Respectable account of Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole. Stiff upper lips and Vaughan William's score take us back to the days when Englishmen were heroes and women still did the cooking. find out more...

The original and the best screen adaptation of John Buchan's jingoistic thriller of German plots and dashing Englishmen. Considered by the director as one of his very best this launched the theme of the innocent man on the run from both the law and the villians. Excellent. find out more...

Set in 1910, this rip-roaring comedy is a 'Wacky-Races' in the air. In a quest to prove that Great Britain is top dog in the air, Lord Rawnsley (Robert Morley) puts up a £10,000 prize. Many stereotypical nationals take part (there's a fanatical Prussian determined to win at all costs), a sextet of women, villains and good guys. Featuring plenty of slapstick and filmed in that wonderful technicolor. A great Sunday afternoon film. find out more...

Emiliano Zapata was the reluctant but impassioned revolutionary hero who gave the Mexican people the courage to rise up and fight against their brutal and corrupt president. As much high adventure as it is a political and historical epic, Viva Zapata has some fine performances, but it rides dangerously close to melodrama at times, a genre ill suited to the subject. find out more...