Nominate your favourite British Film
Here are Barry Norman’s 49 top British films as listed on the Radio Times website:
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Black Narcissus (1947)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Brief Encounter (1945)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Cruel Sea (1952)
The Dam Busters (1954)
Dr No (1958)
Don’t Look Now (1973)
Dracula (1958)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
The Full Monty (1997)
Gandhi (1982)
Get Carter (1971)
Gladiator (2000)
Great Expectations (1946)
Gregory’s Girl (1980)
Henry V (1944)
I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)
If… (1968)
The Ipcress File (1965)
Kes (1969)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
The King’s Speech (2010)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
The Ladykillers (1955)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Local Hero (1983)
The Long Good Friday (1979)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)
Naked (1993)
The Railway Children (1970)
The Red Shoes (1948)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
Secrets & Lies (1995)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
The Servant (1963)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Skyfall (2012)
The Third Man (1949)
The 39 Steps (1935)
This Sporting Life (1963)
Trainspotting (1995)
Whisky Galore! (1949)
Zulu (1963)
Tell us which film you think is missing from this list.
Here is a letter I have from Barry Norman, received back in 1974:
Sophie Neville 
I hope ‘Swallows and Amazons’ (1974) eventually made it on to the list!
I don’t think it it. We need to scour the internet for the next line-up. A question: how many of the films on this list were filmed on location in the UK (rather than overseas or in a studio)?
I think I feel another bout of research coming on! I will investigate!
Could be interesting!
Of the 49 films in Barry Norman’s list 39 were shot on, or mostly on, location in the British Isles. 7 were shot abroad and a further 3 were filmed in Britain, but either completely, or mostly, in a studio.
It is the films shot mostly – or exclusively – on location that interests me.
I will send you the full list.
Thanks you!