Their Finest Hour: 5 British WWII Classics Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		4.0
Video		4.0
Audio		4.0
Extras		4.0
Overall		4.0

Their Finest Hour: 5 British WWII Classics Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman April 5, 2020

Their Finest Hour aggregates a quintet of really interesting British films about England’s experience in World War II, though kind of interestingly (and perhaps meaningfully), only one of the films in the set was actually produced during the war, with four others coming along from the mid- to the late fifties. Perhaps understandably, the film that came out in 1942, Went the Day Well?, is unabashedly fictional and perhaps tilted toward propaganda, while all four of the films that came out in the fifties ( The Colditz Story, The Dam Busters, Dunkirk and Ice Cold in Alex), offer stories ostensibly based at least partly in fact. These are all fascinating films in their own ways, and several of them contain hugely enjoyable performances by a coterie of notables like John Mills, Michael Redgrave, and Richard Attenborough. At least a couple of them may well offer stories generally unknown "on this side of the pond", even to those who have a good general knowledge of the ins and outs of World War II.

For reviews of the five films in this, please click on the following review links:

Went the Day Well? Blu-ray review

The Colditz Story Blu-ray review

The Dam Busters Blu-ray review

Dunkirk Blu-ray review

Ice Cold in Alex Blu-ray review

Their Finest Hour: 5 British WWII Classics Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

Video quality of each film is assessed in the above linked reviews.

Their Finest Hour: 5 British WWII Classics Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Audio quality of each release is assessed in the above linked reviews.

Their Finest Hour: 5 British WWII Classics Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

Supplementary material on each disc is detailed in the respective above linked reviews. I do recommend those interested to peruse all of the supplements on all of the discs, as some may be at least a bit more generalist in nature rather than only tied to whatever film they're supposedly associated with. This also includes a nicely appointed insert booklet with information on each of the five films.

Their Finest Hour: 5 British WWII Classics Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

The back cover of this release states "five newly restored World War II epics available on Blu-ray for the first time ever!", some PR hyperbole that might be questionable given the Region B releases of these films that I link to in the individual reviews of the films in this set. That said, for those with Region A players, this is a very engaging set, with generally solid technical merits and some extremely appealing supplements. Recommended.