Simon Heffer explores how the 1949 Powell and Pressburger film The Small Back Room told a wartime story in very different ways to movies made during the war. Show more

Simon Heffer explores how the 1949 Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets attacked England's legal system, class system, the church and the City of London. Show more

In a series on classic 1940s British films, Simon Heffer explores Went the Day Well?. It creates a utopian vision of rural peace, suggesting a less class-bound future society. Show more

Simon Heffer celebrates the 1944 Powell and Pressburger film A Canterbury Tale, focusing on its images of the English countryside, as something to preserve and a pointer to change. Show more

Simon Heffer explores the Ealing film The Blue Lamp portrays a fractured post-war world, going against established wartime images of a cohesive and deferential society. Show more