Powell and Pressburger

Powell and Pressburger were a British film-making partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, also known as The Archers. They made a series of influential films in the 1940s and 1950s. They are now regarded as two of the most significant figures in British cinema.

The classic war films

The remainder of the war saw them release a series of remarkably inventive films:

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• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
• The Volunteer (1943) a short propaganda film
• A Canterbury Tale (1944)
• I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
• A Matter of Life and Death (1946)