Their Finest Hour: 5 British WWII Classics

Founded in 2002 as one of the first-ever subscription film services with its DVD-of-the-Month Film Club, Film Movement is now a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. In 2015, Film Movement launched the reissue label Film Movement Classics featuring new restorations released theatrically as well as on home video, with an emphasis on films by auteur directors such as Eric Rohmer, Peter Greenaway and Takeshi Kitano.

THEIR FINEST HOUR brings together five digitally restored British WWII classics for the first time on Blu-ray. Titles include the Ealing Studios-produced, Graham Greene adaptation WENT THE DAY WELL? (1942) along with Michael Anderson's Oscar-nominated THE DAM BUSTERS (1955), as well as three box-office hits starring John Mills – THE COLDITZ STORY (1955), DUNKIRK (1958) and ICE COLD IN ALEX (1958).

directed by: Alberto Cavalcanti, Guy Hamilton, Michael Anderson, Leslie Norman, J. Lee Thompson
starring: John Mills, Leslie Banks, Michael Redgrave, Sylvia Syms, Richard Attenborough
2020 / 300 min (combined) / 1.37:1 & 1.66:1 / English, German, French, Polish Mono

Additional info:

• Region A 5-Disc Blu-ray
• 24-page booklet with essay by film writer and curator Cullen Gallagher
• English subtitles

The Colditz Story:

• Colditz Revealed documentary
• Restoration Comparison

The Dam Busters:

• The Making of The Dam Busters
• Sir Barnes Wallis Documentary
• 617 Squadron Remembers
• Footage of the Bomb Tests
• The Dam Busters Royal Premiere
• Restoration of a Classic
• The Dam Busters Trailer

Dunkirk:

• Dunkirk Operation Dynamo Newsreel
• Young Veteran Ealing Short
• Interview with actor Sean Barrett
• John Mills home movie footage

Ice Cold In Alex:

• Extended Clip from A Very British War Movie Documentary
• John Mills Home Video Footage
• Interview with Melanie Williams
• Steve Chibnall on J. Lee Thompson
• Interview with Sylvia Syms