadvertently started a national strike, which is subsequently mishandled by everyone involved.

Classic British comedy from 1950 starring Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford. Nutborne is an all-boys school and content to stay that way, but after an evacuation of local private all-girls school, St. Swithins, the two educational establishments must find a way to co-exist as a battle of the sexes commences. A power struggle between Nutborne's headmaster Wetherby Pond Sim and St Swithins' headmistress Muriel Whitchurch Rutherford inevitably takes place, leading to much silliness and mayhem.

First of the Ealing comedies. A bunch of crooks use a comic paper, featuring stories penned by Felix H. Wilkinson Alastair Sim, to pass on coded messages for robberies. When the comic's readership, a bunch of East End boys, discover what's going on they go to the police. The local constabulary, however, are no help, and so the plucky lads set out to foil the robbers themselves.

WWII drama about a Czech captain who impersonates a dead British officer, only to be thrown into a German P.O.W. camp reserved for the English.

Early 1960s Cockney comedy directed by Joan Littlewood. Returning home from sea after two years, Charlie Gooding James Booth finds his home demolished and his wife Maggie Barbara Windsor missing. When he finally tracks her down, she's moved in with bus driver Bert George Sewell and has a new baby, the parentage of whom is in doubt. As Charlie attempts to win his wife back, his explosive temper soon threatens to undo all his good work.

A small-time smuggler finds himself in over his head in this gritty crime drama directed by Basil Dearden. Wisecracking merchant seaman Dan MacDonald Bonar Colleano makes ends meet by dabbling in a spot of petty smuggling in post WWII London. But his life quickly changes when he's framed by a gang of jewel thieves after a robbery in the city. Now, with his best mate Johnny Earl Cameron in the dock for murder, Dan must put his life on the line to prove his friend's innocence.

Kuroda Toshiro Mifune, a samurai warrior, is accompanying a Japanese diplomat to the US. They are carrying a golden, jewel-encrusted sword to present as a token of goodwill to the president, however they are ambushed by two outlaws - Gauche Alain Delon and Link Charles Bronson. When Gauche double-crosses Link and keeps the sword for himself, Link joins forces with Kuroda to return the sword to its rightful owner.

Classic British drama directed by Carol Reed. Set during the Cold War, James Mason stars as sardonic double agent Ivo Kern who finds himself falling in love with beautiful British schoolteacher Susanne Mallison Claire Bloom after meeting her in Berlin. Dogged by the pressures of political espionage and the attentions of his Cold War counterpart Bettina Hildegarde Neff, Kern must do all he can to rescue Susanne when she is kidnapped by the East German authorities after being mistaken for Bettina.

British crime drama written and directed by Ken Hughes. The film follows Sammy Lee Anthony Newley, the master of ceremonies at a sleazy London strip club, as he tries to come up with enough money to clear his debt with local bookie Fred Kenneth J. Warren. With time running out and Fred's enforcers on their way, Sammy looks to set up a number of shady deals in a last-ditch attempt to come up with the cash.

Leslie Norman directs this British wartime drama which tells two sides of the Dunkirk story. British Corporal 'Tubby' Binns John Mills finds himself responsible for getting his men back to Britain from the Dunkirk beaches, after their commanding officer is killed and they become separated from the rest of the Allied Forces. Meanwhile, civilian reporter Charles Foreman Bernard Lee follows the build-up to the eventual evacuation of British and French troops from the beaches of Dunkirk. The cast also includes Richard Attenborough, Robert Urquhart and Ray Jackson.

James Cameron's epic account of the world's most famous maritime disaster is currently the most commercially successful film ever made, and swept the board at the 1997 Oscar ceremony. The Titanic, the most prestigious liner ever to sail the seas, sets off on its maiden voyage in April, 1912. Amongst the passengers are Rose DeWitt Bukater Kate Winslet and her fianc Cal Hockley Billy Zane, the heir of a Pittsburgh steel magnate. Rose is less than thrilled at the prospect of spending the rest of her life with Hockley, and contemplates throwing herself off the stern of the ship, only to be persuaded otherwise by fellow passenger, barrowboy Jack Dawson Leonardo DiCaprio. Despite coming from opposite ends of the social scale, the couple soon fall in love, but will their relationship be cut tragically short when the boat crashes into an iceberg