C.S. Forester

In Africa during WW1, a gin-swilling riverboat owner/captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship. (imdb)

During the Napoleonic wars, a British naval captain has adventures in Central American waters. (imdb)

Horatio Hornblower begins his naval career, but a deadly feud with a despicable mate is causing complications. (imdb)

Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but obviously mentally unstable captain and eventually must mutiny. (imdb)

Lt. Hornblower and his mates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France. (imdb)

Ioan Groffudd ably repeats his role as British sea captain Horatio Hornblower in this multi-episode series. This episode opens with the British at peace with the French. Hornblower, as well as many other officers, have been reduced in rank,left on land and are being paid half-wages. (imdb)

While Lt. Hornblower studies for his promotion exam, he is distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew. (imdb)

Lt. Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own. (imdb)

With Sawyer dead, Buckland takes control of the ship, but he is not up for the task, and decides to sail to Jamaica, despite the failure of the mission to capture the Spanish fort on Samana Bay. Hornblower suggests another plan of attack which goes well. However, Hornblower will have to come to Buckland's rescue once more before they reach Jamaica. (itv DVD)

This episode's title most certainly refers to the duty that Hornblower feels to his country, but more certainly also references the responsibility he learns he now has with his new wife. (imdb)

Chronicles the breakout of the Bismark during the early days of World War Two. Seen both from the point of view of the many naval vessels on both sides and from the central headquarters of the British where the search for the super battleship was controlled. (imdb)

The story in this movie deals with the perseverance of Spaniards to take back their country from the French who have conquered Spain under Napoleon as he marched over Europe. A huge cannon, perhaps the largest in the world at that time, is discarded by the army as they retreat from the French invaders. A "ragtag" group of Spanish loyalists find "The Gun" (C.S. Forester's book title) and begin to restore it so they may tow it across Spain to the French stronghold in Avila... (imdb)

A British naval officer has a brief affair with a woman in England and never knows that she bears him a son. 20 years later the boy is on a ship under his command when he is tracking a German Raider. When the boy is captured after his ship is sunk, he finds a way to slow the German's progress while a lethal hunt for him goes on. (imdb)

A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force against the oppressors. (imdb)

An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl. (imdb)

A British ship is sunk after an engagement with a German vessel, and the survivors are picked up by the German ship, which has been damaged. When it pulls into the bay of a deserted island to make repairs, one of the British survivors, Seaman Brown, steals a rifle and escapes from the ship, his plan being to try picking off the crew from various spots on the island and delay the ship's repairs long enough for a British vessel to arrive and give battle. (imdb)

Early in World War II, an inexperienced U.S. Navy captain must lead an Allied convoy being stalked by Nazi U-boat wolfpacks.