The best Anna Neagle’s war movies

Anna Neagle

Anna Neagle

19/10/1904- 03/06/1986
Today we present the best Anna Neagle’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Anna Neagle’s movies.

Yellow Canary

Yellow Canary
6.4/10
A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.

Odette

Odette
6.8/10
The film is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette Sansom, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemned to death and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp to be executed. However, against all odds she survived the war and testified against the prison guards at the Hamburg Ravensbrück Trials. She was awarded the George Cross in 1946; the first woman ever to receive the award, and the only woman who has been awarded it while still alive. (From Wikipedia, licensed under CC-BY-SA)

Piccadilly Incident

Piccadilly Incident
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 24/08/1946
  • Character: Diana Fraser
A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her husband remarried with a baby son.

Nurse Edith Cavell

Nurse Edith Cavell
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 31/08/1939
  • Character: Nurse Edith Cavell
British nurse Edith Cavell (Anna Neagle) is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans

Elizabeth of Ladymead

Elizabeth of Ladymead
6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 22/12/1948
  • Character: Beth in 1854 / Elizabeth in 1903 / Betty in 1919 / Liz in 1946
Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.

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