The best Terence Alexander’s war movies

Terence Alexander

Terence Alexander

11/03/1923- 28/05/2009
We present our ranking of the best Terence Alexander’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Terence Alexander.

Waterloo

Waterloo
7.3/10
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.

Danger Within

Danger Within
6.8/10
  • Genre: War
  • Release: 17/02/1959
  • Character: Lt. Gibbs
Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.

The One That Got Away

The One That Got Away
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 22/11/1957
  • Character: R.A.F. Intelligence Officer
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.

The Square Peg

The Square Peg
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 04/12/1958
  • Character: Captain Wharton
Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they come into conflict with the military. Shortly afterwards, they get drafted and fall into the clutches of the Sergeant they have just bested. They are sent to France to repair roads in front of the Allied advance but get captured. Pitkin takes advantage of a useful similarity to impersonate General Schreiber and manages to return a hero

Churchill and the Generals

Churchill and the Generals
7.7/10
The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.

That Englishwoman: An Account of the Life of Emily Hobhouse

That Englishwoman: An Account of the Life of Emily Hobhouse
5.1/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 01/01/1990
  • Character: Rev. Reginald Hobhouse
Dirk de Villiers -An English woman dares to defy the might of the British Empire and champions the cause of the Boers during the Anglo-Boer War, battling to alleviate the suffering of women and children in concentration camps. - Veronica Lang, Terence Alexander, Jenny Runacre

Don't Panic Chaps!

Don't Panic Chaps!
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 01/01/1959
  • Character: Lieutenant Babbington
During World War II, four British soldiers are commissioned to set up an observation post on a seemingly deserted island in the Mediterranean. However, while surveying the island, the Brits come across four German soldiers holed up in a monastery. The Brits and the Germans agree to a truce, sharing the monastery together until either the British or German troops arrive. But when a shipwrecked Slavic girl ends up on the island, a battle over her erupts amongst the men.

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