John Mills
Birthday: 1908-02-22
Place of Birth: The Watts Naval Training College, North Elmham, Norfolk, England, UK
Biography: Sir John Mills, CBE (born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills; 22 February 1908 – 23 April 2005) was an English actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades. On screen, he often played people who are not at all exceptional, but become heroes because of their common sense, generosity and good judgement.
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Bean
Childlike Englishman, Mr. Bean, is an incompetent watchman at the Royal National Gallery. After the ...
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Gandhi
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
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Frankenstein
In the early 19th century, Dr. Frankenstein discovers the secret of life – how to create a perfect m...
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The Big Sleep
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a ri...
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Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britai...
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When the Wind Blows
With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare ...
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Oh! What a Lovely War
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the five boys of th...
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Murder with Mirrors
When Miss Jane Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there's time to l...
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War and Peace
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Gr...
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The Human Factor
After his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to find th...
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The Green Cockatoo
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has ...
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Cats
"Jellicle" cats join for a Jellicle ball where they rejoice with their leader, Old Deuteronomy. One ...
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Who's That Girl
An uptight New York tax lawyer gets his life turned upside down, all in a single day, when he's aske...
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In Which We Serve
The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action...
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The Masks of Death
Sherlock Holmes has retired. But when MacDonald asks him to take on another case, he says yes. There...
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The Quatermass Conclusion
Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie y...
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Above Us the Waves
In World War II, the greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. While anc...
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King Rat
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a ...
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Operation Crossbow
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and ...
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Great Expectations
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefa...
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Over several decades throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping ris...
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The Thirty Nine Steps
The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before...
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Tunes of Glory
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major...
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Tiger Bay
In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal k...
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The Rocking Horse Winner
A strange and tragic tale of a young boy who is able to predict race winners at the horse track by r...
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Scott of the Antarctic
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be...
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We Dive at Dawn
A gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a B...
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Mr. Denning Drives North
When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character ...
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The Wrong Box
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be ma...
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The Way to the Stars
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Bri...
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Ice Cold in Alex
A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of Nort...
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Hobson's Choice
A widower refuses to let his three daughters marry in order to avoid paying settlements, so they'll ...
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Ryan's Daughter
In the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married schoolteacher in a small Irish village has an affai...
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The Colditz Story
Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "esc...
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The Chalk Garden
The peculiar antics of Laurel, an emotionally troubled young girl, are the focus of The Chalk Garden...
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Young Winston
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, inclu...
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Morning Departure
The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before th...
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Swiss Family Robinson
After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressiv...
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Dunkirk
A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer i...
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The October Man
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murd...
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Sahara
Intent on winning a competition in place of her distinguished late father, beautiful young heiress D...
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Waterloo Road
During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft...
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Emma Hamilton
In the second half of the 18th century, the young shepherdess Emma accidentally catches the eye of t...
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The Family Way
Young newlyweds Arthur and Jenny Fitton want nothing more than to get their marriage started on the ...
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This Happy Breed
A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to...
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The Long Memory
An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about ...
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Dulcima
Dulcima, treated as a drudge by her family, becomes a housekeeper to Parker, a curmudgeonly widower ...
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Dr. Strange
A psychiatrist becomes the new Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth in order to battle an evil Sorceress fr...
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The Gentle Gunman
The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Te...
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Cottage to Let
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hosp...
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The History of Mr. Polly
Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to marry ...
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Night of the Fox
This classic war movie stars George Peppard and Michael York in a gripping tale of danger, intrigue,...
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The End of the Affair
During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in lov...
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The Baby and the Battleship
After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds hims...
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I Was Monty's Double
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery...
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Trial by Combat
A group called The Knights Of Avalon are unhappy with the justice system so are taking the law into ...
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The Lady and the Highwayman
During one of his robberies, a highwayman, who steals from the rich and gives to the poor, falls in ...
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The Singer Not the Song
A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order....
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Run Wild, Run Free
A young boy, unable to speak, befriends a wild colt with blue eyes and a falcon named "Lady"....
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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Two Australian sugarcane cutters spend their annual five-month vacations in Sydney with their mistre...
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Town on Trial
When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis cl...
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The Vicious Circle
When Dr. Howard Latimer finds the German actress whom he had just met at the London Airport murdered...
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A Black Veil for Lisa
Franz Bulon is a police inspector intent on bringing down a major drug ring operating in Hamburg. Th...
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Britannia of Billingsgate
The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to ...
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Tiara Tahiti
James Mason and John Mills star in this comedy-drama about a tough colonel and a refined captain who...
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Royal Cavalcade
Made in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the firs...
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Oklahoma Crude
In 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle, aided by her father and a hobo, is stubbornly dr...
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The Valiant
Having placed mines on the hull of a British warship whilst it is safe in harbour during the second ...
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The Black Sheep of Whitehall
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a ...
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The Ghost Camera
When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to ...
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The Truth About Spring
Tommy Tyler, a lazy Caribbean sailor, and his tom-boy daughter, Spring, are out to search for a buri...
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Car of Dreams
Produced by the highly acclaimed Michael Balcon, the story revolves around Robert, the son of the ow...
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O.H.M.S.
American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom ...
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Escapade
An English pacifist's (John Mills) sons run away from school and hijack a plane to Vienna to petitio...
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Africa: Texas Style!
Two American cowboys are hired by a British rancher to oversee his estate in Kenya. Shot on location...
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Those Were the Days
A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern...
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Forever Ealing
This is a history of the England's Ealing Film Studios, from its beginnings in 1902. It follows the ...
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The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
Two-part Arena special celebrating the life and distinguished career of one of Britain's best-loved ...
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The Big Blockade
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early y...
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The Way to Wimbledon
Focuses on the fifty weeks of the year when Wimbledon is preparing to host the next tennis champions...
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So Well Remembered
A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career....
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Lady Caroline Lamb
Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord ...
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Hamlet
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the ...
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The Big Freeze
A silent comedy. Two accident-prone plumbers go to fix the plumbing at a home for retired gentle-fol...
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Flame in the Streets
Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manife...
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One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
The gloriously glamorous Dame Edna entertains a celebrity audience in this 1988 special....
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The Devil's Advocate
A dying priest is commissioned to investigate the deeds of Giacomo Nerone, a dead wartime partisan, ...
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The Sky’s the Limit
A re-creation of a bombing raid on Hanover, with the objective of promoting war savings bonds....
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Happy Family
Summer 1939, and an ordinary family gets an alarming taste of war to come....
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Brown on Resolution
Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between ...
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Adam's Woman
Adam is a young American wrongly accused of being an accomplice to murder while on shore leave in Li...
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Broadway Gondolier
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job....
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The Grotesque
Sir Hugo is more interested in reconstructing dinosaur bones than in paying attention to his wife, L...
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The Midshipmaid
Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia ta...
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Tudor Rose
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she ...
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Zulu Dawn
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership....
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Doctor's Orders
Leslie Fuller stars as a quack whose son qualifies as a doctor in total ignorance of his father's oc...
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The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
Documentary - After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to b...
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Old Bill and Son
Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and,...
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A Political Party
A north-country chimney sweep standing for Parliament is opposed by a local bigwig. His campaign is ...
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Victory Wedding
A young couple prepare for post-war marriage. Propaganda short encouraging women to contribute to th...
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Bright Young Things
During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with extravaga...
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Harnessing Peacocks
Sir John Mills, Peter Davison and Serena Scott Thomas star in this warm, funny and romantic story of...
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Around the World in 80 Days
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the wor...
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Ending Up
A traditional rural English Christmas, reluctantly spent with the predominantly geriatric family (wh...
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First Offence
After his father sells his car, an immature playboy steals it back, and gets involved with a gang of...
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The Parent Trap
Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years later a...
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The Young Mr. Pitt
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Brit...
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It's Great to be Young!
IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic n...
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A Profile of In Which We Serve
Documentary about the 1942 British film "In Which We Serve" directed by David Lean and Noël Coward....
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Deadly Advice
Mother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see themsel...
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Land of Promise
Described as a 'film argument' about homes and houses, this film is in three parts showing houses as...
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Blind Justice
When Peggy wants to break off her engagement to Dick in order to marry Gilbert, Dick threatens to re...
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All Hands
From a series of propaganda films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing vita...
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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Acad...
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Information Please
Instructional military film that shows the many deceptive ways that Germans might extract valuable i...
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The Wind and the Bomb
The making-of When the Wind Blows, featuring interviews with producer John Coates, director Jimmy T....
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Total War in Britain
Dunkirk to D-Day in 20 minutes flat: this gripping account of Britain's war effort compels us to sit...
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Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
A look behind the scenes at Walt Disney’s Swiss Family Robinson (1960)...
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Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
A behind-the-scenes show on the filming of Swiss Family Robinson on the West Indian island of Tobago...
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