Movies: Bernard Miles

Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin. Meanwhile Dr Karl decides to...

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 secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process....

A melodrama about a 19th-century ballet dancer who makes an unfortunate career move by marrying a taciturn Cornish farmer. She soon longs for the bright lights of the big city and for the arms of her artist lover. Unfortunately, her husband is all to...

In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he talks about a treasure that was hidden there. Several years later, the members of that group are still...

Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865....

“Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he will be wrongly accused of being the culprit he disappears amongst the long-distance lorry driving community. Meanwh...

Romance set in a chemical factory....

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

A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs....

During the 16th century the Cossacks and their Ukraine homeland is ruled by Poland. This is the story of the leader of the Cossacks and how his son was sent to study under the Poles to learn how to defeat them in battle. However, the son falls in lov...

Lem Putt specializes in building outdoor lavatories....

Bernard Miles and Percy Walsh play two members of the Home Guard, on duty by a windmill, discussing the causes of the war and the issues at stake....

A newspaper reporter sets out to track down the murderer of a policeman....

An Englishman and Frenchman sharing a hotel room discover their children are fighting on the same side, French Resistance and R.A.F....

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front....

A contemporary of Henry Moore, Yorkshire-born Barbara Hepworth has made Cornwall her home. This film by John Read examines how the Cornish landscapes have influenced Hepworth's work, and the artist takes us through the planning stages in the creation...

A documentary on the work of artist Henry Moore....

A convicted killer escapes and seeks revenge on the jurors who put him in prison. He kills two of them and the rest end up hiding in the large home of another juror, an actor. It is the actor who saves them from the murderous fugitive....

The artistic and spiritual vision of William Blake as expressed through his books and illustrations....