The best Alec McCowen’s war movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Alec McCowen’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Alec McCowen.
Henry V
7.5/10
Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.
Hanover Street
6/10
Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.
The Cruel Sea
7.4/10
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officer
The One That Got Away
7.1/10
Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only german prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.
Henry V
7.4/10
The life of King Henry the Fifth.
