A Bridge Too Far/The Great Escape/Battle of Britain

Triple bill of war classics. 'A Bridge Too Far' (1977) is Richard Attenborough's star-studded account of the failed 1944 Arnheim assault. Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Robert Redford and Sean Connery are among those battling against insurmountable odds - foul weather, bad luck, negligence on the part of intelligence officers - to secure one of the bridges essential to the Allied advance into Germany. Gene Hackman, Michael Caine and Anthony Hopkins also star. 'The Great Escape' (1963) is set during World War Two. A collection of hardened Allied prisoners are kept in an 'escape-proof' German camp. Led by the 'Big X' (Richard Attenborough), the men formulate a plan for a mass breakout, digging three tunnels - Tom, Dick and Harry. The team behind the escape includes a near-blind forger of passports (Donald Pleasance), a claustrophobic tunnel-digger (Charles Bronson) and the independent American 'Cooler King' (Steve McQueen). With men like that on their side, how can they fail? Guy Hamilton's classic war film 'Battle of Britain' (1969) looks at how England defended itself from the German aerial onslaught of the summer of 1940. Laurence Olivier plays Sir Hugh Dowding, the air chief marshal whose fleet outmanouevre the Luftwaffe, despite a numerical disadvantage; and those few to whom so many owed so much are portrayed by an all-star cast including Michael Caine, Kenneth More and Ralph Richardson. Despite its pro-British slant, the authenticity of the film's impressive flying sequences was guaranteed by the technical advice of Adolf Galland, one of the Nazi's most celebrated World War 2 pilots.

Director: Richard Attenborough
Director: John Sturges
Director: Guy Hamilton
Producer: John Sturges
Producer: Harry Saltzman
Producer: Richard P. Levine
Producer: Benjamin Fisz
Producer: Joseph E. Levine
Writer: James Clavell
Writer: W.R. Burnett
Writer: James Kennaway
Writer: William Goldman
Writer: Wilfred Greatorex
Music: John Addison
Music: Elmer Bernstein
Music: Ron Goodwin
Music: William Walton
Actor: Dirk Bogarde
Actor: James Caan
Actor: Edward Fox
Actor: Michael Caine
Actor: Sean Connery
Actor: Steve McQueen
Actor: James Garner
Actor: Donald Pleasence
Actor: James Coburn
Actor: Hardy Krüger
Actor: Ryan O'Neal
Actor: Robert Redford
Actor: Richard Attenborough
Actor: Charles Bronson
Actor: Gordon Jackson
Actor: Robert Shaw
Actor: Laurence Olivier
Actor: David McCallum
Actor: Susannah York
Actor: Liv Ullmann
Actor: Elliott Gould
Actor: James Donald
Actor: Christopher Plummer
Actor: Gene Hackman
Actor: John Leyton
Actor: Kenneth More
Actor: Maximilian Schell
Actor: Nigel Stock
Actor: Trevor Howard
Actor: Anthony Hopkins
Actor: Erik Chitty
Actor: William Russell
Actor: Ralph Richardson
Actor: Tom Adams
Actor: Curd Jürgens
Actor: Michael Redgrave
Actor: Ian McShane