The Best of British Cinema

Enjoy some of the silver screen’s greatest moments in this tour-de-force, five-part documentary narrated by the late Sir John Mills. Your entertainment adventure spans five decades, beginning with the English invasion of the 1930s and including never-to-be-forgotten highlights from Private Lives, The Gentle Touch,World of Adventure, The Romantics and A Class of Their Own. All the British greats are here, including producer Alexander Korda, Charles Laughton, Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, Vivian Leigh, Sabu, Robert Donat, Leslie Howard, Rex Harrison and many more. You’ll appreciate more than ever the commanding power, intellectual humor and compelling drama that became hallmarks of Britain’s finest films.

Sir John Mills’ father—a mathematics teacher—encouraged John to follow an academic career. But his mother was a theatre box-office manager, and from the age of six, John believed that performing was his destiny.