Exploring the depths of darkness and human misery in the context of one of the worst things a person can ever experience, ...

Great Expectations: British Post-War Cinema, 1945-1960 is organized by the Locarno Film Festival in partnership with the BFI National Archive and the Cinémathèque Suisse, with the support of ...

The 2025 Locarno Film Festival unveiled a retrospective of British postwar cinema, "Great Expectations," with movies from Powell and Pressburger.

The director was Charles Frend, who would go on to direct perhaps the greatest ever British war film, The Cruel Sea (1953), and perhaps the finest film about heroism, Scott of the Antarctic (1948).

The genre of British war movies is one bursting with great titles and many of them are available to stream at home for UK film fans.