49th Parallel Went the Day Well? The Way Ahead Noël Coward David Lean In Which We Serve Academy Award Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp A Canterbury Tale A Matter of Life and Death Laurence Olivier 1944 film Henry V Shakespearean history Henry V Pinocchio Fantasia Dumbo Bambi M realist film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The desire for wartime propaganda against the opposition created a renaissance in the film industry in Britain, with realistic war dramas like 49th Parallel (1941), Went the Day Well? (1942), The Way Ahead (1944) and Noël Coward and David Lean's celebrated naval film In Which We Serve in 1942, which won a special Academy Award. These existed alongside more flamboyant films like Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Canterbury Tale (1944) and A Matter of Life and Death (1946), as well as Laurence Olivier's 1944 film Henry V, based on the Shakespearean history Henry V. The success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs allowed Disney to make more animated features like Pinocchio (1940), Fantasia (1940), Dumbo (1941) and Bambi (1942).
